Statistics about the size and activity of Perl Mongers.
Data collected from the leaders of the groups in the first week of April 2003
Top 5 in number of subscribers
London
Seatle
Boston
NY
Paris
Top 5 in number of posts
London
Israel
Paris
Boston
Seatle
Language
Group Name
No. Subscribers
Average posts
No. posts in March, 2003
Meetings
Conferences, Workshops
English
Oakland.pm
18
82
35
English
Israel.pm
120
160-180
230
monthly (20 ppl)
annual (first will be in May 2003)
Hungarian
Hungary.pm
162
80-100
95
one in 8/2002 (16ppl)
German
Frankfurt.pm
53
10
2 meetings every month (10-20ppl)
German
Roderbergweg.pm
3
5
2 meetings every month (3ppl)
German
German.pm
19
6
one, so far (~ 25ppl)
Annual, German Perl Workshop
Italian
Nordest.pm
25
50-80
70
at least every two months
none, but planning
English
Canberra.pm
29
3
3
Italian
Roma.pm
18
20
34
each 6 months, 6 ppl
none, but willing (see also Nordest.pm
French
Paris.pm
234
140-150
150
monthly
YAPC::EU::2003
German
Niederrhein.pm
26
20
25
bi-monthly (2-8ppl)
English
Victoria.pm
20
20
20
French
Lyon.pm
10
10
8
monthly 4 ppl
English
NY.pm
258
monthly
English
Southflorida.pm
54
monthly
Danish
Copenhagen.pm
70
10-20
12
monthly
Scandinavian Perl Workshop 2003
English
London.pm
432
700-800
750
monthly (50 ppl)
YAPC::EU::2000
English
Jacksonville.pm
11
rare
10
English
Atlanta.pm
85
10
0
not regular
German
Cologne.pm
24
42
23
monthly (7 ppl on first meeting)
English
Detroit.pm
5
0
0
English
WhiteMountain.pm
11
10
0
monthly
Dutch
Alphen.pm
1
0
0
French
Toulouse.pm
22
10-20
15
random (2-4/year, none so far this year)
English
Raleigh.pm
136
9
1
monthly (3-15ppl)
English
Miami.pm
30
0
0
English
Boston.pm
322
160
121
monthly, 20-30 ppl for tech, 10-15 ppl for soc
Italian
Bologna.pm
3
0
0
English
Ottawa.pm
89
15-30
20
monthly 12-15ppl,half technical half social
May 2003
Dutch
Rotterdam.pm
24
25
18
monthly (8-10 ppl)
Tallahassee.pm
4
4
0
monthly
English
Birmingham.pm
34
20
17
Social Meetings: Monthly (5-15ppl), Social Meetings: Monthly (5-15ppl)
And a few comments on this:
We see that the biggest group is London with 432 subscribers and there are 5 groups with more than 200 subscribers.
A 3 groups between 100 and 200.
According to the central site of the Perl Mongers there are about 600 groups,
317 of them are active. Assuming an average of 50 subscribers for every one of the 317 groups we get
15,850 Perl Mongers world wide. (Actually I think there are a lot less really active groups.)
What is the Perl community ?
Thinking aloud, how can we define people who belong to the Perl community and those who
don't. If we - Perl Mongers - would like more people to be involved in that community how can
we reach the others. What do they need in order to get involved ?
So let's ask who can be considered to belong to the community?
Going to conference(s)/workshop(s)
Participating in (ir)regular monthly technical/social meetings with the local perl community
Subscribed to a Perl Monger mailing list
Regularly participating in a PM mailing list
Subscribed to a domain specific mailing list
(e.g. the perl-xml mailing list or
the beginners list)
)
Regularly participating in a domain specific mailing list
