On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 09:32:45PM +0200, Marc Jansen wrote: > Hi devs, > > I love OpenLayers and want to persuade others to that opinion. > > Is there any web-ressource with statistics about the OpenLayers Project? > I am interested e.g. in > > * number of commiters,
http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/CLA > * number of sandboxes, http://svn.openlayers.org/sandbox/ > * avg number of mailings per list, http://openlayers.org/pipermail/users/ http://openlayers.org/pipermail/dev/ > * subscriptions to mailing lists / IRC, IRC generally sits at about 50-60 people online. Mailing Lists: * Users: 992 * Dev: 499 > * estimated number of installations / downloads, 10s of thousands; I don't have anything more specific, and to a certain extent, it would be hard to get anything much more specific due to installations being copied/proliferated outside of OL.org. > * some popular applications(I already know about whitehouse.gov and > latimes.com), http://gallery.openlayers.org/ > * trends on the above numbers would be great as well, > * any other marketing buzz you can provide > > I'd love to have any "number"/"metric" that "proves"/"hints" the > obvious greatness of the software :-) I don't know about any great software; only software that doesn't suck. :) > I am aware that these facts and figures will only scratch at the > surface, but I think some of that numbers would help commmunicate that > OL is probably the best choice for GIS in the www. > > The above would IMHO be a great addition to the projects website. > > I know of http://www.ohloh.net/p/openlayers, but it seems somewhat outdated. > > Many thanks in advance and keep up the great work! > > -- Marc > > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
