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2010-03-21 , 03:32
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Originally Posted by Jaffa View Post
This isn't some magical property which being on the council will allow you to know. Just ask someone like X-Fade, dneary or Reggie.

Anyway, the electorate size can be roughly determined yourself:
  1. Go to http://maemo.org/profile/list/
  2. Find the page which has the first account at karma <10 (128).
  3. Multiply the number of people per page (30) by the page number found in step 2, plus any left overs (14)
  4. Tada: your magic number is 3,854 :-)

Of course, the Maemo community is larger than that electorate and larger than any one system's account database.

I'm a simple guy and I'm sorry I asked such a simple question.
I didn't think that it had magical properties. The answer does have meaningful properties to me though if I expect to be effective as a representative of the whole community.

I would also think that membership and other key volume indicators might be something the council would want to know and keep track of in order to predict what resources it should allocate and to prioritize its efforts to best be able to represent the community to Nokia.

Would you or VDVsx also happen to have the number of active community mailing list participants? I only recently joined the "Community" list via Nabble and I believe it stated on the sign-up page that the community list had a little less than 300 members if you also added those who received it in digest form. I don't know how to easily determine if this correct or if a total accurately reports unique members.

Mama always said, "simple is as simple does" so you might want to check my math on that.
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