Debian Brainshare (relaunched)
Ever wondered who calls the most shots in Debian? The developers
elect a project leader each year, but at best the election will
reflect the consensus that already exists, and the powers that come
with the office are so limited that the leader cannot, by himself,
start the project moving along a new and exciting track.
So who really influences the consensus in Debian; who sets the agenda?
Or, phrased more colloquially: Who are in the Cabal? Now you can
know, thanks to our proprietary BrainShare<tm> Sampling technology!
Since there are pesky "ethical" rules against the sampling of actual
brains, we estimate the BrainShare<tm> of Debian community members
based on mailing list activity. But not all mailing list posts are
equally influential; posting lots of trivialities does not an agenda
set. So we use a further approximation and consider a mailing list
post influential if it gets cited by the venerable Debian Weekly News.
The rules, thus, are simple: Each time the Debian Weekly News links to
a mailing list posting by you, you get 1000 brainshare points. Points
do not last indefinitely: For each new issue your point score is
multiplied by .96 and rounded down to an integer. This will make your
points go away after 105 issues unless you replenish them. The one
with the most points in total is the winner.
Find the result on http://people.debian.org/~henning/brainshare/
Be sure to look up yourself - perhaps you're more influential than you
thought!
(The brainshare calculation was originally conceived as a
"cabalometric experiment" during the 2005 DPL campaign. Then I let it
rest for some time. By popular demand it is now back, recomputed, and
results will be kept fresh by the magic of cron. Enjoy!)
--
Henning Makholm "Oh, hvilken kok detilig!"
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