[OSGeo-Discuss] How big is OSGeo?

[Cameron Shorter]

I feel there is a treasure trove of insights into the workings of open 
source communities within our email lists.

What sort of conversations lead to successful communities? What causes 
communities to die off?

We have over a decade of archived conversations to draw upon. Any 
budding researchers out there looking for a really interesting topic?

On 7/9/19 7:22 am, Luigi Pirelli wrote:
> 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 community.
>
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> On Fri, 6 Sep 2019 at 17:33, Jo Cook <jocook at astuntechnology.com 
> <mailto:jocook at astuntechnology.com>> wrote:
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>     Hi All,
>
>     Thanks for the responses- I was looking for a very loose figure for
>     the community as a whole, so for my purposes the 33K unique
>     subscribers to the mailing lists works well. The graphs of charter
>     members per country from the OSGeo AGM slides are also really helpful.
>     (Thanks Jorge Sanz).
>
>     (FYI I'm not doing science with these figures, it's just some factoids
>     for the purposes of a talk I'll be giving soon)
>
>     Best
>
>     Jo
>
>     On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 4:03 PM Jürgen E. Fischer <jef at norbit.de
>     <mailto:jef at norbit.de>> wrote:
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>     > Hi Jachym,
>     >
>     > On Fri, 06. Sep 2019 at 16:21:16 +0200, Jachym Cepicky wrote:
>     > > https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/All_Members
>     >
>     > > https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/All_Members
>     >
>     > 1210 entries on https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:OSGeo_Member
>     >
>     > That's also where wiki's Main_Page points to.
>     >
>     >
>     > Jürgen
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