Karsten,<br><br> 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.<br>
<br> There's a couple of things I can learn here, and I pretend to do it ;) soon.<br><br> nelson<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/6/19 Karsten Wade <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kwade@redhat.com" target="_blank">kwade@redhat.com</a>></span><br>
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<div>On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 06:10:41PM +0100, nelson marques wrote:<br>
><br>
> According to some older information that you can search on the list, someone<br>
> placed up that only around 10% of the people who use Fedora contribute<br>
> activelly to the Project. Why don't the other 90% do?<br>
<br>
</div>There are a few ways to think about that other 90%.<br></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>
The traditional advertising way is to appeal to them. The more you<br>
have, the more they spend on your products.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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But what we have is a community. It is one of many, many important<br>
communities in the world. Everyone who is involved in each community<br>
cannot contribute to every community they are in.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> In some communities<br>
they have to be part of the consumers, part of the wide user base who<br>
are part of the "greater meaning." It is not reasonable, possible, or<br>
sustainable to expect all of them to contribute.<br>
<br>
Rather than looking to grow our project to 100%, we could be thinking<br>
about helping enough people come fresh in to the project so that we i)<br>
don't burn out the people here, and ii) we can grow at a sustainable<br>
rate.<br>
<br>
There is an article I wrote about this:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://iquaid.org/2009/04/14/community-sets/" target="_blank">http://iquaid.org/2009/04/14/community-sets/</a><br>
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By helping people who are consumers become participants, the people<br>
currently interested in becoming contributors are more naturally<br>
attracted from that group.<br>
<br>
Does this difference make sense?<br>
<br>
- Karsten<br>
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