From: Jamis Buck <jgb3@...>
Date: 2004-10-02T08:50:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Community size

Florian Gross wrote:
> Dave Thomas 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?
> 
> 
> Maybe we should watch the number of results for 
> http://www.google.com/search?q=filetype:rb+inurl:rb in the future?
> 

Has anyone suggested considering the number of RubyForge projects 
registered over time? Or the number of project downloads, or new 
releases, etc.? Not sure if those statistics are available or not...

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