On 10/7/06, Matthew Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's taken me about 10 hours
Dave's Proposal: * the Kansas City netflixprize (NFP) team will be abbreviated to KCNFPT * KCNFPT is a cooperative effort to win a progress prize in the NFP contest * in the event of winning a prize, proceeds will be divided by share weight * share weight is a linear function of hours worked for KCNFPT, so that the sum of all participant's share weights is 1 * hours worked are cumulative and nonrevocable * to add submitted hours worked to your total they must be approved by holders of over half of the share weight before your submission, i.e. hours approval motions require 50% share weight to carry * you're not allowed to work more than 30 hours a week on KCNFPT unless you're currently unemployed, in which case you may work up to 60 hours a week on it * hours are submitted weekly through the KCNFPT hours submission mechanism, which will probably be a web interface by Dave but might just be the mailing list * that's the KCNFPT mailing list, which has not been set up yet * on joining KCNFPT, a new participant must declare how many hours they've put into their work on the NFP before joining, and that becomes their initial hours tally * people who leave the team are not eligible for a share, but leaving the team can be blocked by a 10% share * joining and leaving motions require a 90% approval by share weight to carry * amending these bylaws, which are the contract under which the team operates as a team,requires full consensus without abstention (although a 90% majority can kick the blocks out to achieve that) subject to debate: * participants may leave KCNFPT, but if they leave they may not use methods developed within the KCNFPT process in their own NFP submissions or in the NFP submissions of other teams; it is expected that multiple NFP teams may be used to allow submission of results for scoring more often than would otherwise be allowed, and if any team including participating kcnfpt members wins, it will be as if kcnfpt had won * there will be a non-disclosure agreement to prevent leaking of team-proprietary methods before the contest is over (or we give up) *********************** Executive summary: The team will attempt to support Matthew Wilson, and possibly other capable and motivated heros who may appear, by discussing direction and strategy and by spiking possibile improvements. Time invested in the team equals weight of your share in the event we win something. Even without winning, the collaborative experience will be worthwhile as an example of a collaborative experience if nothing else. The potential upside beyond the contest at hand is the forming of an execution-capable software engineering team who are willing and able to work for deferred reward, who may then seek future projects with greater expected reward/effort ratios. _______________________________________________ kc mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/kc
