01-17-2026, 12:09 PM
FACTS:
QB64PE is marvellous
QB64PE is available to all
QB64PE is easy to learn
QB64PE can be enjoyed at all levels
QB64 since inception and this forum website are the result of a huge number of person-hours effort by much-talented people.
Yet it is being used by a miserable number of people. I've been playing about with ("analysing") the Members List.
The first graph shows the time since the last forum visit vs date of enrolment for all members. Don't worry too much about what the axes are. If every member had visited the website recently, all the points would be on the x-axis. The bounding top line is where members haven't visited since joining. So, a great number of members just sign up and do nothing. The greatest concentration of point near zero are at the origin - early joiners (from .org) and a core of active members.
The second graph shows the number of threads posted per member vs enrolment date. Again lots of threads by a few early-sign-up members. Then mostly zero by everyone else. One outlier near the end is some Magdha fellow!
The third & fourth graphs show Cusums of Gaps in Successive Enrolment Dates vs Enrolment Date. If you haven't come across Cusums, they're a handy tool to detect changes in a parameter over time. You look at the slopes of the graph. A change in slope indicates a change in the parameter average as time goes along. In these graphs, more negative-going slopes indicate more members enrolling. The first shows a huge negative slope at the start of PE - where lots of previous members re-joined. The fourth graph is an expanded section of Graph 3 at recent time.
I was fascinated by Dave Mackay's presentation at the '25 Carolina Coding Conference which @Dav highlighted at this forum. That was a chance to "get the QB64 message out there". Did this exposure lead to more enrolments? Remarkably, the graph shows a positive slope before change to a near-zero slope (noticeably more negative-going) after the Conference. More members enrolling! Fascinating, but that could have happened (it was only a slight change in membership enrolments) for any number of reasons.
Me engineer, gotta look at the data. But that only shows the obvious: we're a group of far-too-small members enjoying the benefits of QB64PE.
How do we get the message out? @blpus 's YouTube website seems promising to me. What do we need to do to attract a whole host of youngsters?
QB64PE is marvellous
QB64PE is available to all
QB64PE is easy to learn
QB64PE can be enjoyed at all levels
QB64 since inception and this forum website are the result of a huge number of person-hours effort by much-talented people.
Yet it is being used by a miserable number of people. I've been playing about with ("analysing") the Members List.
The first graph shows the time since the last forum visit vs date of enrolment for all members. Don't worry too much about what the axes are. If every member had visited the website recently, all the points would be on the x-axis. The bounding top line is where members haven't visited since joining. So, a great number of members just sign up and do nothing. The greatest concentration of point near zero are at the origin - early joiners (from .org) and a core of active members.
The second graph shows the number of threads posted per member vs enrolment date. Again lots of threads by a few early-sign-up members. Then mostly zero by everyone else. One outlier near the end is some Magdha fellow!
The third & fourth graphs show Cusums of Gaps in Successive Enrolment Dates vs Enrolment Date. If you haven't come across Cusums, they're a handy tool to detect changes in a parameter over time. You look at the slopes of the graph. A change in slope indicates a change in the parameter average as time goes along. In these graphs, more negative-going slopes indicate more members enrolling. The first shows a huge negative slope at the start of PE - where lots of previous members re-joined. The fourth graph is an expanded section of Graph 3 at recent time.
I was fascinated by Dave Mackay's presentation at the '25 Carolina Coding Conference which @Dav highlighted at this forum. That was a chance to "get the QB64 message out there". Did this exposure lead to more enrolments? Remarkably, the graph shows a positive slope before change to a near-zero slope (noticeably more negative-going) after the Conference. More members enrolling! Fascinating, but that could have happened (it was only a slight change in membership enrolments) for any number of reasons.
Me engineer, gotta look at the data. But that only shows the obvious: we're a group of far-too-small members enjoying the benefits of QB64PE.
How do we get the message out? @blpus 's YouTube website seems promising to me. What do we need to do to attract a whole host of youngsters?