My comments were directed at those who keep saying they need someone in charge (or to launch mainnet, or whatever)...neither EK or I are looking to lead this project (we see it as an open-source project where all contributors are equal peers), and I guess I don't understand why everyone keeps pushing EK to provide direction to them.
Most of us have never before seeded anything with a genesis block and don't really know how to do so. I like to think I can figure out anything with time. But I may be slow at learning how to do it, also having no reputation to ensure enough others flock to whatever I attempt. The net result would likely be a mess.
All would go so much better with a technically skilled and reputable lead person for the mainnet launch.
The bystander effect has been the subject of studies. Most of us are like a bunch of people without technical skills, seeing someone lying with a broken spine on a sidewalk. We have a vague idea that a skilled doctor needs to help him and also tell us how to safely load the patient into a stretcher. But if we all charge forward, trying to intervene in every way at once, with no skills, it wouldn't go well. It would go a whole lot better if a doctor stepped up.
Doctors = coders and experts, in the above analogy ... especially those with a prior reputation on Elastic.
If both EK and you are unwilling, that is really unfortunate, as that takes out two of the top three Elastic coders.
I have been trying to assemble a list to aid in candidates for an organized effort (as well as recent volunteering of Selsonblue and Clivemy). The following users have particularly contributed to development in the past, AFAIK:
Evil-Knievel coding the client, Elastic Language, etc.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=159191unvoid debugging, testserver, faucet, etc.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=98343coralreefer coding the miner, design suggestions
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=320483ttookk website, suggestions
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=765856ImI frequent commenter and tester
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=92361Other testers: josegines, trader19, hagie, BigBoom3599, provenceday
... and probably a number of others who I'm missing
Possibly the slack channel was created by Thefrolly.
The above is based on imperfectly browsing through various parts of the thread. Inaccuracy in missing some contributions is unintentional but nevertheless practically guaranteed, considering the length of the thread and history involved. Feel free to add corrections.