Ubuntu GNOME demographics

[Patrik Bubák]

Thanks Ali and Tim.



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Subject: Re: Ubuntu GNOME demographics

Time (GMT): May 20 2015 23:42:16

From: amjjawad at gnome.org

To: darkxst at fastmail.fm

CC: ubuntu-gnome at lists.ubuntu.com




Hi everyone,






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