On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Ed <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Craig Cook <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> I think you're running a couple years behind. I thought the answer to
>>>> everything now was node.js
>>>
>>>we can spec the infrastructure latter  ;)
>>
>> He he.  I like the way you think!
>>
>> I was thinking more like:
>>
>> Count the number of times a LOPSA person is thanked for teaching someone a 
>> new thing.
>
> I would start with something simpler - like the LOPSA list and just
> some sense of the health of the list - exposing the topics could be
> done latter. By general health I mean a comparison of growth vs
> losses. As with any list of contacts, some are good, some never were
> good and over time people move, drop out etc so the dynamic is fairly
> universal. A basic tracking display would be useful at LOPSA, you
> already have a source of data and it could be shared since running a
> list is a fairly universal service.

Output from something like MailListStat is useful:

http://www.marki-online.net/MLS/

Re topics:  building a tag cloud out of the text sent to the list,
maybe?  That updates on a monthly basis, so you can see change in the
topics under discussion?


> One image, showing the health of the list, turnover/growth etc from
> data you already likely have, or can get from regular operations. now
> go make the top line go up and the bottom line level out  ;)

:)


> Getting data on Conferences and Meeting might be easier and more
> useful to LOPSA members than capturing Mentoring stats out of thin
> air. Pulling topic info out the list into a display of keywords might
> be a start for categorizing Mentored topics - I don't know. My
> approach is to think about the deliverable in the context of the
> resources available and assume any friction for the user will kill the
> effort.

DASHBOARD PROJECT!  :)

--e
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