From: "David Nicol" <davidnicol@gmail.com>
Date: October 10, 2006 1:27:27 AM CDT
To: "Matthew Wilson" <matthew@veradox.com>
Cc: kc@mail.pm.org
Subject: [Kc] draft bylaws of Kansas City netflixprize team
On 10/7/06, Matthew Wilson <matthew@veradox.com> wrote:
It's taken me about 10 hours
Dave's Proposal:
* the Kansas City netflixprize (NFP) team will be abbreviated to
KCNFPT
* KCNFPT is a cooperative effort to win a progress prize in the NFP
contest
* in the event of winning a prize, proceeds will be divided by
share weight
* share weight is a linear function of hours worked for KCNFPT, so
that
the sum of all participant's share weights is 1
* hours worked are cumulative and nonrevocable
* to add submitted hours worked to your total they must be approved
by holders
of over half of the share weight before your submission, i.e.
hours approval
motions require 50% share weight to carry
* you're not allowed to work more than 30 hours a week on KCNFPT
unless
you're currently unemployed, in which case you may work up to 60
hours
a week on it
* hours are submitted weekly through the KCNFPT hours submission
mechanism,
which will probably be a web interface by Dave but might just be the
mailing list
* that's the KCNFPT mailing list, which has not been set up yet
* on joining KCNFPT, a new participant must declare how many hours
they've
put into their work on the NFP before joining, and that becomes
their initial
hours tally
* people who leave the team are not eligible for a share, but
leaving the team
can be blocked by a 10% share
* joining and leaving motions require a 90% approval by share
weight to carry
* amending these bylaws, which are the contract under which the
team operates
as a team,requires full consensus without abstention (although a 90%
majority can kick
the blocks out to achieve that)
subject to debate:
* participants may leave KCNFPT, but if they leave they may not use
methods
developed within the KCNFPT process in their own NFP submissions or
in the
NFP submissions of other teams; it is expected that multiple NFP
teams may
be used to allow submission of results for scoring more often than
would
otherwise be allowed, and if any team including participating
kcnfpt members
wins, it will be as if kcnfpt had won
* there will be a non-disclosure agreement to prevent
leaking of team-proprietary methods before the contest
is over (or we give up)
***********************
Executive summary: The team will attempt to support Matthew
Wilson, and
possibly other capable and motivated heros who may appear, by
discussing
direction and strategy and by spiking possibile improvements. Time
invested
in the team equals weight of your share in the event we win
something. Even
without winning, the collaborative experience will be worthwhile as
an example
of a collaborative experience if nothing else. The potential
upside beyond
the contest at hand is the forming of an execution-capable software
engineering
team who are willing and able to work for deferred reward, who may
then seek
future projects with greater expected reward/effort ratios.
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