I have changed the topic because Marketplace is misleading -- the AOO Project is not so much a participant in a market system. Yet it is useful to determine who our public community is and what the adopters of Apache OpenOffice are doing with it.
We have the statistics below as a course estimate of the size of the active AOO community, our public. The original question was, how important is ODF to those adopters? That's an answer that is more likely to be found by asking "What are the adopters doing with their copies of Apache OneOffice? In particular, what document formats are they using and to what relative degree?" We have no way to know that directly at the moment. There is one immediately-available source. REPORTS TO US What we know the most about what folks are doing with Apache OpenOffice comes from what the patterns of complaints are. These can arise in questions to lists dev@ and users@, in filing of Bugzilla reports (or commenting on existing ones), and in comments on the Community Forums. We can use those to determine more narrowly on what users on what platforms are reporting and what they are reporting about. This provides evidence of what is found to be important enough to make the effort to report. That is important all by itself. It is a clue to what others may be experiencing and do not choose or known to report. A subset of these reports may hinge on particular document formats and interchange/interoperability experiences with document formats. My unqualified impression is that interchange via Microsoft Office formats will dominate, just as Microsoft Windows users are predominant among the population of AOO adopters. It will be interesting to identify the ODF-related matters that also come up and what the balance is. It is not easy to analyze this source mechanically but it is possible to do some manual "analytics" of various kinds. Is this worth doing? Of what value would digging this information out at an initial level of detail be? We could probably look at a couple of month's data for clues and then examine a longer period if it seems profitable. > -----Original Message----- > From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamil...@acm.org] > Sent: Sunday, November 8, 2015 22:19 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: [REPORT] Apache OpenOffice ODF in the Marketplace - AOO 4.1.1 > downloads > > Here are updates of the downloads for Apache OpenOffice 4.1.1, now that > 4.1.2 is being distributed by the mirror system. > > From Sourceforge, > <http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/4.1.1/stats/ > os?dates=2014-08-01+to+2015-11-08> > > Just shy of 50,000,000 downloads. This number will be exceeded as older > versions will still continue downloading, although at an ever-decreasing > rate. > > 87.7% for Windows > 9.0% for Macintosh (0.1% small drop from end of August) > 3.3% for everything else, including Linux > > For the different countries in the same period (53.6 million for all > distributions, not just 4.1.1), the breakdown can be found here: > <http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/stats/map?da > tes=2014-08-01+to+2015-11-09>. > > It is cool that there were 3 to Antartica: 2 for Windows, 1 for > Macintosh. > > - Dennis > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamil...@acm.org] > > Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2015 18:38 > > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > > Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] Apache OpenOffice ODF in the Marketplace - > > Downloading > > [ ... ] > > What is more difficult to determine is what folks are actually doing > > with Apache OpenOffice. There may be ways to learn more. > > > > - Dennis > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamil...@acm.org] > > Sent: Friday, September 4, 2015 20:01 > > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > > Subject: [DISCUSS] Apache OpenOffice ODF in the Marketplace > > > > I had not encountered the topic of "ODF in the market place" with > regard > > to status of Apache OpenOffice. Perhaps I have not been paying > > attention. > > > > I am curious how we might characterize how support for ODF matters to > > Apache OpenOffice users and various institutions that value support > for > > ODF in their reliance on Apache OpenOffice and related software. > > > > How can we determine what the influence of ODF is with respect to > Apache > > OpenOffice? > > > > It strikes me there are two parts to this question. > > > > 1. Who are the users of Apache OpenOffice? > > > > 2. What are the ways ODF is (comparatively) significant to those > users? > > > > [ ... ] > > > > WHO ARE THE USERS? > > > > Although there are now over 150 million downloads of Apache > OpenOffice, > > that does not tell us how many individual users are involved. > > > > Perhaps the download counts just for AOO 4.1.1 would be a > representable > > sample of a particularly-active segment of the user base, even though > > that would be underestimated a couple of ways. But that, and the > > average weekly rate would be useful as "at least" figures. > > > > The mix of platforms for those downloads is also important, reflecting > > the context in which those installed downloads are used by new users > and > > those who are keeping their configurations current. > > > > > > [ ... ] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
