<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:36pt"><span>Key
Stats</span><span><br>
</span></h3>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span>Membership
stands at: 3188 members (3182 last fortnight)</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span>Twitter
followers stands at: 864 (853 last fotnight)</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span>Subscribers
of linux-aus list stands at: 1650 steady</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span>Subscribers
of announce list stands at: 598 (594 last fortnight)</span></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hi Kathy,</div><div><br></div><div>It's great to see us trying to record data about what LA is doing, but I'm unsure what these stats trying to show / track? Is it LA's community membership, engagement, or something else?</div><div><br></div><div>If you're trying to measure how much the community is interacting with LA then activity seems more important than subscribers. Something like "number of unique posters to LA mailing lists", the "number of posts to the mailing lists" or "number of messages retweeted" might be a better thing to report on.</div><div><br></div><div>It feels a bit strange that twitter is included on the list (being a closed and proprietary system) but not other social networks like Facebook (do we even have a presence there?), LinkedIn (does anyone still use it?) and G+ (which we definitely have at least a minor presence on). As well, does this include just LA or LCA/PyCon-AU accounts?</div><div><br></div><div>If you're trying to measure "impact" I wonder if something like the "number of minutes of LA content viewed on YouTube", "number attendees at LCA conferences" or "number of grants given" would be something interesting to record.</div><div><br></div><div>Tim 'mithro' Ansell</div></div></div></div>