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On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 8:44 PM, dominic smith <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I do have a question for members of this discussion on this matter of > contributing to software development. Do you feel that successful > collaboration on an open project is as simple as members contributing useful > code to a project or are there other factors such as friendships and > geographical location that have an impact? Each project has a community The communities vary. Some are international Some are regional or have strong participation from specific language groups. I think there is a factor where the kind of new contacts that the group makes has an impact on the culture of the communities. ie if a lot of new people say I wish this application was more like n windows application this has a shaping factor on dialogue. If it is an application where people are coming to it without muscle memory from a competing product the first conversations can be easier.