[postgis-users] The size of the community

Jim C. Nasby decibel at decibel.org
Fri May 12 09:13:40 PDT 2006


If you're asking about this stuff for support reasons, you might want to
look at purchasing a PostGIS support contract.

On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 11:25:46AM -0300, Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha wrote:
> But the managers of the list could retrieve this numbers ?
> 
> Your suggestion is quite good. We could estimate, but you didn't send 
> any number.
> 
> Regards
> Ezequias
> 
> Markus Schaber escreveu:
> >Hi, Ezequias,
> >
> >Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha wrote:
> >
> >  
> >>Could someone tell me what is the size of the community of PostGIS ?
> >>Does anyone have this number ?
> >>    
> >
> >I think it is not easy to get this number, there are only ways to
> >estimate it:
> >
> >* number of downloads of packages from the PostGIS servers
> >(this does exclude users that got it via other means, e. G. their distro
> >or the PostgreSQL windows installer, as well as downloads that were
> >cached by proxies).
> >
> >* number of mailing list subscribers
> >(this does not catch users that don't subscribe to the list).
> >
> >  
> >>Essentially I need the  size of Brazilian community and  some  success
> >>cases. I would be glad to have this information.
> >>    
> >
> >You can only hope that some subscribers of this list are Brazilian and
> >will reply.
> >
> >
> >HTH,
> >Markus
> >
> >  
> 
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