On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 11:29:21 +0200, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: > > Why? Because not only my personal experience in NPOs but also the > > scientific literature on this subject show that a mix of paid staff > > and volunteers in an organization/project leads to > > disagreement/conflicts; > This is not a certain cause-effect relationship. Agreed, I was over-simplifying for the sake of getting to my point that findings from social sciences might be helpful for Debian in general. [Red Cross example] > and the staff takes care of the boring routine > things, leaving the volunteers to do what they want, when they want. Agreed; taking into consideration which tasks are appropriate for being paid in a mixed staff/volunteers environment seems important to me, too. -- This is actually a good example of the type of knowledge I meant. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ | gpg key ID: 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : debian: the universal operating system - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' member of https://www.vibe.at/ | how to reply: http://got.to/quote/ `- NP: Janis Joplin: Maybe
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