Firefox Dashboard
on Thu, 05/10/2007 - 15:55Spreading FirefoxWe've started a project to define and build a community dashboard to track Firefox adoption. You can learn more by clicking on the Dashboard tab in the header, or by going to the Spread Firefox Dashboard project.
The plan is to publish a full set of metrics and raw data so that everyone has as much information in their hands as possible, to assist with planning and decision making around driving adoption worldwide. We're going to release everything under a CC license, and given the nature of some of the data it should be pretty valuable for other open projects as it gives a unique view into Internet adoption and activity patterns on a global basis.
Here's an example of some of the data we've published so far, that shows global downloads of Firefox by originating browser:
How can you help?
- If you've got statistics in your blood, love econometrics, or otherwise like to understand and tinker with modeling, please do join us. This is real world data that we're trying hard to better understand and to affect through community marketing programs on a global basis.
- If you're driving a Spread Firefox project or have ideas for new projects, jump into the conversation and let's talk about what sort of data and metrics you think would be useful for us all to collectively gather and track.
Special welcome to students and faculty from Stanford University who have joined the project through the d.school's class on Creating Infections Action, Kindling Gregarious Behaviour and the Global Entrepreneuship Marketing (GEM) programme.
If you're a student or teacher in business, stats, economics, marketing, or in any way interested in joining the project and having your class work on real world marketing programs with real data, in the open, with a global community, please do get in touch! Contact Asa Dotzler or myself and we'll get the ball rolling.
cbeard, on behalf of the mozilla marketing team
