[osol-mktg] OpenSolaris Download Statistics ?

[Claire Giordano]

great idea...  ask for help... (perhaps patrick should as the metrics guy?)

it's important to make sure people realize the risks of communicating a partial 
number too - detail oriented people (who would read, remember and account for 
the caveat that the data is partial) might not immediately realize how many 
people will grab the partial number and run...

thx,
claire

Sara Dornsife wrote:
> That needs to be explained to the community then. We can't just not tell 
> people the download stats. Especially after being asked specifically for 
> them. In fact, maybe we should ask the community to help us solve our 
> counting issue? Would that work?
> Sara
> 
> 
> Claire Giordano wrote:
> 
>> To be clear - I do not want to publish download numbers at all, unless 
>> the numbers are complete.
>>
>> Unfortunately, if we publish a subset of the numbers and state they 
>> are a subset, most people will not remember the caveat and yet will 
>> remember the numbers, or their "small|medium|large" perception of the 
>> numbers.  It won't be accurate and it could create a misperception 
>> about the momentum and interest.  I don't see what's in it for us.
>>
>> Of course, if we could track BT and the mirrors, that would be great.
>>
>> Claire
>>
>> Karyn Ritter wrote:
>>
>>> Claire Giordano wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I don't want to distribute download numbers that are potentially 
>>>> very misleading.  I'd rather not share download #s all if they're 
>>>> not complete and if we don't know if they represent 10% or 90% of 
>>>> the actual number of downloads.
>>>>
>>>> Derek - do you agree with Simon's assessment below?  Since you were 
>>>> proposing to share download numbers (and had provided them last week 
>>>> to Laura), I'm wondering if you know of some magical way to track 
>>>> downloads from mirrors and BT?  Do you?
>>>>
>>> Just my $.02... I agree that we should only publish the numbers we 
>>> can track and state that they are a subset. Should we also provide a 
>>> pointer to the download numbers the mirrors publish?
>>>
>>>> p.s.  Just saw email from Tom Gryder complimenting on a great report 
>>>> about OpenSolaris download statistics.  Who provided that, and 
>>>> when?  I just searched my mail for downloads in the topic and 
>>>> glanced thru emails from Derek and Karyn and didn't find it.  I'm 
>>>> sure it's there, but would be much obliged if you could forward a 
>>>> copy?  And, we need to figure out who in engineering Patrick should 
>>>> confer with on stats - don't want our teams to be sending out 
>>>> conflicting info.
>>>>
>>> We directed him to get his download statistics from SDLC, and I'm 
>>> sure that is what he did.
>>>
>>> - Karyn
>>
>>
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