Gentoo Developers geography breakdown

2007/10/23: anon comments locked due to spam

For all those Gentoo developers and readers out there, I'd like the answer to a perception question. Without looking at any data source, do you know roughly how many active (non-retired) developers there are? Do you know where they are distributed around the world?

We presently have 319 developers that are not marked as retired. I hear that Developer Relations have a pile of folks to mark as slackers, so this number will appear lower soon, but more accurately reflect how many developers in the distribution.

Here's the summary of the breakdown:

10	3.13%	South and Central America
11	3.45%	Unknown
26	8.15%	Africa, Asia, Australia
30	9.40%	United Kingdom
100	31.35%	North America
142	44.51%	Europe
319	100.0%	Total

I have more detailed results online here. Surprising bits include the number of developers in Germany (more than the combined total of the 2nd and 3rd entries), as well as the bug concentration in California.

Here is a breakdown by group groups of timezones, but it's made moot by the point that some people are normally early-morning people, while others are night-owls:

11	3.45%	Unknown
25	7.84%	Asia, Australia
110	34.48%	North, South and Central America
173	54.23%	Europe, United Kingdom, Africa
319	100.0%	Total

Source data that I based this data was originally LDAP, partially processed and made available here.