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 <[email protected]> > 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 > -- > name: Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener > team: Red Hat Community Architecture > uri: http://TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki > gpg: AD0E0C41 > > -- > marketing mailing list > [email protected] > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing > -- nelson marques [email protected]
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