Hi all, I'm a openSuSE user (I know GNOME is sponsored mainly by Red Hat, but I don't like Fedora). I've runned across a survery from SuSE which uses a commercial survey service, surveymonkey. http://www.surveymonkey.com http://surveymonkey.com/s/6MJYV7T (openSuSE Survey) I am not aware of software like this available as open source, don't know if anyone knows it. This surveymonkey is interesting, and I've spoken in the past that such platform could be helpfull not only for GNOME Marketing, but to our developers and even to outsource to other projects, or even use to make money to support GNOME. In addition it would most likely allow us to extend a hand to GNOME distributors like RedHat, openSuSE, Mandriva and so on, and eventually we can promote our brande with other brands, like hardware manufacturers and such. I would recon the would be skepticism about this and the proprietary would jump into play again, so, not being a developer myself and being a marketing personality, I would point the following: don't all opensource system run on top of proprietary microcode (EFI, Legacy BIOS, etc)? Just a thought. Feel free to comment and suggest as on next meeting this will be one of the things I will be bringing up. I would love to have such a tool available so we could run our stuff, ge our numbers and implement a real marketing driver project towards specific goals, and of course support all our developers with usefull information regarding whatever they need. I've also found some statistical open source programs meanwhile, this means that there is no need to use SPSS (IBM) or any other proprietary chunk of code. Nelson.
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