[Linux-aus] competition and collaboration

[David Lloyd]

Actually,

> When I read this I thought of Jamendo.com. Lots of music licensed under 
> Creative Commons. There are probably other examples of this type of setup. 
> Maybe some of these artists would get involved in some sort of comp.

The glitch is that the moment you provide some type of incentive which 
is greater for one person or a class of people, there's inequality. If 
you amalgamate the groups as a single entity, you get stuck with the 
same problem: one "group" gets the reward/incentive and the other 
"group" perceives their reward/incentive is less.

That is to say, the problem remains the same but you might have less 
people upset.

A real way to have fun with the collaboration thing might be to flatten 
the playing field totally and work out WHY people want to do what 
they're collaborating on. Then find out ways to "reward" everyone in a 
way that is "special" to them.

How one does that, I suppose, is the question that Janet is asking.

One might look at how teachers (I almost did a PC "educational 
practitioners") reward children when they're playing games[other than 
competitive sport]. I would think that teachers face the task of, "How 
do we provide incentives to all the pupils without missing anyone out or 
playing favourites" all the time.

Maybe I'm just being random :)

DSL