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

[Magnus Enger]

On 25 May 2011 13:37, MJ Ray <mjr at phonecoop.coop> wrote:
> 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,

Interesting points!

Have you seen this RFC?
http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Add_a_button_to_the_intranet_for_registering_with_the_Koha_community

Best regards,
Magnus Enger
libriotech.no