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design documents for the SWI-Prolog website redesign
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Survey of downloaders #4

Open Anniepoo opened 10 years ago

Anniepoo commented 10 years ago

For the future, it'd be nice to get information about why someone is downloading

o taking a class o want to learn prolog o commercial user o personal project o have code in prolog I need to run o academic researcher

and perhaps intended mode of use (check all that apply)

o writing web application o writing desktop application with xpce o writing application that is embedded in another language o writing console applications (students probably should check this)

JanWielemaker commented 10 years ago

Good list! If we can find a way to integrate that such that it doesn't annoy people, I'm in favour. Note that the direct downloads are only a minority. Most goes via other download sites and Linux packages.

An alternative might be a poll on the website that we can change from time to time if we want some insight.

--- Jan

On 12/23/2013 12:16 AM, Anne Ogborn wrote:

For the future, it'd be nice to get information about why someone is downloading

o taking a class o want to learn prolog o commercial user o personal project o have code in prolog I need to run o academic researcher

and perhaps intended mode of use (check all that apply)

o writing web application o writing desktop application with xpce o writing application that is embedded in another language o writing console applications (students probably should check this)

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Anniepoo commented 10 years ago

well, we can get a (hopefully representative) sample.

We can probably get away with changing it via the same mechanism as 'did you know' - just define some facts. 

I doubt anybody but a prolog programmer will ever want to change the questions.

JanWielemaker commented 10 years ago

On 12/23/2013 11:26 AM, Anne Ogborn wrote:

I doubt anybody but a prolog programmer will ever want to change the questions.

Well, I can think of some ...

Anniepoo commented 10 years ago

yes, knowing what people are using for an editor is important.

I meant, however, that whoever makes up the questions is likely to be  a prolog programmer. So we don't need any CMS type stuff here.