Ubuntu GNOME demographics

[Ali/amjjawad]

Hi everyone,

On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 7:00 PM, Tim <darkxst at fastmail.fm> wrote:

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> 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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