This is a spiritual part 2 to: Just how many of us are there?
Now that we have an idea of how many of us are using this images, let’s give our users peace of mind by being transparent on how we’re doing. It should be clear to you what you’re getting into, let me debut a few links:
Let’s take a look at the org chart: Universal Blue – Powered by the future, delivered today
We’re utilizing SavannahCRM to ingest metrics from our Discord, Discourse (what you’re reading now), r/Bazzite, and GitHub. This means when you help someone and they say thanks, that counts as a contribution. When you select a solution on this forum as accepted, that person’s post counts as a contribution. When you post your issue onto GitHub, that also counts. Then we can see how healthy we are – another metric in our quest for efficiency. Not perfect, but it’s a start.
This is last year’s report, we’re going to be figuring out a way to surface more data, here’s an example from bazzite: Bazzite – The next generation of Linux gaming
A member is someone who is hanging out, we’re currently at 7,229, the conversations are the sum across all our resources. 528(!) Contributors.
The engagement pyramid is great, you can hover over each one. We have a few levels, Core, Contributor, Participant, and Visitor. This distribution makes sense when you look at Bazzite’s success. People come in, get what they need, and bail.
And also it makes it clear what the goal is, we need to get more people moving up the pyramid. 
26 “core” contributors surprised me, I’ve always said 10-ish, but when you account the other work happening in discord, reddit, discourse, and github, we get a clearer picture of people who I’ve never heard before being on this list. This makes me extremely happy because if I didn’t know who you were, I owe you a debt of gratitude! Data is amazing.
And then, a community leaderboard – our community is getting large, and many of you still think ublue is tiny. Now your name can shine in lights, knowing that any way you help can count. That means helping someone with something simple counts as much as someone sending in a PR.
There’s something nice about this, something that measures what each person can do according to their skill level. That feels really good ya know?
And lastly first time contributor gbrsni made our existing charts look prettier:
By putting our community at the crux we can keep ourselves honest. We’re not surfacing this yet but let’s look at how fast we are at responding to each other:
I don’t know what this means but it sounds like good news and then bad news. Probably a lot of flailing going on. Now that we know, we can surface it, and then we’ll know how to improve.
There’s obviously more to go but we feel this is a great start for new users to just realize what they’re getting into. New users have anxiety when picking what to use, what if no one helps me? Did I pick the wrong thing? Oh no people told me this would happen, this sucks.
This is a complex problem, and I’m glad that Michael Hall is working on this. Savannah is amazing, and open source. Long time friend Alan Pope has been helping out as well. It’s like an Ubuntu 12.04 party up in here, three former Ubuntu community managers working together on Universal Blue. Hope you enjoy!
From all of us at Framework, we love what you’re doing and we are excited for the future!