[Popcon-developers] Debian Popularity Contest

[pere@hungry.com (Petter Reinholdtsen)]

Forwarding this to the popularity-contest developer list, as I do not
have time left to assist you, in the hope that someone on the list got
time to help.

[Jan Sacha]
> Hi,
> 
> I'm writing to you in connection with the Debian Popularity Contest.
> 
> At Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, we are doing research on an operating
> systems for the Grid (www.xtreemos.eu), and we are very interested in
> the software configurations of nodes in large-scale distributed systems. 
> In particular, we are interested in the correlations between libraries
> installed at individual nodes.
> 
> We would be very grateful, if we could use the traces of machine 
> configurations collected in the Debian Popularity Contest for our 
> research. 
> 
> We understand that such traces contain sensitive information, and we
> are happy to sign any required non-disclosure ageements. We are also
> happy to work with fully anonymised traces, as we are not interested in
> any notion of identity. We are open to any additional conditions that 
> may be required for this cooperation.
> 
> I'm looking forward to hearing from you.
> 
> Regards,
> Jan 
> 
> -- 
> Jan Sacha - Postdoctoral Researcher
> Department of Computer Science
> Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
> Tel: +31 20 598 7834   Office: FEW P4.40
> Fax: +31 20 598 7653   E-Mail: jsacha at cs.vu.nl      
> Web: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~jsacha 

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen