The Okopipi Project

We don't have any leaders here. We did have a few, but they've been extremely inactive for a long time. I think they gave up when no concrete proposals for solutions appeared except mine, which they didn't believe in.

I get the impression that the "current project leader" whom you want to fire might be me. I don't have any leader role here, in fact I'm more of a rogue player, because I didn't give up when the leaders we once had persistently didn't believe in my solutions. When I didn't get anywhere trying to convince people, I decided to make my own prototype. Only after some initial testing did I mention my prototype here, not to get any leadership role, just in the hope that people wouldn't give up completely, that they would stay around or come back when I have something to show. Or even better if they got inspired to try to find alternate solutions.

In any case, if I'm the "current project leader" whom you want to fire, then all I can say is that I sincerely and wholeheartedly hope that you'll succeed in this endeavour. From the very first time that I mentioned my prototype I've said that I hope an alternate frog will appear. I tried repeatedly to encourage such work. The only reason I stopped saying this was that it got tiresome, repeating the same thing with no such project appearing.

The fact that I'm the only one making a prototype makes me feel vulnerable, considering that our adversaries are organised crime, mafia, very dangerous people. There would be no such danger if we had lots of people discussing various solutions, alternatives and possibilities. If a crowd is large enough you can't realistically attack everyone. It's the fact that I'm alone that makes me feel vulnerable. If you can change that, that would be a great relief!

Unless I'm mistaken, the Okopipi project started out with a record number of coders eager to participate, and as time passed the numbers dwindled. Perhaps the reason for the dwindling numbers is that the project isn't just about engineering, it involves a number of genuinely difficult problems that don't have known solutions. People get enthusiastic, then analyse the details, stumble on the problems, get more and more entangled in the difficulties, and in the end just wait and hope that somebody else has working solutions.

I hope my description here doesn't discourage people from trying. Often when a large enough number of people try, new and interesting solutions are found. So don't give up! Take it as an interesting challenge! Keep trying! Maybe you're the one to strike gold!

Unfortunately, posting my code, such as it is now, wouldn't help in any way. It's just run-of-the-mill groundwork, very ordinary scaffolding. The code doesn't say anything about the intended solutions. It's groundwork for proof-of-concept code that does not yet contain the concepts that it will eventually prove.

Agreed!

.. Project Honeypot .