Hi Everyone,

We are planning to put a survey out to the ROS community to get feedback on ROS usage. Please fill in suggestions for questions to ask.

We're looking for ideas of what to ask. We are going to keep the survey short to get more responses, but please

brainstorm lost of good questions we can always save them for another survey. You can add your ideas at http://etherpad.ros.org/p/ROS_Survey_Questions

We've started brainstorming questions to put onto the survey. Please take a look and add any questions you think would be of interest to the community.

Below is a seed set of questions.

ROS Survey Question Brainstorming:

What is your primary development distro?

When do you choose to upgrade?

What is your current primary rosdistro?

How many community maintained packages do you use? (not your own, including roscpp rospy etc)

What packages do you use from the ROS distribution?

What fraction of your codebase is compiled from source vs using precompiled binaries? How many packages?

What robots do you use (both real and simulated)?

What simulators do you use?

What do you use ROS for (Academia/ Business / Fun)?

What is the foxus of your ROS usage (image processing, point-cloud processing, navigation, manipulation, reasoning, other)?

Which is your primary IDE?

What community media do you use (wiki, answers, ros-users, SIG)?

Most (dis-)liked ROS package?

How often do you use the wiki? Which parts of the wiki do you use?

Have you ever felt need for foreign language support (translation of wiki, community) ?

Other than ROS, do you also use robotics framework? If so what are they?

Do you want to / not want to keep track of how often certain packages are used?

What other tools would you like?

What platform would you like to see support for?

Tully

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