On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 10:43:31AM -0500, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Right now, there have been roughly 17,000 downloads of the last Pd-extended release, according to SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=55736&package_id=7... I'd like to know how many people use it, and for what.
I bet that 16,000 of them were made by Cycling74 to make us feel overconfident. ;)
Hehe
The pd-list has only 1457 subscribers. pd-dev has 506 subscribers. A lot of them have subscription disabled, possibly because the email address has changed and MailMan never really removes subscribers. For example, pd-list has only 1002 enabled subscribers.
I am not sure that number of subscribers to the mailing list is an accurate representation of number of current users. I know from releases of my own software in the past, the subscriber to download ratio is always very very low. I hypothesise that a majority of software users are interested only in the software itself, and don't know/don't care about the community, or don't like mailing lists.
1000 users on the mailing list is a good sample for a survey though! Attached is a survey, please have a look and add to it, change it, whatever. I think Hans probably has a good idea of all the different sets of externals and libraries out there since he does packaging of them all. I was not sure whether or not to include questions about sex/age/whatever because I'm not sure if it's relevant, or even offensive. It would be cool to make this into a web form on the plone site, but I don't know anything about that, so I've CC'ed this to the pd-web list.
I am against the idea of Pd 'phoning home' for the same reasons as Tim, and I think it would be too hard to get the code into all the different versions of Pd out there anyway.
Best,
Chris.
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