On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 9:26 AM, RGB ES <rgb.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2013/6/24 Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> > >> A quick update. As of last night we're now at 55,155,204 downloads of AOO >> 3.4. >> > > Good! > > >> >> To put it in perspective Instagram reports that they have 100 million >> users, and Facebook thought they were worth $1 billion (US). >> >> Of course, we are free and always will be. As Warren Buffet said, >> "Cost is what you pay; value is what you receive". We're providing a >> lot of value. >> >> I don't think it is worth the time to do a blog post, etc. It is not >> news any more. But maybe at 10 million download intervals, or 75 >> million or something like that, we announce more broadly? >> > > Related though: How 4.0 downloads will be counted? Starting from zero? > Adding them to the 3.4 numbers? Maybe both? Something like "X million > downloads of which Y millions from our latest mayor release alone" would be > interesting. >
The data is tracked at the most fine grained level, at the level of individual files. For example, I can tell exactly how many times the Swedish Linux 64-bit RPM AOO 3.4.1 was downloaded. For the chart, however, I combine all 3.4.x downloads together, for full downloads (not including language packs): http://www.openoffice.org/stats/downloads.html So when 4.0 is released we have the ability, at the data level, to distinguish 4.0 downloads from 3.4.x downloads. The widget I use in the chart is the Timeplot widget from the SMILE project. It has the ability to show multiple data series on the same plot, e.g.,: http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeplot/examples/housing/index.html So one idea might be to show the 3.4 data and the 4.0 data as individual lines on one plot, and then show the cumulative downloads (of all versions) on the other plot. Or some variation on that. But it is a fair point that the equivalence of downloads and users breaks down once you have a major update. The estimate for numbers of users then will need to be aligned with the greatest number of downloads of any specific version. Regards, -Rob > Regards > Ricardo > > > >> >> Regards, >> >> -Rob >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
