Tom Chance <tom (AT) acrewoods (DOT) netschrieb:>Ahoy,

>A nice initiative, Mihnea, and certainly more constructive than lots of >very long email threads on this list full of speculation :)
Thank you. I'll try to stick to this healthy practice :)
If you and perhaps a
few other people could complete this research project, it could
complement
Wade and Claire's document and provide us with some real insight.
I doubt that it will make the problem solvable. That presupposes
that we can
know what the problem is, and that we can know the complete set of
appropriate tags and values with their appropriate relative
importance
factored in. But if anyone wants to go through the process it may be helpful.
I'm afraid that there is no way to prove that we ever have a complete universe of discourse. Even if we accidentally get to one, we still cannot prove it.
The point of this is not to reach mathematical certainty (because we need to talk about reality, and reality is always blurry)
The point is that we, at the end of the process, manage to achieve a sufficiently good approximation of the factors that affect our task of promoting KDE. It is important not to let relevant factors out, and the typical method of 'almost ascertaining' that they are not out is experimentation. Unfortunately we cannot experiment, since that would mean risking to blow up the entire strategy for a year or two just to find out that we were wrong :) This means that we need to get it right, which requires strong judgment and even stronger imagination :)
If a relatively complete set of tags were used it should be possible to see
how they group together, and therefore find out what _we_ think
about the
relative importance of (for example) where people use KDE, what they use it
for, how experienced they are, etc.
Excellent point. Some tags are more important than others, this means that they too need weights ascribed. I confess that this has completely escaped my attention until now.
I suspect, for example, that it will demonstrate that we think the uses to
which people put KDE, given that KDE is a fixed product, will be fairly
irrelevant. However the extent to which they like to hack, the likelihood of
them making the decision about their S and desktop environment, and other tags will be far more important.
Regards,
Tom
I have given this stuff further thought, and I'll come up with a second version.
For the moment I'm still focusing about the method proper, not tags and values.
Mihnea
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