[tomboy-list] Collecting usage data

[Tommi Asiala]

On Wednesday 20 June 2007 16:32:38 Sanford Armstrong wrote:
[...]
> I think it would be great if we could collect anonymous usage data
> from within Tomboy, and phone home with the data.  After all, we're
> open source, and it should be easy to verify that we don't send any
> private data.  However, I suppose it takes trust in whoever runs the
> server that they are not collecting IP addresses, etc.  Maybe it would
> only be a very small percentage of users who would enable such data
> collection.  Also, is this evil?
>
> I dunno, I'm just brain dumping here.  Any thoughts?

I don't think it's evil at all when done right. I think it's great idea, 
Sandy!

But think of it the other way around: maybe it would only be a very small 
percentage of users who would *disable* such data collection. So when Tomboy 
is run for the first time, the user would get an dialog asking if he/she 
would like to contribute anonymous statistical information [with detailed 
description of course] for using this fine piece of software. Answer would 
default to yes.

As a user, I'd like to see that my data goes to Gnome foundation.
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Tommi Asiala
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