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Growing the open-source community (LinuxWorld)

LinuxWorld has an extended report from OSCON. "One lesson learned? [Jono] Bacon said they learned (the hard way) not to try to convert a user community into a developer community. It's tempting, when you a have a million users of your open-source software, to imagine the effect of getting 'just 1 percent' of them to write code. But it doesn't work. 'You're trying to convince a cat to bark,' he said. Instead, community leaders need to put their energy into converting users to advocates."
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