IPO of an Open Source Project

Im interested in IPOing an Open Source Project

The Project will issue 10 million credits

Credits will either be

A) Traded on the open web for other resources, money, time, bitcoin etc.

B) Awarded by project managers to contributors

The advantage of this is to accelerate / kickstart the project to get it up
and running faster, and reward contributions.

What I would like to do is create a description of the credits such that
they will give value, either a honor system promise of future dividends
from the project, or voting rights, similar to the way that equity IPOs
work today.

After issuing a tranche of credits let them trade on secondary markets.
This could be interesting it itself as you could see an open source stock
market with projects rising and falling over time, and providing valuable
metrics as to which projects are gaining traction ...

Do you think we're at the stage where we can do this now?

Received on Friday, 14 December 2012 13:42:28 UTC