I had a revelation while chatting to someone about communities. I was saying how I would never build a community based on the normal principles of democratic internal decision making and committees to decide who is allowed to join. If I make a community, I'm "the boss". If people don't like it, they can make their own.
Then I realised that this applies to the creation of a trust network. I have got bogged down by the prospect of having to start with full p2p implementation when I should really be keeping it simple, like ripplepay. Nobody is complaining that ryan fugger is the sole controller of the only ripple server.
With this in mind, I got all enthusiastic and started to make a rudimentary database, just to see what it would look like. Then I ran straight into the need for a programming language and expressed my anguish.
The person I was chatting to said "Dude this really needs to get out" (this is the first serious encouragement I have had) and has offered to keep me on track as I tend to either work too hard and burn out or lose focus or both.
I think I will learn Python instead of C++ for the simple reason that ripple is written in Python. Well, perhaps I was swayed a little by Eric Raymond.
My first discourse will be on my vision of the "Network of Trust", Infoliberlism, eGaia or whatever you want to call it. This is the starting point, I don't know where it will go...
