[volunteergrid2-l] New grid? [ was: Membership]

[Jody Harris]

The email achieves are available. I believe that you will find the answers
to the questions about the decisions made in the early dates of the
archives.

Jody

think carefully
On Mar 18, 2013 6:57 AM, "Ed Kapitein" <ed at kapitein.org> wrote:

> Hi Rocke,
>
> Thanks for taking the time to write this mail, i appreciate it!
> I will try to cut as much text as possible to keep the reply readable.
>
> On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 21:19 -0600, RCV's Tahoe Account wrote:
> > Hi, Ed.
>
> [1]
> > I *think* they wanted 20 "committed" members, not 200 "half-hearted"
> members.  But,
> > probability of holding a share.  At least until a node fills up.  Nodes
> that offer
> > significantly less than the average would tend to fill up quickly,
> leaving fewer
> > nodes for those who add files later in the life of a grid.  I'm sure
> there's a
> > ticket that discusses this in more detail, but I don't know the ticket
> number.
> > [I *think* this is the reason for asking for a similar storage donation
> from each
> > storage server.]
> >
>
> [2]
> > Should those providing reliable storage be "paid" a
> > stipend?  Should those who use the storage expect to pay a fee to the
> > reliable storage nodes?  [I think some of the Tahoe-LAFS developers like
> > Bitcoin.  Is there a way (manually) to accept and pay real money as well
> > as Bitscript without incurring transaction fees that make this idea
> > utterly unworkable?]
> >
>
> Ad [1]: having more members would even out the unbalance between storage
> nodes with more storage space and storage nodes with less storage space
> wouldn't it.
> And i think there are more people able to share 5G or 50G then there are
> to share 500G.
>
> Ad [2]: it would be nice if people payed a small fee in bitcoins, we
> could use that as a way to administer who has signed up.
> There are VPS providers that accept bitcoin too, so we could run the
> introducer on a VPS that way.
> Perhaps we can generate a "high score" where people can see who has the
> best track record over the past month (quarter, year?) in  keeping their
> storage node up and running.
>
> Again thanks for taking the time to discuss all of this.
>
> Kind regards,
> Ed
>
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