Re: Modifying About-Me to count users

[John Williams <jwilliams business otago ac nz>]

On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 19:38 +0700, Ross Golder wrote:
> On ศ., 2005-07-08 at 09:33 +1200, John Williams wrote:
> > I see that there is talk of modifying the "About Myself" capplet.
> > Perhaps this is a better home for gathering info about users?
>
> I probably shouldn't need to say it, but... obviously this would not
> submit any user info anywhere *without* the user's explicit permission
> first. We don't want parts of our core desktop to get tarred with the
> spyware brush!
Certainly not!  It would only be ethical if the user had to consciously
enable the feature.  See

http://live.gnome.org/CountingUsers

for more on this.

> Anyway, (sorry if I missed the point) what kind of info are you wanting
> to gather about users? For what purposes?

Again, see

http://live.gnome.org/CountingUsers