[OSM-talk] OSM mailing list stats

[Andy Robinson]

Steve,

The mailing list figures reveal an interesting trend. The numbers subscribed
to the general list (452) is now a lot lot lower than the number of users
editing data each month, which as of yesterday was 734. The number of users
editing is still on the steady upward trend. Over 10% of registered users
were editors of nodes this last month. That's quite a change in takeup.
There is a clearly discernable increase since Rails (We would need to
analysis more closely to see if the amount of Potlatch data is significant
here).

So what's interesting is that although we are seeing a large number of new
users editing we are not seeing many new faces each month on the list
(although an average increase of around 25 per month is something).

We may need to consider better ways, perhaps via the main www page, blog or
wiki front page to communicate more info to the rising user base, a rolling
news ticker might be useful, or a way of showing the blog subject lines,
that sort of thing. I'm sure others can come up with some good ideas.

Cheers

Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk