On 24 March 2011 20:57, Chris Evans <[email protected]> wrote: > > > ________________________________ > From: Pascal Terjan <[email protected]> > To: Mageia general discussions <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 4:30 PM > Subject: Re: [Mageia-discuss] Poll: Which Desktop Environment will you be > using on Mageia? > > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 15:48, Tux99 <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> Quote: Thomas Lottmann wrote on Thu, 24 March 2011 16:29 >>> Le 24/03/2011 16:14, Tux99 a écrit : >>> > I would say that if we reach 50-100 votes in the next few days then >>> > the >>> > results can be considered meaningful. >>> >>> No. Just no. >>> >>> Considering Mageia is a GNU/Linux distribution that has various >>> communities with a wide variety of users with different needs,1 50-00 >>> is >>> absolutely not representative. >> >> It's a poll among Mageia users, and currently I would expect that a good >> part of people seriously interested in Mageia are at least occasionally >> reading this list (subscribed or through gmane or through the web forum >> gateway). >> >> Do you have any idea how small the samples are when they do >> "representative" surveys for TV or newspapers? >> Usually it's only 1000-2000 people to represent a whole country of 60 >> milion people... > > Yes but not random people. > Knowing what DE is preferred by people reading this list and with > enough motivation to register to your forum does not mean anything. > Maybe XFCE users don't like forums or don't like polls. > Maybe users of one of the DE feel that they have to defend it and the > 10 users of that DE will all vote while users of more common DE don't > care about it being successful and only 8 out of 100 will vote. > > On the contrary, I would think it means everything. The people who read the > ML and register in the forums should have a louder voice than those that do > not participate in the linux community. Those of us participating are the > ones that make linux what it is. If not, then why have the mailing lists and > forums and chatrooms and newsletters? > > > >
Personally, I won't open/register/reset-the-password on a forum just to vote in one single poll and then not use that forum again, (I would vote in a poll opened in the distro forum (which will be up and running soon), I guess that's what most users subscribed to the Mageia ML's would do). -- Ahmad Samir
