Firebird Global Survey Results
As you know in September the Firebird Global Survey was carried out. This Survey was initiated by Carlos H. Cantu. Carlos is well-known Firebird enthusiast from Brazil and he has the very popular site www.firebase.com.br devoted to Firebird with the hugest logged community in the world – more than 11000 registered users. It looks like Brazilian Firebird community is one of the most largest Firebird communities in the world.
Survey results is very interesting. You can see them in the comprehensive PDF document here: http://www.firebase.com.br/fb/imgdocs/FB_Survey_2005.pdf
The copy of this document is here.
I’d like to say several words about audience of survey. Despite the fact that survey invitation was published on many Firebird-related sites Brazilian users were most active - 40%. To my mind, it means that people from other communities are not well-organized and just know nothing about such surveys and other events.
Every month 50000 users download Firebird distributive from Sourceforge.net, and returning users download ~300000 copies when new build is out (the last such event – Firebird 2.0 Alpha 3 release was in June 2005, see Sourceforge download statistics).
Where all these people are?
Cheers,
Alexey Kovyazin
October 28th, 2005 at 3:10 pm
I cannot remember whether or not I actually went to this survey.
For all things, there has to be a central point of contact, if you want co-ordination. For Firebird, for me, this is the ibphoenix home page. If it on there, then I will see it, otherwise I will not.
It sounds as if there is a different reference point for Brazilian users and the community perhaps needs to work out where the global reference point is and encourage all users to check it regularly.
October 28th, 2005 at 3:38 pm
Ian, so it seems that you need to check IBPhoenix site more frequently. The survey was announced there 2 times!
October 28th, 2005 at 4:27 pm
if there are 300000 downloads then how about doing another survey from the download page when a new release is donem which should ensure that at least everybody gets to know about the survey