Adding to this from an email offline with @darius:
Value is in -
- publish numbers on a discoverable "community health" page
- define real-time (e.g. weekly) metrics that we can automate.
For context, @darius original vision was to:
- automatically pull activity data from github, from Talk, etc
- store this in elasticsearch "data warehouse" (supported by the infra team)
- build various tools for measuring community and individual activity against this database
- …these current analyses are just my first spike down this path
- Detailed description of this at https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/projects/Community+KPIs+and+Activity+Analytics