----- Original Message ---- > From: Drew Jensen <d...@baseanswers.com> > On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 20:30 +0200, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: > > Le Wed, 20 Oct 2010 13:16:37 -0400, > > Drew Jensen <d...@baseanswers.com> a écrit : > > > On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 16:57 +0200, Gianluca Turconi wrote: > > > > Il 20/10/2010 16.36, Mike Dupont ha scritto: > > > > > 1. what will it cost if you have to rewrite the authors code and > > > > > all derived works. > > > > > 2. what if you just remove the code > > > > > > > > Contributions are not only code. There are a lot of intangibles. > > > > > > > > Marketing, lobbying and advocating work are some examples.k
> - if you do that AND you also are active on the MLs here, you are on the > marketing conference calls and you pitch in to help write and execute a > marketing plan. Then you _are_ working on the project. Agreed, though I wouldn't just say the MLs, but the forums, etc. You have to be part of the community as well; not just out saying things about it. I've come and gone through a number of communities - Subversion, Samba, PHP, to name a couple - over the years as interests, time, and demands require. I haven't quite contributed to any them in terms of code, but I was contributing to them in terms of user support - helping people with questions, etc; and in some cases submitting feature requests, etc. All of that is contribution. Perhaps another model to consider is Gentoo's model - http://www.gentoo.org/foundation/en/. Many contribute on the list, but only a few are brought into the Gentoo Foundation. Ben -- E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
