Quote from: rbdrbd on November 30, 2013, 02:37:15 PM

Quote from: zbx on November 29, 2013, 02:56:12 PM

I suggest that we ask maaku if hed get on board. maaku is an experienced Bitcoin developer, who has been (?) working an a project somewhat similar to Mastercoin (Freimarkets), but which didn't get crowd‐funded as he hoped. maaku has been earning money from community donations, etc., and I expect that he'd strongly consider filling a salaried position as a Mastercoin developer. See his Github account.

We also might consider Vitalik Buterin (who wrote Pybitcointools and has demonstrated in interest in Mastercoin) and/or one/more of the other Dark Wallet devsthat project has only raised about $100k, so they can't all be working on it full-time.

In any case, we do need to be looking outside of the Mastercoin project for developers: Tachikoma and zathras have repeatedly stated that they're not for hire (though I would support hiring Bitoy, grazcoin and/or rbdrbd); we have thousands of bitcoins in the bank and a very cool projectwe shouldn't be begging for time commitments.

I can't commit to running as a full time dev for obvious reasons (have my own business), and I'm not sure that proposal I put out about running a dev team out of my company to bootstrap things still is open (too much risk for me based on what I'm seeing, plus I don't think we could build the consensus for it). However, if I can see enough turn around in this project, I'd be happy to continue masterdaemon development, as well as put my name in the hat for a board seat.

Can you elaborate on what kind of risks do you mean you're seeing?