Forward

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.

The only way to get something done, is to do it yourself

My post on the p2p foundation forum has been completely ignored, and the nice folks on the ripple forum seem quite uninterested. I created a new sourceforge project but my programming friend has mysteriously disappeared. I will probably have to learn c++. This will take time. If anyone reading this is interested in helping out, please message me.

The search for similar conceptions

My friend Arthur found something really cool. It's the ultimate money system. It's called ripple protocol. Here's a working prototype

And I've found it easier to elaborate on my own conception in the forum for that project.

Through that I've been offered a load of links, some of which are not particularly useful and it's taking me quite a while to get through them. However The Appleseed Project is certainly along the right lines.

Why am I writing this? so that anyone who tries to cross-reference "ripple protocol" with "Appleseed Project" and "Network of Trust" or "Infoliberalism" is more likely to find the other members of this "family of concepts" (see the forum discussion mentioned above).

I should probably include the names of originators as well:

Network of Trust - Charles Bloom
Infoliberalism - Sylvain Poirier
ripple protocol or it's prototype ripplepay - Ryan Fugger
The Appleseed Project - Michael Chisari

Dear Internet

You are far too disorganised to be called "the inter-net". You should be called "the fragment-dump" or "the detritus-pile".

If you recognise this and wish to change your ways to become more collaborative and integrated, please implement the concepts illustrated by Charles Bloom in his article on The Network of Trust and by Sylvain Poirier in his article on Infoliberalism.

I may add my own conception, seeking to reconcile these two, at a later time.