[Mapserver-users] how many mapserver users are over the world?

[Mahalakshmi Narayanan]

Stephen

I would like to add upon that.. 

1. 
http://www.moximedia.com:8080/imf-ows/imf.jsp?site=ms_users
site where you maintain the users list was not known
to me.  It was Tyler who mentioned about the site to
me thro mail.  I then registered in it as a user.. one
suggestion is keep this somewhere in the home page of
mapserver.gis.umn.edu where users/developers would be
able to see and register themselves..

2.  Also, from downloads page you can keep track of
how many downloads have taken place by making 
   a.  people register and download
   b.  or take the ip of the client which downloads 
(This again may mislead 'cos all who download need not
necessarily take it forward for building an appln)

3.  Encourage people to join your gallery page so that
it would show, if not complete, some positive figures
on no. of users, sites, etc.

I am with National Informatics Centre, which is a
premier IT organization of India under Ministry of
Commn. and Info Techonology and we have a wide network
across the nation, HQ at New Delhi, all states have
state centres and all districts have district units.. 
We are helping State and Central Governments on
computerisation activities as consultants, get
involved in design and development of Softwares etc.. 
I am with the Tamil Nadu State Centre at Chennai.

I have been testing and using mapserver for over a
year now.. we started with mapserver 3.5 days.. I had
never joined user list 'cos GIS is not the only
activity for me.. Recently I joined the list and I
find it useful to identify new features that are of
interest to me and our organization.  I believe our HQ
is taking more interest in what we had developed at
the State Unit using open source 'cos they can
replicate this in some other states. 

As you may guess, we may suggest to many State and
Central Govt. departments here, the use of your
MapServer.  So, as Tyler rightly pointed out our
'clients' ie. the depts.  would definitely move up. 
But you would still have only one or probably a few
more user list but that does not really quantify.. 

With kind regards,
Mahalakshmi Narayanan


--- Stephen Woodbridge <woodbri at swoodbridge.com>
wrote:
>
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&newwindow=1&safe=off&q=%22cgi-bin%2Fmapserv%22&btnG=Search
> 
> and this doesn't even count PHP, Perl or Python
> scripts
> 
> -Steve W.
> 
> Tyler Mitchell wrote:
> 
> > Selling software makes it soo much easier :)
> > 
> > We sure talk about "users" pretty loosely too -
> usually we talk about the 
> > actual app. developers and "map makers" but add in
> the "clients" of those 
> > applications and it must be quite interesting (and
> equally unmeasurable).
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >>Always the great unknown. Open source software is
> downloaded and used 
> >>alot of the time by people who never join the
> lists. So lists are only a 
> > 
> > 
> >>pale reflection of overall useage.
> >>
> >>It would be nice if mapserver had a 'phone-home'
> that hit a particular 
> >>URL at UMN once and reported back it's version
> number and IP address. 
> >>Then UMN could compile statistics about real
> mapserver usage, in terms 
> >>of version deployed, and general location deployed
> (using some of the 
> >>simple IP->location databases). It could be
> disabled with a 
> >>--disabe-phonehome compile option for those who
> are shy, and would only 
> >>do it once (dropping a file into tmp perhaps to
> indicate it has been 
> > 
> > done?).
> > 
> >>A dream, I know, but it is sad that we do not know
> the true size of our 
> >>user community.
> >>
> >>I have often thought that
> > 
> > 
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