Hi Karl and Matt, Great talking to you both at the Plone Conference about gathering statistics about the size and scope of the Plone community. See this recent discussion on plone.user on this subject: http://groups.google.com/group/plone-users/browse_thread/thread/efbf35c618f02135/b0f733b1efd846e2?lnk=gst#b0f733b1efd846e2
> Regarding your Plone Census, that's a great idea. Making direct calls to > validate and update Plone.net numbers would be feasible if we > did it by > contacting a scientific sample. Then we could at least put error bars on our > estimates. Who would like to volunteer to make these calls to validate the numbers? At the marketing session at the sprint, we also discussed asking Plone vendors also if they would be willing to be the press contact for their particular country/region/language. So we could kill two birds with one stone when making these phone calls. > In a similar but less formal vein, on my blog, I make an attempt to fish out > interesting stats and track them over time. For example, I > check the Amazon bookrank numbers every quarter. Attached is a spreadsheet > in which I'm trying to accumulate values on a wide ? > number of parameters relevant to Plone's acceptance, visibility, and > programmatic health. Some of the difficult numbers might be > easily found by someone with more access to Launchpad numbers. Others are > just plain hard-to-get numbers. Could you post this spreadsheet to the openplans area that I've set up for identifying metrics and collecting/analyzing statistics? http://www.openplans.org/projects/plone-marketing/metrics-and-statistics We might also want to make this available as a Google Spreadsheet so that others can contribute to it. Would you be willing to the the team leader for the "Metrics and Statistics" marketing working group? > Also on my blog I've floated the idea of the "Great Backyard Plone Count," to > be modeled after the Audubon Society's "Great Backyard > Bird Count." > Dedicate a weekend for Plonistas to do informal surveys of Plone use and > report in via a website. (BTW, the Audubon > Society uses Plone for their annual bird count :-) Jon Stahl (cc'ed) has used Surveymonkey.com in the past to conduct surveys, mostly around the Plone conference 2006 in Seattle. I've also used this service and found it to be quite good. We could come up with some different surveys to gather statistics about things we would like to know about the Plone community. Maybe we could offer a prize to one lucky survey responder, and get sponsors to give something away to encourage people to fill out the survey. For example, Packt Publishing could donate a Plone book. > Another approach is data mining like Lakomy's estimate of Plone use in > England: > http://www.llakomy.com/articles/plone-websites-in-uk/) This has promise if > we can overcome some of the hurdles he faced, like > limitations on search results brought back by Google. Yes, this is an interesting study and one we should consider doing on a more global scale. Nate > -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Plone statistics > Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:27:31 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> Hiya, >> I just saw your stats blog from the Plone Marketing group on Open >> Plans. I don't think i got a chance to meet you at Plone Conf this >> year, but at the sprint afterwards we had a really good session on >> marketing. One of the items I want to deal with is the perennial 'how >> many people are using Plone?' 'how big is 'plone'?' etc... to this end >> I want to try and create a set of re-usable statistics for marketing >> purposes that we can revisit each year. My thoughts are some kind of >> 'Plone Census'. >> >> I originally wanted to extract info from plone.net, as it has hidden >> info on number of employees and turnover of each company. However >> that data has probably not been updated since each profile was created >> (and some profiles are of companies that no longer exist). In >> chatting to Dave Shapiro of Pilot Systems in Paris who runs Plone.net >> we had the idea of a slightly more in-depth Plone Census, which will >> probabaly involve actually calling up each of the companies on >> Plone.net and trying to extract a bit more info out of them. And also >> maybe use it as a chance to plug the upcoming plone.net sponsorship >> programme. >> >> Since you are interested in statistics, I was hoping you might have >> some input on this process (so far we've only had a 15 min chat >> outside the sprint, so feel free to blow holes in our ideas!). >> >> -Matt >> >> -- >> Matt Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Netsight Internet Solutions, Ltd. Understand. Develop. Deliver >> http://www.netsight.co.uk +44 (0)117 9090901 >> Web Design | Zope/Plone Development & Consulting | Co-location | >> Hosting >> >> > -- Nate Aune - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nateaune.com (personal blog) http://jazkarta.com (open source technology solutions) http://twitter.com/natea (daily updates) PondCMS: Fully managed Plone-based CMS solution http://jazkarta.com/products/pondcms _______________________________________________ Evangelism mailing list Evangelism@lists.plone.org http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/evangelism
