Am Mittwoch, 4. Dezember 2013, 19:35:57 schrieb Togan Muftuoglu: > >>>>> "Tobias" == Tobias Ellinghaus <h...@gmx.de> writes: > Tobias> Am Mittwoch, 4. Dezember 2013, 09:26:58 schrieb David > > Tobias> Vincent-Jones: > >> As dt moves into a new (and very comprehensive) version it would be > >> interesting to generate some statistics on users worldwide. Does the > >> mailing list give any insight as to numbers, locations and growth? > > Tobias> I don't think so. We don't ask people about their origin and > since Tobias> Gmail took over it's not even possible to do some heuristics > Tobias> (which I don't like). Maybe there are statistics about the number > Tobias> of subscribed users, but only Jo could access them to tell us. > > Tobias> Besides that I am not aware of any metric to get the size of the > Tobias> userbase for free software like darktable. Would be interesting to > Tobias> see some proposals though. > > Not directly related but you may find some ideas how to do it from this > articles > > http://lizards.opensuse.org/2013/08/23/more-on-statistics/ > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Statistics
Distributions have the benefit that people are downloading software and updates from them. We don't have that, since most people (i would even say almost all) that use darktable install it from their distributions' repositories. So we could ask them if they can tell us.
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