Community Survey Results

DEMOGRAPHICS

WHERE DO YOU LIVE?

51%

33%

2%

8%4%2%

South AmericaAustralia/OceaniaAsiaAfricaEuropeNorth America

WHAT IS YOUR AGE?

Under 18

18-24

25-30

31-38

39-48

49-55

56-60

61+

0 35 70 105 140

WHAT IS YOUR GENDER IDENTITY?

Female 15.37%

Male 75.31%

Other 0.25%

Did not respond 9.07%

WHAT IS YOUR RACE/ETHNICITY?Race/Ethnicity Options % of Survey Respondents Who Selected This Option

African-American/Black 4.28%

East Asian 6.3%

Hispanic/LatinX 7.3%

Middle Eastern 3.02%

Native American/Alaskan Native/First Nations 0.25%

Pacific Islander 0.25%

South Asian 5.54%

Southeast Asian 2.27%

Multiracial (if desired use “Other” to provide more detail) 5.53%White 65.74%Prefer not to answer 6.05%

Other 1.26%

Respondents could pick multiple options. Multiracial was an option and not determined based on this behavior. ie: One might select African-American/Black, White, and not Multiracial

IS YOUR FIRST LANGUAGE ENGLISH?

Out of 238 responses on this question, 55.46% said their first language was not English

For those that English was not their first language, 15.9% was French, 12.12% was Spanish, 10.6% was

German, 6.82% was Dutch, and 6.82% was Portuguese

TOP 10 INDUSTRIES 1. SaaS (Software-as-a-

Service)

2. IT/Tech Consulting

3. Other

4. E-commerce/Retail

5. Finance/Banking

6. Media/Content Publishing/Journalism

7. Advertising/Adtech

8. PR/Marketing

9. Gaming

10. Not Applicable

Respondents could pick multiple options. Notable “Other” response: Education

WHAT DO YOU IDENTIFY AS?Product/Product Management

DevOps/Engineering

Data/Data Engineering/Data Science

Sales

Marketing

Executive

Community

Customer Service/Support

People/HR

Other

0 10 20 30 40

Respondents could pick multiple options. Notable “Other” responses were: CEO, Director, Manager

27.71%NON-DEVELOPERS

72.29%DEVELOPERS

WHAT KIND OF DEVELOPER ARE YOU?

Full-Stack

Platform/backend/systems

Frontend/web

Database/storage

Mobile

Devops/networking/security

Other

Games/graphics

0 50 100 150 200

Respondents could pick multiple options.

FRAMEWORKS AND TOOLS

WHAT NEWER TECHNOLOGIES/LANGUAGES/TRENDS ARE YOU CURRENTLY EXCITED ABOUT?

AI/Machine LearningRaspberry Pi

ReactBots

DronesVRGo

SwiftOther

RustHaptic feedback

NoneScala

0 40 80 120 160

Respondents could pick multiple options. Notable “Other” responses: Serverless, GraphQL, D3, .NET, Elixer, IoT, Vue,js, Phoenix, Augmented Reality

WHAT LANGUAGE(S) DO YOU PROGRAM IN?

JavascriptHTML

CSSPython

JavaRubyOther

C#C

C++Objective-C

Scala

0 75 150 225 300

Respondents could pick multiple options. Notable “Other” responses: PHP, Go, Swift

WHAT FRAMEWORK(S) DO YOU MOST FREQUENTLY USE?

Node.jsAngular.js

OtherRuby on Rails

BootstrapWordpress

Django.NETNone

Phonegap/CordovaBackbone.js

IonicFoundation

DrupalMeteor

Ember.js0 35 70 105 140

Respondents could pick multiple options. Notable “Other” responses: React including React Native, Laravel, Flask, Symfony

DO YOU USE ANY OF THE FOLLOWING DEVELOPER TOOLS IN PRODUCTION?

Respondents could pick multiple options.

No

Stripe

Twilio

SendGrid

CircleCI

Shopify

IBM Watson

Other

0 30 60 90 120

DO YOU USE ANY OF THE FOLLOWING CLOUD SERVICES IN PRODUCTION?

Respondents could pick multiple options. Notable “Others”: Heroku and Digital Ocean

Amazon Web Services

Microsoft Cloud/Azure

Google Cloud Platform

No

Other

IBM SoftLayer

0 75 150 225 300

HOW CAN WE IMPROVE OUR DOCUMENTATION?

Word clouds are very 90’s, but this one is super helpful.

OPEN SOURCE

CONTRIBUTE TO AN OPEN SOURCE PROJECT

52.64%

Out of those who identified as female, 31.15% contribute to an open source project

Out of those who identified as male, 57.53% contribute to an open source project

HOW WELCOME DO YOU FEEL IN OUR COMMUNITY?

AWARE OF THE KEEN IO COMMUNITY CODE OF

CONDUCT

18.89%

DO YOU FEEL WELCOME IN THE KEEN IO COMMUNITY?

Some of the “Other” responses were:

Did not know about it, have not explored it, don’t care, have not participated, have not tried to join, and have not spend much time with it

Other 25%

No 5%

Yes 71%

WHAT CAN WE DO TO MAKE YOU FEEL MORE WELCOME IN THE KEEN COMMUNITY?

Some ideas included:

• Being more open

• Communicate what others are doing with Keen to build a sense of community

AWARE OF THE KEEN IO COMMUNITY SLACK

28.21%

COMMUNITY EVENTS

HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TO AN EVENT AT KEEN IO OR HOSTED BY KEEN IO?

1%

83%

16%

YesNoDid not answer

DO YOU ATTEND DEVELOPER CONFERENCES?

Some of the respondents’ favorite conferences were:

PyCon, Google I/O, WWDC, Microsoft Build, RubyConf, AWS Reinvent, Velocity, OSCON, various open source, local JS, and API focused conferences

Often 9%

Sometimes 39%

Occasionally 28%

Never 24%

DO YOU ATTEND DEVELOPER MEETUPS?

Some of the respondents’ favorite meetups were:

Women Who Code, JS, Ruby, React, Python, Node (including Nodeschool), and Data meetups

Many mentioned local meetups all over the world

Often 14%

Sometimes 28%

Occasionally 36%

Never 22%

WHAT KINDS OF EVENTS WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE KEEN HOST MORE OF?

Some responses included:

• more meetups

• technically oriented events

• conferences like KeenCon

• events working more with locals

• events with cases studies and use cases

• events where you could easily seek help from Keen team members

• classes and workshops like the Effective Communication workshop