It would be great to have a place where we can post Dapp ideas/projects and develop them dynamically.
What I am thinking about is a place where you can find a structured list of ongoing Dapp projects (as long as the team wish to develop in the open). This could be a place where you can discuss a specific dapp idea, and recruit a developer team.
This could e.g. build on top of github.
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An interesting brief video in this context is Solve for X: Adrien Treuille on collaborative science
http://bit.ly/ziK0YJ Ethereum might provide the missing link in Adrians concept, payment for contributions.
Actually there is an interesting project WikiGenes, which has worked out an algorithm to automatically track contribution to determine the order of authorship http://www.wikigenes.org/e/mesh/e/27630.html The concept of WikiGenes was presented in this interesting Nature paper bit.ly/u3LgVu
A project which has put mass collaboration to life is FoldIt http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foldit They use gameification and crowd sourcing of people to solve 3D protein structures. Over 240 000 registered players to work on such an esoteric task. They actually solve important scientific problems e.g. In 2011, players of Foldit helped to decipher the crystal structure of the Mason-Pfizer monkey virus (M-PMV) retroviral protease, an AIDS-causing monkey virus.
I am trying to build on this experience while I am building my company CytoComp which focuses on building a microprocessor from biological parts (see my recent review (http://bit.ly/YI13bF) I posted about this in another post - building a decentralized company.
I think a generalized project would be fine with the goal to build a structure everybody can fork into their projects:
a) discovering projects: one need a great structure where projects are easy to find. I am sure that there will be soon many Dapp`s and the "App store" needs to be better structured than the one we know from mobile apps - easy discovery needs to be key
b) find collaborators: I think it is still difficult to find a great team. We need a team up smart concept where one
can easy identify competent collaborators, which are focused on really doing a product, not just discussing (hands on coders and designers)
c) motivate people: gamification and finacial rewards due to the contribution
An easy start can be to start to organize the people in the Ethereum community.
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