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**Poison - those who may divert the attention of a project with drawn out arguments or debates. | **Poison - those who may divert the attention of a project with drawn out arguments or debates. | ||
*Debian was a highly succesful project with 3,000 developers and became very noisy giving rise to forks such as Ubuntu. | *Debian was a highly succesful project with 3,000 developers and became very noisy giving rise to forks such as Ubuntu. | ||
*Information is free, people are not, contributors are priceless. | |||
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*Research for literature about such behaviour and discuss the interesting and important points | *Research for literature about such behaviour and discuss the interesting and important points | ||
*Find out how best to convert lurkers to more active users. | *Find out how best to convert lurkers to more active users. | ||
*Investigate what is happening with Debian and its forks, and if there are more recent ideas on better community management | *Investigate what is happening with Debian and its forks, and if there are more recent ideas on better community management. | ||
*When you given free information in forums, sometimes users still bother your time privately and refuse to go through public forums. What should you do? | |||
==Activities== | ==Activities== | ||
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Levels of Participation
This is a lesson part of the module The Web Economy out of the Open Source ERP/Executive Diploma course conducted by a private university.
Topics
- There are different type of user participation in any online project.
- They are
- Lurkers - who only reads and hardly said a word or contribute anything. They comprise a high percentage of visitors and contribute to the hitrate.
- Trolls - who lurks but occasionaly fire up.
- Newbies - who are new and would try to ask around and get what they want.
- Geeks - those who are experts and may be busy or impatient to answer too many questions. But they are the most helpful in a forum or project
- Poison - those who may divert the attention of a project with drawn out arguments or debates.
- Debian was a highly succesful project with 3,000 developers and became very noisy giving rise to forks such as Ubuntu.
- Information is free, people are not, contributors are priceless.
Assignment Tasks
- See if you can identify any such character in the SourceForge project.
- Research for literature about such behaviour and discuss the interesting and important points
- Find out how best to convert lurkers to more active users.
- Investigate what is happening with Debian and its forks, and if there are more recent ideas on better community management.
- When you given free information in forums, sometimes users still bother your time privately and refuse to go through public forums. What should you do?
Activities
- Publish your works in an attractive manner in your user page, stating your own views and findings providing links to your sources. Use the talk page here to score marks.
- Create or edit sub-pages of course materials within wikiversity.
- Discuss in the forum (link shall be provided) by offering your ideas and answering or comment on others' postings.
Links to Student Notes
(Provided by Students - subject to edit ranking by tutor)
Notable Links to Resources
(Provided by Students - subject to edit ranking by tutor)
Sub-Pages
(Done in wikiversity as course material by the students under the guidance of the tutor)