Re: Mini-survey --> Community

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

andrea valle wrote:

> Just a curiosity.
> Can anyone estimate how many people are using ConTeXt?
>
hard to say

- the list currently has some 435 members of which some are dormant

- people come and go but the list is still growing

- i know of people using context and not on the list (personal mails i get)

- how many users expose themselves? i dunno: i use ruby, gs, etc and am 
not on any of the assiciated lists;

- i don't keep track of downloads / website so no info from that

- there are different kind of users (simple docs, no problem to get it 
running) or more advanced work; my impression is (when i compare usage 
with what i see at for instance user group meetings) that on the context 
list there are rather advanced (demanding) users (special layouts, 
fonts, etc)

- so ... it hard to make a guess

Hans