Weekly Update Oct 25, 2014

Over the past week we have made good progress with our project! Here is a short overview of some of the work we have done:

Our in-person interview questions for current CSF members were approved by our CP! Because of this, we tested the questions for the first time this week at the Thursday night fish pickup at Fisherman's Wharf. We believe the questions were worded properly and that the survey was the right length, although we only got five responses because it was a 'slow' night at the fish pickup.
We've heard back from both of our contacts regarding sending our online surveys. Also, the UBC Farm has agreed to send out the survey with their weekly newsletter! We are planning to send it out next week.
Volunteering at the fish pickups has proven to be an awesome opportunity to learn more about our community partner, especially things we wouldn't event think to ask about!
After lots of discussion over the past week, as well as guidance from Kieran during our Wednesday tutorial session, we now have a working version of our online survey! We are testing it out this weekend to see if it is worded properly and if it makes sense for other people too.

Problems encountered:

One of the mailing lists for our online survey might be too small to collect data from, so we are hoping to send the survey out to a different membership list that has more people.
We would really like to know how many people overall (both mailing lists) will be receiving our online survey, so we can estimate how many responses we will get, and know if this is enough data for our project.
Because we have already made two surveys (in-person CSF member & online prospective member), and will have to not only collect data for the in-person member surveys, but also analyze data from both of them, we have concluded that doing in-person non-member surveys is not realistic, given our timeframe. However, because these surveys were initially suggested, we will be discussing this with our CP to get this approved.

In light of what we have done over the past week, our objectives over the weekend are:

That's all for now and our next meeting is Wednesday, Oct. 29.