Re: Emacs's org-mode finalist for the SourceForge Community Choices Award

[Stephen Eilert]

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Deniz Dogan <address@hidden> wrote:

2009/8/4 Bastien <address@hidden>:

> Deniz Dogan <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Have people forgotten about this thread?
>
> Nope.
>
>> Unfortunately, org-mode seems to have "lost" the award for "Most
>> Likely to Change the Way You Do Everything" to PortableApps.com, which
>> won with 20.21% of the votes.
>
> I would say that having been nominated is already a big win for Org.
> The second win is all the effort that the Org community put in Org and
> Worg after this announcement.  That's a second big win, more valuable.
>
>> There is currently no information about the other candidates in that
>> category, including org-mode.
>
> Here are some more figures:
>
>  http://sourceforge.net/community/cca09/winners/

For people who for some reason have problems accessing the site,
org-mode received 5% (867) of the votes, finishing second-to-last,
beating Lancelot.

This is already remarkable by itself, as it is difficult to consider Emacs "mainstream". And org-mode is "just" one mode, further reducing the target audience. Not to mention people that use it but haven't heard of the award.


--Stephen

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