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POLL Do Roadtest Pages Provide You with the Information You Need to Apply for a Roadtest?

rscasny

Roadtest landing (enrollment) pages typically provide detailed technical information about a product that is being offered in a roadtest. They also provide additional information in the form of datasheets, user manuals, getting started guides, software guides -- the type of deep technical information you may need to develop with the product.

Roadtest landing pages typically have not contained that much background/marketing information that would be of interest to the non-technical person. If roadtesters felt that they wanted more background/marketing information, I can provide it. But that has not been the audience the roadtest typically serves.

The question I want to visit in this poll is: Do the roadtest pages contain the information a member needs to make a decision to apply for a particular roadtest? Are the pages too technical? not technical enough? missing information you would like to have? or has the right information?

  • I miss a clear description of what the intentions and wishes of the sponsor are when offering the equipment/product/service for the road test.

    What is the sponsor looking for? Reach a certain audience? Have a beta tester for his product? Obtain content to advertise on social networks? A technical design review or a user review?

    Knowing the wishes of the sponsor can help focus efforts in addition to having a criterion of when you can consider your road-test finished.

  • in reply to misaz

    Yes, you are correct. There are two variants of that board that I'm aware of. I usually enable the BUY NOW widget for the board (or variant) that I receive from the sponsor. We get all products shipped to us in chicago first and before the roadtest is launched. So, what we enable is based on what we receive. However, I think there have been a few times that the boards we received did not have stocking, so we enabled the BUY NOW widget for what we have in stock. Let me make a note of it. And I think I'll try to add a line in the roadtest description on the variants and what we exactly have. that's a minor thing to do.

  • I marked Just the right about of information because it applies in general, but sometimes I miss EXACT product code of offered product. In this case I ususaly use Buy now link which link to store which contains EXACT product code. I do this because I usualy search for product documentation on external sites (and especialy i search for the product page on vendor website). Sometimes it is hard to udnerstand which variant of the product is offered when multiple variants of the same product exists. For example this happended in 7 Ways to Leave Your Spartan-6 FPGA. There are two variants of board on the market (Arty-S7 suffixed with 25 and second option suffixed with 50 which has better FPGA chip).