First, thanks to everyone for the continued support, feedback, and recruiting y’all are doing. This is truly a community-driven movement that’s growing fast. I hope you feel it too.

Thanks as well to everyone who came out for our latest meetup at Haymaker on Sunday, 6/11. Lots of new faces, lots of great ideas and suggestion, lots of you offering ways to support the cause. FAN-TAS-TIC!

The “big” topic of the meeting was rolling out the survey we’ll talk to you about now. There was also some great feedback and requests we’ve taken as action items to work on.

Hey Austin: Would You Like to Take a Soccer Survey?

With the help of our friends at In-House International, we’ve put together a fairly brief survey — it should only take about 5 minutes to fill out.

You can find the English version of the survey here: http://bit.ly/TheAustinSurvey

The purpose of this survey is to get additional insight from soccer fans around Austin focusing on the following areas:

Watching and attending sporting matches

The Stadium experience

Supporters Groups and Membership

Demographic info and questions

We have some exciting things we’re working toward for the Fall timeframe and want to ensure we’ve got good, solid feedback from the community to help guide and drive some of the aforementioned things. Our immediate goal is growing the membership and empowering supporters with the tools and resources they need to help us all move this effort to the next level.

Note: If you had taken the Austin survey that MLS commissioned in December from Barrett Sports Group, some of these questions may be similar. While we got a lot of insight from their work, we don’t have their full and final findings.

We’ll also be distributing cards out around the city over the next few weeks to get a broader sampling of peoples thoughts and opinions. Please feel free to reach out if you can help distribute, or simply print them out.

Additionally, we will continue to work to make this club and supporters community reflective and inclusive of all of Austin. Building on our Spanish-language Twitter Feed: FutbolATX, this survey is also available in Spanish.

You can find the Spanish-language version of the survey here: http://bit.ly/LaEncuestaAustin.

Please reach out with any questions and please continue to spread the word to friends and family about #MLSinATX.