Smolt + GeoIP

[Yaakov Nemoy]

On 8/9/07, seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> 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?

Smolt is for more than just Fedora though.

I'm thinking something more like MyFedoraSpace or FedoraBook, where a
user has his FAS account, and can show off what he does/uses/etc....
All available to all Linux users. The funny part about smolt is that
we can collect data now, and make it useful eventually without
requiring any changes from the client immediately.

-Yaakov