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On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 5:48 PM, Michael Krotscheck <krotscheck at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Subject Change, because I feel these are distinct topics.
>
> On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 2:28 PM Stefano Maffulli <stefano at openstack.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> You're already receiving good answers about the user survey. I'd like to
>> add another venue that I think is worth exploring: adding tools inside
>> Horizon that would collect interesting facts automatically and report
>> them anonimized to the Foundation.
>>
>
> That's... a little out of scope for my question I think. Don't get me
> wrong, I love the idea, especially since it would permit us to gather real
> data that informs actual customer use, and can be fed back into our UX
> process. However... well, I need to know how much someone is customizing
> horizon, which can include options like build-from-scratch. In that case,
> adding tools to horizon wouldn't do much good.
>
> With that in mind, I can see four paths forward. I don't really advocate
> any of them, but if collecting usage data is what you're after, there's way
> easier ways to get it than custom code.
>
> Path 1: Do nothing. Woo!
>
> Path 2: Create a Google Analytics account, and convince one of the public
> cloud providers to let the foundation collect usage data. This would
> require modification of a single horizon template, and boom: Done. Probably
> your fastest path to data, and you can roll it in with some kind of a
> partner certification badge. In fact, one of the existing cloud providers
> might already be collecting this data and would let you look at it (HINT
> HINT)!
>

We've been wanting to do this on TryStack for a while. Seems like the
fastest since it's a community project already and a community/donated
cloud. Want to create a blueprint? https://blueprints.launchpad.net/trystack


>
> Path 3: Ask infra to deploy a copy of Open Web Analytics (
> http://www.openwebanalytics.com/ ), and do the same as step 2, possibly
> by adding a configuration field to horizon that automatically
> enables/disables it. Or not, you can just ask for a template modification.
> Upside: You could also gather data on docs usage, foundation website,
> StoryBoard, etc etc etc.
>
> Path 4: Do some kind of crazy custom thing! Not advised, because you'd
> have to maintain it.
>
> Michael
>
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