On Thursday 17 June 2010 15:56:51 Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
On Thursday 17 June 2010 12:30:12 Marcus Moeller wrote:
An how does a project benefit from users that do not contribute? We should instead animate 'users' to become contributors. And note: contribution does not mean: you have to provide code. There are a lot of tasks to do, so that everybody should find an area of choice.
A project which creates software greatly benefits from users, because that's the whole point of doing it after all. If openSUSE is not used by anybody, why do it?
The fun of doing it. If it isn't for the fun, why do it ? ;)
So the goal should be to reach out to many users, regardless if they contribute or not. Of course we want to make users contribute, but not every user will do that, and that's fine.
It mustn't necessarily be the goal. To me, the top priority is making it fun,
enjoyable, and visible, to do something in the project.
There are different angles, and everyone has her own set of priorities on why
she participates into a project like openSUSE (or KDE, or JBoss, or whatever).
I just wanted to stress that in _your_ opinion, the goal should be to reach
out to many users, and a more or less large proportion of the current
contributor community might relate to that, but it certainly isn't the only
option.
cheers
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-o) Pascal Bleser