Results of Fedora Participation Survey?

[Paul W. Frields]

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 06:22:28PM +0530, Amit Shah wrote:
> On (Mon) May 17 2010 [09:06:17], Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > 
> > The Duke researchers have sent me a list of some additional
> > information that they need to continue their work.  Basically, they
> > need someone to run a few SQL queries via JSON:
> > 
> > (1) The count of unique people, determined by full names and/or email
> > addresses, active in at least one mailing list/group, which would
> > provide an estimate of the number of active people in the Fedora
> > Accounts System.  The count won't include actual names or addresses.
> 
> I'll note here that I consider myself to be a Fedora developer even
> though I'm not active on the Fedora lists: I'm active on upstream lists,
> though. Any way to get that data? (I know this is tough.)

I don't see any reason for us not to publish it on a wiki page, since
we're going to the trouble of producing it for the Duke researchers
anyway.  Anyone in the community with appropriate infrastructure
access could produce these numbers, after all.

In the future, it may be helpful for us to build these functions into
statistical gathering tools that the Community Architecture team is
developing.  This summer, Ian Weller is working on those tools and I
imagine he'd be interested in the code we use here.

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