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US and Canadian PHP Developers Needed For Marketing Survey

June 2, 2009

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A friend of mine, Esther Shindler, contacted me recently to help her reach the PHP community. Since I don’t know all of you (I’m really trying though) I’m reaching out to any US or Canadian PHP developers who have 10 minutes to spare and know two or three other US or Canadian PHP developers that might be willing to help as well. Here’s all I need you to do:

  • Take the survey (link below)
  • Pass the link along to your other US and Canadian PHP developers buddies.

I took the survey. It took me less than 10 minutes to complete and I didn’t find any of the questions revealed any information that would compromise my company’s position.

Here, in her own words, is what Esther is looking for:

A market research company is currently interviewing developers about the adoption of various PHP technologies, particularly in open source circles.

If you are:

  • Programming professionally with open source tools, for revenue-producing work (that is, not inside-the-company-only apps)
  • In the U.S. or Canada
  • Using one of the following regularly: Joomla, phpBB, SugarCRM, Drupal, WordPress
  • Willing to answer some questions by phone

Head to this link: http://www.marketsurveys.com/sb/sb_s.php?s=120&p=100121&g=4d4502a838

Your personal information is, of course, kept entirely confidential. Participants will be sent a summary of the results in early summer; those who do a phone interview will get a $25 gift certificate from Amazon.

I would appreciate your help and I know Esther would also. Thanks in advance.

=C=

About Cal Evans

Many moons ago, at the tender age of 14, Cal touched his first computer. (We're using the term "computer" loosely here, it was a TRS-80 Model 1) Since then his life has never been the same. He graduated from TRS-80s to Commodores and eventually to IBM PC's. For the past 10 years Cal has worked with PHP and MySQL on Linux OSX, and when necessary, Windows. He has built on a variety of projects ranging in size from simple web pages to multi-million dollar web applications. When not banging his head on his monitor, attempting a blood sacrifice to get a particular piece of code working, he enjoys building and managing development teams using his widely imitated but never patented management style of "management by wandering around". Cal is currently based in Nashville, TN and is gainfully unemployed as the Chief Marketing Officer of Blue Parabola, LLC. Cal is happily married to wife 1.28, the lovely and talented Kathy. Together they have 2 kids who were both bright enough not to pursue a career in IT. Cal blogs at http://blog.calevans.com and is the founder and host of Day Camp 4 Developers

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2 Responses to “US and Canadian PHP Developers Needed For Marketing Survey”

  1. BigBlueHat Says:
    June 3, 2009 at 3:35 pm

    Hey Cal,

    I just tried to take the survey, but it said I didn’t qualify after I chose USA. I tried Other as well, but only by choosing Canada was I able to get to the survey’s contents.

    I didn’t complete the survey as I wanted my first answer to be accurate. :)

    I’d love to take it (and pass it on) once it works for USA residents (or Other countries too).

    Thanks.

  2. estherschindler Says:
    June 3, 2009 at 6:31 pm

    If you’re in the US and it booted you out… go ahead and try again. There was an arbitrary quota set which should not have been turned on. I’ve asked for them to turn it off. Or at least to give the server a good swift kick.

    (Thanks to Cal again for posting this!)