| Hi Taylor. I like the way you pose things here: "I don't expect that | to remove selection bias, but it will let me (us, really) say: We're | doing this together for the benefit of all sides". I think that's a | better place to start from. I like this too -- and like Gershom, I'd delete "sides". We aspire to work together, not on different sides. | earlier I've been thinking about a bit, where you wrote: "My goal is | for this survey to be *the* authoritative Haskell survey and for the | community to broadly accept it's results." This sounds a bit too exclusive to me, and implicitly critical of other work. Better to stick to the positives: you simply want the opinions of a broad constituency on a broad range of questions. | Anyway, this is all a long-winded way of suggesting that it might be | good if the purpose of the survey was explicitly set out as trying to | inform developers of haskell libraries and tools (and educational | materials) regarding the systems their potential users work on and | develop, and their habits and practices in doing so, and where they | encounter difficulty. That is explicitly as a way of learning rather | than as any sort of horse-race or popularity contest. That sounds good to me -- but again in drafting the goals I'd stick to the positives, and not speak about horse-races. Simon