Parsons Community Survey

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Thank you so much for helping us get a better picture of the Parsons community!

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About You

Help us get to know you and your needs better.

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What organization(s) are you affiliated with? What role(s) do you have?

How would you describe your relationship to Parsons? Please select all that apply:

I am a user

I am interested in using Parsons, but haven’t yet

I am a contributor

I am interested in contributing to Parsons, but haven’t yet

I am a community member (I am in the Slack, go to events or trainings, etc)

I am interested in being a community member, but am not one yet

I am affiliated with an organization or tool that Parsons connects to

I am affiliated with an org that might be interested in partnering with Parsons

Other:

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What needs do you have, as a member of the progressive tech/data space, that Parsons might be able to help with?

I have specific technologies/tools I would like to learn

I want help navigating my career

I would like to network with others in the progressive tech/data space

I would like advice on building ETL processes in my org

I would like advice on how to open source a project

I would like to learn best practices for progressive data engineering

Other:

What do you see as the biggest challenges for you, your organization, and/or progressive tech as a whole?

For example, you might struggle to get organizational buy-in, or feel that people in the movement tend to be underpaid or lack certain kinds of support.

What Parsons Should Focus On

Parsons will be making its Roadmap soon! Interested in joining us? Sign up here.

As a user or potential user of Parsons, what improvements would you like to see to the library in the coming year?

More connectors

Extend the functionality of existing connectors

Increased focus on reliability (preventing and fixing bugs)

More example scripts and/or examples in the documentation

More helper methods which handle common data tasks

Other:

Parsons is currently a single Python package, focused on pushing data in and out of commonly used progressive tools. There are other commonly used code in the progressive ecosystem that Parsons as an umbrella community could host. What would you like to see the Parsons community host?

Stick to the python package!

dbt data models for commonly used progressive tools

SQL Snippets (e.g. TargetSmart cell phone pull, VAN Events Summary)

Other:

As a Parsons community member, or potential member, what would you like to see the community do more of in the coming year?

More technical trainings ("Intro to Parsons", "Intro to Python", "ETL Best Practices", etc)

More informational panels (like our “progressive data workflows panel”)

More mentorship and peer support

More social events

More blog and social media posts

More collaborations with other groups and organizations

Other:

As a Parsons contributor or potential contributor, what improvements would you like to see in the coming year?

More frequent “Introduction to Contributing” sessions

More trainings on specific topics (how to build new connectors, how to add tests, etc)

More help finding tasks to work on

More opportunities to pair with maintainers or other community members

More visibility into if/how my contributions are being used

More social opportunities to talk to and hang out with other contributors

More opportunities to appreciate other contributors and be appreciated myself

More structure (using project management tools and processes)

Other:

If you have any thoughts that didn't fit into the above questions, please feel free to share them here.

Thank you for taking the time to fill out this survey!

We really appreciate it. :)

If you're interested, we're running community-driven roadmap sessions on Thursday Feb 16th 2-3pm ET (Community-Focused) and Friday, February 24⋅3:30–4:30pm ET (Technical-Focused). Everyone is welcome! You can sign up here.

If you're not in the Parsons Slack already and would like to join, please email shauna.gordon-mckeon@trestle.us for an invite.

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