That is fantastic Amy! Some specific comments below:
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 04:50:28PM -0500, Amy Lindberg wrote: > I am thinking about creating an inforgraphic that includes information > about CloudStack. Below is a list of items that I could like to include. > Anyone know where I can gather this info? > > > 1. Release date and version since the project started Hmmm... that's a really good request. Here is the list for *Apache* CloudStack. Remember that this was a commercial product from cloud.com first, then an OSS project at Citrix and now at Apache. Perhaps someone from Citrix would be able to offer a listing of the pre-ASF releases (significant vs. bug fix) to Amy? Here's the Apache CloudStack list: 4.0.0-incubating - Nov 6, 2012 4.0.1-incubating - Feb 12, 2013 4.0.2 - April 24, 2013 4.1.0 - June 5, 2013 4.1.1 - Aug 6, 2013 4.2.0 - Oct 1, 2012 4.2.1 - Jan 10, 2014 4.3.0 - Mar 25, 2014 > 2. Number of countries using CloudStack That's exceptionally hard to know, since we can only really track some of our download activity. That said, there's discussion about trying to pull together some details from the package download logs. > 3. Number of contributors Contributors is another difficult question. We can say that there are 290 different email addresses listed as contributors to the *code* right now. I'd use the term "code contributors", because honestly... you're a contributor as well here (just with marketing support, not code)! > 4. Number of lines of code We're actually debating how to measure this correctly right now. There are some files in the codebase that need to be excluded, because they are auto-generated... I believe Rohit did some better line counting recently. Rohit, care to share? > 5. Uses for the platform (e-commerce, media, industrial) Anywhere that an IaaS platform can be useful. Obviously service providers are a significant user-base for CloudStack. Additionally, there are plenty of "private cloud" environments as well... Spanning multiple industries. > 6. Larger enterprise using CloudStack (I know that Giles compiled a > list, is there any other that I should include? The list that he has is reasonable, however we want to start figuring out how to effectively add as many users as possible here. For example, I spoke with some of the AppCore folks at HostingCon, and suggested that you guys/gals would be super awesome if you could poll your customers to see how many would be willing to be listed as Apache CloudStack users. It's also likely that Gile's list will need some massaging, as we pull out those that are less "users" and more "integrate with or work on".
