On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Jon Phillips wrote:
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 23:28:00 -0700 From: Jon Phillips <jon@...235...> To: Inkscape Development Mailing List inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Inkscape-devel] Number of Inkscape Users Worldwide
How could we estimate the number of users of Inkscape internationally?
Why would we really want to? There are better ways to market Inkscape, I think such statistics are so vague as to be useless. We are probably better off sharing the raw download statistics and letting people draw their own conclusions.
There must be some good statistical method for calculating how many users Inkscape has...obviously, the concept of user would need to be refined, but is there anyone on this list that could speak to this?
How long is a peice of string? I really think there are very few conclusions we can safely draw from the statistics.
We know that we have at least 40,000 new downloads of 0.42 of Inkscape...which is a lowball figure for our total number of users IMO.
I've downloaded it twice already and that is just the windows version.
Could we say there are several thousand users of Inkscape?
Yes. However I'm not sure user base is a particularly useful figure. Marketing is useful but can we think of better ways to present the statistics we have?
- Alan