Change in GRASS usage??

[Malcolm Williamson]

I suspect another factor in the diminishing postings to grassu/grassp is 
the movement away from GRASS, towards commercial off-the-shelf software, 
by federal government agencies. I've informally noted a higher percentage 
of academic and international postings to grassu-list than I recall a 
couple of years ago. This obviously doesn't imply that GRASS is becoming 
obsolete; rather, the user base is shifting. It would be an interesting 
exercise to try to determine exactly what the GRASS user base is... don't 
ask me how!!
        -Malcolm Williamson

On Tue, 19 Mar 1996, Randall Downer wrote:

> David Mandel <dmandel at transport.com> asked:
> 
> >Friends of GRASS,
> >    Speaking of the Future of GRASS, I have a couple questions.
> >
> >    Does anyone know if general interest has been increasing
> >or decreasing and by how much?  This is hard or impossible to
> >measure, but one can get some idea by things like:
> 
> ...stuff deleted.....
> 
> >
> >    (2)  How much has activity (number of messages) changed?
> 
> 
> Funny you should ask this question.
> 
> Here are the number of emails to both grassu and grassp. I have removed all
> non grass related postings (e.g. comments sent to this list thinking it was
> about some other grass) and subscribe/unsubscribe/ping/test postings.
> 
> month   emails
> Jan-95  362
> Feb-95  288
> Mar-95  419
> Apr-95  180
> May-95  266
> Jun-95  190
> Jul-95  168
> Aug-95  190
> Sep-95  161
> Oct-95  205
> Nov-95  191
> Dec-95  134
> Jan-96  231
> Feb-95  184
> 
> 
> Mean is 226 and yes there is a trend in the data. However, this may well be
> do to the fact that 4.1 was released near the begining of this dataset and
> MANY of the postings in early 95 were bug related.
> 
> Just for the tought process.
> 
> Randy.
> 
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