From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Apr 1 18:16:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from corp.au.triax.com (slwag2p30.ozemail.com.au [203.108.157.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0B971517F for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 18:16:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim@corp.au.triax.com) Received: (from jim@localhost) by corp.au.triax.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA92936; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 12:16:12 +1000 (EST) Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 12:16:11 +1000 From: Jim Mock To: Licia Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: User Registration [was Is there a "how did you hear about us?" ] Message-ID: <19990402121611.A92862@corp.au.triax.com> Reply-To: jim@corp.au.triax.com References: <19990327103601.A40738@corp.au.triax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.1i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 01 Apr 1999 at 19:04:31 -0600, Licia wrote: > On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, Jim Mock wrote: [snip..] > > All it'd really need is Zip/Postal code box that doesn't complain > > if it's not 5 characters (mine's only 4) and a phone number box > > that can handle phone numbers that don't fit the US (xxx)xxx-xxxx > > format. If the phone number box is just a blank line (instead of > > having ()'s for the area code) it should be ok. Other than that, > > it'd be the normal address, city, state/province type thing. > > Don't forget the country line either ;) > > > > (nod) I decided on a freeform address field for now, for any > software I do that doesn't need to parse out bits of it :) > That would probably be the easiest way to do it. > > I agree.. I think this is an excellent idea. I'm not quite sure > > on the 'FreeBSD Handle' thing though.. care to elaborate on that > > bit? > > > > I was thinking of using some sort of whois type handle in the > FreeBSD user registration database to allow us to separately track > user demographics and OS installs with the same system... then I > came to my senses, and realized we can do this basically with email > addresses, and failing that just letting them enter some string they > want to use to identify themselves with :) > Ah, ok. Sort of like InterNIC's whois database. If that's the road taken, it probably would be a good idea to not have it publically accessible. > > I can handle Australia.. or at least the eastern half of the > > country. I'm willing to do the whole thing if no one from the > > western end steps up to volunteer. > > > > Wow, we are getting -lots- of interest in this area! :) > Good, it's definetly something worthwhile. > > I agree.. even if it is a somewhat "small" thing to do, if it > > works out, the benefits could be huge. Once we get some decent > > numbers, they can be given to Corel, Oracle, Star Division, etc., > > and say "hey, we've got some good numbers here, how about a native > > port".. it'd definetly be a step in the right direction. > > > > The only really 'small' contribution in my mind is not doing > anything :) Handling snail mail registrations is an unknown > quantity I think, and could turn into tens of hours a month easily > in some countries which would mean a huge number of registrations we > just wouldn't have otherwise... > *nod*.. definetly a good thing. Later, -- Jim Mock System Administrator jim@corp.au.triax.com ,-._|\ FreeBSD work: Triax Internet Services http://www.triax.com/ / \ The personal: http://www.triax.com/~jim/ \_,--._/ Power To The FreeBSD 'zine http://www.freebsdzine.org/ v Serve! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message