Editing Results of the STIR Survey February 2012

The first STIR survey was held between 27 January and 20 February 2012. 
The survey was conducted using the LimeSurvey (open-source) software as hosted on the Sourceforge website.
There were 49 responses. A few of these indicated that they were representing others as well. This brought the total number of answers to 67. As a comparison, on 8 March 2012 the stir-users mailing list had 242 members, the developer’s list had 77 members and the stir-announce list had 208 members.

Detailed results are available in the following documents

* [http://stir.sourceforge.net/links/survey2012/STIR_survey_2012_summary.pdf summary (PDF)]
* [http://stir.sourceforge.net/links/survey2012/STIR_survey_2012_summary.docx summary (Word 2010)]
* [http://stir.sourceforge.net/links/survey2012/STIR_survey_results_analysis_anon.xlsx original results and analysis (Excel 2010))]

The survey was run and analyzed by Kris Thielemans (Algorithms and Software Consuling Ltd). Many thanks to the following people for helping in preparing and testing the survey (listed alphabetically): Brian Elston (Univ Washington), Charalampos Tsoumpas (King’s College London), Dávid Völgyes(Univ Oslo), Matthew Jacobson (Xoran Technologies), Pablo Aguiar (Fundación IDICHUS Santiago Compostela), Paul Kinahan (Univ Washington), Robert Harrison (Univ Washington).