2017 PASSMN User Group Survey Question Title * 1. Why are you a member of our user group? (Please rate the reasons.) Not a Factor Nice Aspect Important Reason Critical Reason To learn content. To learn content. Not a Factor To learn content. Nice Aspect To learn content. Important Reason To learn content. Critical Reason To find employment opportunities. To find employment opportunities. Not a Factor To find employment opportunities. Nice Aspect To find employment opportunities. Important Reason To find employment opportunities. Critical Reason To find employment candidates. To find employment candidates. Not a Factor To find employment candidates. Nice Aspect To find employment candidates. Important Reason To find employment candidates. Critical Reason To network with my peers. To network with my peers. Not a Factor To network with my peers. Nice Aspect To network with my peers. Important Reason To network with my peers. Critical Reason To socialize. To socialize. Not a Factor To socialize. Nice Aspect To socialize. Important Reason To socialize. Critical Reason Other (please specify) Question Title * 2. How often do you attend our meetings? Hardly ever. A few times a year. About half each year. Most months. Almost every meeting. Question Title * 3. If you don't attend our meetings often, what are the reasons? (Select all that apply.) I'm not in the Twin Cities area. The current Edina meeting location is too inconvenient. I can't leave work early enough to attend. I don't want to miss out on family time in the evening. The content isn't interesting enough. I forget. I'm too shy. Other (please specify) Question Title * 4. Would you be willing to help our group? (Select all that apply. Please provide contact info later in survey.) Be a presenter (lightning talk). Be a presenter (full length talk). Be a sponsor. Serve on the board. Volunteer at SQL Saturday. Other (please specify) Question Title * 5. Please indicate your level of interest in these topics: Not Interested Neutral Somewhat Interested Very Interested Database Administration Database Administration Not Interested Database Administration Neutral Database Administration Somewhat Interested Database Administration Very Interested Database Development Database Development Not Interested Database Development Neutral Database Development Somewhat Interested Database Development Very Interested Business Intelligence Business Intelligence Not Interested Business Intelligence Neutral Business Intelligence Somewhat Interested Business Intelligence Very Interested Azure Cloud Services Azure Cloud Services Not Interested Azure Cloud Services Neutral Azure Cloud Services Somewhat Interested Azure Cloud Services Very Interested Big Data Big Data Not Interested Big Data Neutral Big Data Somewhat Interested Big Data Very Interested NoSQL NoSQL Not Interested NoSQL Neutral NoSQL Somewhat Interested NoSQL Very Interested Non-Technical Non-Technical Not Interested Non-Technical Neutral Non-Technical Somewhat Interested Non-Technical Very Interested Other (please specify) Question Title * 6. Would you like to see PASSMN on Meetup.com? Yes No What is Meetup.com? Any other sites we should consider? Question Title * 7. Are you active in other area technology groups? (Select all that apply.) Microsoft BI User Group of Minnesota Power BI + Microsoft Analytics Twin Cities .NET User Group Twin Cities (Data) Visualization Group Twin Cities R User Group Twin Cities Spark and Hadoop User Group Big Data Developers Minneapolis Analyze This! Other (please specify) Question Title * 8. How often do you attend our SQL Saturdays? Every time I can! Most years. Once. Never. What’s a SQL Saturday? Question Title * 9. Do you have any other comments or suggestions? Question Title * 10. Please provide your email if you've offered to help. Done