Bob, I think a refresh of the Geode website is a great idea. I look forward to hearing more of your ideas. I’ve included a link below [1] to provide context on ASF policies around websites.
Thanks, Anthony [1] https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/pmcs#introduction <https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/pmcs#introduction> > On Apr 8, 2020, at 2:08 PM, Bob Glithero <rglith...@vmware.com.INVALID> wrote: > > Hi All, > > Hopefully it's ok for me to add my $.02 here. While understanding where the > traffic is coming from is always helpful, it's possible to take a more active > approach to driving traffic. I also help with community marketing at > RabbitMQ (rabbitmq.com), which uses their platform to host tutorials, best > practices, and other content. I could find $$$ in my budget to help > modernize the Geode site and make it more generally useful as a content > platform for developers and others interested in the project. > > Bob > > On 4/8/20, 1:59 PM, "Alexander Murmann" <amurm...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hi Michael, > > A few things I'd like to know and potential associated actions: > * Where do our visitors come from (referrer)? -> We might be able to lean > in to those sources. > * Are we getting any traffic from our Twitter presence? -> If certain > tweets bring more traffic, let's do more of tweets like it! > * Some people in our community started blogging more. Are we seeing any > traffic from that? Are some topics driving more traffic than others -> > Might inform what topics or types of articles we should write more or less > off. > > > On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 9:18 AM Michael Oleske <mole...@pivotal.io> wrote: > >> What things are we looking to learn? Without knowing what we are >> interested in learning I would be hesitant to add anything. If we know >> what we want to learn then a conversation about analytics would be more >> fruitful (to me at least) >> >> -michael >> >> >> On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 3:31 PM Alexander Murmann <amurm...@apache.org> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> In promoting our project it might be valuable to get a better idea of >> where >>> visitors on our website come from, what they look for and where we lose >>> them. This should help us improve the website and learn what kind of >> blogs >>> articles, videos etc. drive user interest to the website. >>> >>> To gain those insights I'd like to add Google Analytics (GA). While GA >>> isn't open source, it is commonly used by other Apache projects. Apache >>> Cassandra, Kafka, Samza and Spark all have GA trackers on their website. >>> >>> I've heard rumors that we at some point had it on our website as well. Is >>> this true? If so, why did we remove it? >>> >>> Thank you for your thoughts and concerns! >>> >> > >
