You should join the gitter channels to get to the heart of the project. "They" want it to be a community effort, to build the libraries and apps and connections

You should join the gitter channels to get to the heart of the project. "They" want it to be a community effort, to build the libraries and apps and connections. There is a lot of energy focused on supporting the community effort. The top level is about community and standards (and an "enterprise" service that plays along, but that's fine as long as it's not exclusive, which by definition it won't be). And it's a slow project, so there are some unanswered questions, but many new solutions along the way. So the whole thing moves as a front, rather than one peak. Since it's so focused on standards and relevant use cases (shared preferences, calendars, activities, annotations, etc), if you spend some time there you'll start to see solutions developing that support and transcend what we do today. True interoperability at a very fine level that doesn't depend on one entity, doesn't violate privacy and trust. But it takes some strategy and participation. That's another reason I like it, being a person of the 90s internet (which has easily carried me to any project I care to participate in), before the startup hype, where it was about invention based on shared possibility rather than a mania to get rich no matter the effect, but now with more focus on security and experience.