Ubuntu GNOME demographics

[Bart Schouten]

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 <bubapa at protonmail.ch>:

> Thanks Ali and Tim.
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> -------- Original Message --------
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> Subject: Re: Ubuntu GNOME demographics
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> Time (GMT): May 20 2015 23:42:16
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> From: amjjawad at gnome.org
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> To: darkxst at fastmail.fm
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> CC: ubuntu-gnome at lists.ubuntu.com
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> Hi everyone,
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> 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,
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>> 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.
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> +1
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> 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.
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> 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
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> Attached is a screenshot from Ubuntu GNOME Facebook Page.
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> 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 :)
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> 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:
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> http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity
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> But then again, it is good to take a look and get some estimate data :)
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> 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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