Smolt + GeoIP

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 21:50 -0400, Yaakov Nemoy wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> One guy brought up an interesting idea in #smolt:
> (03.34.00) ( Romster) be cool for smolt to have a map like gnome does
> http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWorldWide
> 
> I'm thinking a simple way to do this is to save the GeoIP for each IP
> that sends in information to the server iff (that's if and only if)
> the client passes a bit saying 'i allow'.
> 
> Another way is when the user goes to the smolt page, after submitting,
> they have the option of filling in this information.
> 
> I'm not crazy to do this, but it does sound interesting nonetheless.
> Does this seem like something that we could even consider reasonable?
> Or could this be a nightmare and a half?

We don't really need to do it w/smolt. We can simply analyze the
mirrormanger logs to see where people are, can't we?

-sv