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I believe that the OpenStack marketing community sees comparisons to other open source cloud frameworks as significant competitive positioning. Accuracy in that data would be valuable to the whole community.

I *know* that a number of OpenStack member companies use their "position" in terms of ATC contributions as a marketing point, and having an accurate baseline for those numbers might also be valuable. For example, DreamHost has suddenly become the most substantial contributor to Quantum *ever*. :)

http://www.stackalytics.com/engineers/markmcclain?metric=loc&period=havana&project_type=incubation

As for myself, I often use the count of individual members, corporate members, and total committers in sales and marketing materials - and I've found a number of discrepancies in the user database that I find concerning (duplicate names, etc.). Solid, official data is valuable for everyone - and I think inviting these other projects to join the activity board effort, by making it an openstack project itself, could be a great way to get there. 

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On Jul 8, 2013, at 11:18 AM, Stefano Maffulli <stefano at openstack.org> wrote:

> Hi Josh
> 
> On Mon 08 Jul 2013 07:42:20 PM CEST, Joshua McKenty wrote:
>> Stefano, it seems like we're getting a proliferation of "stats and
>> analysis" efforts, including Mirantis's newly
>> launched http://www.stackalytics.com/. Would you be up for
>> spearheading a new OpenStack "program" to coordinate these various
>> efforts?
> 
> Sure, I like to think that I'm already  half-way there with the 
> Activity Board. Http://activity.openstack.org is the program I run now 
> that wants to be the 'official' way to get useful stats and metrics. 
> "Useful" in this context is data and metrics that are needed to manage 
> the community and the development teams. We don't do comparisons with 
> other projects and we are adding more and more features, sources and 
> datapoints based on the feedback from project managers and users (see 
> the first release of data from gerrit on the dash 
> http://activity.openstack.org/dash/browser/scr.html).  We are working 
> hard to make sure that the data is correct and meaningful for 
> day-to-day consumption, not just for quarterly reports and flashy 
> announcements.
> 
> There is also a topic for the openstack-dev mailing list with 
> interesting discussions coming from PTLs and project managers 
> (http://openstack.markmail.org/search/?q=subject%3A[metrics]+list%3Aorg.openstack.lists.openstack-dev 
> to get an idea of what is discussed there).
> 
> I believe Mirantis started their effort before Activity Board was 
> available and stackalytics was born out of their internal need to track 
> lines of code (a metric that many in openstack-dev believe has less 
> priority than other data points currently missing in Activity Board).
> Qingjye similarly had his own itch to scratch when he started doing the 
> comparison across different projects.
> 
> What problem you believe such multitude of reports not coming from the 
> Foundation  is creating?
> 
> /stef
> 
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