From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 1 01:18:10 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 BC04416A41B for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2007 01:18:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matt@ixsystems.com) Received: from mail.iXsystems.com (newknight.ixsystems.net [206.40.55.70]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9C6113C45B for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2007 01:18:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matt@ixsystems.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.iXsystems.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D244BE6B; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:57:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.iXsystems.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.ixsystems.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 37686-05; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:56:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from client-173.nat.ixsystems.net (unknown [192.168.1.173]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.iXsystems.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 900F9BE6D; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:56:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Olander Organization: iXsystems To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:56:04 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <20070801002134.GA28205@demeter.hydra> In-Reply-To: <20070801002134.GA28205@demeter.hydra> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200707311756.04548.matt@ixsystems.com> X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard Cc: Subject: Re: 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 01:18:10 -0000 On Tuesday 31 July 2007 5:21 pm, Chad Perrin wrote: > 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. Hi Chad, Checkout www.bsdstats.org. A very cool project to start tracking BSD usage. Also, we've placed Google Analytics on www.pcbsd.org (and we should probably add it to freebsd.org, too) and have interesting operating system stats from there that we'll make public after a substantial amount of data is gathered. best, -matt