Happy Brithday B B!!!
Another year older, another year wiser…
Steve
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snakeboy (BOB member since 2003-12-02)
Happy Brithday B B!!!
Another year older, another year wiser…
Steve
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snakeboy (BOB member since 2003-12-02)
Happy Birthday! 8)
Has it been that long already?!
::Rich:H (BOB member since 2002-09-11)
Another WOW moment, what a success story
Andreas (BOB member since 2002-06-20)
Happy Birthday BOB…
My hearty congratulations for each and every person behind this success of BOB.
Warm Regards,
kiran
kirann (BOB member since 2006-08-30)
Hoorah! It can’t be five years though, maybe two or three
Nick Daniels (BOB member since 2002-08-15)
It’s five. And I’m still working on the birthday thing…
It was five years ago today, in 2002, when the email went out to the BUSOB-L mailing list announcing that BOB existed. It was Aug 31 when the list was shut off and BOB took over.
And here we are five years later. 8)
Dave Rathbun (BOB member since 2002-06-06)
Dave,
I was reading the new website BOB (Businessobjects Blog)
And liked your comment
haider (BOB member since 2005-07-18)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR BOB!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!
MichaelWelter (BOB member since 2002-08-08)
BOB,
Happy birthday
Marek Chladny (BOB member since 2003-11-27)
I do absolutely believe that, and have said it on more than one occasion.
The tagline for the phpBB software that we use is “Creating Communities” and that is certainly what we all have managed to do together. The mailing list started in 1996, if my memory is correct, and lasted until 2002. So as long as BOB has been around we still have one more year to go to match that. I believe that we will, and then some. And it is the community, not the efforts of any one individual, that will make that happen.
Dave Rathbun (BOB member since 2002-06-06)
Happy Birthday BOB!
Ah, remember when he was concieved? When the listserve dumped the archives or was when their servers crashed or when… Those days are long gone. has given us a much better place to live!
csievert (BOB member since 2002-06-17)
If anyone is interested in the answers to some of the questions Chris posed, there are a couple of topics in the BOB FAQ that can help.
The History of BOB, Last updated in 2004 so a lot has happened since then.
Why “Bob”? How did this forum start?
Dave Rathbun (BOB member since 2002-06-06)
My how you’ve grown
Congratz everyone
Chris Pohl (BOB member since 2002-06-18)
My how you’ve grown
From one of the slides in the presentation I linked to:
As of November 14, 2004
6929 total members
4163 of those members have at least one post (68%)
Average nearly 8 new members every day
Over 7.5 million cumulative page views
121977 posts in 25037 topics
Average 136 posts per day
Average 28 new topics per day
As of August 15, 2007
26611 total members
14275 of those members have at least one post (54%)
Average nearly 14 new members every day
Over 43 million cumulative page views, over 1 million page views a month
341005 posts in 73925 topics
Average 180 posts per day*
Average 39 new topics per day
The only number that has gone down is the percentage of members with at least one post. We’re going to be purging the user database soon of any member that has never logged in (there are several thousand members that registered and activated but have never logged in) so that percentage will go back up some.
*Many of those in Michael’s “Do not post in this topic” topic, no doubt…
Dave Rathbun (BOB member since 2002-06-06)
Happy Birthday, BOB!
Anita Craig (BOB member since 2002-06-17)
Oh BOB, how quickly we became friends. You look so handsome, even after 5 years! Congratulations.
gwenhwyfar (BOB member since 2007-04-03)
A belated Happy B’day! Even though we’ve only known each other for a short while you’ve become an integral part of my (profesional) life.
wahey (BOB member since 2007-05-31)
Average 180 posts per day*
*Many of those in Michael’s “Do not post in this topic” topic, no doubt…
::Rich:H (BOB member since 2002-09-11)
Happy Birthday … lets party.
Harish
harishreddy (BOB member since 2006-05-11)
Happy Birthday BOB!!!
Great Success. congratulation!!
hussamo1 (BOB member since 2006-08-08)