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Conversations that may one day turn into projects, or may have in the past been projects.
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 ===
=== Video channels ===
- [[User:Docdtv|Docdtv]]
1. Does a YouTube channel exist? If not, why not?
1. Does a YouTube channel exist? If not, why not?