[General] Community Metrics -Your opinion requested

[Sheila Mooney]

Sorry I am just getting around to replying to this now.

>  Wiki accesses to meeting minutes and status

+1 -  I think it would be useful to have some measure of wiki traffic  
in general. As other pointed out, It probably makes sense to wait  
until after the portal project is further along.

>  OSAF website hits

+ 1 - similar to above

>  Downloads

+ 1

>  Bugzilla activity
>  CVS activity

0: Probably would be somewhat useful but there are other alternatives  
ie: searches.

>  IRC Office Hours participation

I assume these metrics will cover not just Chandler but Scooby and  
Cosmo as well? I think it's important to have that information.

On Jun 13, 2006, at 11:15 AM, Pieter Hartsook wrote:

> 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 , realizing of course that it's horribly out of date, and vote on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
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