[Foundation-l] frustration vs volunteerism

[Robert Rohde]

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 2:39 AM, Domas Mituzas <midom.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> Somehow following phrase caught my eye today,
>
> "Because myself and others have been frustrated by the lack of good
> stats
> on the number of active editors on the English Wikipedia, I have
> compiled
> some stats on the editing frequency on enwiki:"
>
> Are we working on the project because we're frustrated, or because we
> want to?

Yes.

I wrote the quote you cite, and I stick by it.

My process often goes something like:

1) Want to find something.
2) Get frustrated that it doesn't exists (be it stats, or wiki
articles, or whatever).
3) Decide to create it myself.

So yes, I often choose areas to work on as a result of channeling my
frustrations.  Usually that frustration is directly tied to something
I want to see accomplished, which hasn't been.

-Robert Rohde