David Abrahams <dave <at> boostpro.com> writes:
on Mon Jun 08 2009, joaquin-AT-tid.es wrote:
After reading about Volodya's insertion of a GA tracker for Boost.Build docs, I wonder whether it'd make sense to add one of these to the boost.org website itself. Some of the data we could gather, like for instance the geographical distribution of visitors, can be very illuminating.
There are two problems at first sight with this:
* Whose the reports' associated Google account should be? * How to make the data public? This is not technically trivial, but maybe some volunteer would like to do the job of extracting the data via the Google Analytics Data Export API:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/22/make-your-google-analytics-data-public/
Is there a rule against sharing an account?
I don't think so. The only problem here would be to designate the custodian of the account credentials, as we certainly don't want them made public.
One thing we _could_ consider is getting the SoftwareConservancy to set up http://www.google.com/a/cpanel/education/new for Boost.
I don't know if non-persons can get a Google Account; if you take a look at the associated TOS it reads: "10.1 Google gives you a personal, worldwide, royalty-free, non-assignable and non-exclusive licence..." OTOH, it's certainly much nicer if we can get the account assigned to boost.org rather than an individual. Maybe we need some legal advise here. Joaquín M López Muñoz Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo