If all you care about is distribution, shouldn't unique IP addresses
to the website provide some info? You can never get full demographics
because of the phone home issue, but nor should you want to. Visitor
demographics to a website provide info enough. I like it how user data
is a private thing (or usage) until people come out, and then it is a
voluntary thing. A voluntary thing that can be called "contribution"
or "feedback", something that's a sure sign of love. User data or
usage data is stale and doesn't mean so much, but love (and active
involvement in one way or another (such as downloads or package
updates of course)) means a lot more. So measure interfacement, not
usage: usage is private.
Regards, Bart
Quoting Patrik Bubák <[email protected]>:
Thanks Ali and Tim.
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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Ubuntu GNOME demographics
Time (GMT): May 20 2015 23:42:16
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Hi everyone,
On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 7:00 PM, Tim <[email protected]> wrote:
On 20/05/15 18:39, Patrik Bubák wrote:
Hey everyone,
where could I find a tool (if any) that would show some statistics
on how many users and from what backgrounds use Ubuntu GNOME?
That info does not exist, tracking users of open source projects is
next to impossible, atleast without including software that
phones-home
data, which we don't do.
+1
Since I have joined the community in 2010 until now, I have tried so
many times to find an answer to this Q but I have failed so far and
I agree with Tim, it is next to impossible. I so much love
statistics but sometimes, you can't get all what you want/wish.
About the only data available is the number of downloads for
packages on the gnome3-team ppa's (since they are not fragmented by
mirrors)
however I suspect only a small portion of our users use the PPa's.
Otherwise its really left to completely useless metrics like
distrowatch and
numbers of social media followers
Attached is a screenshot from Ubuntu GNOME Facebook Page.
Please note, this is JUST what Facebook is showing and it is NOT
100% accurate and it will NOT give you any real data of our users at
all. However, it is a good way to understand at least where our
users are coming from :)
Number of downloads will never ever tell anyone anything useful. I
am one user who could download the same ISO 100 times per
month/year, not to mention different versions. Even the data on
Distrowatch is just for fun:
http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity
But then again, it is good to take a look and get some estimate data :)
Oh, our Google+ page has more viewers than some other flavours but
yes, that means nothing accurate, just a figure to give an estimate
idea of how active/popular that channel is :)
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