As the CRIneta president for 2008 I'm lucky to be joined by other developers on the leadership team who care about our community.  After a great meeting last night with guest speaker Jason Bock a few of us went out for some drinks.  While we were discussing topics and ideas for the future we realized we need to better understand our membership in order to plan speakers/topics.  We have developers who work in large shops, some in small.  Some developers work solely for the web while others only in windows.  Some developers are working in the 1.1 framework while others are pushing the envelope with 3.5 and the MVC Framework.

With all the different types of developers, we thought it would be beneficial to learn about our membership in hopes to provide relevant content to our users.  Using SurveyMonkey.com we've put together a short survey that asks the members questions in hopes to find out the following basic information

• How long you've been developing in .Net?
• What language(s) you use?
• Which frameworks you develop on?
• Do you use source control? If so which one?
• Do you use a build server?  If so which one?
• Do you unit test?
• Do you mock?
• What software methodology do you use?

See any topics we've missed?

Has your user group ever done something like this?  Did it provide the results you were hoping it would?

The way I look at it, even if the results are all over the board and don't help us narrow down topics/speakers, it will be good to get a handle on where the group is at.  For that, I'm excited.