On Mon, October 20, 2008 09:54, Lars Noodén wrote: > John McCreesh wrote: >> In the first week since we formally announced the availability of >> OpenOffice.org 3.0, we have recorded an astonishing three million >> downloads on the bouncer logs. > > I agree that this is excellent news. There are some things which might > help us further market OOo. > > 1) how can we also count the downloads from RPM and APT repositories > which is where most of our linux users are going to be getting OOo?
Maybe we need some sort of mirrors project to pull these stats together for all open-source projects ... Alternatively some distros now ask users to opt into monitoring programs which monitor what software is actually being used and 'call home' the statistics. > 2) I might have missed the explanation of Leif's question earlier: are > all of the 3 million successful downloads or does the sum also include > interrupted attempts? (HTTP is rather lame for large file transfer.) My understanding is that the Bouncer logs record when users are 'handed off' to a mirror. They have no visibility whether the download was completed / interrupted / bookmarked and repeated directly later. > 3) How about the torrents? Indeed. All of these factors (and others) mean that the Bouncer figures severely underestimate our total downloads. On the other hand, they are completely objective, and are quite easy to filter for rogue entries. John -- John McCreesh Marketing Project Lead OpenOffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
