SEUL: LUSTd for the Seul project

["Pete St. Onge" <pete_st_onge@iname.com>]

Dana M. Diederich wrote:

> Now there are some pit-falls: first, you have to tell people
> beforehand that this program is going to collect stats.  That's
> going to make them wary of course.  So the initial 'packaging' is
> important.  Also, this would miss a fairly small, but well
> defined chunk of your target audience: people who don't play with
> screen savers.  I really don't think it'll be a large piece, but I
> do think that it will be an important piece.
     True. Mind you, there is a precedence for 'working' screen savers
(which carry out some additional task other than screen saving) - A
large american organization (SETI?) has (or is working on it) a screen
saver which will download a 'chunk' of satellite data and will crunch it
while the machine is idle. Better yet, I understand that they want to
charge folks for the use of the program!

     Seems to me though that we're starting to see two avenues opening
up for the group: the online user survey and the user monitoring
project. IMO, both of these projects are worth pursuing as they will
both provide needed information which we couldn't otherwise get.

     Cheers,

     Pete

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