I'm sure if you shake the data a little more you'll see that a very small minority do most of the work. This has always been true - in corporations, in teams w

I'm sure if you shake the data a little more you'll see that a very small minority do most of the work. This has always been true - in corporations, in teams within corporations and in startups. I think you should evolve your product to reflect and incentivize this rather than fight it. Give the core guys the most equity - figure out a good way to calculate who those people are. Its a problem that mankind has been trying to solve forever. Instead of focussing on community, focus on creating a system that is secure for someone to start working immediately with the core-team. With deep git integration you could have somethign worthwhile there.