Google Code keeps download counts for the tarball distributions http://code.google.com/p/sympy/downloads/list?can=2&q=&sort=-downloadcount&colspec=Filename%20Summary%20Uploaded%20ReleaseDate%20Size%20DownloadCount. This might not even be one of the biggest ways of getting sympy, though, considering the existence of things like easy_install.
Another thing to consider is all the people who have forked sympy on github: https://github.com/sympy/sympy/network/members. >From my understanding, the one of the biggest factors in getting accepted or >not is having a good ideas page. We need to improve this. I have created >https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC2011Ideas, which is just a copy of the >page from last year. It needs to be updated to use markdown, and cleaned up >(i.e., remove ideas that have already been implemented, prioritize the ideas, >give them difficulty levels, etc.). Google looks at this during the org >acceptance process, so it's not something that we wait to be accepted to do. >We need to do it now. Aaron Meurer On Feb 13, 2011, at 12:37 PM, Andy Ray Terrel wrote: > Chatting with people it looks like one of the biggest factors the > proposal is missing is talking about the broader impact of sympy. It > seems Google wants to fund people who are highly visible. > > Do we have download statistics and user statistics somewhere? > > -- Andy > > On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Ondrej Certik <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Aaron S. Meurer <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Not that I know of, but I am sure that they can be found. >>> >>> If you are interested in helping with the application, you might look at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/gsoc-veterans. It was created this year to >>> help people who are new to the organization application process. Ondrej >>> tells me that they are going to try to accept more smaller organizations >>> this year. The list is invitation only, but I think if you explain that >>> you want to help with the SymPy application, the will let you join. >> >> >> Yep, we'll do our best as each year. >> >> Ondrej >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "sympy" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en. >> >> > > > > -- > Andy R. Terrel, Ph.D. > Postdoctoral Fellow > Texas Advanced Computing Center > University of Texas at Austin > [email protected] > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en.
