On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 19:23 +0800, Jacqueline McNally wrote:

> I've been trying to think of ways of capturing figures for actual users
> of OpenOffice.org as opposed to how many are distributed, for example,
> no. of downloads.

The only way I can think of doing it with any certainty would be
registered users. This could be simplified so the user would type in
their own unique code of say 10 random digits and letters that uniquely
identified their installation of OOo. If the code was already used, the
database would come back and say try again. If its quick and simple to
do and the button is visible always on the menu bar so it can be done at
any time, its more likely to happen but still a lot of people probably
wouldn't bother registering.

It would be nice for the database to come back with "You are the
10,301,234th registered user, welcome to the OOo community" or
something.

> Stories like this are users that we can really count.

-- 
Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
ZMS Ltd


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