The last attempt to find a location for Debian Two went down quite well. If you read the comments on slashdot.org, they were very, um, slashdot. I agree with everybody that the best results would be found if we had a database of airports, there longitude and latitude, and the cost to fly between them. But we don't have such a database, so I continue to play with the data that we have.
My next idea, work out distances between developers on the surface of the earth, instead of passing through it. For each developer I work out the distance to every other developer, total up the distance, and divide by the number of developers. This gives an average distance that developers would need to travel to meet at the location of one of the developers.
This time the code is written in python. The result is that the closest average developer is in the United Kingdom, at longitude 0.00, latitude 54.00. The average distance between this developer and every other developer is 4808.28 km or 2987.72 miles. The developer who, on average, lives the furthest from other developers is in New Zealand at longitude 170.53 and latitude -45.88. The average distance between this developer and every other developer is 14926.92 km or 9275.15 miles.
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Last updated: Edward Betts <edward@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jan 2002 20:31:41 +0000