From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Mar 25 8: 8:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from o-o.org (o-o.org [207.252.201.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30E5014A14 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 08:08:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from licia@o-o.org) Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by o-o.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA18359 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 10:08:17 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from licia@o-o.org) Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 10:08:16 -0600 (CST) From: Licia To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Is there a "how did you hear about us?" form on www.freebsd.org? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Preparing my own little advocacy efforts again, I stopped to wonder, is there any section on the www.freebsd.org web site, install process, etc, etc that asks someone how they heard about FreeBSD? I'd personally be interested to know how much effect things I do have. For example, I believe the pens and business cards to be effective, but once I distribute them I have no idea if people are following the urls to the web site. When I place the news paper ads, it would be nice if there were some way to track response from them if for no other reason, than to simply be able to figure out where my money is the most effective. (Should I buy more pens, or place more newspaper ads type decisions would be vastly helped.) If there aren't any sections but others are interested, I'm sure I can manage to write any needed CGI to handle the counting, if people don't mind CGI written in plain old C. :) Also I'm sorry if this question has been asked before, but are statistics available as to the traffic to www.freebsd.org? Is the traffic of a level where it could be used to induce vendors to recognize FreeBSD? (i.e. 'label your product as FreeBSD Compatible/whatever and we can give you a small banner, for x number of views?' Please no flames, I know people hate banners, but I do think it's a significant enough source of influence, especially as targeted as it is, to be of use in promoting FreeBSD.) [ licia@o-o.org ] [ http://www.o-o.org/~licia/ ] [ Alias : Ladywolf] [ Telnet to o-o.org and log in as bbs ] [ ssh -l bbs -C o-o.org ] [ A happy user of FreeBSD : http://www.freebsd.org/ ] main(){int num[4]={1768122732,762265697,1919889007,103};printf("%s\n",num);} To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message