Quote from: Velenar on February 07, 2017, 07:17:51 PM

Quote from: coralreefer on February 07, 2017, 06:37:03 PM

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=159191

unvoid         debugging, testserver, faucet, etc.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=98343

coralreefer      coding the miner, design suggestions
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=320483

ttookk         website, suggestions
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=765856

ImI            frequent commenter and tester
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=92361

Other 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.

Velenar, first, thank you for the donation...that was very generous of you. I didn't mean to imply I was looking for donations, I was just stating that I have no financial tie to the project (nothing to gain or lose)....but it was appreciated.

I like how you summarized your thoughts, and I do completely understand the sentiment. I'm just not sure if the community is looking for a project leader that they need to be technical in nature.