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February 2009 Site Statistics



Written by:SAJChurchey
Published by:SAJChurchey
Published on:2009-03-01 02:41:36
Topic:OSI Diary
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680 new members this month! The article drought is over and things are surely moving forward. There's never been a better time to get involved in our community.

Report for period - (01/02/2009 - 28/02/2009)

Produced by sajchurchey for the Open Source Institute on Sunday 01st 2009f March 2009 02AM

Members
A total of 680 new members joined OSIX in this period, this compares to 176 new users for the same period in the previous year.

There is a grand total of 13094 OSIX members.

Articles
In this period 3 articles were submitted and authorised, this compares to 0 articles for the same period in the previous year. On 28/02/2009 there was a total of 756 articles hosted on the site, which had been collectively viewed 7638775 times. There were 0 unique referers viewing articles during this period.

Forums
The forums recieved 116 posts by 57 people. This compares to 88 posts in the same period of the previous year.

OSIDrive
The OSIDrive had 13 files uploaded totalling 0.456 Mb. This compares to 2 files of 0.002 Mb for the same period of the previous year. OSIDrive is currently holding 35.456 Mb of files for 12845 users within a total of 25805 subfolders.

CoDebug
The pastebin has been used 1 times. This compares to 3 times in the same period of the previous year.

Polls
A total of 11 votes were cast in this period. This compares to 13 votes for the same period of the previous year.

Geek Challenges
A total of 270 Geek levels were passed, this compares with 251 geek levels being passed same period of the previous year.

Reward Points
There are a total of 235410 reward points currently allocated to members. The following users represent the top ten OSIX reward point holders...

sfabriz with 1202 points.
paranoia with 1076 points.
batterseapower with 955 points.
atreyu with 935 points.
Domuk with 908 points.
keith91 with 900 points.
aidan with 898 points.
bb with 886 points.
IPYouFy with 850 points.
xpi0t0s with 836 points.

Geek Test Centre
0 Tests were created in this period, this compares with 0 tests in the same period in the previous year. 102 users participated in tests in this period, this compares with 69 users completing tests in the same period of the previous year.

Geek or Freak
184 Geek or Freak pictures are currently stored. 52 votes have been cast in this period, this compares to 22 votes for the same period in the previous year.

Period Summary

The article drought is now over. A big thanks goes to Auzzie for his contribution this month. Anyone is free to submit an article using the Submit Article link in the "User's box" to your left. If you would like to help and am not quite sure how to get started, feel free to send me a PM.

Site development is now rolling, and you can expect to see new features in the coming months. Be sure to check back with us regularly to make sure that you do not miss anything. If you have any ideas or suggestions on improving the site and its features, please submit feedback.

Membership exploded this month. 680 new members in a given month is HUGE. I would like to welcome all of these new members to the community.


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