[OSGeo-Discuss] How big is OSGeo?

Sun Sep 8 23:21:21 PDT 2019

On Sun, Sep 8, 2019 at 7:43 PM Jorge Sanz <xurxosanz at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
>
> * Valencia: list 71; meetup: 729; telegram: 36
> * Seville: list 80; meetup: 899; whatsapp: 16
>

As a side note: this Sevilla whatsapp group is more organizational than
public due to the privacy problems whatsapp has. So that's not really the
number of people participating.

> * Madrid: list: 157; 887; telegram; 61
>
> 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.
>
> Telegram, for example, is actually where these days most of the Spanish
> language OSGeo, Geoinquietos, and OSM conversations happen.
>
> Cheers!
>
> [1] http://geoinquietos.org/
>
>
>
> On Sat, 7 Sep 2019 at 13:37, Gert-Jan van der Weijden (GISNederland) <
> gert-jan at gisnederland.nl> wrote:
>
>> Our Dutch OSGeo-Meetup group (https://www.meetup.com/OSGeoNL/)
>> <https://www.meetup.com/OSGeoNL/members/> unites almost 400 people,
>> which is 3 about times as much as the "old-school" mailing list (
>> http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/OSGeo-Dutch-Discussions-f4574635.html
>> )
>>
>> 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..
>>
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> gert-Jan
>>
>>
>> Op 6-9-2019 om 23:22 schreef Luigi Pirelli:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Luigi Pirelli
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>> On Fri, 6 Sep 2019 at 17:33, Jo Cook <jocook at astuntechnology.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > 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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