Do community because you like it, not because of the incentives

Posted by: Code Climber, on 06 Jan 2012 | View original | Bookmarked: 0 time(s)

Every time there is a MVP renewal there is always some tweet or posts from people not being re-awarded, but this New Year re-awarding cycle was different: a few vocal and prominent community members didn't get re-awarded. Most of them were MVPs because of their OSS projects, so conspiracy theories started about Microsoft dropping his support to Open Source, and the bashing game started. Contributes to the community because you like it, not because of the incentives You should contribute to the community...

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