My $.02. The Android Challenge community is most likely identical to other online communities.
If so, then <5% of the people entering into the Google Challenge are actually active participants in the community. That would be in line with the number of Challenge submissions as 1788 * .05 = 100 is roughly the number of people that posted to the ChallengeMeter post. Given that we've seen mostly individual Challenge participants posting here, my guess is the majority of the non-posters are the company & team submitters. Since those team/company submissions are most likely to win due to greater time/effort spent on their submissions, the majority of the top 50 winners are probably people that have not been active in this community. If you followed all that, this is the unfortunate reality of most communities...i.e. that the many benefit from the posts of the few. With a new product like Android, it's guaranteed that every Challenge submission benefited greatly from the dialogue in these communties, but sadly few of those who benefited probably gave back to that same community (ie. were active posters). So the short end of my answer is "No...I wouldn't expect many people who are posting to this community to have many hits from the judges as we're probably not in the top 50." I REALLY hope I'm just being cynical and pessimistic...but then again, that would mean this community is unlike the majority of online communities out there. This isn't a diss at Google or online communities, but simple the sad fact of our society in general. Now please...please...let me be proven wrong when the winners are announced...! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Challenge" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-challenge?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
