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Why are people participating?

• This is a “community of interest” — like a class, a set of organizers has pre-existing buy-in to the project.

Barriers to entry: know-how [can be solved pedagogically] and willingness to participate [community status can be leveraged]

• How-to and friendly reminders shared with team regularly
• Participation of others increases willingness for participation of the reluctant

Interactivity as part of the process

• Making many people participate in blogging by asking each committee to blog once a month
• Some people love it, and were in there commenting imediately, other people had to be put on a schedule to post on the blog