On 02/19/2016 06:36 PM, Aaron Wolf wrote: > > Just come help us with the existing effort! > > I and a few dozen other people have already been working hard for a long > time (and making great progress lately) on creating an entire holistic > platform to address all these issues. Please come join us. > > The site is: https://snowdrift.coop
Hello Aaron, I've known about Snowdrift for a long time, so long I've actually come to think of it as vaporware - I hope you will forgive me for that, since I'm sure you are working hard on it. Still, how long before launch? Is there something in particular you are missing? I would very much like to see Snowdrift thrive, and I will give your articles a through look (even if I am no economist). Meanwhile, as a simple user, there are many things I would like to see in practice, a proper implementation of BountySource above all. Would that be possible under Snowdrift? How does Snowdrift approach projects built from scratch, especially those which require a substantial effort to even get started? And do you have a legal team? How is its legal status in countries outside the US? There should be a way to pay all the proper regional taxes. I also am extremely glad you joined up with the OSI and I hope the FSF (and sister organizations, like the FSFE) will also join them as soon as possible. This might be a good occasion for reconciliation, since if there is a thing the open source people like more than they hate idealism, it's money!
