On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 06:10:05PM +0000, Edward Betts wrote:
> I wrote a script to see how many developers there are in daylight at any time,
> for example right now, at 13:50 GMT there are 432 developers in daylight, and
> 169 developers not in daylight.
>
> I just went and did some other stuff, now I have come back to writing this
> mail and it is 15:17 GMT, there are 394 developers with sunlight shining over
> them, and 207 without.
>
> What use is this? None that I can think of.
>
> See more, including a plot of developers in sunlight for the whole day, and
> the script used to calculate these figures at
> http://people.debian.org/~edward/globe/daylight/
Why not add the results to the official debian pages?
"Currently <xxx> active developers"
assuming that developers are
- "active" during daylight hours
- don't move too much
NB: Active is meant in its general sense - (=awake?). not necessarily
working on Debian :-)
Or perhaps just as padding for Debian Weekly News?
>
> Note to Developers:
> Want to add your coordinates to http://db.debian.org/ so that they get
> included in these calculations? Then check out the Getty Thesaurus of
> Geographic Names at http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/
>
> --
> The enemy's gate is down
> http://people.debian.org/~edward/
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