I thought I had a pretty good idea what Dana Blankenhorn’s post entitled “Yahoo, another list of open source projects” was going to be about before I read …

If your answer to any of these questions was “Yes,” you got caught at the very top of the funnel.Alex writes, “…an open source community cannot be considered a success unless it engages members [current or potential] to a point where participation is a natural continuation of the experience,” and I totally agree…. But first, they need to ask themselves what iskeeping potential users and contributors from moving far enough down the”sales funnel” that contributor motivation enters the equation at all.

Recently, Zubin Jelveh over at Portfolio.com posted about Which brings me to my question: is open source software contribution based on incentive, or economics?