Gentoo Developers geography breakdown

[robbat2]

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.

Comments

Re: Isn't the UK a part of Europe?

[(Anonymous)]

Nah, as everyone knows it likes to be the little doggie of the USA. ;)

The number of devs coming from the UK is more impressive than the one coming form Germany, given that the UK has less than 75% the population. Benefit of the native language or yet another sign of the age pyramid in Germany!? Well, I'd say the absolute numbers are just too low to deduce anything.

Re: Isn't the UK a part of Europe?

[robbat2.livejournal.com]

UK: 60.6M people, 245K Sq Km.
Germany: 82.4M people, 357K Sq Km.

I'll give you a breakdown inside Germany as well if somebody can help me with that data.

Also, I considered it separate in that last I checked a lot of Britons didn't like being a member of the EU, hence still being stuck on their own currency.

Re: Isn't the UK a part of Europe?

[(Anonymous)]

> I'll give you a breakdown inside Germany as well if somebody can help me with that data.

While there are of course cultural differences between the german states/regions, I doubt anyone cares really.

Re: Isn't the UK a part of Europe?

[robbat2.livejournal.com]

Compare that to the Scots and Welsh, who strongly assert they aren't English (as in of England).