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Oh, now you got me started...
There really are just two organizational questions we need to solve.
Everything else will happen naturally.
1. Given a physically scattered but highly networked pool of volunteers
how do you subdivide the workload into well-documented, bite sized
chunks that each individual can handle in their spare time? How do
you coordinate such a project so that it can handle sudden growth?
Put another way, how can we learn from the success of SETI@home in
coordinating large social and political efforts outside the realm of
software and data-crunching.
2. We have to understand very thoroughly why some distributed projects
are interesting enough to motivate volunteers/participants, and
others aren't. Might as well start collecting data right now. Please
respond to this message with your experiences with projects that you
never go into, and projects that gripped you and fascinated you.
Give us your best guess as to what they did right and what they did
wrong.
For the purposes of the above question, this request for testimonials
counts as such a project.
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Vince Foster Posse Comitatus M16
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http://www.echelon.wiretapped.net
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