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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