[OSGeo-Discuss] How big is OSGeo?

Mon Sep 9 00:42:33 PDT 2019

Yeah, sorry or not doing the distinction, the other Telegram groups I
mentioned are all open and advertised.

On Mon, 9 Sep 2019 at 08:21, María Arias de Reyna <delawen at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> 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:
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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> 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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