Comments on: Measuring Community http://www.jonobacon.org/2008/09/09/measuring-community/ At home with Jono Bacon, Community Manager and Author Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:28:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Discussion 3/3: Openmoko Community Manager position? | Risto H. Kurppa http://www.jonobacon.org/2008/09/09/measuring-community/comment-page-1/#comment-125780 Discussion 3/3: Openmoko Community Manager position? | Risto H. Kurppa Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:53:14 +0000 http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=1284#comment-125780 <p>[...] A soft science though does not mean though that there is an excuse to just assume the world is a big analogue blur that we can only measure and assess by licking a finger and lifting it to the breeze. A key trick in being an effective community leader is to discover the mechanics of your community, and understand how to assess and measure them. (http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=1284) [...]</p> [...] A soft science though does not mean though that there is an excuse to just assume the world is a big analogue blur that we can only measure and assess by licking a finger and lifting it to the breeze. A key trick in being an effective community leader is to discover the mechanics of your community, and understand how to assess and measure them. (http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=1284) [...]

]]> By: Ian Stoffberg http://www.jonobacon.org/2008/09/09/measuring-community/comment-page-1/#comment-125383 Ian Stoffberg Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:39:25 +0000 http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=1284#comment-125383 <p>Everybody using firefox do the following.</p> <p>hit ctrl-f or open the find bar enter "community" click "highlight all" scroll up to the top of this blog post. now that's how you measure it!</p> <p>Sorry Jono. I could not resist.</p> <p>Greets from .ZA</p> Everybody using firefox do the following.

hit ctrl-f or open the find bar enter “community” click “highlight all” scroll up to the top of this blog post. now that’s how you measure it!

Sorry Jono. I could not resist.

Greets from .ZA

]]> By: Dave Neary http://www.jonobacon.org/2008/09/09/measuring-community/comment-page-1/#comment-125327 Dave Neary Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:18:14 +0000 http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=1284#comment-125327 <p>Hi there,</p> <p>A while back, I had to come up with some metrics for OpenWengo, and the ones we chose were based around the four most important resources for us: mailing list participation, SVN, bug reporting and downloads/usage.</p> <p>We split (using very imperfect awk scripts) participation into "part of Wengo" or "not part of Wengo" criteria, to measure actual increases (like Eclipse), categorised bug reports by ages & status, and measured the evolution of the ratio of Wengo accounts to OpenWengo downloads. I had wanted to provide a nice shiny command screen as you suggest, but unfortunately never got around to it.</p> <p>OpenSolaris also has metrics you might like for community: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/advocacy/metrics/ </p> <p>KDE tracks svn commit rate too.</p> <p>Cheers, Dave.</p> Hi there,

A while back, I had to come up with some metrics for OpenWengo, and the ones we chose were based around the four most important resources for us: mailing list participation, SVN, bug reporting and downloads/usage.

We split (using very imperfect awk scripts) participation into “part of Wengo” or “not part of Wengo” criteria, to measure actual increases (like Eclipse), categorised bug reports by ages & status, and measured the evolution of the ratio of Wengo accounts to OpenWengo downloads. I had wanted to provide a nice shiny command screen as you suggest, but unfortunately never got around to it.

OpenSolaris also has metrics you might like for community: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/advocacy/metrics/

KDE tracks svn commit rate too.

Cheers, Dave.

]]> By: jldugger http://www.jonobacon.org/2008/09/09/measuring-community/comment-page-1/#comment-125314 jldugger Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:11:48 +0000 http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=1284#comment-125314 <p>I'd love to see automatic reports generated for IRC activity, and a breakdown of user agents on planet.ubuntu.com. I recall hearing that 97 percent of all page hits to the planet are RSS based.</p> I’d love to see automatic reports generated for IRC activity, and a breakdown of user agents on planet.ubuntu.com. I recall hearing that 97 percent of all page hits to the planet are RSS based.

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