In a previous comment on that Moxie interview story posted here, I complained that OWS doesn't do a great job of building a community or making it excited about

In a previous comment on that Moxie interview story posted here, I complained that OWS doesn't do a great job of building a community or making it excited about its product. Something I forgot to add then: why doesn't Signal have a public roadmap? Almost all open source projects that I've seen have one. Why? Because they are typically community-driven and developed projects and because they rely on the community to buy into the project's future, and give a hand developing it or funding it. But we don't see that with Signal. Why does the roadmap have to be secret? I'm not even talking about deadlines and schedules. Just decide on a bunch of features and present them on the site. You may get more volunteers willing to help if they see an interesting new feature popping up on the horizon. Also, please do something about the call routing speed. It takes too long for a call to connect. If it's a funding issue, then say so. In fact, it wouldn't hurt to have "crowdfunding campaigns" for the various features on the roadmap. Show progress lines and whatnot, and then start developing that feature when it's fully funded, etc The whole project needs to become more open towards the community and less "we'll just be here in our basement for the next 2 years developing an awesome secret feature."