[Koha-devel] How to gather better popularity data?

[MJ Ray]

We're often asked for better data on who is using Koha.  For full
disclosure listings, there are good places (like
wiki.koha-community.org, when account registration works again) and
so-so places (like libwebcats with its incomplete representation of
library-support relationships and potential for helping Social
Engineering attacks), but what about collecting basic usage data?

A side-effect of the use of debian packages is that koha appears on
http://popcon.debian.org/ (14 installations) and
http://popcon.ubuntu.com/ (3 installations).  Do other distributions
have similar things?  Have many koha package users installed and
activated the popularity-contest package?
    
Can we get more data consensually?  How should we do this?  A
question in the web installer/upgrader?  Plus a weekly
heartbeat cronjob?

What data should we ask for?  Can we leave it up to libraries how
anonymous they will be?  Basic return is "Koha in use" with some
generated unique identifier, semi-anonymous response adds which
country they are in and how many branches they have, full response
includes catalogue name?

I assume this can go in 3.6.  Would the 3.4 RM accept it?

Thanks for any feedback,
-- 
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