[General] Community Metrics -Your opinion requested

[Pieter Hartsook]

Hello everyone,

A couple of years ago we put together some scripts to gather log data
on how well we were engaging the community. We thought that getting
weekly counts on things like:

  Mailing list postings
  Wiki accesses to meeting minutes and status
  OSAF website hits
  Downloads
  Bugzilla activity
  CVS activity
  IRC Office Hours participation

would be a useful way to track how we were doing.

Well, the person that put the scripts together is no longer at OSAF,
some of the scripts are broken, and times have changed. Maybe some of
the things were were trying to track are no longer important, maybe
there are better indicators of how well we're engaging and
communicating with our community. And certainly better formatting of
the information, including using graphs in addition/instead of the
tables would help.

I'd like to replace the previous community metrics page with something
better. So I'd like your opinion.

Take a quick look at the existing page <
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/QuantitativeCommunityInvolvementMetrics
>, realizing of course that it's horribly out of date, and vote on
which of the TOPICS you think would be useful to keep around if we
updated the process and presentation.

--------------- Vote: +1 to keep, 0 neutral, -1 not necessary, useful,
or confusing --------------
  Wiki accesses to meeting minutes and status
  OSAF website hits
  Downloads
  Bugzilla activity
  CVS activity
  IRC Office Hours participation
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

If you have any suggestions of other metrics you'd like to see, I'd
like to hear about that too.


Thanks,

Pieter