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We have finally had some time to sift through the responses to the survey, and below I present to you the summary of the survey. There are some pretty graphs (for those who like graphs) and we've included the percentages of multiple choice questions. Note that due to most of the questions allowing more than one answer, the sum of the percentages will exceed 100%.
And so, without further ado, here are the results:
How did you originally hear about OpenLP?
| Search engine 68% | Software site 6% |
Which services do you use OpenLP in?
| All services 34% | Main service 25% |
What do you currently use OpenLP for?
| Songs 24% | Bible verses 17% |
What operating system do you use OpenLP on?
| Mac OS X 16% | Windows 55% |
What other software do you use in addition to OpenLP?
| PowerPoint/etc 24% | Audio recording 21% |
Top ten features requested
We have selected the top 10 features requested by the respondents. Note that we will concentrate on these features first, but that doesn't mean we'll only concentrate on these 10 features. As we complete features we'll move down the list.
| Motion backgrounds (text over video) 9% | DVD playback 7% |
What do you love about OpenLP?
For this question, we had to manually work through everyone's responses, and pick out the most common themes. These are the top 5 themes we noticed, in order of most-mentioned to least-mentioned.
- Free/open source
- Ease of use/usability/simplicity
- Feature set
- Developers/development/community
- Cross platform
There were also a number of enthusiastic users of the remote and/or Android app.
We also noticed that some folk thought that OpenLP is donateware. It is not, we haven't publically accepted donations for a few reasons, mostly that we don't see the need. If you would like to donate, please e-mail us (contact form).
What do you dislike about OpenLP?
Once again, we had to manually work through everyone's responses, and pick out the most common themes. These are the top 5 themes we noticed, in order of most-mentioned to least-mentioned.
- Bugs and/or crashes
- Video issues
- Presentation issues (PowerPoint, Impress, etc)
- Speed issues
- Unfamiliarity with OpenLP
We noticed that there were a large number of bugs that we've never heard of. If you do encounter a bug, please let us know! We can't fix it if we don't know about it.
There were also a lot of "missing feature" complaints, which were almost all already in the list of features we're looking to implement, and thus we did not include them in these results.
Helping with development
We couldn't help but notice that a few of the respondents indicated a willingness to help develop OpenLP in some way. If you're keen to take a look at helping out, please see our getting started page on the developer wiki and join us in IRC so that we can help you get up and running.
As always, God bless, and happy projecting!