There is a spectrum from die-hard contributors to apathetic consumers.
Of course, most people fall somewhere in the middle.
We expect to see some links to the technology adoption cycle.
There was some discussion earlier in the thread about “devs by necessity”.
So, this would be someone who has a different profession (sometimes very different indeed), who needed an online channel and started creating custom solutions because they could not find all the functionalities that they needed.
We expect to see differences between contributors and consumers.
However, we also believe that there will be a (potentially large) overlap.
We would like to see which factors distinguish a “consumer” from an “inexperienced contributor”.
Edit: We suspect that CP may be reaching saturation for “innovator” adopters and that it would be beneficial to put some thought into attracting “early adopters” without alienating innovator types. We would like for integration to be as smooth as possible.
I like this phrasing by Elisabetta on the technology adoption cycle thread.