This is really a lot more convincing than just a number, and something to be proud of !!
Would it be an idea, to put a link in the on openoffice.org to this page, e.g. in the news area with the name (download statistics) ? Jan. On 19 October 2012 19:44, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > I've seen some online traffic, on Twitter and elsewhere, questioning > the claim in our graduation press release that AOO has been downloaded > by users in "228 countries". The critics of this claim say that there > are not that many countries in the world. > > Well, it depends on how you define things. There are UN countries. > There are Olympic countries. There are postal countries. There are > countries with telephone country codes. And so on. These don't all > correspond with each other. (Look at the complexities with the status > of Taiwan or Macedonia, for example). > > The definition used when looking at internet traffic is (not > surprisingly) "internet countries", e.g., countries with an assigned > ccTLD ( > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_domains#Country_code_top-level_domains > ). > In this scheme, for example, Martinique (.mq) and France (.fr) are > two different countries, although politically Martinique is an > overseas region, or région d'outre-mer, of France. > > You can see the complete list of internet countries from which AOO has > been downloaded here: > > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/stats/map?dates=2012-06-01+to+2012-10-19 > > As you can see, the number is now 232, indicating that the press > release understated the number. > > Anyone who is interested can take this publicly available data and map > it to whatever other country-counting convention they wish, whether > based on UN membership, US diplomatic recognition, Universal Postal > Union, or whatever. > > Regards, > > -Rob >
