1 Million
As January 2007 comes to a close, we just achieved our first 1 million
hit month to the 177
OpenSolaris discussion forums. Yesterday morning at 6:30 am
Tokyo time, actually. I couldn't sleep so I was killing time poking
around the Jive admin database. Very cool. Congratulations to
everyone. And thank you, too.
In general, conversations about OpenSolaris on our ever-growing number of lists and forums continue to increase at a rate far surpassing even some of our recent predictions. Actually, we are about eight months ahead of our goal at this point. Well, the word "goal" is silly in this context because you can't artificially create a genuine community conversation just to collect a number and expect to earn credibility. So, I guess what I mean is that we have metric here that seems to reflect an interesting trend. We are building a community -- releasing code, taking putbacks, starting projects, creating infrastructure, (yes, more to come, we know) -- and the conversation numbers substantiate that a lot of people are interested in what we are doing and they are interested in getting involved. The rate of growth may be increasing a bit recently, but so far
we've been growing at a pretty steady clip since opening. Registrations to opensolaris.org doubled in January, too.
Here are the numbers for January for list/forum conversations:
Here is a picture of 20 months of list/forum data for what it's worth:
Not bad, eh?
In general, conversations about OpenSolaris on our ever-growing number of lists and forums continue to increase at a rate far surpassing even some of our recent predictions. Actually, we are about eight months ahead of our goal at this point. Well, the word "goal" is silly in this context because you can't artificially create a genuine community conversation just to collect a number and expect to earn credibility. So, I guess what I mean is that we have metric here that seems to reflect an interesting trend. We are building a community -- releasing code, taking putbacks, starting projects, creating infrastructure, (yes, more to come, we know) -- and the conversation numbers substantiate that a lot of people are interested in what we are doing and they are interested in getting involved. The rate of growth may be increasing a bit recently, but so far
we've been growing at a pretty steady clip since opening. Registrations to opensolaris.org doubled in January, too.
Here are the numbers for January for list/forum conversations:
- Total Web Views: 1,041,476
- Unique Visitors: 888,206
- Total Threads: 1,736
- Total Messages: 7,580
- Total Web Views: 10,147,246
- Unique Visitors: 7,244,1930
- Total Threads: 21,152
- Total Messages: 20,675
Here is a picture of 20 months of list/forum data for what it's worth:
Not bad, eh?
Posted by David Comay on February 02, 2007 at 06:56 AM JST #
Posted by Jim Grisanzio on February 02, 2007 at 08:23 AM JST #
>hey ... actually, we got the million just hours BEFORE the gpl conversation. :) Wild thread, though, eh?
Well, then, we'll hit the 2 million mark pretty soon... :)
Posted by Christopher Mahan on February 03, 2007 at 03:17 AM JST #