<div dir="ltr">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:<div><br></div><div>* Valencia: list 71; meetup: 729; telegram: 36</div><div>* Seville: list 80; meetup: 899; whatsapp: 16</div><div>* Madrid: list: 157; 887; telegram; 61</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Telegram, for example, is actually where these days most of the Spanish language OSGeo, Geoinquietos, and OSM conversations happen.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers!</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="http://geoinquietos.org/">http://geoinquietos.org/</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 7 Sep 2019 at 13:37, Gert-Jan van der Weijden (GISNederland) <<a href="mailto:gert-jan@gisnederland.nl">gert-jan@gisnederland.nl</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Our Dutch OSGeo-Meetup group <a href="https://www.meetup.com/OSGeoNL/members/" target="_blank">(https://www.meetup.com/OSGeoNL/)</a>
unites almost 400 people, <br>
which is 3 about times as much as the "old-school" mailing list (<a href="http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/OSGeo-Dutch-Discussions-f4574635.html" target="_blank">http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/OSGeo-Dutch-Discussions-f4574635.html</a>)</p>
<p>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..<br>
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<p>Kind regards, <br>
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<p>gert-Jan<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
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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>
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> On Fri, 06. Sep 2019 at 16:21:16 +0200, Jachym Cepicky
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> > <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/All_Members" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/All_Members</a><br>
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> > <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/All_Members" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/All_Members</a><br>
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> 1210 entries on <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:OSGeo_Member" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:OSGeo_Member</a><br>
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