From: Mikael Brockman <mikael@...>
Date: 2004-10-02T00:01:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Community size

Dave Thomas <dave@pragprog.com> writes:

> Folks:
> 
> I'm going to be giving a number of talks on Ruby over the next six
> months, starting with one at Amazon next week. I'd like to include a
> slide on the growth of the Ruby community over the last 4 years.
> 
> Does anyone have any metrics that I could use for this, or any ideas
> for finding these kinds of figures?

Here's the number of posts for each year of ruby-talk:

{ "00"=>7380,
  "99"=>858,
  "01"=>21368,
  "02"=>30313,
  "03"=>28727,
  "04"=>25459,
  "98"=>160 }

I have to run.  Bye!