Recent Changes Camp
Today I'm at Montreal's Recent Changes Camp. People are here from all over North America and Europe to dish on wikis. Really looking forward to listening and collaborating. I'll post from the camp. Actually, I'm late.
Update: So, it was an interesting experience. I like the open space concept, although it does highlight some of the, uhm, organizational challenges of the open source world. Would have been cool to have a session where people hack things together on the spot.
I think what I took away most was a conversation with Hugh McGuire from Librivox where he explained to me the 1% rule. Basically, participatory websites only have content created from about 1% of their users. He was explaining that about 1200 people are the active creators of WikiPedia. This blew me away as in my web 2.0 excitement I figure the numbers were much higher.
So - this has interesting applications here on Open Source Cinema. Basically, we need about 10 core people to pull this thing off. Are you one of them?
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1 Percenters
Brett, there's quite a few great articles about 1 Percenters on the web (good Guardian article too, google it!)
I also find the Power Law of Participation graph useful. And the FLIRT diagram. You can find examples on a post on the Swarm blog, but I won't link to it because I don't want to blatantly plug, just inform.
Good luck, Matt
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