Hiya Paul et al! I think those are two very interesting ideas, well worth pursuing.
A wiki page describing something similar to the second idea was created a while ago: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Add_a_button_to_the_intranet_for_registering_with_the_Koha_community Au revoir! Magnus libriotech.no On 11 February 2014 18:30, Paul Poulain <paul.poul...@biblibre.com> wrote: > Hi koha-devel, > > There are sometimes debates about how and who is using Koha, how it is > setup, which decision is of general interest. > I had 2 ideas that could be developed during the hackfest. 2 of BibLibre > developers are very motivated by the idea, anyone else can join us ;-) > > **** 1st idea : collecting -anonymous- data on staff interface usage > We sometimes are wondering whether librarians are running an old version > of IE, or if they have a large screen, or if the page X is often run or not. > There's a tool that could let us know: piwik (BibLibre already has an > offer on Piwik for the OPAC) > The idea here would be to add piwik for staff interface, and collect all > datas on a single piwik instance. > We made something (quick) for one of our current supported library, just > to see what kind result we could get. We're quite happy with the > performances, datas are interesting (which browser is used, which screen > size, which pages. [ For example, the library runs an average of 40 > times "reports/catalogue-stats.pl" every day (yes, that's crazy ;-) ). > This page is worth being optimized !!! ] > > The only caveat we've seen for now is that it can be tricky to have many > websites pointing to the same piwik database. > We also are not completely peaceful with having 10 000 librarians > calling the server. We could face a heavy load... > > But that's worth investigating imo. > > (for those who don't know what is piwik, it's like google analytics, but > respect your privacy ;-) Ah, and it's a software developed by a frenchy, > living in new zealand, that has office hosted by catalystNZ afaik) > If the community likes the idea, we will ask him for any advice on the 2 > caveats we fear. > [ PS: please avoid starting a troll about piwik collecting anonymous > data or not because of the IP. Anyway, the feature will be trigger-able > by the library. ] > > **** 2nd idea : collecting nominative datas. > We very often face the question "how many libraries are using Koha" > So the idea is to have a form that let the library declare itself. > Library name, type (academic, public,...), country,... > We could also collect other data, like catalog size, systempreferences > values to be able to make statistics. > > Example of answers we could get: > * how many libraries are using Koha in Africa ? > * What's the average catalog size ? Which library is the largest one ? > * Is someone/how many libraries are using the "insecure" mode > (syspref=insecure set to "Yes") ? [ If no, we can drop it ! ] > > Each library could choose to share or not the data (and maybe which > level of data. One could accept to declare itself & share sysprefs, but > not appear on nominative listings for example) > A specific website could be made to display informations, either > nominative or not. > > Do you like those ideas ? > > PS: BibLibre is of course willing to host piwik and "statistics" servers. > -- > Paul POULAIN - BibLibre > http://www.biblibre.com > Free & Open Source Softwares for libraries > Koha, Drupal, Piwik, Jasper > > _______________________________________________ > Koha-devel mailing list > Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org > http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel > website : http://www.koha-community.org/ > git : http://git.koha-community.org/ > bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/ _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
