Dear Community!
Hopefully you guys can help me. I'm trying to find the number of FOSS developers
and users worldwide for some marketing related presentations but just can't seem
to find any solid numbers. It would also be very interesting to see how this
number compares to the number of
On Saturday 12 May 2007 11:07:19 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear Community!
Hopefully you guys can help me. I'm trying to find the number of FOSS
developers and users worldwide for some marketing related presentations but
just can't seem to find any solid numbers. It would also be very
One more idea:
a) count the number of registered users at Sourceforge, Freshmeat,
GNA and some other similar facilities. Could give a rough indication
for FOSS developers.
b) count the number of registered users at Linuxquestions could give
an indication for the number of user.
But as
Le samedi 12 mai 2007 à 09:07 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit :
I'm trying to find the number of FOSS developers
and users worldwide for some marketing related presentations but just can't
seem
to find any solid numbers. It would also be very interesting to see how this
number compares to
Am 12.05.2007 um 13:11 schrieb Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller:
Well,
you could try to compare the participation of some OSS developer
related events (e.g. FOSDEM) to MS Developer Conference(s) or Apple
WWDC. Then you need the total number of (software) developers
worldwide and a simple
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From: Gabriel Ambuehl [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: community@lists.openmoko.org
Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 11:16:27 +0200
Subject: Re: How many FOSS developers users Worldwide?
On Saturday 12 May 2007 11:07:19 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear
On 12/05/07, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One more idea:
a) count the number of registered users at Sourceforge, Freshmeat,
GNA and some other similar facilities. Could give a rough indication
for FOSS developers.
I'm registered at both SF.net and Gna, and I assume I'm
Sean,
A good reference on open source is always David Wheeler
(http://www.dwheeler.com).
In his study of 'Why Open Source Software/ Free Software) he
references a study from 2002 regarding open source developers:
http://www.infonomics.nl/FLOSS/report/index.htm
Have a look at 'Part IV: Survey of
Really, what defines a user or a developer? I would imagine any count will
be an under-count, by some degree...
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