Le 2010-10-08 09:46, Florian Hubold a écrit :
Am 30.09.2010 12:34, schrieb Olivier Méjean:
Le jeudi 30 septembre 2010 12:19:43, Robert Xu a écrit :
Is a survey necessary ?

It's not really necessary. For example, in mandriva my laptop had no
internet
when booting the first time, as my wireless needs a firmware. So i never
completed the survey, and as it only started on the first boot, mandriva
never got any real data from me. Maybe when the infrastructure is up
and some releases were made, this can be discussed again.


For these installations, there could be a case made for preparing an initial form, with the users consent of course, that could be transmitted later, again with user knowledge and consent.

It is still to Mageia's advantage, both from a development point of view and marketing point of view, to be aware of the instances of installations.

It doesn't have to be an accurate amount, for that matter, it could be an approximation of the amount of installations. This could also be done at the point of download monitoring, as suggested elsewhere, with unique IP's being taken into account.

I am more in favour of doing both, but more interested of the "at installation" and filling a short survey for Mageia stat purposes. This is a more concrete way measuring user participation in the project.

Marc

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