Earlier this month some concerns were expressed in a Community Council meeting about some aspects of the Ubuntu community experience. Based on this feedback I [released a survey](https://archivedblog.jonobacon.com/2011/10/07/feedback-welcome/) that went out to all Ubuntu Members to gather some data about views on motivation, pride, leadership, and more. I also invited feedback via other means such as email and I was keen to reach out to many community members on the phone to continue to explore these concerns further.

This weekend I closed the survey off and started collating the results into a report I could share with our wider community. I deliberately made a lot of the questions in the survey open ended to provide as much feedback to the respondents as possible. As such, when collating this data over the last few days I wanted to go through and identify the patterns and themes in the feedback so you folks don’t have to read all the individual responses. This took a little longer to prepare than I expected, but it provides a useful overview of the common themes expressed in the data. For the curious, I have also included the full list of open ended responses in the appendix in the survey.

You can [download the survey here](https://ubuntuone.com/1DWnm1bTcZUcmRs8aAaZ6u) and you only really need to read the first **28** pages; the rest of the document is the full collection of open ended responses included for completeness.

I will be blogging throughout the next week to discuss many of the core themes highlighted in the report and I am keen to hear your thoughts and views on how we can make improvements. I am also going to be registering a series of [Ubuntu Developer Summit](https://uds.ubuntu.com/) sessions to cover these themes in more detail when many of us are together in Orlando in a week. If you can’t attend UDS in person, remember you can [remotely participate](https://uds.ubuntu.com/participate/remote/).

Many thanks to everyone who participated in the survey and now we together have a firmer idea of some of the core themes, we can start driving some improvements forward. I am looking forward to working with you folks in doing this. 🙂