Several extension developers asked about and toying with the idea of starting to collect software usage data. I completely agree that such data can be useful for prioritizing developments and can be a good motivator for developers to devote more of their time to a project. However, I also see a huge…

I agree, for collecting usage data about Slicer core, the user would need to opt in in the installer or in the welcome dialog and this would need to be in Slicer core. If user consented then Slicer would install the telemetry extension. It would be nice if even the question about telemetry was impl…

Since we know that many people will opt out of tracking and telemetry, why don’t we try to make sharing of usage information fun and easy for people who do want to share? I’m thinking we could track usage locally and generate badges for users that pass a certain number of hours of usage, or try cer…

I would suggest we make a quick and very simple implementation. We could infer the opt-out number of users from the number of downloads of Slicer and the number of users that sent telemetry data on a given day (e.g. the only collected variable could be the boolean opted-in). After we do that, then…

Without the ability to collect user metrics from Slicer that would let me gain knowledge about the user base or gather use-cases data to try to seek funding in the future, I’ve chosen to stop developing BoneReconstructionPlanner (apart from addressing bugs). Therefore, I’ll be using my next weekend…

Thanks for the information and considering working on analytics features. The highest priority is to implement the ability to opt in to telemetry. We cannot have extensions collecting data without explicit user consent. The opt in could be obtained by displaying a widget in the Welcome dialog (and …

Example: renderdoc tool After installing renderdoc, I was presented with the following popup: [image] The analytics infrastructure description along with the collected data are also publicly reported on the associated analytics page . References: https://github.com/baldurk/renderdoc https://ren…

Nice example @jcfr Thanks for sharing Although I’m not so sure users would go through such a verbose dialog (maybe add hrefs instead?) I don’t know what others think :slight_smile:

Hi I was able to do a “Hello World” example: GitHub - mauigna06/SlicerGoatCounter main Contribute to mauigna06/SlicerGoatCounter development by creating an account on GitHub. Feedback is welcomed

GoatCounter looks like a nice project, but I would prefer something more established and longer-term solution, such as an OpenTelemetry server hosted by Kitware. Probably something simpler would be sufficient, too, but it should be open-source, using open standards, and preferably with an option of …

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Should we start collecting software usage data?

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Should we start collecting software usage data?

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