On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Roberto Galoppini <rgalopp...@geek.net> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Hans Zybura <hzyb...@zybura.com> wrote: > >> Don't forget extension developers, please! I do think they deserve to be a >> group of their own. Difficult to count, though. ;-) >>
Good point. The ecosystem of those making templates, extensions for AOO, or writing books or offering consulting services, is important to count. > > AOOE. Over 350 authors created over 700 extensions. > AOOT. Over 700 authors created over 2500 templates. > Thanks. I've started a wiki page for this "community census" and added your numbers, as well as some others I've been able to find: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Size+of+Apache+OpenOffice+Community I'd encourage anyone who has some other figures to add them to the page. Or, if you have an idea for something measurable, add that as well. -Rob > Please note that this is not incremental, but the total count. > > Roberto > > >> >> Regards, Hans >> >> >> >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] >> > Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 8:06 PM >> > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org >> > 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 >> >> > > -- > ==== > This e- mail message is intended only for the named recipient(s) above. It > may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the > intended recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination, > distribution or copying of this e-mail and any attachment(s) is strictly > prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately > notify the sender by replying to this e-mail and delete the message and any > attachment(s) from your system. Thank you. >
