We've staged conferences and author events, more than doubled our yearly submissions, launched a serious commercial research project into the current and growing cultural influence of our audiences (codename: the Geek Pound) and now as we look beyond our third decade we're also reflecting on the ways we might change the award in years to come.
At the six-year-old Ashland International Film Festival in Oregon, submissions have doubled since it got involved with Withoutabox in 2004.
The organizers, speaking in the local Cantonese dialect, held several big media events detailing the growth of the festival this year: Submissions more than doubled, from 365 to 804.
The BMC series has met that aim, and has proven to be highly successful both when measured by quantity – submissions have roughly doubled every 18 months, interestingly very much in line with Moore's law for computing [ 4] – and when measured by quality.
We enjoyed @WolmanTweets's bipartisan, lousy-with-double-negative submission, "Agree or don't not disagree?
From 2004 onward, submissions from locations within the spatial limits of the cluster tripled (to 1,077), whereas submissions from outside this region doubled (to 1,168).
This trend has gone hand in hand with a substantial increase in the number of submissions in general: Since 2009 the number of submissions to regular issues has more than doubled.
"Just to be blunt you would have to file two different submissions so it is obvious that you have doubled the amount of work," said Witty.
Applications at many patent offices have doubled in the past ten years, and the average length of each submission has increased by 50%.
This piece is an extract from a written submission to the UK International Development Committee Global Humanitarian System inquiry The number of people affected by humanitarian crises has more than doubled over the past decade.
