<quote who="John Williams"> > You are right to be a stat-cynic, if by that you mean that much published > research and estimates of percentages are unreliable. > > If, however, you mean that the science of statistics is useless (as > opposed to mis-used), I beg to differ.
No, I mean that the numbers we're going to get are not useful enough for doing real stats work. It's going to involve a lot of fudging and so on. > > I know I'm repeating myself, but here's what I think the only really > > useful and sane strategy is: Put a link in the About GNOME box to a > > "stand up and be counted" web page on wgo. Simple, effective, and you > > don't even have to find the feature in your desktop (because it will be > > exposed on the site too). > > Wouldn't it be more effective if it was in "About Me"? No, because I almost guarantee that distros will gladly rip it out as an irrelevant interruption (yes, even a tab with "HEY MAN TELL GNOME YOU LOVE THEM!!!11" is an irrelevant interruption). > Can we get ANY HARD DATA on assumption (2)? Anyone lurking who works for > a major distro? I don't think I'd want it in such an inappropriate place in Ubuntu. I can't think of a use case where telling GNOME we love them is a primary user goal for this dialogue. I want to help GNOME through Ubuntu [1], but I wouldn't want to do it in a blatant racing-car branding kind of way. - Jeff [1] http://people.ubuntu.com/~jdub/screenshots/ubuntu-about-gnome.png -- GNOME Summit 2005: October 8th-10th http://live.gnome.org/Boston2005 "We live in a place where policy discussion is conducted with money." - Eben Moglen _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
