[openstack-community] Country/region stats

Frans Thamura frans at meruvian.org
Mon Oct 21 23:19:16 UTC 2013


Agree

Stefano, any idea a meeting for osug leader in hk conf?

I love to be part of them...

F
On Oct 20, 2013 1:39 AM, "Marton Kiss" <marton.kiss at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Tristan,
>
> We are developing the community portal as a Foundation project, and we
> have exact plans to extract UG related data easily. As I know foundation
> have another project that will provide some form of OpenID authentication
> based on Foundation membership, in the 2nd phase (after the summit) I want
> to integrate this feature into the portal, so we can link members to local
> user groups. I think we can sit down in Hong Kong to discuss the details,
> what type of analytic data is important to us. (local group and geographic
> region trends can be a super-cool feature here)
>
> Cheers,
>   Márton
>
>
> 2013/10/19 Tristan Goode <tristan at aptira.com>
>
>> Hi Community,
>>
>> I've been wondering how the community would feel about (more) stats. I'm
>> particularly interested in country/regional contribution stats, in the
>> short term for the summit and longer term for the Foundation membership.
>> It's great to see company contribution stats but I think there's another
>> set of stats that could be made available to help build our community.
>>
>> Because of the imminent HK Summit, the last cupla months I've constantly
>> been asked "How many folks are going from <insert country or region
>> here>?". I have to say I don't know other than the few people I'm in
>> personal contact with. I think having some sort of country/region stats
>> will help individuals and businesses make a decision to get involved. For
>> a startup or small org considering summit sponsorship, seeing some stats
>> on country attendance would be something that I would like to know if
>> their market was regional.
>>
>> It might also be great to see country/region stats for the Foundation
>> membership to see how successful we are in having our local UG members
>> join up. As an example, if we have 600 UG members and only 50 are OSF
>> members, then we have might have work to do to find out why.
>>
>> Another reason (and this is fresh in mind whilst I've been engaging with
>> someone recently in Paraguay to start a UG there), it might help all of us
>> with membership drives around the world and encourage people to form UGs
>> if they can see there are actually others in their country/region/city
>> that are members, or if there aren't. This is justification alone IMHO.
>>
>> I can't actually think of any reasons not to publish country/regional
>> stats.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Tristan
>>
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