Comments inline.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 7:09 AM, Bert Freudenberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bert@freudenbergs.de">bert@freudenbergs.de</a>></span> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote">
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I read a report a while ago (my google-fu is not strong enough to find it though) that it is quite normal in open-source projects to have very few very active contributors and many more less active contributors. That's the Pareto principle at work. So I'm not desperate at all :)<br>
</blockquote><div> </div><div>It would seem that this rule extends beyond "open source software" all the way to "user generated content." At Snapvine we saw something like the Pareto ratio between producers/heavy users and consumers/casual users of our VOIP content creation system. I would bet money that e.g. YouTube has had a similar experience.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I really wonder about where that number really comes from:)</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I am, however, interested in what others perceive to be obstacles to contributing, so thank you very much for starting this survey!<br>
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