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Perl Monger Census 2005

davorg on 2005-10-19T14:43:00

During the Perl Lightning talks at EuroOSCON I presented some early results from the 2005 Perl Mongers Census. There will be more details appearing at some point soon, but in the meantime I've made my slides available for download.

Spanish/Portuguese ?

fxn on 2005-10-21T20:43:23

Just curious, what was the comment/joke about learning Spanish/Portuguese about?

Re:Spanish/Portuguese ?

cog on 2005-10-22T16:23:48

IIRC, I think it had something to do with a lot of PM groups in Portugal and Brazil (6 + 11, making these rank in 5th and 3rd), but I don't recall the Spanish thing.

Also, out of the six most active mailing lists, three are in Brazil.

Plus, out of the three most frequented technical meetings, two are in Brazil.

Just check out the slides :-)

Re:Spanish/Portuguese ?

fxn on 2005-10-22T21:42:24

Yes, my curiosity is more about the Spanish bit.

Re:Spanish/Portuguese ?

davorg on 2005-10-23T20:39:36

Er... that was me having a brain glitch and forgetting that they speak Portuguese in Brazil and not Spanish. Sorry about that :-/

duplicate membership

uri on 2005-10-24T05:38:20

many mongers are on multiple lists (i am on 4) so subscriber counts aren't a good way to measure group sizes. it might be fine for smaller groups or ones which are more isolated but i am sure london.pm's size is due to many outsiders on its list.

but this is an interesting exercise anyway, regardless of its serious statistical flaws.

uri

Re:duplicate membership

cog on 2005-10-24T09:46:54

statistical flaws

That was mentioned in the talk, actually :-)

Re:duplicate membership

davorg on 2005-10-24T13:33:00

many mongers are on multiple lists

In the talk that accompanied the slides I estimated that up to 25% of the 8,300 mailing list subscriptions might be taken up by David Adler being subscribed to every PM mailing list :)

Which got the desired laugh, but also made the point that this stats are pretty close to being meaningless. I'm on about a dozen PM group mailing lists.

Re:duplicate membership

uri on 2005-10-24T18:47:37

being the uber-fearless leader of all of perl mongers, i would expect you to be on every single pm list! :)

and i am glad you mentioned my point in the talk. i just didn't see it on the slides.

uri