Re: Debian PopCon & Linux Counter: Statistics

[Thomas Preud'homme <thomas.preudhomme@xxxxxxxxx>]

Le dimanche 27 juillet 2008, RalfGesellensetter a écrit :
> Dear list,
>
> today I got a reminder from Linux Counter [1] to update my
> registration. Since their announcement in 2001 [2] it seems that the
> amount of registered users didn't grow much - as opposed to the
> perceived growth of GNU/Linux popularity.
>
> It is mainly interesting to view statistics on how GNU/Linux is
> spreaded over different countries, distros etc. Maybe a cooperation
> with Popularity Contest could be of interest, providing an anonymous
> auto-registration with this package?
>
> What do you think? Are you registered yet?
> Regards
> Ralf.
>
> [1] http://counter.li.org/
> [2] http://www.linux-community.de/Neues/story?storyid=1953
>
> P.S.: It is quite easy to estimate the real amount of Linux users
> within some homogeneous population if you know what proportion of
> actual Linux users is registered at li.org.

If an anonymous registration is done in popcon package then a debconf 
dialog should ask the user if he already has an account on 
counter.li.org

Regards

-- 
Thomas Preud'homme (just a user)

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