Small idea for Gnome Quarterly Reports

[Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddress gmail com>]

Petr Kovar regularly makes requests for input for Gnome Quarterly
Reports like this one.

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-i18n/2012-February/msg00038.html

I looked at some older quarterly reports and I noticed the Membership
Team provides some factoid stats snapshots (new members, etc.) and  I
would like to suggest that the i18n team consider something similar
that could (hopefully) be pulled simply from the Damned Lies server.

Some possible factoids

Total registered teams
Total registered team members
Total hosted strings/words
Total hosted packages
Total completed strings/words
Langs over some given % complete.

Any given snapshot of these is more-or-less just a "death by
PowerPoint" slide; however, over time mining the metadata that falls
out from maintaining a system like Damned Lies is one of the few ways
we have of quantifying our results in some potentially meaningful
categories (recruiting localizers and completing strings).  Analysis
of a time series of such reports can indicate areas that might prompt
corrective action (e.g. more active recruitment) in a way that is more
than simply anecdotal.  You would still want  to report milestones
reached, new initiatives/capabilities, etc. as is done now and the
"stat box" need not be very large.

Just a thought for consideration,

cjl