Hi Noah, +1 for your suggestions where and with whom to share the for 1), 2), 3) and 4).
Cheers Andy On 1 May 2014 20:50, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: > Marketing team, > > I'd like to discuss the privacy of data the project collects, so we > know what can be shared on the lists, and with interested > third-parties. > > I'd like to cover these types of data: > > 1) Download stats > 2) Web analytics for the website and the blog > 3) Size of the mailing lists > 4) Composition of the mailing lists > > Here's what that data can be used for: > > (1) and (2) can be used to measure popularity of CouchDB and how our > marketing efforts and releases have an impact on the project. > > (3) can be used to get a sense of how big the community is, and how > that is changing over time. > > (4) can be used to get demographic information. There are plenty of > tools that will mine information from a list of email addresses, > linking people up with employers, LinkedIn profiles, and other social > media. > > Now, as far as I am concerned: > > (1) is fine and I am happy sharing that on this list. > > (2) should be for committers by default only, but relevant info can be > posted if it helps us in our marketing efforts. Popular page views, > specific page views, paths/clicktrails, browser demographics, and so > on. > > But what about information like location, age, gender, interests and > so on (which you can get from some analytics tools). I think we'd have > to make sure that whatever was being shared publicly was 1) actually > useful to us and needed to be shared, and 2) heavily aggregated so as > not to cause any privacy concerns. > > (I am more interested in doing the right thing here than I am getting > around the legalities of the situation.) > > (3) is fine, and we share this every three months already in our board > reports. > > (4) seems like something that ought to be confidential and not shared > with anyone outside of the PMC for any purpose. > > If we shared (4) with anyone, we'd have to share it with everyone, per > our strict vendor neutral position. And there is already a strong > consensus on the internal ASF press@ list that this is out of the > question. > > What do other people think? > > Thank you, > > -- > Noah Slater > https://twitter.com/nslater > -- Andy Wenk Hamburg - Germany RockIt! http://www.couchdb-buch.de http://www.pg-praxisbuch.de GPG fingerprint: C044 8322 9E12 1483 4FEC 9452 B65D 6BE3 9ED3 9588 https://people.apache.org/keys/committer/andywenk.asc
