Summary - 0.3 Community Involvement
Were people listening to us / paying attention to what we were doing?
Yes, people are watching what we are doing. Website traffic increased about 22% for a week or two after the 0.3 release. Subsequently it has dropped, but still remains about 10% above pre-0.3-release levels. Non-OSAF Wiki hits had no appreciable change around the 0.3 release, but have been increasing slowly since January (Wiki accounts are up about 8% since Jan.) Mailing Lists discussion, like the Wiki, show no appreciable change around the 0.3 release. There are about 1,300 non-OSAF subscribers to the mail lists that receive postings this includes duplicate names subscribed to more than one list)..
Were people talking TO us?
A small number of individuals (about a dozen) are interacting with us on a regular basis via IRC, Wiki, and mail lists. About 25% of the IRC participants are non-OSAF, the actual amount of discussion seems to depend on the topic-of-the-week and no long-term trend is evident at this time, and no real change was seen surrounding the 0.3 release. There are about 1,300 non-OSAF subscribers to the mail lists (this includes duplicate names subscribed to more than one list). Around the time of the 0.3 release the number of postings increased significantly with about one-third of the postings from non-OSAF accounts. There is however a very wide variance in this number from week to week and the percent of non-OSAF postings since has dropped.
Were people talking ABOUT us?
Not more than usual. There were a couple of non-OSAF blog reports (Dan Gillmor in particular) specific to the 0.3 release in addition to the usual background radiation. No increase in media inquiries occurred surrounding 0.3 release. We currently are getting about 2-3/month.
Is the non-OSAF community helping development?
Specific to the 0.3 release, there were a couple of ports, a few bugs filed, and a minor amount of QA testing just before the release, about what was expected considering the state of the codebase and number of non-coding
StarterProjects projects we were requesting help on. Leading up to 0.3 release we had about 16 non-OSAF volunteers who provided specific assistance ranging from advice to writing some repository QA tests.
Quantitative measures
How people paid attention to Chandler leading up to 0.3
Were people listening to us / paying attention to what we were doing?
for the 4 weeks surrounding the Feb. 26, 2004 release of Chandler 0.3
Mailing Lists discussion:
- Quantitative: usefulness to the project ?
- The number of people subscribing to mailing lists hasn't changed much since we started tracking in January
- Some of general announcements from OSAF staff. Question: do these help other staff members?
- Some are general discussions of the problem space, not necessarily Chandler itself
- How much is useful disussion?
- Either people asking good questions and learning about Chandler from OSAF; or
- People providing useful input?
Were people talking TO us?
for the 4 weeks surrounding the Feb. 26, 2004 release of Chandler 0.3
Were people talking ABOUT us?
surrounding the Feb. 26, 2004 release of Chandler 0.3
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Is the non-OSAF community helping development?
Additional Metric Data on Community Involvement
Ducky is maintaining a Wiki page that collects statistical data from various sources that we are beginning to use to keep track of
community involvement.