Who Is Using CiviCRM ?

[Denver Dave]

In the following document as of 2006, it indicates that 4,500 groups are using CiviCRM:
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/download/attachments/573/CiviCRM_yearend_2006.pdf?version=1

I know that there are issues with security, not every group wants to be known and sometimes activists may be on different sides of issues.  However, I'm sure there are also many groups that are working similar issues and would not mind giving a little coaching to similar minded groups. 

Google search on CiviCRM finds some

Is there other ways, perhaps optionally, to find out who is running CiviCRM and what is their cause?

[Donald Lobo]

We'd love to know and get a better idea of that too We do ask people to post case studies / reports on the wiki and/or the forum. unfortunately the response has not been great. We hope to figure out a way to get people to do so at some stage

The number mentioned in the document was probably the number of downloads. I dont think we have a good enough way of predicting how many people are using it. We can make a guess from the download number and the number of callbacks we receive

lobo

[xavier]

Hello,

On phplist, we have an option to send a "summary" mail after each mailing to a developer owned address (mostly how many mails have been sent), that gives an idea of how it's used.

Otherwise, there is a function that check updates. Might be something on the config/admin to add: a button that calls the civicrm.org server and transmits info about the url of the installation, the version and the language, and get in return an info about the latest version, so the user knows a new one (or security fix) is available.

If there is an option to disable the automatic checking and that's explained what civicrm does with the transmitted info (stats), I doubt it would be a privacy issue to offer that service.

Otherwise, on ez publish, there is a form to "register" your install at the end of the configuration workflow. Not sure if it's often filed.

X+

[Michał Mach]

Hey,

We have an update checking mechanism (which can be turned off by administrator) and a couple month ago it was showing ~3000 active installations checking for new versions available. I would guess that by now there is a bit more, like ~4000, but that's a "guesstimate". Adding those which have update checking disabled and those which are behind different firewalls, I would say total number of active installs might have reached 5000 by now. (Or I just wish so. :-) )

We were thinking about mounting in some kind of "easy feedback" mechanism into the software, I don't think it will show up in 2.0 (code freeze is behind the door), but personally I would be optimistic about having something like this in 2.1 or 2.2 at latest.

Thx,
m

[xavier]

http://civicrm.org/node/274

"From CiviCRM 2.0 on, we’ll be adding three parameters to the version pinging mechanism – these parameters are the version that you have currently installed (so that we can guesstimate the adoption rate of new CiviCRM versions), the CMS you’re using (so we can see the Drupal- vs. Joomla-based usage numbers) and an MD5 hash of your base URL, so we can guesstimate the number of separate CiviCRM installs in the world."