[OpenLayers-Dev] Slightly OT: Statistics about OpenLayers

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 09:32:45PM +0200, Marc Jansen wrote:
> Hi devs,
> 
> I love OpenLayers and want to persuade others to that opinion.
> 
> Is there any web-ressource with statistics about the OpenLayers Project? 
> I am interested e.g. in
> 
>     * number of commiters,

  http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/CLA


>     * number of sandboxes,

 http://svn.openlayers.org/sandbox/

>     * avg number of mailings per list,

  http://openlayers.org/pipermail/users/
  http://openlayers.org/pipermail/dev/

>     * subscriptions to mailing lists / IRC,

 IRC generally sits at about 50-60 people online.
 Mailing Lists:
  * Users: 992
  * Dev: 499

>     * estimated number of installations / downloads,

10s of thousands; I don't have anything more specific, and to a certain extent,
it would be hard to get anything much more specific due to installations being
copied/proliferated outside of OL.org.

>     * some popular applications(I already know about whitehouse.gov and
>       latimes.com),

  http://gallery.openlayers.org/

>     * trends on the above numbers would be great as well,
>     * any other marketing buzz you can provide
> 
> I'd love to have any  "number"/"metric"  that "proves"/"hints" the 
> obvious greatness of the software :-)

I don't know about any great software; only software that doesn't suck. :)

> I am aware that these facts and figures will only scratch at the 
> surface, but I think some of that numbers would help commmunicate that 
> OL is probably the best choice for GIS in the www.
> 
> The above would IMHO be a great addition to the projects website.
> 
> I know of http://www.ohloh.net/p/openlayers, but it seems somewhat outdated.
> 
> Many thanks in advance and keep up the great work!
> 
> -- Marc
> 
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