On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts <lsuarezpo...@gmail.com> wrote: <snip>
> > I pretty much did the initial draft of the page and set the logic of > what counted as "participate" and "contribute". And I was raked over > the coals by the United Developers of the World who critiqued my > conflation of any old contribution with sophisticated development. > Point taken, they were right, I was wrong, but the point was to grow > the project and to thus justify its existence. Development would come, > once the market was established. > > So now we are here. What do we want out of this? Do we want to re-do > the strategy of yore and expand the market? > Hi Louis, I was making a much narrower point, that if I were looking to donate cash to an open source project, I would not think to look under a link that read "I want to participate". That was my only point. I wasn't expressing an opinion on code versus other forms of participation. We need and welcome volunteers of all kinds. -Rob
