On 2012-12-01 16:54, Dave Smith wrote:
> I've been thinking a lot lately about the downturn in user group meeting
> attendance and mailing list participation over the last few years. Today I
> graphed Plug's mailing list activity from 2005 to present (messages per
> month), and noticed a startling coincidence.
>
> Is this causal or merely correlated? Did other groups see a similar downturn
> in mailing list usage?
>
> http://thesmithfam.org/images/plug-stats.png
>
> FYI: The arrow in this graphic is pointing at September 2008, the month
> StackOverflow started its public beta.
To be fair, over the last 5+ years I've observed a number of LUGs
experience a similar downturn in interest, regarding meeting/installfest
interest, mailing list traffic, and simply the group maintaining its
online presence at all. (Take SLLUG as an example of the last.)
What'd you use to generate the graph? I think I might ham one up for
the TCLUG ML (I don't run it, but I have about half the archives, and am
grabbing the other half right now). I wouldn't be the least bit
surprised to be a similar trend.
Jima
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