Dear Fireflies, How's it going with you? How was your Firefly? You can always reach the Board of Directors at board@fireflyartscollective.org, or write to your favorite or least-favorite Board Member or Core Leader, post to our Facebook group, or use this feedback form thing on our website: http://fireflyartscollective.org/about-fac/feedback/ Anyway, even though you can always all write us letters, and we could read all your letters, we'd like to conduct a survey of the Firefly Community at large, and turn a hopefully-representative sample of your opinions into "Data". …and we'd like your help to do it! Some of you out there know how to make surveys that produce meaningful data, that can help people make decisions and understand things. But we don't know exactly who those Fireflies are, so please contact us, at board@fireflyartscollective.org, if you'd like to help us put together this years survey(s)! We have some broad goals for what kind of information we'd like to gather, and we're eager to discuss specifics when you contact us. Most importantly, we want to survey people who went to Firefly Arts Collective's 2014 festival. This is to help us write our 2014 Afterburn Report, and to guide the Board's decisions for next year's festival and other FAC activities. Optionally, we also want to survey people who didn't or couldn't go to Firefly 2014, and anyone else who wants to share their opinions by participating in a survey about Firefly. For people who went to Firefly 2014, we want to know how things went across a wide variety of areas. There are many ways to describe all the different parts of Firefly. There's the land, the art, the other people who go, the Fire, the weather, the Cores, the Board of Directors, tickets, our website, individual participation, and much more. Organizing our thoughts about all of those things can be a challenge. We'd love to get some sense of how satisfied people were this year, what things are good enough, what needs to be better, what's absolutely unacceptable, and what people want for the future. We want a survey that helps us understand these things, without being too detailed and long for people to fill out... or too hard for us to analyze afterwards. When it comes to surveying anyone who wants to respond, not just attendees of the 2014 festival, we want to know about the desires of the community for the 2015 festival, and for year-round activities supporting the participatory arts. Hoping that Firefly 2014 is still fresh enough in your minds, Ike Feitler for the Firefly Arts Collective Board of Directors