On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 4:49 PM, drew <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2012-04-12 at 16:33 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 4:26 PM, drew jensen <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > On Thu, 2012-04-12 at 16:09 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: >> >> Out of curiosity I scanned our ooo-site files for Google Analytics >> >> tracking code. Much to my surprise I found that 15 different GA >> >> accounts were in use, tracking different portions of the website. Not >> >> 15 different pages, but 15 different independent users who had >> >> inserted GA tracking code into the website and associated it with 15 >> >> different GA accounts. >> >> >> >> (I only checked the static files, not the wiki or forums.) >> >> >> >> If you recall, when I initially raised the suggestion of adding GA >> >> tracking to the website, there was general concern about privacy and >> >> treating data derived from GA carefully, and keeping it under PPMC >> >> control. So it is safe to assume that having such info going to 15 >> >> unknown parties would also not meet with the PPMC's approval, even >> >> though this evidently has been occurring for quite some time. >> >> >> >> So, I've gone ahead and fixed this. I've made a commit that unifies >> >> all the legacy tracking under a single GA ID. As discussed before I'm >> >> happy to add any PPMC member (or Mentor) to the GA account, if given >> >> your Google login ID. >> >> >> > Hi Rob >> > >> > Great, glad you did all of that. >> > >> > It is already live on the main page. >> > >> > I don't see a privacy statement - which I think should of happened at >> > the same time. >> > >> >> Well, it should have happened months or years ago whenever the 15 >> people added that code. > > Yea - but spilt milk and all that. > >> >> In any case, I did add a privacy policypage, which you can see linked here: >> >> http://www.openoffice.org/license.html > > Ah - I missed that, ok good. > >> >> > I suppose that requires an update to the footer, not sure I know how to >> > do that - but it may be in the mail list here (I'll look) >> > >> > Otherwise, I really think we either add the privacy statement now or >> > pull the GA injection till it is ready. It's a little thing, but not one >> > with much wiggle room IMO. >> > >> > off to search the mail archive for instructions :) >> > >> >> Well, you see what we have. I think it is sufficient though it does >> require an extra click to find. If we're willing to do a big build of >> the entire site, it can be made cleaner by editing >> ooo-site/templates/footer.html so there is a "privacy" link directly >> from the footer. That is what I did on the podling site. But we >> would probably want to coordinate that, to see if there are other >> site-wide changes we can trigger at the same time. > > It makes sense to me to add a link to the footer, eventually :), but > given there is a link now from the license page, not a huge rush then. > > Lets see - on the forums there is no GA code in any of the actual sites, > however, there is the landing page. Which this second does still have > such. >
Yes, I see it on this page: http://user.services.openoffice.org/ So my scan only pulled up use in static files in Subversion. > I started and I suppose finished a re-write of that page a couple weeks > ago. Hager was good enough to poke me on it yesterday regarding having > it deployed. I thought I'd sent it all to Rapheal but apparently I > didn't as the email is sitting right here in my drafts folder. > > So for those that don't recall the mockup is here: > http://baseanswers.com/temp/index_test.html > > Not sure about the graphics now.. *laughing* > I especially like the "Get it here" graphic. IMHO, we should bless that and get it ready to be used more broadly soon. > Anyway > - one, I can send the files to Rapheal today. > - Two, the page uses a Google CSE, I don't see any good reason for that > not to belong to the same google account as the one for GA, so I'd be > happy to do whatever it takes to make that happen. > http://support.google.com/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=98222 Thanks, -Rob > //drew > >> >> > //drew >> > >> > >> > >
