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    <p>I feel there is a treasure trove of insights into the workings of
      open source communities within our email lists.</p>
    <p>What sort of conversations lead to successful communities? What
      causes communities to die off?</p>
    <p>We have over a decade of archived conversations to draw upon. Any
      budding researchers out there looking for a really interesting
      topic?<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/9/19 7:22 am, Luigi Pirelli wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">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
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                          <div>Luigi Pirelli<br>
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        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 6 Sep 2019 at 17:33,
          Jo Cook <<a href="mailto:jocook@astuntechnology.com"
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          0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi
          All,<br>
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          Thanks for the responses- I was looking for a very loose
          figure for<br>
          the community as a whole, so for my purposes the 33K unique<br>
          subscribers to the mailing lists works well. The graphs of
          charter<br>
          members per country from the OSGeo AGM slides are also really
          helpful.<br>
          (Thanks Jorge Sanz).<br>
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          (FYI I'm not doing science with these figures, it's just some
          factoids<br>
          for the purposes of a talk I'll be giving soon)<br>
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          Best<br>
          <br>
          Jo<br>
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          On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 4:03 PM Jürgen E. Fischer <<a
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          > Hi Jachym,<br>
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          > On Fri, 06. Sep 2019 at 16:21:16 +0200, Jachym Cepicky
          wrote:<br>
          > > <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/All_Members"
            rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/All_Members</a><br>
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          > > <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/All_Members"
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            rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:OSGeo_Member</a><br>
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          > That's also where wiki's Main_Page points to.<br>
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          > Jürgen<br>
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