On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Stefano Maffulli <smaffulli at gmail.com> wrote: > Hello folks, > > in the next weeks I would like to start collecting some relevant data > about the OpenStack community. One of the reasons for this effort is > to understand it and communicate it to the outsiders better. > > There are lots of dimensions we can track: usage, awareness, > developers engagement and more. Some efforts are already ongoing > tracking awareness and usage, with the weekly report published > semi-regularly on the blog. > > I would like to discuss with you ideas for other things you would like > to see measured with regards to developers engagement in the > community. > Xen.org is also actively engaged in a similar effort. Here is a great resource: http://assets.en.oreilly.com/1/event/61/Crunching%20the%20numbers_%20Open%20Source%20Community%20Metrics%20Presentation.pdf mlstats (referenced in the presentation) is a great mailing list statistics tool. Hope that helps. Thanks, Todd -- Todd Deshane http://www.linkedin.com/in/deshantm http://www.xen.org/products/cloudxen.html http://runningxen.com/