Attic/DeploymentSurvey – GNOME Wiki Archive

We need to run a new deployment survey, ala Federico's World Domination as an Optimization Hack.

1. Questions

Where is your deployment located?
Is it a government-sponsored deployment, or private?
Approximately how many users do you have?
Approximately how many computers do you have?
When did you first deploy GNOME? What version did you use then?
What version of GNOME are you using now? How often do you upgrade?
Please describe your setup. Is it a big server and thin clients? Fat clients, centrally administered? Fat clients, no central administration?
What software do your users use?
Do you have a customized desktop for your users?
How locked down are your users' desktops?
Do your users have individual identities / home directories, or do they share a few accounts?
Where do the users keep their data?
What made you choose GNOME? Was it an indirect decision (i.e. did you pick a certain distribution, and GNOME happened to come with it)?
What are your top 5 annoyances with GNOME on your deployment? What would make your life easier? What would have made your life easier when deploying GNOME ?
What would make your users' lives easier?
What do you and your users like about GNOME? Are there any particular things you want to highlight?
Would you mind your answers being made public? Or would you rather have us keep them private?
Thank you! Any final comments?

Do you do in-house development for your desktops?
Do you have in-house patches / customizations?
Have you tried to contribute these changes to GNOME at large?
What response did you get?
Have you consulted other deployments to see if you can collaborate with technology?

Also suggested removing the following question:

Do your users have individual identities / home directories, or do they share a few accounts?