03.15.04
Who Contributors Are
Sam Ruby has a great slide that categorizes project contributors. It matches pretty well with my experience, though I need to figure out if there are more clumps of participants out there.
{{link http://intertwingly.net/slides/2004/etcon/63.html Sam Ruby on Contributors }}
With a mix of people, what you inevitably get are:
- People who are ready, willing, and able to move the ball in a direction they consider forward.
- People who are only good at telling you what they don’t want.
- People who drop in a requirements and then expect somebody else to run with it.
- People who wait to be asked to contribute
Sam’s been a central player in the whole echo/atom/rss replacement discussion. It’s amazing that this collective work has moved forward without the structure of some sort of chartered organziation to support it.