On Thursday, November 20, 2014 17:11:12 Jos Poortvliet wrote: > A research question for you: how common is 'episodic volunteering', that > is, how often do people do short, one-off or irregular contributions, as > opposed to more long-term contributions, in your project? > > "Episodic volunteers are volunteers who choose short-term volunteering > assignments or specific projects. Episodic volunteers may be one-off > contributors or they can 'bounce-back' by returning for future assignments." > > I think it varies between projects - so, just look at what you're involved > with. What % of work comes from regular contributors, and what comes from > occasional/one-off contributors? And what are your thoughts on quality and > importance? > > It's for a scientific research project (not mine), if something interesting > comes out I'll be sure to share.
I think Paul Adams has scripts to measure exactly this. Talk to him! -- sebas Sebastian Kügler | http://vizZzion.org | http://kde.org _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.owncloud.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
