There are two things to consider:
- Size of the direct community (the actual active community members) - this is easier to estimate by doing some basic information gathering (how many people are on cftalk, and all the other big lists/forums/communities), then making some assumptions about how many active participants equal. I typically estimate 10:1 for every active poster.
- Effect of the community - this is where things get interesting... sure there might be a good amount of developers, but how many of them are telling companies to buy, or advising friends to come over to Macromedia (or whatever product/service/thing). This is where the true power of community comes in. This is where you convince a company that community is important.
Anyway, no idea if that info is relevant. :)
Matt Woodward wrote:
There was an admittedly non-scientific discussion about this recently on the CF-TALK list, so you might check out houseoffusion.com to read the archives. This was in the past week or so, so it shouldn't be hard to find.
I'm not sure I've ever seen any estimates from Macromedia. That would be very interesting to know.
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 12:01:39 -0500, Schreck, Thomas (PPC)
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How big is the CF community? How many developers are there? Does anyone
have demographics on CF community?
Thanks -
Tom Schreck
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