From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2004-10-02T02:39:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Community size

In article <0576BE8F-13B4-11D9-9EEB-000A95676A62@pragprog.com>,
Dave Thomas  <dave@pragprog.com> wrote:
>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?
>

Dave, 

Are you finding that you're being asked to give more talks on Ruby in recent months?

Also, this site is titled "Programming Language Popularity": 
http://www.dedasys.com/articles/language_popularity.html

It includes various metrics like job postings to Craigslist, Freshmeat projects, Google ad rates, 
etc.  Ruby is listed in the graphs there, but it doesn't come out very well in the results.  I'm not 
sure I agree with all of the methodology used to come up with the numbers, but you might find some 
ideas there to further your own investigation.

Phil