An unusual
href="http://www.meetup.com/Distributed-Work/calendar/13300733/">Distributed
Distributed Work Meetup was held last night in four
different
cities simultaneously, arranged through many hours of hard work
by
href="http://www.meetup.com/Distributed-Work/members/9584137/">Lukas
Biewald and his colleagues at distributed work provider
href="http://crowdflower.com/">CrowdFlower.
With all the sharing of experiences and the on-the-spot
analyses
taking place, I didn't find an occasion to ask my most
pressing
question, so I'll put it here and ask my readers for comments:
How can you set up crowdsourcing where most people work for free
but
some are paid, and present it to participants in a way that makes
it
seem fair?
This situation arises all the time, with paid participants such
as
application developers and community …