Quote from: nioccoin on September 23, 2014, 02:54:44 PM

Quote from: franckuestein on September 21, 2014, 02:00:45 PM

Quote from: perado on September 17, 2014, 01:53:40 PM

New code? Great job,anybody have read the code?Whats about the distribution in Sep?We need more menbers Grin

I'm looking for the source code to take a look but I've seen that there's no link to any github repository or webpage to check it.
Can the dev or dev-team member reply to us with a link to check the source code?

Thanks in advance!

This is a long term project, meaning months away from a release. Right now we are in the planning and design phase. You can find the prelim project plan here: https://github.com/nioccoin/ora_project/releases/tag/v1.0.

We are concurrently in the process of working on the website, which has had a start-to-finish constraint with the logo contest, which is now over. We are continually collecting ideas from stakeholders about what they would like to see in Ora in terms of features and what not. Also, the team is conducting some community-building contests, with more to come as the weeks and months go by.

We're building a coin, not just code.

kind regards,
nio

Yes, ORA is a bit of a strange (star)fish compared to other coin projects

Someone asked a similar question on nxtforum.org so I'll post my response here.

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Cool. Are they still waiting for Qora to open source, or are they forking some other coin?

Our lead developer, nio, decided to reject the plan to base ORA on a modified version of Qora, which the other ORA community members all agreed was a wise move. We haven't decided which code base we will use as our starting point, but a lot of good work is going on behind the scenes. ORA is a longer term project, and we've purposely changed the order things happen compared to previous coin projects.

Many previous coins have ordered things like this (sort of):
1- someone(s) creates a tech vision and some code
2- they attract a small number of early adopter 'evangelists'
3- distribution starts (PoW:mining, PoS:IPO or giveaway)
4- marketing & community building proceed
5- result - mature code, vibrant community and ecosystem

With ORA the order will be quite different:
1- someone(s) creates a very broad outline for a possible project and proposes some key features only (i.e. tech, community structure, funding etc)
2- community building starts to attract early adopters & evangelists
3- paritial distribution happens (excess coins held in trust for later distribution)
4- decision making structure is established ... decisions are made
5- tech vision & code creation starts
6- result - mature code, vibrant community and ecosystem

Obviously things are happening simultaneously with both those road maps, and I've grossly oversimplified things, but hopefully it makes it easier to understand what's going on with ORA.

I'm confident ORA will end up with some very innovative tech, but what that'll be I'm not sure yet, and as a non tech person, it's not something that I can directly effect as a coder, but I can indirectly through discussions with the more tech oriented members of the ORA community.

For a non-tech person it's very rewarding to be included in tech discussions BEFORE the tech has been fully decided

Changing the order things are happening will hopefully lead to some interesting outcomes for ORA. For a start it gives non tech people like myself the opportunity to still influence how the coin *might* work, even though my tech skills are very limited. I've been around the crypto scene for a while, and I have valid opinions, and with ORA, I can join in discussions on what tech options ORA might have, even though I can't contribute a line of code. The other exciting thing for ORA is we have specifically set things up as a decentralised 'Starfish' from day 1, and nobody is in charge. I was the catylyst, but I'm not the developer, and I'm not in control of our substantial war chest of bounty funds and undistributed stakes (we have two community treasurers, Darkhorse & fragORA), so my influence on things is no greater than anyone elses.

Another key difference is we have allocated a large proportion of ORA coins to pay people for their work, but we'll still distribute those payments using decentralised 'starfish' principles (i.e. we plan to use a voting system to decide things).

ORA is a long term project, and we're still right at the beginning in many ways, and everyone is more than welcome to get involved. It might be a while before we have a finished client, but there's still plenty of good things just about to happen!