Life de Luxe - knitting

söndag, februari 17, 2008

Chevalier du sable


Meet my new hero: le Chevalier du sable.

posted by Jorun at 11:52 em

1 Comments:

  • Hi Jorun,

    thanks for your comment regarding the Ravelry survey and, of course, thank you for taking part in it. :)

    Just a quick explanation for my focus on designing in the survey:

    I totally agree with your last part about enjoying the database part of Ravelry. I'm not that active myself and for me the allure of Ravelry right from the beginning were the various database functions. I've come to like and enjoy the groups as well, but I'm still not terribly active in them.

    The whole database thing is underrepresented in the survey simply because it's not the focus of my seminar. The first draft of the survey actually included many more questions about all the functions of Ravelry (because I was interested in that as well), but the seminar is about innovation management in online communities, i.e. the collaboration of people to develop something new online without any financial gain. So I had to focus on that aspect of Ravelry.

    I'm sure some of the questions may seem a bit weird, for one thing because of the point mentioned above, but for another because there are several other people doing basically the same survey in other communities and we have to be able to compare the results, so some of the intricacies of Ravelry got lost.

    Nevertheless, although the focus is on collaborative designing, everybody's answers and opinions are important to get a representative result, not just those of the people who are very active in the designing of patterns. I'm sure without people (who don't design) using and liking their patterns, many designers wouldn't even design and they and their patterns certainly wouldn't be as well known.

    I hope I could clear up some of your confusion. :)

    Have a good week and thanks again!

    Sabrina

    By Blogger Sabrina, at 12:06 fm  

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