As part of preliminary work on the Commons information architecture for Drupal 7, I'm interested in how many groups people join on an Organic groups site.
Surely everyone is like myself and is a member of twenty or more groups, right? Apparently not!
For example, if we look at group membership on Groups.Drupal.org, we see that nearly 74 percent of GDO users are in only 1-2 groups! However, in aggregate, ~26% of people are in more than two groups.
| Number of groups joined | Percentage of people |
|---|---|
| 1-2 groups | 73.50% |
| 3-4 groups | 11.95% |
| 5-7 groups | 6.34% |
| 8+ groups | 8.20% |
GDO is just one website, and we'd like to collect data about more Organic groups-based websites.
If you run an Organic-groups based website (doesn't have to be Commons), you can help shape the next version of Commons by sharing the results of the database query below in this short survey :D!
Of course, we'll be posting that IA for public feedback after we refine it a bit more.
Thanks!
SELECT COUNT(uid), groups FROM (SELECT count(nid) as groups, ou.uid from og_uid ou INNER JOIN users u on ou.uid = u.uid WHERE u.status = 1 AND ou.is_active = 1 GROUP BY ou.uid) subq GROUP BY groups;
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thx for your great work - and for this survey!
Hello dear Ezra, good day,
i am the first - but i have to admit that i am brandnew to Drupal and to Commons too ( member for 20 weeks now). At the moment i am planning the design of a Commons-Site. I do not have launched a live site - besides two BETA-ones. i just am ironing out the concepts and do some work behind the scenes - on a lampp on my Linux-box. This should accentuate the situation i am in.
i am happy to see such efforts in developement in Drupal 7 - great to read this article.
To answer your question: i think that your findings on the participation in Groups reflect the usual behaviour of Drupal users. i think that - generally spoken - the situaion on Grops-Drupal-Org is somewhat typical that we can admit that we will meet almost the same situaion outside Drupal-groups..
The likelihood that your findings are similar to the typical user-behaviour seems evident to me. I for one am partipiant of 2 groups here.
Hope you find more people that answer your question - and yes: ...
i am very very happy about these steps - i look forward to the next weeks - and to Commons on Drupal 7.
I love Drupal for its sustainable devlelopment. It is a great experience for me to see this powerful community that leverages knowledge-creation and development in such a great way.
keep up the great project it rocks
greetings
unleash
Interesting!
Good stuff. I hope you get some other stats posted here. I'm also interested in how often people visit g.d.o., for what reasons and how often they visit each group. Also, what motivates people to actually leave a group? But that is another study! :)
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Results
COUNT(uid) - groups
69 - 0
58 - 1
15 - 2
18 - 3
9 - 4
6 - 5
5 - 6
2 - 8
1 - 9
1 - 10
1 - 27
These are the results for our Commons web site.
We are a Federation of 22 Cooperative Banks + a central company that provides advice and business services to all of them + a central IT company, All together we are more then 3000 people.
We launch Commons little less the one year ago. but only now people shyly starts to sign-up and use it.
In this kind of organization, typically hierarchical, people doesn't have the culture of bottom-up collaboration. They are used to "top-down". So, currently they just enter Commons to read what few people write. And because our groups in Commons are generally public, they don't need to be member to read. That's why most of them are in zero groups.
Collaboration is a way to behave, not a software. That's why we are concentrated on working on the human side, and we thanks the Drupal community to take care of this great software
Not live yet but...
FYI, I'm considering a use of Commons in an enterprise sales environment where our CRM system would offer to create a new group for each customer sales opportunity around which employees might want to collaborate. We're in a very high-volume sales environment and in this hypothetical use case some sales support users could be members of many dozens or even hundreds of active groups at a time.