[Board] Brief update

[Markus Neteler]

Hi Tyler,

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 2:53 AM, Tyler Mitchell <tmitchell.osgeo at shaw.ca> wrote:
> Hi guys, a few updates for you.

thanks for the useful updates!

...
> - Membership management - after I get the above done, I'm going to take
> another look back at setting up a few more ways of helping members
> self-identify as members. This is becoming more important as we try to track
> the growth in the OSGeo community over time, etc. When asked how many
> members we have, how do you answer? Just mention the <100 voting members?
> Doesn't sound nearly as impressive as it can :)

FWIW: Since last year I have a cronjob running which emails the mailman
statistics to me (they are also in my home directory on lists.osgeo.org)
with the number of unique subscribers in total (> 13,000 now) and the top 20
mailing lists by number of subscribers.

cheers
Markus