Yeah, sorry or not doing the distinction, the other Telegram groups I mentioned are all open and advertised.
On Mon, 9 Sep 2019 at 08:21, María Arias de Reyna <dela...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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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