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LinuxWorld has an
extended report from OSCON.
"One lesson learned? [Jono] Bacon said they learned (the hard way)
not to try to convert a user community into a developer community. It's
tempting, when you a have a million users of your open-source software, to
imagine the effect of getting 'just 1 percent' of them to write code. But
it doesn't work. 'You're trying to convince a cat to bark,' he
said. Instead, community leaders need to put their energy into converting
users to advocates."