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 Conversations that may one day turn into projects, or may have in the past been projects.
+=== "Audited" Circulation ===
+- [[User:Docdtv|Docdtv]]
+While a small user community might discourage adoption of a tool,
+a large user community can help encourage adoption. And of course,
+small communities need always precede large ones! You know the old
+expression: "Eat Sugar! 10**9 flies can't be wrong!" <G>
+How do you measure the size of a community? A great way to do that
+with automata connected to a global communication network is to
+have them "phone home" now and then. Now, I hope what I am suggesting
+does not break with any covenent, (implicit or explicit, moral or legal).
+But would it be so harmful if, say once a day, a Sugar installation
+would briefly tell Sugar Labs "Hey, I'm alive on a machine today!"
+Some might agree to do this, but worry about a slippery slope.
+Would the future of this humble audit parallel the course of the
+United States decennial census, growing from a simple enumeration
+into a ruthless and arrogant demographic strip-search?
+Of course, audits could be of great benefit to end-users, especially
+if they included Activity installation audits. For example, they could
+evolve into a mechanism for warning the user about a terrible bug
+that needs patching, or advertising a follow-on tool almost all users
+adopt upon learning about the new existence of same. By "factoring" the
+audit mechanism into a system-wide facility, Activity developers would
+be spared the need to code such support on their own.
+As a courtesy to Sugar users, cooperation in audits should be voluntary.
+But every user should be told why such an audit can help him and others.
+Naturally, all this is limited by the fact that not every last machine
+on which Sugar will be run will be attached to the Internet.
 === Video channels ===
+- [[User:Docdtv|Docdtv]]
 . Does a YouTube channel exist? If not, why not?