[Mageia-dev] What do you think about create a Mageia Welcome Center?

Fri Oct 8 16:07:56 CEST 2010

> What would be interesting is to count the mageia installations. Create
+> a GUID for every system at install time, and then later on when internet
+> is available, count the machine via this GUID.
+
+Maybe, when it boots the first time, it could ask the user if he/she
+likes to collaborate with mageia allowing to send anonymous
+information about his/her system.
+
+If users accept, you can collect info about:
+
+* version (mageia 2011.0 64 bits... don't know if we'll have kind of
+"one" and "free", but this also can be collected)
+* first boot date
+* hardware
+* country
+* gender (if during user configuration you could select if you are man or woman)
+* age (idem gender)
+* package selection: when you install Mandriva, you can select if
+you'll use your system for Internet, server, development, etc. Also,
+you can make your own and custom package selection.  Can collect what
+packages the users selected for the install.
+* Optional: e-mail. So, if in anytime a user sends an e-mail from the
+registered e-mail, saying "please, remove my info from your data base,
+you can delete it". No e-mail, no right to ask for removing.
+
+This way, you can have a users map knowing how are they distributed
+around the world.
+
+You can know if most people install for Internet or development or server.
+
+You can know if most users are man, or woman. If most are teens, adults.
+
+If most people install in notebooks, desktops, servers.
+
+And, of course, the note saying "you can disable this going to bla bla bla".
+
+Cheers!
+
+
+Gustavo Giampaoli (aka tavillo1980)
+