Am Donnerstag, 13. Juni 2013 um 19:22 schrieb Rob Weir: > An idea that came to me last night in a moment of quiet contemplation. > > We have a lot of data on the downloads from the past year. I used > some of the data in this blog post: > > https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/apache_openoffice_one_year_50 > > But there is a lot more raw data available, from the SourceForge stats > API that I did not use. > > And let's be honest, my charts are rather dull, basically black and > white charts suitable for publication in the "Proceedings of the > International Society of Boring Stuff". > > There is also a bunch of data that can be derived from mailing list > archives, perhaps the website, forums, SVN, wiki edit logs, etc. > > For example. I looked at some ASF-wide data I got from scraping the > Apache committers list, and did some posts on my personal blog: > > www.robweir.com/blog/2013/05/mapping-apache.html > > http://www.robweir.com/blog/2013/05/mapping-the-asf-part-ii.html > > The proposal would be something along the following: > > 1) Collect onto a webpage or wiki pointers to the data sets that we > have available, maybe even with some sample python code I have to > parse the data. > > 2) Invite anyone interested to do whatever analysis / visualization > they want to do with the data and to post it. This could be charts, > interfactive websites, videos, etc. > > 3) We judge the submissions based on attractiveness, clarity, insight, etc. > > 4) Prize for the winner? At the very least we can give feature an > interview with them on the blog, to give them recognition. > > What do we get out of this, as a project? > > 1) We get to reiterate the openness of the project, that all this data > is available. > > 2) We get infographics that we can use to to promote the underlying > success of AOO. > > 3) We may get some new insights into the users and/or community from > these visualizations. > > 4) We learn some new techniques on how to use the data that we have > and will have in the future. Some of this analysis may be applicable > to other projects as well. > > 5) We attract additional attention to the project, via coverage of the > contest and the results. > this sounds like an interesting idea and it would be interesting to see what we can get out of the data.
Juergen > > > -Rob > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
