On Dec 1, 2012, at 5:10 PM, Jima wrote:
> To be fair, over the last 5+ years I've observed a number of LUGs
> experience a similar downturn in interest
Indeed, I've seen the same downturn in all groups where I participate. I just
happened to use data from PLUG to illustrate the point (no offense intended to
PLUG members or leadership, both of which are top notch in my book).
> What'd you use to generate the graph?
This python script outputs the PLUG stats as CSV, which I pasted into Excel for
graphing. You'll need "requests", which is available via pip:
#!/usr/bin/env python
from datetime import datetime
import requests, re
for (year, month) in [(year, month) for year in range(2005, 2013) for month in
range(1, 13)]:
month_name = datetime(year, month, 1).strftime("%B")
url = "http://plug.org/pipermail/plug/{0}-{1}/subject.html".format(year,
month_name)
response = requests.get(url)
if response.status_code != 200:
break
matches = re.findall("<b>Messages: *</b> *(\d+)", response.text)
if not matches:
break
print "{0},{1},{2}".format(year, month, int(matches[0]))
/*
PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net
Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug
Don't fear the penguin.
*/
