<quote who="Michael Chesterton">

> I think behind a successful FLOSS project is a strong community, from the
> community, code is one of the contributions of value. Could a kick arse
> idea have more value than the code that implements it? I think it could.
> Plus there's support, bug reports, publicity, karma and warm fuzzies :)

It takes *significantly* more effort to climb up the meritocracy rungs when
your contributions do not include code. See also:

  http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/pearls/2003/04/msg00000.html

- Jeff

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