Hi all, as you might now SourceForge is serving the vast majority of AOO binaries downloads, and we provide download stats by country, Operating System, Browser, and traffic source. Some of you are familiar with our stats pages, while others use our APIs.
We do have spam detection enabled to identify false-positive traffic like bots, and I wish to share some insights of what happened recently on this front. We noticed that Russia was the highest download country, something that was hard to explain. The popularity was limited to /localized/ru/3.4.0/ Apache_OpenOffice_incubating_3.4.0_Win_x86_install_ru.exe We looked at the raw download logs for that file, and saw a lot of downloads from user-agent "Download Master". Apparently it is popular in Russia, and apparently it starts hundreds of simultaneous downloads at once. Our download stats system does have some logic to prevent double counting this type of traffic, but it didn't exclude all of the duplicate downloads, so the result was still high. We've updated our download stats logic to correct this, and then reprocessed the raw logs from 2012-05-08 to present, to update the stats. Beyond bringing our ability to provide reliable stats, I wish to throw some new ideas about how we can help Apache OpenOffice to grow: a. We could provide intelligence on which projects were downloaded with Open Office within a week. b. We could cross-merch Apache OpenOffice project with other projects c. We have community management and Internet Marketing to support the community We've already run a 250k impressions campaign through our media channels, and we plan to run more. Our community growth hacker and Apache member Rich Bowen has covered Apache OpenOffice both on feathercast and SourceForge blog, and also here we plan to do more videos and interviews. Roberto -- ==== This e- mail message is intended only for the named recipient(s) above. It may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail and any attachment(s) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by replying to this e-mail and delete the message and any attachment(s) from your system. Thank you.
