Improving coverage of popularity contest data?

[John Richard Moser]

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Dan Kegel wrote:
> I like the data at
> http://popcon.ubuntu.com/
> but since it's opt-in, it's only useful for relative comparisons,
> and the data might be skewed towards power users.
> 
> Are there ways we could increase the coverage of the data
> such that we get many more users, especially those who would
> not normally bother to install or configure funny packages like popcon?
> 
> Two ideas:
> 
> 1) somehow encourage normal users to turn on popcon, e.g.
> by a checkbox during installation of the distribution

Opt-in on first log-in of a user with administrative access.

> 
> 2) gather similar statistics from the access logs of the ubuntu repository
> 
> What do folks think?
> 

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