[Desktop_architects] LF Desktop Linux Workgroup Conference Call - Wed 11/7 1pm (Eastern)

John Walicki walicki at us.ibm.com
Tue Nov 6 19:19:31 PST 2007


When: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 1PM (Eastern)
Number: 1-877-346-9707 
Passcode: 30118 

To avoid confusion across the Daylight Savings Time change and timezones: 
http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2007&month=11&day=07&hour=18&min=0&sec=0


Agenda
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- Linux Client Survey 2007 at the half way point
- Since we last met on 10/24, we have added Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese 
and German translations. 
- I blogged about them here:
     
http://www.linux-foundation.org/weblogs/desktop-linux/2007/10/30/desktop-linux-2007-linux-desktop-survey-german/
     
http://www.linux-foundation.org/weblogs/desktop-linux/2007/10/26/2007-linux-desktop-survey-chinese/
     
http://www.linux-foundation.org/weblogs/desktop-linux/2007/10/25/2007-linux-desktop-survey-brazilian-portuguese/

 
     Results at the half way point: 18702 survey participants
         English    - 10668
         Russian    -  4301 
         French     -  1342
         Japanese   -   926
         Spanish    -   826
         Portuguese -   525
         Chinese    -    90
         German     -    24

Significant jump in English, Japanese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese since 
we last met to review the stats.
     Results 10/24: 
         English - 6853 
         Russian - 3698 
         French  - 1219 
         Spanish -  163 
         Japanese-   55 

  - Initial results / Insights 
     It would be great to push the survey over 20000 participants
     https://www.linux-foundation.org/en/2007ClientSurveyResults 
     I plan to use Visualization tools from IBM to assist us in analyzing 
the data
      http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/app

  - Write-in Feedback 
     http://developer.osdl.org/dev/dtl/survey2007/SurveySummary.html 

- Drivers 
  Based on the statistics from the Client Survey, we could suggest a 
prioritized list of drivers 
  - http://linuxdriverproject.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/DriversNeeded

- Desktop Linux activities/announcements
  - Impending launch of Fedora 8

- Followup topics
  - Face to face meeting for 2008 planning

Next meeting is 
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007 13:00 EST 

John Walicki 
IBM Open Client Architect
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