Hi Peter,
Good info. Here's another set of data points... page views for these
communities from Apr-Jun 09.
Some of these communities are receiving relatively high hit rates...
which probably means they
are topics of interest and/or have useful data on their community sites.
*Page Views
* *Rank among Communities (out of 50)
* *Communities
*
4775
24
Academic and Research
404
45
Accessibility
1577
38
Appliances
261
46
Approachability
15,416
13
BrandZ
316
46
Chinese Users
235
48
CAB
1251
40
Databases
651
42
Emerging Platforms
2602
32
Fault Management
2983
30
Games
1619
37
HPC
2293
34
MDB
1841
36
Observability
4546
25
Printing
1403
39
PowerPC
2354
33
SVM
484
43
UFS
One of the things we can do for you all at your next OGB meeting is to
walk you through our omniture
(web statistics) data on communities (and projects) if you'd like. CC
grants and email traffic
are part of the picture but not all of it.
BTW: It's very interesting to see Top and Bottom 10 for mail lists,
communities,
projects, etc.
Lynn
On 07/13/09 13:52, Peter Tribble wrote:
> I took an AI at the last meeting but one to go back and see where we had
> got to with regards to defunct communities.
>
> While there has been some discussion, and John Plocher has some
> bugs in bugzilla about detailed reorganizations of the community, I suspect
> it's easier to start over.
>
> I went through all the communities listed
>
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/communities/#portal
>
> and made the following notes. Of 48 communities, 30 appear active; the
> remaining 18 are listed below.
>
> Note that I'm basing my interpretation on the state of the community web
> pages and mailing lists/fora.
>
> Academic and Research
> - Doesn't appear to be terribly active
> - But has recent CC grants
>
> Accessibility
> - low-level activity
>
> Appliances
> - low level activity
> - No CC grants
>
> Approachability
> - Forum link broken
> - Looks pretty dead to me; probably subsumed by other projects
> - All CC grants have expired
>
> BrandZ
> - really ought to be a zones project
> - All CC grants have expired
>
> Chinese Users
> - Forum link broken
> - Can't even find a mailing list
> - No CC grants
> - Looks pretty dead to me
>
> CAB
> - defunct archive
>
> Databases
> - low level activity
> - No CC grants
>
> Emerging Platforms
> - low level activity
>
> Fault Management
> - mid level activity
> - But new CC grants
>
> Games
> - low level activity
> - No CC grants
>
> HPC
> - low level activity
> - No CC grants
>
> MDB
> - mid level activity
> - Renewed all the CC grants this year
>
> Observability
> - low level activity
> - No CC grants
>
> Printing
> - mid level activity
> - All CC grants expired
>
> PowerPC
> - low level activity
> - Only one CC
>
> SVM
> - almost defunct
> - No CC grants
>
> UFS
> - low level activity
> (not all ufs related)
> - No CC grants
>
> There's a certain level of opinion in the above description. I
> apologise if I've mischaracterized any communities - but if I
> have then those communities need to be more obviously active.
>
> So as a possible summary, on which other may wish to comment.
> (Some of these communities I've had involvement with, others not.)
>
> Of the above, the following are possibly good
>
> Academic and Research
> Accessibility
> Fault Management
> MDB
>
> whereas the following look to be candidates for removal:
>
> Appliances (distribution related, oe JeOS?)
> Approachability (definitely)
> BrandZ (become a zones project?)
> Chinese Users (Internationalization or advocacy?)
> Databases (or get more active - or are the individual databases the
> right level?)
> Games
> HPC
> PowerPC (put into Emerging platforms?)
> Printing (can't think where else to put it)
> SVM (definitely)
> UFS (definitely)
>
> and the following need to get more active:
>
> Emerging Platforms (growth area, incorporating PowerPC?)
> Observability (structurally ought to be a community, but projects
> in that space like dtrace, mdb, fma, ... are strong)
>
>
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