[advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris hotspots

[Craig van vliet]

Hi - I am new to OpenSolaris but as it is the best OS I have used I have joined the advocacy mailing list to help promote OpenSolaris. The promotion of user groups is certainly a great idea (a previous post). I have also been looking at the metrics with some additional data, to try and find OpenSolaris "hotspots" and see why they are performing better. 

I downloaded the metrics and then cross referenced this with data from UNdata, for the number of people with computers/100, number of people with internet access/100, averaged these then divided by number of hits per region. I was looking for areas with higher saturation, not higher overall numbers. I believe these areas will be easier to get evangelists to persuade the masses.

Found generally USA high, then Europe, then Asia and South America. Singapore although was the highest, and within Europe, France and Netherlands were poor performers. I am in Tasmania in Australia without a user group (until I move to England soon), so I can't really get a true feel for the community yet, but if someone could maybe give some insight into why Singapore so high, and some extra thoughts on how we can get the BRIC nations better represented.

Cheers
CV
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