On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com>wrote:

> 2009/8/4 Bastien <bastienguerry@googlemail.com>:
> > Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com> 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

programmer, n:
       A red eyed, mumbling mammal capable of conversing with inanimate
monsters.