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• Small gathering at Chez McDonnell, to celebrate how far we've come in the last year.
• The project has taken on a life of its own.
• Regularly getting mentioned on twitter, in a completely organic way.
• Found two examples (Ubuntu server and ATS mailing lists) where people are using OpsSchool as examples on how to do documentation well! Where did this come from?!
• Some stats, from Google Analytics for ~Q4, compared to ~Q3:
• Average visit duration is up (3mins, vs 2mins 18secs).
• Pages per visit is up (3, vs 2.5).
• Unique visitors is down (7.3k vs 11.2k) but this is OK! We had a huge spike in July which threw this off. Otherwise this is more comparable.
• A lot of traffic is "direct" (probably things like the Devops newsletter, etc), followed closely by Google, then twitter, reddit and my blog post on "So y ou want to be a systems administrator?" (which should have read "operations engineer", but the old title is familiar to people).
• Popular pages are the introduction followed by "sysadmin 101" and "careers".
• Github stats for 2013:
• 191 forks, 371 stars
• 143 pull requests this year!!
• 66 contributors!!
• The video filming with O'Reilly has taken off too. We had more videos than I can count - Patrick's insane, relentless pushing here has done so much, and everyone here taking the time to record videos has paid off. I've used a couple of videos internally already as part of Ops For A Day and had really positive feedback. We're going to start using these internally even more in 2014. OpsSchool has taken off in a big way, and we have big plans for next year. Thank you to everyone for their support and help. We've made it, and continue to make it, awesome.
• I owe several of you t-shirts, I promise I'll get them for the next time I see! you. If you didn't get one yet, please please let me know your t-shirt size!