The stuff we put up here is

Rjae Easton — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:46:36 -0400

The stuff we put up here is not so useful unless it is applied. It is a pleasure to hear that you find the thoughts compelling; your ideas around screening collaborators could yield what you are looking for - as long as you build something with them (however that materializes).

Feel free to tag this post; come back and let us know how your project progresses.

Thank you for this

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:13:06 -0400

Thank you for this interesting post. I have been wondering about how to "screen" potential collaborators for a complex open-source project I am working on and as a result of your well reasoned article now realise that the best approach is to let the end-users of my prototype create variants (or extend the code-base with new "types" to do the things that they are interested in; but I will probably never have time to address), and on the basis of the quality of their code and my subsequent communications with them I should be able to pick out those few developers that I want to have direct contact with as a pseudo-project leader.

Obviously, this will be all very informal and I am assuming that my initial prototype attracts sufficient users for the subset of them that are inclined to program will form a community of sorts.

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Thank you for this