Geeks needs

I thought this article got most of it right...

But, I also thought they missed the most important item.

* Give them useful, meaningful, important things to do

I hated writing shelf-ware in a former life. Nothing was worse then working on a project you knew no one would probably use. I would rather work on a small, no fame/no glory project - that would get used; way before I worked on something big, huge, but useless.

Give me something meaningful - that is perhaps the most important thing.

More than their 8, but their 8 are important too mostly.....