[asterisk-users] Anonymous statistics collection tool for Asterisk servers?

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 12:19:03PM -0400, Dean Collins wrote:
> I think it would be great for someone to write a small 'anonymous
> collection module' that an Asterisk sys-admin could download and install
> on their asterisk server which uploaded the stats to a community website
> where the data was anonymous but still valuable for the community.
> 
>  
> 
> Even if it just collected number of new installations globally this
> would be a huge help to people selling asterisk to their customers who
> continually ask "I've heard about this Asterisk open source stuff but
> how many are there installed globally anyway?"
> 
> So this survey is to gauge the community's reaction to the development
> of an analytics tool like this. Please answer with your honest thoughts
> so we can gauge demand within the community for this tool.

It's not that there's no demand. It's just that I won't trust anybody
with those data. For instance, think of it as "in what places can I find
servers volnurable to advisory AST-200x-xxx"? 

One parallel to look at is Debian's popcon:

  http://popcon.debian.org/


It is also used by Ubuntu:

  
  http://popcon.ubuntu.com/

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