One Million Downloads 🎉

[ghutchis]

This is more of a “fun” thing. But Avogadro just passed a million downloads on SourceForge.

One million downloads.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/avogadro/files/stats/timeline?dates=2001-01-01%20to%202018-07-17

Considering the recent community survey indicated ~40% of users install through package managers, that’s a huge number. At the moment, we also have >1500 citations on Google Scholar for the paper.

Thanks to an amazing community, from all the contributors, to the users, testers, bug reporters, … it’s amazing to pass this milestone and we couldn’t have done it without all of you. That’s the wonderful thing of open source.

We’ve got lots more planned for 2018!

Cheers,
-Geoff

[Allie_Vacanti]

Congrats, that’s awesome! It’s great to see the continued success of this valuable project.

[mhanwell]

Agreed, fantastic to see our download and citation numbers continue to climb.

[fusion809]

'tis quite impressive given chemistry software is a fairly unpopular category of software. Even among Linux users they’re fairly unpopular, in fact I’ve seen a few, usually fairly unpopular, distros not bother packaging 'em at all.