Spread Gerenal Statistics of Joomla - Why not?

After the post of Christophe Demko in http://groups.google.com.br/group/joomla-leadership/browse_thread/t..., I would like to think: why not go a bit more far?

Let think about some general information about Joomla, not aimed for final users, but for developers, JUGs and Joomla Entusiasts. And, also not just put on Joomla mainsite, but permit that or via RSS, or via any other way any Joomla site, in administrator and in frontend via some cacheable module, display these information?

Lets think about show these numbers:

Last stable Joomla Version (and beta version of J1.6)
Confirmed bugs on J! 1.5
RC tracker blockers of J!1.6
Core Teams members
Forum posts
Community Workgroup members (forum.joomla.org)
Development (forum.joomla.org)
Documentation (forum.joomla.org)
Global moderators (forum.joomla.org)
OSM (forum.joomla.org)
Translation Teams (forum.joomla.org)
Translation Workgroup (forum.joomla.org)
(Your opinion here)

I Think that is not necessary show warnings about insecure version or etc, just last stable version. And also make editable for final user with info he will show. Also some of these info can have some links specific for sources of data (like link of download last stable version.

O Believe that more simple data, like the fist one on this list, that do not change so often, maybe in one fist stage can be used fist, and later just make some script to take rest of data on Joomla Forum, or even with some automatic script forge.joomla.com.

In fact, is not so hard to do it, and I believe that if we do it, each change in number of persons in team, for example, will really makes difference because everyone will see, and also for bugtraks alive, will make more people try think in help because they will see this more often.

Is not so hard to do it

Make one source of these data (RSS or any other way like ajax)
Make one module to take data from this source

I believe that this idea may help people better understand how the developers are working with Joomla, and it may even make better appreciate these people and become collaborators also

What all you think about this?

Tags: community, joomla, statistics

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Comment by Jo Snow on November 3, 2010 at 2:56pm: loved the "thanks statistic" on that link

371,000 is a lot of thanks and community goodness

Comment by Amy Stephen on November 3, 2010 at 9:59pm: Excellent ideas, Emerson. Agree with your point that making visible the accomplishments of a group (like bugs fixed) is a great way to encourage others to help.

Emerson - you might want to share this post with the Joomla.org Redesign team, too. These are the types of community input they are hoping for.

Always enjoy reading your posts. Thanks for sharing this!

Comment by Andrew J Holden on November 4, 2010 at 10:58am: I think this is great idea as well. Having a data-source or page with key Joomla! Internal *and* External statistics could be quite useful for web developers that want to introduce Joomla! to their clients, or evaluate the viability of free/commercial extensions as well.

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