[OSM-talk] The power of the crowd

Patrick Weber p.weber at ucl.ac.uk
Tue Oct 23 10:01:28 BST 2007


No problem , I believe thats how all OpenSource and/or Public 
Participation Projects work. I guess its about putting the "power of the 
crowd" in relation. Or I just tried to sound smart ;-)

Steve Coast wrote:
>
> On 22 Oct 2007, at 17:51, Patrick Weber wrote:
>> Its probably a power law distribution, or in managment speak, the 
>> 80:20 rule. The large majority of users do very little to nothing 
>> after registration, and its only a small core of participants that 
>> probably do over 80% of the contributions. If you want to call it a 
>> really fancy term , its the long tail problem.
>
> It's not a problem, is it?
>
> have fun,
>
> SteveC | steve at asklater.com | http://www.asklater.com/steve/
>
>
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