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On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Tristan Goode <tristan at aptira.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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