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- Discussion of motivation, implementation, and future plans
+# Discussion
+
+## Notes
+
+- 2020: 7000 participants in the survey (Adrien Brochard)
+- 2022: new survey framework: julia (language) + Genie Framework
+- 2022: 6600 responses (1000 partial); 115 nations; 96% male (better
+ among younger people)
+- the plots are using Makie, a Julia plotting library
+
+## Questions and answers
+
+- Q: Do Emacs developers take into account the survey results? I mean,
+ they are volunteers working on what they find useful/interesting for
+ them, which is of course great.
+ - A: There\'s no obligation for emacs-devel or Emacs package
+ maintainers to do anything in response to the survey results,
+ but hopefully the results will be able to inform development
+ choices they make.
+- Q: Is the survey software available in source code via
+ Gitlab/Github/\...? What\'s the license?
+ - A: Yep, it\'s GPL-3, and the source is availible at
+ <https://git.tecosaur.net/tec/emacs-survey>
+- Q: Are the raw results available so we can run some data analysis
+ ourselves?
+ - A: Indeed! As mentioned in the talk they\'re publically
+ availible in a number of formats, e.g.
+ - <https://emacssurvey.org/results/3425413930.csv>
+ - <https://emacssurvey.org/results/3425413930.json>
+ - <https://emacssurvey.org/results/3425413930.db>
+- Q: Any specific reason why you chose Julia as a language to code the
+ survey (curious about it)?
+ - A: I use it a lot, and like doing so :)
+- Q: Do you have any insight on the degree of selection bias (the
+ respondents may represent a very particular segment of the overall
+ users, in terms of motivation to respond). The nb of days of
+ response after announce may indicate that respondents are very much
+ in touch with emacs news.
+ - A: We can try to look at the degree to which the survey referrer
+ (r/emacs, HN, etc.) changes the survey results, but ultimately
+ this is a hard question. At the end of the day, the way I view
+ things is we can just do our best to investigate how much of an
+ effect is seen in the results, but this is the best shot we have
+ availible.
+ - A2: That said, we can compare a few particular statistics to
+ other surveys done in a wider population to gauge how close our
+ results are to them, but that assumes that those other surveys
+ (e.g. Stack Overflow\'s developer survey) are themselves
+ representative of the Emacs user base, itself can be quite an
+ assumption.
+- Q: Are the pies in gnuplot or something else?
+ - A: The plots are using Makie, a Julia plotting library.
+- Q: Thoughts on an emacs package to fill out the survey? Just more
+ work for you ;)
+ - A: Hopefully more work for someone else ;)
+- Q: Is the survey framework open sourced already or still in the
+ works?
+ - A: (replied above, IIUC) it\'s GPL-3 and the source is available
+ at <https://git.tecosaur.net/tec/emacs-survey>
+
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