Nice article on building a user community

[David Van Couvering <da...@vancouvering.com>]

http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/12/how_to_build_a_.html

Re: Nice article on building a user community

[Michael Segel <ms...@mycingular.blackberry.net>]

I'll have to check it out.

Derby, however has some additional parameters since it is also a commercial product where Sun and IBM are providing paid for support services.

That's a dynamic that may impact the user community, along with licensing terms, and product niche.

One may be more interested in contributing to Dovecot or PAM than to a more commercialized endeavor.

I seriously doubt anyone has done research in to this ...

It would definitely make for an interesting IEEE Computing article.

(The psychology of Open Source)

:-)
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-----Original Message-----
From: David Van Couvering <da...@vancouvering.com>
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 23:02:06 
To:Derby Discussion <de...@db.apache.org>
Subject: Nice article on building a user community

http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/12/how_to_build_a_.html

Re: Nice article on building a user community

["Jean T. Anderson" <jt...@bristowhill.com>]

David Van Couvering wrote:
> http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/12/how_to_build_a_.html

What a wonderful article! Thanks for posting it.

Here's another one (a Google presentation from July 2006) -- "How to
Protect Your Open Source Project From Poisonous People":

http://www.red-bean.com/dav/presentations/Poisonous-people.pdf

 -jean