Community Initiative Program (CIP)

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@arsnebula

I am not enthusiastic about what you have proposed. The centralized control point of having yourself or any other arbitrary group of managers serving as a wall between investors, community and developers is too controlling and restrictive. Upwork is a terrible company that creates a race-to-the-bottom environment for skilled workers. I know I have no interest in participating in anything like that.

I agree on not liking race to the bottom competitions where people work for far less than any person would find reasonable. I was talking with @whiteoutmashups over PM about his idea of a little fund as a community initiative. This is one idea that’s out there. Another one is the Community Engagement Program by MaidSafe in which both the community and the company paid a reasonable amount of coins for someone to work on a browser.

I don’t mind paying for a good idea, and I think a lot of others won’t either. As Alpha 2 is coming and external devs finally can build whatever they want using APIs and more we’ll probably see a whole bunch of initiatives popping up here on the forum.