Fedora Server Working Group - Request to Create Survey Using LimeSurvey

Survey Request Template

This template can be used by anyone who wants to request a survey on Fedora Project's instance LimeSurvey (should be related to Fedora project use cases). The requests are monitored and acted upon by mindshare. Vote of the FCAIC is compulsory for this ticket. Once approved, please share a survey structure file (.lss) exported from the your personal LimeSurvey account (to know how: visit https://manual.limesurvey.org/Display/Export_survey)

Items marked with asterisk (*) are mandatory fields. These tickets are designed to be easy to do. Therefore feel free to use bullet points and simple language.

  1. Full Name
  2. FAS ID* = mowest
  3. Start Date* = October 2024
  4. End date* = End of November or December 2024
  5. Motivation* = Fedora Server Working group desires to learn: Who is the audience for Fedora Server (the current user base); Where is Fedora Server primarily used: Hardware or VM; What are the main use cases for Fedora Server; Where are future efforts of the Fedora Server WG best applied.
  6. Pagure ticket, Wiki Page or related event* = https://hackmd.io/@pboy/ByguCouphC
  7. Target Audience* = Users of Fedora Server
  8. Survey Name* = Users of and Use Cases for - Fedora Server Edition
  9. Base Language = English
  10. Welcome Message* = If you use Fedora Server, please consider taking this short 10 question survey to help guide the work that is done on the Fedora Server Edition in the future.
  11. Number of Questions* = 10
  12. Questions with question types, the types available on LimeSurvey are here

10 Questions Listed Below

How many Fedora Server Edition instances are you running and maintaining?(Fill in a Number for Each Category) Comment (instances are either installations on hardware or VMs either as guest in a self-hosted Server or a VPS in a rented virtual environment, e.g. Amazon lightsail, Hetzner, et.al.)

__ Hardware Installs __ VM(Virtual Machine) Installs

How are you using Fedora Server? (Check all that apply)

Server for homelab (file server, media server, image database, ad blocker, game server, free time projects like contributing to OSS, etc.) Server for professional use in home office or small to medium business (development server, file server, database server, DNS server, DHCP server, etc.) Server for Enterprise (part of a server cluster for large company or institution) Where do you run Fedora Server as a VM (Virtual Machine)? (Check all the apply)

Does Not Apply (I only run Fedora Server on hardware)

  • On self-administered hardware server
  • On Digital Ocean
  • On Amazon Lightsail
  • On Hetzner
  • On Akamai
  • On …

What do you run on Fedora Server? (check all that apply)

  • Web applications / content management systems
  • Domain controller (FreeIPA or Samba AD)
  • File server
  • Media server
  • Game server
  • Backup storage
  • Database server
  • DNS server
  • DHCP server
  • Other: ___________

What feature do you wish was part of the default Fedora Server Edition install?

What is Fedora Server's greatest strength?

Have you ever used the Fedora Server Edition documentation?

  1. Never
  2. Seldom
  3. Just for installation and initial setup
  4. First place I check when I'm trying something new
  5. Frequently, as I administer my installs

(The above question would work well as a scale 1-5 giving us a quick idea of the usefulness of our documentation.)

What three topics would you like to see added to our documentation?

Would you like to contribute to Fedora Server Edition by… ?

  • Packaging software
  • Writing documention
  • Testing use cases or server tasks
  • Testing on SBC's (Single Board Computers)
  • Creating Ansible playbooks for server roles
  • Other: _____________
  • Not at this time

What use case, server task, feature, or project enhancement would you like the Fedora Server Working Group to focus on in the near future?