[Orgmode] Interesting statistics about Org-mode

[Carsten Dominik]

Hi,

here are some numbers and facts about Org-mode that
continue to amaze me.

Contributors
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  - 35 signed-up contributors (i.e. with FSF papers), and more
    if you count the contrib directory and the Emacs maintainers
    who make small changes every now and then.

Mailing list
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  - Close to 800 subscribers to the mailing list.

  - More than 20000 messages in the mailing list archive on
    gmane.org, and quite a few more in my private mail archive,
    because it contains also messages sent to me and replied to by
    me privately.

  - As far as I can tell, we have not even had an attempt to start
    a flame in the mailing list (maybe thanks to the moderators,
    but I don't think so)

  - Absolutely no spam (definitely this is because of our excellent
    moderators!)

Websites
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  - The main FSF page about Emacs (http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)
    mentions 4 extensions as examples.  Org-mode is one of them,
    together with Gnus, the Debugger, and the Calendar.

  - More than 200000 visits to the website orgmode.org in a single  
year.
    The only countries from which there have been no visits at all  
during
    that year are Greenland, Albania, Turkmenistan, Yemen, Guyana,
    and about 12 countries in Africa.

  - Lifehacker.com put Org-mode into its Outline Tools top-five
    selection list.

  - Typically 10 Twitter messages a day mention Org-mode.

Google Tech Talk
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  - almost 50000 Views of the Google Tech Talk.
    This is almost as many as as the Google Tech Talks by the
    One Famous GTD Guru Merlin Mann:
    - "Inbox Zero" with about 60000 Views
    - "Time and Attention" with about 70000 Views
    There are only some 35 Google Tech Talks with more views,
    this is crazy.

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All of this make me very proud.  Thanks to all of you for making
it happen.

- Carsten