Hi Community,
I've been wondering how the community would feel about (more) stats. I'm particularly interested in country/regional contribution stats, in the short term for the summit and longer term for the Foundation membership. It's great to see company contribution stats but I think there's another set of stats that could be made available to help build our community.
Because of the imminent HK Summit, the last cupla months I've constantly been asked "How many folks are going from <insert country or region here>?". I have to say I don't know other than the few people I'm in personal contact with. I think having some sort of country/region stats will help individuals and businesses make a decision to get involved. For a startup or small org considering summit sponsorship, seeing some stats on country attendance would be something that I would like to know if their market was regional.
It might also be great to see country/region stats for the Foundation membership to see how successful we are in having our local UG members join up. As an example, if we have 600 UG members and only 50 are OSF members, then we have might have work to do to find out why.
Another reason (and this is fresh in mind whilst I've been engaging with someone recently in Paraguay to start a UG there), it might help all of us with membership drives around the world and encourage people to form UGs if they can see there are actually others in their country/region/city that are members, or if there aren't. This is justification alone IMHO.
I can't actually think of any reasons not to publish country/regional stats.
Cheers Tristan