From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 1 00:48:18 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 457A916A417 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2007 00:48:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-44.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-44.bluehost.com [69.89.18.13]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 20F1C13C458 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2007 00:48:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (qmail 6842 invoked by uid 0); 1 Aug 2007 00:21:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box183.bluehost.com) (69.89.25.183) by mailproxy3.bluehost.com with SMTP; 1 Aug 2007 00:21:37 -0000 Received: from c-24-9-123-251.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.9.123.251] helo=demeter.hydra) by box183.bluehost.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1IG1y5-000454-0P for freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:21:37 -0600 Received: from demeter.hydra (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by demeter.hydra (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l710LZpN028229 for ; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:21:35 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (from ren@localhost) by demeter.hydra (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id l710LZjL028228 for freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:21:35 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) X-Authentication-Warning: demeter.hydra: ren set sender to perrin@apotheon.com using -f Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:21:34 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: FreeBSD Advocacy Message-ID: <20070801002134.GA28205@demeter.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Advocacy Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Identified-User: {737:box183.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.net} {sentby:bopbeforesmtp 24.9.123.251 authed with apotheon.com} X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - box183.bluehost.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [737 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - apotheon.com Subject: FreeBSD user statistics X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 00:48:18 -0000 Are there any projects out there collecting data on numbers of FreeBSD users? I'm interested in pretty much anything along those lines, including analogs to Fedora's "smolt" reporting software, the Linux Counter , and so on. If not . . . is there any sense that such a project would be useful to the community? I might consider getting at least a web-based self-reporting thing like the Linux Counter project set up, if that seems like something the community would want/need and doesn't already exist. What I'm really looking for, though, is any existing efforts to count FreeBSD users, even if such efforts are prone to error. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Baltasar Gracian: "A wise man gets more from his enemies than a fool from his friends."