Don't forget extension developers, please! I do think they deserve to be a group of their own. Difficult to count, though. ;-)
Regards, Hans > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Weir [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 8:06 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Size of the Community > > I came across this old post from the Django project, "Measuring the Django > Community: Circles of Django" > > http://jacobian.org/writing/django-community/circles-of-django/ > > It looks like an interesting approach and worth doing on a periodic basis, > once > or twice a year, a census of sorts. > > Obviously participation in the project comes in various ways and in various > degrees of engagement. I think of it as a pyramid: > > Users -- at the based of the pyramid we have the users of OpenOffice. > This can be estimated from our download numbers. > > Engaged users -- Next level of the pyramid are users who have engaged with > the project at one level or another. This might be by following us on > Twitter, > by signing up for a mailing list, posting a question to the forums, etc. > These > can all be measured. It is probably on the order of 15,000. (We have over > 9000 users signed up for our announcement mailing list, for example) > > Contributors -- These are those who have contributed to the project. > This includes code contributions, obviously, but beyond patches also bug > reports, translations strings, wiki edits, helping others on support forum or > user list, contributing logos and ideas on marketing list. These can all be > measured, though it is harder since it is spread across many systems and > there is duplication across these systems. This is probably on the order of > 500. > > Committers -- those who have made sustained contributions of merit and > have been voted in as committers. We have 122 committers. > > This could be visualized as pyramid, or concentric circles ("onion > diagram") or maybe some other ways. Could make a good blog post. > > From a recruitment perspective, it also makes sense to consider what is > required to encourage progress, e.g., converting users into engaged users, or > engaged users into contributors, etc. > > Regards, > > -Rob
