On Sun, Sep 8, 2019 at 7:43 PM Jorge Sanz <xurxos...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just for comparison as I happen to maintain three meetups for groups in > Spain (kind of microchapters called Geoinquietos[1]), mailing list versus > meetup is as follows: > > * Valencia: list 71; meetup: 729; telegram: 36 > * Seville: list 80; meetup: 899; whatsapp: 16 > As a side note: this Sevilla whatsapp group is more organizational than public due to the privacy problems whatsapp has. So that's not really the number of people participating. > * Madrid: list: 157; 887; telegram; 61 > > Still, for me the absolute numbers are not that meaningful. Over the years > we have seen a clear migration of the conversation from mailing lists to > othe channels: stackoverflow, social media networks, meet up networks, chat > rooms and such. > > Telegram, for example, is actually where these days most of the Spanish > language OSGeo, Geoinquietos, and OSM conversations happen. > > Cheers! > > [1] http://geoinquietos.org/ > > > > On Sat, 7 Sep 2019 at 13:37, Gert-Jan van der Weijden (GISNederland) < > gert-...@gisnederland.nl> wrote: > >> Our Dutch OSGeo-Meetup group (https://www.meetup.com/OSGeoNL/) >> <https://www.meetup.com/OSGeoNL/members/> unites almost 400 people, >> which is 3 about times as much as the "old-school" mailing list ( >> http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/OSGeo-Dutch-Discussions-f4574635.html >> ) >> >> But then again, a far as I can notice only Ottawa (125), Belgium (49), >> Seattle (100) have OSGeo-Meetup groups, so perhaps the rest of the world >> mainly holds on to the old channels.. >> >> >> Kind regards, >> >> gert-Jan >> >> >> Op 6-9-2019 om 23:22 schreef Luigi Pirelli: >> >> IMHO not at all... using mailing list is an "old way" to manage a >> community. Fortunally or Unfortunally, most of community is using chat >> channels related with phone numbers (and/or not). I can't figure out if 33k >> in a ML is ten times community in IRC types channels, but for sure is a >> bigger community. >> >> Luigi Pirelli >> >> >> ************************************************************************************************** >> * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luigipirelli >> * Stackexchange: http://gis.stackexchange.com/users/19667/luigi-pirelli >> * GitHub: https://github.com/luipir >> * Book: Mastering QGIS3 - 3rd Edition >> <https://www.packtpub.com/eu/application-development/mastering-geospatial-development-qgis-3x-third-edition> >> * Hire a team: http://www.qcooperative.net >> >> ************************************************************************************************** >> >> >> On Fri, 6 Sep 2019 at 17:33, Jo Cook <joc...@astuntechnology.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> Thanks for the responses- I was looking for a very loose figure for >>> the community as a whole, so for my purposes the 33K unique >>> subscribers to the mailing lists works well. The graphs of charter >>> members per country from the OSGeo AGM slides are also really helpful. >>> (Thanks Jorge Sanz). >>> >>> (FYI I'm not doing science with these figures, it's just some factoids >>> for the purposes of a talk I'll be giving soon) >>> >>> Best >>> >>> Jo >>> >>> On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 4:03 PM Jürgen E. Fischer <j...@norbit.de> wrote: >>> > >>> > Hi Jachym, >>> > >>> > On Fri, 06. Sep 2019 at 16:21:16 +0200, Jachym Cepicky wrote: >>> > > https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/All_Members >>> > >>> > > https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/All_Members >>> > >>> > 1210 entries on https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:OSGeo_Member >>> > >>> > That's also where wiki's Main_Page points to. >>> > >>> > >>> > Jürgen >>> > >>> > -- >>> > Jürgen E. Fischer norBIT GmbH Tel. >>> +49-4931-918175-31 >>> > Dipl.-Inf. 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