27 May 2010 - Summary Minutes

ALS Survey Working Group

Notes and Action Items - 27 May 2010

The agenda was adopted.

Dev Anand was selected as chair of the Working Group.

It was agreed that the approach to the survey analysis will involve each region being analyzed by the relevant regional representatives followed by the regional results being combined at the end for a global view.

Regarding what parameters are to be analyzed, Tijani suggested that each regional representative analyze their regions and create tables. This will be reported back at the next call.

Sylvia noted that Ralph from BigPulse could be asked to break down the statistics.

Wolf noted that there was some confusion among his ALSes about the first question: primary, secondary, tertiary. Most of the ALSes he is aware of are limited in capacity, so don't have secondary, etc. contacts.

Dev pointed out that that this was an interesting point in itself.

It was agreed that each region will break down their relevant languages. As an example, Dev will analyze EN in LACRALO, Sylvia will analyze the ES in LACRALO. Tijani/Didier will analyze both EN/FR.

Regarding the issue of languages, Wolf commented that the group should be cautious of this. He pointed out that in Europe, if we had offered the survey in German or Italian, the response rate would not have been significantly higher.

The WG agreed that the appraoch to the work will be that they should all work individually and then come back to collaborate on their overall work.

Staff were requested to ask BigPulse to provide tables. Also, BigPulse is to include the full question in their survey results.

It was decided that only preliminary results will be presented in Brussels. Each regional representative will report back on their region's results. The WG Chair will then present overall results.

It was agreed that at least 2 or 3 calls will be needed prior to Brussels in order to ensure that there is coordination in how each regional representative is working.

All agreed that each region will work on regional breakdown and then discuss as a group.

The next call will be held on Thursday, 3 June at 16:00 UTC.

It was agreed that each WG representative exchange their work one or two days before the next call so that each can see each other's analysis.

Dev and Darlene to work on a Google spreadsheet document over the weekend.

It was agreed that it was too late to follow up with those ALSes who did not respond for the Brussels meeting analysis. The WG could pursue the non-responsive ALSes following Brussels.

Staff to suggest that ALS survey analysis discussion in Brussels come immediately prior to At-Large Improvements section.

Participants to work on-line between meetings.

The meeting was adjourned.