I would be interested to understand more about what is meant by "... potential 
for helping Social Engineering attacks".  

My intent is to accurately and comprehensively represent the libraries that 
have adopted Koha, as well as the other open source and proprietary automation 
systems.  I'm not aware of any other project with similar objectives. 

-marshall

Marshall Breeding
Editor, Library Technology Guides
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of MJ Ray
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 6:38 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Koha-devel] How to gather better popularity data?

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,
--
MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op.
http://koha-community.org supporter, web and LMS developer, statistician.
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Available for hire for Koha work http://www.software.coop/products/koha
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