All good questions.
In the data workgroup workshop on Sunday I specifically asked the lead for the effort to add a repo so we can start putting in well formed questions to ask from the available data about historic contributor activity.

https://forge.fedoraproject.org/fdwg/analysis-requests

I owe him the promised 70 or so questions I'd like to try to answer.

I don't want to lose track of the questions.

I'm trying real hard not to fall into the trap of merely valuing what we can measure. I want to try that if we spin up analytics we are attempting to measure what we value. Putting together well reasoned questions we can ask the data using the new tools this community group has created and _why_ we want to ask those questions should help avoid the trap.

That being said, I don't think the existing data source can help us identify employer associations. Fedora as a project may need to craft a vendor engagement strategy that includes a mechanism to help ensure we can track that. Now that Microsoft Azure, among other downstreams, is Fedora based there's more reason to track vendor employees activity in the project.

the rate of new packager activity we might be able to get from the data and its definitely an important question.
That is different question than the rate at which new packagers ae added into the packager group and are acting as co-maintainers. It could be the project is adding packagers, but they arent showing up in the activity logs. I don't know yet. There are so many questions we can try to answer with these tools now.