Change in GRASS usage??

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Friends of GRASS,
    Speaking of the Future of GRASS, I have a couple questions.

    Does anyone know if general interest has been increasing
or decreasing and by how much? This is hard or impossible to
measure, but one can get some idea by things like:

    (1) Number of grassu subscribers.
         Currently it is about 500.
         What was it 6 months ago, one year ago, ...?

    (2) How much has activity (number of messages) changed?

    (3) What about other measures?

I coordinate a local Linux Users Group in Portland, Oregon USA
and have found such measures to be very useful in guiding
our future course. Has anyone tracked GRASS usage?
I think this information would be very useful.

                                               David Mandel

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   Does anyone know if general interest has been increasing
or decreasing and by how much?

   (3) What about other measures?

How about the number of research articles based on, or incorporating,
GRASS? Certainly a time lag, but you might be able to get a sense of trends
over the past few years... a quick and dirty search of Science Citation
Abstracts or Agricola would be a way to start...

Just a thought.

Duane Griffin
Univ. of Wisconsin Geography