Guys, let's please not turn this thread into another "My system solves X,Y,Z" threads... The project forum is already overflowing with those... And then bluemeanie1 always jumps on to fight with fellowtraveller and we all abandon ship soon thereafter... So let's stay on topic for once!
In the OP Charles said:
I'm also open to ideas about how the project should be structured and the specific set of goals we should have.
One idea I have is to make a chart.
On the X axis we have
the current 8 criteria. On the Y axis we have different systems like Ripple, BMOT, Metalair's, bytemaster's, mine, and all newcomers to get added too.
Then in the grid we simply pick winners by feature. Some kind of voting or even a donation-based feature election... With all donations going toward building the eventually-chosen software.
This would cause a problem when the best feature to fit criteria 6 doesn't work in the system with another best criteria 4, but we could get closer and raise funds this way, and at least pick the best one to fund by the highest number of features won in a single system.
Just my two bitcents.