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[nelson marques]

 Karsten,

  It does make sense, and it's actually prettty accurate, though there are a
couple of things I can't actually understand, which I will need more time to
redifine some concepts and see if they match according to what is on this
document. I will hold this 'reply' for a bit more of time because due to the
nature of the contents you presented, a normal superficial reply would not
be honoring your work.

  There's a couple of things I can learn here, and I pretend to do it ;)
soon.

 nelson


2010/6/19 Karsten Wade <kwade at redhat.com>

> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 06:10:41PM +0100, nelson marques wrote:
> >
> > According to some older information that you can search on the list,
> someone
> > placed up that only around 10% of the people who use Fedora contribute
> > activelly to the Project. Why don't the other 90% do?
>
> There are a few ways to think about that other 90%.
>

> The traditional advertising way is to appeal to them.  The more you
> have, the more they spend on your products.
>


> But what we have is a community.  It is one of many, many important
> communities in the world.  Everyone who is involved in each community
> cannot contribute to every community they are in.
>

 In some communities
> they have to be part of the consumers, part of the wide user base who
> are part of the "greater meaning."  It is not reasonable, possible, or
> sustainable to expect all of them to contribute.
>
> Rather than looking to grow our project to 100%, we could be thinking
> about helping enough people come fresh in to the project so that we i)
> don't burn out the people here, and ii) we can grow at a sustainable
> rate.
>
> There is an article I wrote about this:
>
> http://iquaid.org/2009/04/14/community-sets/
>
> By helping people who are consumers become participants, the people
> currently interested in becoming contributors are more naturally
> attracted from that group.
>
> Does this difference make sense?
>
> - Karsten
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