I am wondering if someone at the WMF (perhaps specifically Rand Montoya) could give us an update on the status of the 2009 Fundraiser Survey. I inquired about this at the appropriate Talk page, but over two weeks have passed without any reply:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Fundraising_2009/Survey&...
Personally, I applied about four or five hours of my time working on the sampling design and questionnaire content and construction for this effort. I realize that it is beyond hope that this will have fielded before most of this year's fundraising efforts have been executed (which is a shame, considering the "hurry up" timeline that was in place back in July 2009), but now I wonder -- will this ever be fielded? My impression is that an inordinate amount of time was dedicated to translating the survey into at least a handful of world languages, which I advised against, being that I knew it was a huge challenge to meet translation and proofreading needs before the annual fundraiser commenced.
I hope it is realistic to at least field this survey in the Spring of 2010, so that its results may be analyzed and contribute to modifications (both tactical and strategic) for the 2010 fundraiser.
Gregory Kohs