For me I don't see it being worth the effort or annoyance to users. You might get some useful stats, but then again you might not. I'm not a guy that hates having stats but I just don't think we should do it to users.
Would the plugin installer be able to give us a good idea of users as it has to connect to the plugin repo and you could map IP address from there. - Nathan On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Paolo Cavallini <cavall...@faunalia.it>wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Il 22/02/2013 10:30, Werner Macho ha scritto: > > > and this is not meant offending - I am really only interested why it > would > > be important to know exact numbers .. > > No offence. I think: > * exact numbers are not important > * distribution and trends are > * knowing better our user base will let us understand how we are doing, > identify > potential opportunities, weakness and strengths - in short, to market > QGIS; I know > that's a Bad Word among devs, and perhaps more generally in the Open Source > environment, but if taken sanely, it can help us expanding even more, e.g. > locating > important local communities that can be involved in the project with > specific actions > (yes, I'm thinking to my recent visits to Korea and Japan), and much more. > Having data helps understanding, and this is always good IMHO. > All the best. > - -- > Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia > www.faunalia.eu > Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc > Nuovi corsi QGIS e PostGIS: http://www.faunalia.it/calendario > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAlEnPgAACgkQ/NedwLUzIr5PDACeJ/txGlx3a3OniZYeN9SeB+l9 > wn8AnR5K29PNCwOcbwTMqJErK2q15Lit > =Wbx8 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >
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