[Marketing] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Unique number of OSGeo mailing lists subscribers

[Markus Neteler]

Cameron, all,
(cc'ing Marketing for info)

My part is already script'ed, so I can make it a monthly cronjob,
emailing out results (or loading up to a dedicated directory).
Let me know,

Markus

On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Cameron Shorter
<cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
> Markus,
> These sorts of statistics are gold for marketing OSGeo to potential
> sponsors. (I base this upon my recent experience chasing FOSS4G sponsors).
>
> I'd love to see these metrics collected monthly, and piped into a table of
> some sort, then built into a graph.
>
> We could then start see how the number of users in projects increases over
> time.
>
> Does anyone have ideas about how this could be set up?
>
> Markus Neteler wrote:
>>
>> Interested to know how many unique users we have in the OSGeo
>> mailing list system...? Here we are:
>>
>> 02_May_2009: 9791
>>
>> So we'll possibly hit 10.000 later this year! For now added to
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/VisibilityStats#Mailing_list_subscribers
>>
>> Markus
>>
>> PS: I would be happy to (auto-)post these numbers to an
>> OSGeo marketing member as we should work out some more
>> concrete stats for our sponsors. Similar to
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Project_Stats
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>>
>
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