Hi Aliji, On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Mr Alji <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > Is it possible to have the statistics of growth of the mailing lists ? >> >> numbers of subscribers / timeline
I haven't kept a close track on numbers for the last few years, but between 2006 and 2008 I did log mailing lists traffic and numbers for comparison against other competing open source scene graphs: http://www.openscenegraph.org/projects/osg/wiki/Community/CommunityActivity It's kinda pointless keeping this up though as these projects are no longer really competitive with the OSG, and mailing lists are no longer the dominant form of support for recent open source projects so mailing lists numbers and taffic can't be used as a guage. For example with our own community the current number of subscribers to the osg-users mailing list is 2027, and the number is still on average growing but pretty slowly these days as the majority of new users are joining the forum.openscenegraph.org for support rather than the mailing list. Since the forum and osg-users are synchronized there are really two different halves to the community, so it's propbably approch would be to total the two to get a reasonable figure. We'll need Art Tev's the forum's administrator to comment on present number of subscribers. There is also non english language forums such as the chinnese forum that is huge, but I don't particpate or manage it so can't comment on numbers. A few years back I believe it's size was at least as big as the OSG's mailing list, no doubt it will have grown as well. In the end though I'm not sure what value is in a figure. Robert. _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
