To expand on Dave's comment above a bit: While we're very much not about launching startups or products, we already do much of what you suggest. We encourage p

To expand on Dave's comment above a bit: While we're very much not about launching startups or products, we already do much of what you suggest. We encourage people to write useful code and build or contribute to open source projects. Hacker Schoolers frequently collaborate and pair. Everyone puts their code on Github. We emphasize code quality and writing clean, maintainable code you're proud of.