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Archive for March, 2010

Survey Says…

Saturday, March 20th, 2010

So far only 26 people have completed our survey. I’m going to give it another week before scheduling April’s breakfast so we can get more input.

Results to date:

Location IHOP Lovell 5
IHOP Merchants 8
IHOP Kingston 10
Other 3
Good Days Monday 5
Tuesday 14
Wednesday 10
Thursday 18
Friday 9
Saturday 7
Bad Days Monday 17
Tuesday 6
Wednesday 8
Thursday 2
Friday 6
Saturday 12
Starting Time 7:30 14
8:00 9
8:30 1
9:00 2

Survey Comments
- The location is not the problem, it’s the day of the week. I would like to attend but I work in clinton and begin at 7:30. Earlier or a saturday and I’m in.
- Let’s keep this going as it is a grand thing to have in Knoxville. The location is ideal to me, but that being said, I would rather change the locale than have the breakfast cease to be.
- Thanks for putting on this excellent social event for Knoxville geeks!
- Your survey requires a check on a date that is NOT good for us… it’s possible that there are no days that are not good, but I had to check one, so I picked Mondays :-)
- The survey would be better if we could fill in text. For instance, on #12, I would have said sometimes. I had absolutely zero interest in attending a Geek breakfast in possibly the non-geekiest section of Knoxville. The downtown/UT area seems to be to be a) more centrally located and b) much hipper, geekier, say what you will. An IHOP in Farragut definitely turned me off.
- It’s always a colorful group of people. :-) Hey, maybe we can do a round of gadget show-and-tell.
- I live in Johnson City so it’s quite a haul for me to attend, I keep meaning to, however. Probably won’t ever be a regular, at least at this point.
- Thanks for all your efforts. I’ve just had too much on my tray at work to make the meetings. I’m getting more help and I can perhaps begin to attend.
- I’m starting a new job in a couple of weeks so all of the above may be null and void depending upon my new employer.
- Don’t take peoplese pictures and post them. That really bugged me. I wanted to be a geek at breakfast… but photos of me in a hat are not cool where I work.
- How about lunch instead? I’m a self-employed night owl and would be very likely to attend every month if it were lunch vice breakfast.
- Thank you for asking for our input!

Survey

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

We’ve been getting feedback that we need to reconsider our meeting location so more people can attend the monthly breakfast. Some also believe we should change the meeting day.

In an attempt to quantify your input, I’ve created this short survey. Please take a few minutes to complete it. I’d like to use the results to determine our meeting date and location for April, so time is of the essence.

We’ll discuss this further at breakfast tomorrow, which will be held at the IHOP on Lovell Road, 7:30 a.m.

Thanks for your input.