Google Analytics - tracking our Website

[Stuart Monteith <st...@stoo.me.uk>]

Hi,
    There has been some discussion about tracking the Apache Kato 
website in order to gauge interest in the project, and the effects of 
the various things being done to increase that interest. For example, 
Adam's Developerworks article, Steve's BOF at JavaOne, etc.

There are a couple of places where stats are available internally, the 
most specific is here:

    http://people.apache.org/~vgritsenko/stats/projects/index.html

However, that only has stats for the Incubator project, nothing more 
specific.

There have been discussions here for Google Analytics:

    
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/200809.mbox/%3C510143ac0809040937r668b38aauf5cc38ecb6e8a76b@mail.gmail.com%3E

To summarise:
    There are Apache projects already using it (e.g. Apache Geronimo)

    The only issue is that the information in the reports has to be open 
to everyone on the project.

    The Analytics are for Internal Use only. This is open to 
interpretation, and may conflict with the previous point.
  
    Reports seem best shared by having them periodically sent to our 
mailing list by GA.

    It is perhaps questionable that we should be putting webstats 
through Google for those concerned about privacy.

    Also: "You must post a privacy policy and that policy must provide 
notice of your use of a cookie that collects anonymous traffic data."

There isn't a conclusion to that discussion on the mailing list.

Thoughts?
    Stuart

Re: Google Analytics - tracking our Website

[Stuart Monteith <st...@stoo.me.uk>]

Great, thanks for the pointer Ant.
    The relevant extract is:

	Henning to communicate that every project that uses Google Analytics
      	needs to have a published privacy policy.
        	Update:  
            	henning: Jukka and legal-discuss pursued this and produced
                	 http://jackrabbit.apache.org/privacy-policy.html,
                 	which is great. I will send out mail later this week
                 	to pmcs@ and remind them of this and that they have
                 	to update their web sites if they are using GA. By

                 	using this page as template, it should be easy.


I'll try and found out how we configure/customize the Confluence 
autoexporter such that we could insert the necessary HTML. I want to do 
that anyhow so we can improve the look of the website.
We will, of course, have to vote on whether we go ahead with Google 
Analytics.

Regards,
    Stuart

ant elder wrote:
> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Stuart Monteith <st...@stoo.me.uk> wrote:
>
>
>   
>> There have been discussions here for Google Analytics:
>>
>>     
>
>   
>>   Also: "You must post a privacy policy and that policy must provide notice
>> of your use of a cookie that collects anonymous traffic data."
>>
>> There isn't a conclusion to that discussion on the mailing list.
>>
>>     
>
> There was an ASF board decision that projects using Google Analytics
> must display a notice on their website -
>
> http://www.apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2008/board_minutes_2008_12_17.txt
>
>    ...ant
>   

Re: Google Analytics - tracking our Website

[ant elder <an...@gmail.com>]

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Stuart Monteith <st...@stoo.me.uk> wrote:


> There have been discussions here for Google Analytics:
>

>   Also: "You must post a privacy policy and that policy must provide notice
> of your use of a cookie that collects anonymous traffic data."
>
> There isn't a conclusion to that discussion on the mailing list.
>

There was an ASF board decision that projects using Google Analytics
must display a notice on their website -

http://www.apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2008/board_minutes_2008_12_17.txt

   ...ant