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This looks useful, but I couldn’t find any source. It seems like a centralized, closed service but yet it advertises itself as a platform for openness. How is t

by afpx 9y ago

This looks useful, but I couldn’t find any source. It seems like a centralized, closed service but yet it advertises itself as a platform for openness. How is that? For instance, does colony.io use colony.io to develop colony.io? And, if not, why not?

gichiba 9y ago
Currently the software is closed-source, but will be opened up when it's ready. The whitepaper was just released last week, and the Colony dev team is working on getting a good foundation for the contracts that will comprise the Colony network - once those are ready, it'll be opened up.
tinkerrr 9y ago
How can you use something that isn't built to build the same thing unless you're using a time machine? I suppose once Colony is in production, you can create a Colony clone using Colony.
- 0x006A 9y ago
  It's called bootstrapping, would indeed be interesting if they used there own platform to build it, or run it in a way right now that allows them to migrate to Colony as early as possible. As long as it does not work for there needs, it's not clear why it would be good enough for anyone else.
elena_di 9y ago
Because we haven't implemented the white paper yet. But we are coding that now and the repo will be opened once we're ready. Meanwhile we did publish the source for the token-weighted voting implementation, see https://blog.colony.io/token-weighted-voting-implementation-part-1-72f836b5423b https://blog.colony.io/token-weighted-voting-implementation-... and have opened more than just code, e.g. our employee equity plan https://blog.colony.io/on-creating-a-better-employee-equity-plan-d89bcab4a4e2 https://blog.colony.io/on-creating-a-better-employee-equity-..., the legal reasoning behind a token sale etc.
- fortythirteen 9y ago
  Do you have an open roadmap? Why not eat your own dog food here and "colonize" development, even if manually?
  - collinvine 9y ago
    We run something called a "collaboration network" that is using our early beta product. The product isn't feature complete yet, just task management with a token incentive model. So we're doing early experiments but can't quite pull of more complex ones—yet.

by afpx 9y ago

gichiba 9y ago

Currently the software is closed-source, but will be opened up when it's ready. The whitepaper was just released last week, and the Colony dev team is working on getting a good foundation for the contracts that will comprise the Colony network - once those are ready, it'll be opened up.

tinkerrr 9y ago

How can you use something that isn't built to build the same thing unless you're using a time machine? I suppose once Colony is in production, you can create a Colony clone using Colony.

0x006A 9y ago
It's called bootstrapping, would indeed be interesting if they used there own platform to build it, or run it in a way right now that allows them to migrate to Colony as early as possible. As long as it does not work for there needs, it's not clear why it would be good enough for anyone else.

elena_di 9y ago

Because we haven't implemented the white paper yet. But we are coding that now and the repo will be opened once we're ready. Meanwhile we did publish the source for the token-weighted voting implementation, see https://blog.colony.io/token-weighted-voting-implementation-part-1-72f836b5423b https://blog.colony.io/token-weighted-voting-implementation-... and have opened more than just code, e.g. our employee equity plan https://blog.colony.io/on-creating-a-better-employee-equity-plan-d89bcab4a4e2 https://blog.colony.io/on-creating-a-better-employee-equity-..., the legal reasoning behind a token sale etc.

fortythirteen 9y ago
Do you have an open roadmap? Why not eat your own dog food here and "colonize" development, even if manually?
- collinvine 9y ago
  We run something called a "collaboration network" that is using our early beta product. The product isn't feature complete yet, just task management with a token incentive model. So we're doing early experiments but can't quite pull of more complex ones—yet.