Piwik - build a developer community

Slide 1: Piwik open source web analytics software

Slide 2: Open Source Open Source

Slide 3: Piwik Mission statement « To create, as a community,  the leading international open source web analytics application, providing access to  all functionality through open  components and open APIs. »

Slide 4: Online demo http://piwik.org/demo

Slide 5: How does it work? • Upload on your web server • Install (5 min) • Copy paste a small Javascript tag on your pages • Done!

Slide 6: Why is Piwik better? 1. Open APIs 2. Plugins 3. Customizable dashboard 4. Data abstraction layer 5. User Interface

Slide 7: Technology • Backend PHP5 and MySQL +100 classes, +20 plugins • Frontend html, Javascript, Ajax Thanks JQuery

Slide 8: A main objective

Slide 9: Build a developer community

Slide 10: How? • Modular software architecture (plugins, event based architecture, MVC) • Good documentation • Open process

Slide 11: Dev methodology • Open Source • Documentation in wiki • Project management with TRAC • Version control with SVN • Unit tests

Slide 12: Documentation • Tutorials • High level documentation • Code documentation (a work in progress)

Slide 13: Conclusion • Lots of great features • Piwik is unique • and people notice • Work hard to build a developer community

Slide 14: 10,000 users before 2009

Slide 15: 10,000 happy users

Slide 16: Join us! Together we will build the best web analytics software

Slide 17: Thanks

Slide 18: Questions?

Slide 19: http://piwik.org

Slide 20: Credits • Pic #1, #2, #3 • By Matthieu Aubry, 2008 • Under license #CC-By-Sa