greenm1981 Posted July 22, 2009 Report Share Posted July 22, 2009 Hello,I'm a student of economics conducting research on the innovation. Current economics models tend to reduce all of innovation as a function of the pursuit of monetary gain. What I've seen in the open source community suggests otherwise.I just discovered this project today and would like to enlist your help in gathering data on the levels of involvement by the OS community in this project. Here are some of my first questions on the matter:1) Where might I find data on the # of code downloads / uploads?2) Are there statistics available to quantify progress made to project since WFG opened it up?These are just my first thoughts. I understand many of you busy with the content of the game, but figured I would consult the experts.Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feneur Posted July 22, 2009 Report Share Posted July 22, 2009 It's just a few weeks since we opened up the source, so I doubt any statistics we can give you right now would be all that relevant in a long-term sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ykkrosh Posted July 22, 2009 Report Share Posted July 22, 2009 Don't have any exact numbers for downloads, but the Subversion server has had roughly 900GB of outbound traffic in slightly under two weeks since the release, and I think (but haven't checked) it's approximately 300MB per copy, so it's probably a few thousand downloads. Most of the community involvement is visible in the forum or Trac, though you'd have to sort through the raw data yourself.But as Erik says, it's only been a couple of weeks so it's very early stages and doesn't provide any kind of long-term view.(But before the open source release, many people have been working on this for many years with no pursuing of monetary gain - I guess the people devising the current economic models can't imagine people just working for fun ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenm1981 Posted July 24, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2009 Thanks guys!The early data is important to me, so I'll start tracking based upon your suggestions.As far as economic models not accounting for the "incentive of play," you're spot on! While there are some good economists working on the idea that "homo ludens" or man at play is an important driving force on our lives (duh!), it is largely ignored. Hence my interest.Thanks again for your support! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeru Posted July 24, 2009 Report Share Posted July 24, 2009 Good luck with your research. (Wikipedia is a glaring example of people collaborating for no monetary gain.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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