[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo's new "Community section" in OSGeo's Wikipedia article

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Alexandre Leroux
<alexandre.leroux at ec.gc.ca> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I stumbled on the OSGeo Wikipedia article and was annoyed by the "1000+"
> "Volunteers" number found there. I thus created a new 'Community' section
> with numbers, in my opinion, which better reflect the importance of OSGeo's
> community.
>
> Please improve:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Geospatial_Foundation#Community


The current statistic is:
OSGeo mailman server unique subscribers 2012_09_01: 19160

The number in the Wikipedia article is too high. My monthly cronjob shows
only subscribers with a *valid* email address, bounced addresses being
filtered out.

Here roughly the numbers:

OSGeo mailman server unique subscribers 2009_05_18: 10044
OSGeo mailman server unique subscribers 2009_08_01: 11531
OSGeo mailman server unique subscribers 2010_01_01: 12426
OSGeo mailman server unique subscribers 2010_08_01: 14056
OSGeo mailman server unique subscribers 2011_01_01: 15450
OSGeo mailman server unique subscribers 2011_08_01: 17598
OSGeo mailman server unique subscribers 2012_01_01: 18314
OSGeo mailman server unique subscribers 2012_08_01: 19160

Furthermore, on http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/admin/ there are 180 lists.

Project statistics are found here:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Project_Stats

Lines of code of relevant OSGeo projects:
http://www.ohloh.net/stacks/151/

Cheers
Markus