2015 year in review for the Softimage mailing list


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539 topics, 4055 posts, 271 different posters

Top 25 Threads
*number of posts in bold

  1. Maya thinks they’re clever….and that’s the problem 92
  2. Introducing Canvas – visual programming for Fabric Engine 2.0 59
  3. Get rid of your flip phone and get current on maya! 58
  4. H14 is out ! 56
  5. Is purchasing a new softimage license impossible? 53
  6. Continued use of Softimage question 50
  7. OT: Hypershade changes in Maya 2016 46
  8. Friday Flashback #223 46
  9. test 41
  10. can I still get softimage? 40
  11. Heavy scenes with the GTX 970 40
  12. GATOR – A feature in Softimage since 2008 38
  13. Soft licenses still available for purchase? 36
  14. Very OT: for the love of your career.. try houdini 36
  15. akeytsu animation software demo 36
  16. “”The shadow over The Foundry”” 36
  17. Maya freelance list 35
  18. OT: Epic going completely crazy 33
  19. Downloading Entertainment Creation Suite 33
  20. OT: Modo 901 Sneak Peek 32
  21. [PLUG] mGear Teaser 31
  22. Have a question an alternative tool 31
  23. End of the ride 31
  24. Maya graph dependencies 28
  25. OT’ish: Redshift renderfarm with Softimage setup? 27

Top 25 Posters
* number of posts in bold

  1. Jason S 132
  2. Pierre Schiller 125
  3. Morten Bartholdy 117
  4. Eric Thivierge 98
  5. Raffaele Fragapane 94
  6. Matt Lind 94
  7. Mirko Jankovic 91
  8. Sebastien Sterling 85
  9. Leendert A. Hartog 84
  10. Stephen Blair 82
  11. Olivier Jeannel 80
  12. Gerbrand Nel 79
  13. Mario Reitbauer 78
  14. Luc-Eric Rousseau 72
  15. Sven Constable 70
  16. Ponthieux, Joseph G. 68
  17. Angus Davidson 63
  18. Tim Leydecker 61
  19. Eric Turman 60
  20. Chris Marshall 54
  21. Nicolas Esposito 53
  22. peter_b 52
  23. Jordi Bares Dominguez 49
  24. Steven Caron 48
  25. Francisco Criado 48

Softimage mailing list 2012 retrospective


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Misc numbers and facts…

  • 11830 total posts
  • 1434 active threads
  • 1739 new threads created by 287 different users
  • 453 different posters (for an average of 26 posts per person)
  • According to Google groups, there are 1053 group members

  • Busiest day was 17 April, with 152 posts (73 of those posts in the “Softimage development” discussion)
  • Longest thread: “In case you missed it..” 236
    • Number of different posters in that thread: 76
  • Number of posts in the Friday Flashback thread: 271
  • Most posts in a thread in a single day: 84 (in the “Intro to the new team (was Softimage development)” thread, on 19 April)

  • Most active poster contributed 3.6% of all posts
  • 25% of all posts come from the 10 most active users
  • Most posts by one user in a single thread: 19
  • Most new threads started by one user: 70

Top 12 threads

  1. Friday Flashback 271
  2. In case you missed it.. 236
  3. Intro to the new team (was Softimage development) 152
  4. Small Annoying Things 135
  5. Softimage development 111
  6. Rumors 111
  7. test 79
  8. Softimage 2013 74
  9. raafal 61
  10. Qt Wrapper command log issue 58
  11. 2013 save scene = no load in 2012? 58
  12. V-Ray for Softimage released 57

Top 10 users by number of posts

  1. Alan Fregtman 428
  2. Steven Caron 393
  3. Eric Thivierge 380
  4. Stephen Blair 300
  5. Matt Lind 297
  6. Rob Chapman 259
  7. Szabolcs Matefy 246
  8. Alok Gandhi 241
  9. Sandy Sutherland 234
  10. Bradley Gabe 200

Top 10 users by number of new threads started

  1. Szabolcs Matefy 70
  2. Alan Fregtman 35
  3. Eric Thivierge 30
  4. Bradley Gabe 29
  5. Sandy Sutherland 26
  6. Stefan Andersson 26
  7. olivier jeannel 24
  8. adrian wyer 23
  9. Kris Rivel 22
  10. Morten Bartholdy 21

Top 10 days and main topic of discussion (if any)

  1. 17/4/2012 152
    • Softimage development 73
  2. 10/9/2012 123
    • “A sad day, in this part of the country, for digit” 24
    • In case you missed it.. 55
  3. 19/4/2012 118
    • Intro to the new team (was Softimage development) 84
  4. 13/9/2012 109
    • In case you missed it.. 81
  5. 20/3/2012 105
  6. 20/4/2012 99
    • Intro to the new team (was Softimage development) 58
  7. 12/9/2012 98
    • In case you missed it.. 80
  8. 22/2/2012 96
  9. 10/2/2012 90
  10. 31/8/2012 87
    • Friday Flashback 75

Century club (100 posts or more)

  1. Alan Fregtman 428
  2. Steven Caron 393
  3. Eric Thivierge 380
  4. Stephen Blair 300
  5. Matt Lind 297
  6. Rob Chapman 259
  7. Szabolcs Matefy 246
  8. Alok Gandhi 241
  9. Sandy Sutherland 234
  10. Bradley Gabe 200
  11. Raffaele Fragapane 175
  12. Chris Marshall 164
  13. Chris Chia 164
  14. olivier jeannel 163
  15. Stefan Andersson 145
  16. Stefan Kubicek 144
  17. Luc-Eric Rousseau 143
  18. Adam Sale 142
  19. peter_b@skynet.be 137
  20. Simon Anderson 133
  21. Grahame Fuller 129
  22. Ciaran Moloney 129
  23. Xavier Lapointe 123
  24. Tim Crowson 120
  25. Eric Turman 119
  26. Ben Houston 115
  27. Guillaume Laforge 111
  28. Dan Yargici 109
  29. Paul Griswold 109
  30. Eugen Sares 108
  31. jo benayoun 106

Wednesday word clouds – 2012 activity on the Softimage mailing list


Two word clouds to help visualize the activity on the Softimage mailing list during 2012: who was posting, and what were they posting about?

What were the popular topics?
Note that I removed “Softimage”, which was by far the most common word in the post titles (aka Subject), but which doesn’t really indicate the topic of discussion.
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Who was active on the list?
There were approximately 450 different people who posted during 2012. This word cloud shows the 100 top names, so assuming most people have no middle names, this is more-or-less the 50 most active posters on the list.
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