I agree with Radim please don't make this a popup at the start of the application. That would be really annoying.
If you would like to collect this information then I would happy to have something that lives in the About menu that people can optionally use and is non intrusive. Sent from some fancy phone looking thingo From: Radim Blazek Sent: 22/02/2013 5:39 PM To: Larry Shaffer Cc: QGIS Developer List Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] Download stats On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 12:48 AM, Larry Shaffer <lar...@dakotacarto.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 1:53 PM, <pcr...@pcreso.com> wrote: >> >> Hi guys, >> >> one point - >> >> I generally install QGIS on OpenSuse & Ubuntu Linux from the relevant >> package repositories, so you won't see any downloads. I would guess that >> this is pretty common for Linux users, but I have no idea if you are able to >> get numbers for this? > > > That's a really good point. Download counts are not a very accurate gauge > of overall install base. I suggest the following. > > Add a user profiler tool to QGIS. This might work in the following manner: > > * User installs a new version of QGIS (say 2.0) and launches it for the > first time > * Profiler tool sees from main QSettings that it has not sent a user > profile report yet > * Profiler tool shows a simple dialog with revealable gathered info on > their profile (see below) that kindly asks if it is OK to send the info to > the project, with buttons like 'No Thanks' and 'Send to QGIS Project' > * Profiler tool saves user choice, and if sending profile generates a > simple UUID for the user and saves that as well, to QSettings > * Profiler tool sends info to a project server that looks up user's UUID > and if not present adds the profile to a database > * If data was successfully saved to remote server, user is notified and > thanked > * On any following launch of same QGIS version, if UUID or No Thanks > choice is in QSettings user is not asked to send profile info > > Possible generated profile info: > > * OS (flavor, version, etc.) > * Computer profile (cpu, ram, etc.) > * Supporting software versions (like in About Dialog: Qt, GDAL, etc. + > Python, and maybe others) > * Qt style used (cleanlooks, plastique, macintosh, oxygen, etc.) > * Screen resolution (maybe number of screens) > * Whether device is touch enabled > * Probably more... > > Optional info the user can provide via the dialog's interface: > > * Listing of installed non-core plugins and which ones are active (of all > plugins) > * App's font and size (and maybe other helpful main Options settings) > * User's info (very limited: name/nickname, title, web address, etc.) > * Choose from editable combobox for work discipline (hydrology, geology, > cartography, student, general gis, etc.) with option to input 'other' type > * Choose their generalized location on a world map (gathers info like for > QGIS user's map) > * Probably more... > > The dialog shown by the profiler tool could concisely explain how this > info will help the project make QGIS better. This is a fairly common > approach in software development for gathering non-intrusive and > non-sensitive user profile info. If implemented, it needs to be done in a > discrete and not-annoying manner, with the option (maybe in Help menu) to > run the tool and send the profile info at any time to the project. > > Since this is an open source, community-driven project with very > active/helpful users, I think we may find many users opting to send the > profile info. Personally, I don't like prompts like that and I respond always NO, just on principle, to discourage programmers to disturb me that way. Even if you implement that and will be annoying users for a while, what will be a result? Info about people willing to respond, which is very limited group. No overall statistics about QGIS user base at all. -1, 'No thanks' Radim > Regards, > > Larry > > >> >> Brent Wood >> >> --- On Fri, 2/22/13, Tim Sutton <t...@linfiniti.com> wrote: >> >> >> From: Tim Sutton <t...@linfiniti.com> >> Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] Download stats >> To: cavall...@faunalia.it >> Cc: "qgis-developer" <qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org> >> Date: Friday, February 22, 2013, 9:17 AM >> >> Hi >> >> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 8:23 AM, Paolo Cavallini <cavall...@faunalia.it> >> wrote: >> >> Hi all. >> Do we have updated statistics of downloads? >> >> >> >> http://www.qgis.org/cgi-bin/awstats.pl?urlfilter=/downloads/QGIS-OSGeo4W-1.8.0-.*-Setup.exe&urlfilterex=&output=urldetail&config=qgis&framename=mainright&month=all&year=2012 >> >> Just tweak the url parameters as needed. >> >> Regards >> >> Tim >> >> >> Thanks. >> -- >> Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia >> www.faunalia.eu >> Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc >> Nuovi corsi QGIS e PostGIS: http://www.faunalia.it/calendario >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Tim Sutton - QGIS Project Steering Committee Member (Release Manager) >> ============================================== >> Visit http://linfiniti.com to find out about: >> * QGIS programming services >> * Mapserver and PostGIS based hosting plans >> * FOSS Consulting Services >> Skype: timlinux Irc: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net >> ============================================== >> >> -----Inline Attachment Follows----- >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-developer mailing list >> Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-developer mailing list >> Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
