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[quote author=Kevlar link=topic=3749.msg28977#msg28977 date=1379977889]
[quote author=chrisj link=topic=3749.msg28895#msg28895 date=1379883527]
Was Gavin Andreson, lead developer at Bitcoin, elected to his position?
It would appear not:
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Nakamoto was active in making modifications to the Bitcoin software and posting technical information on the Bitcoin Forum until his contact with other Bitcoin developers and the community gradually began to fade in mid-2010. Until a few months before he left, almost all modifications to the source code were done by Satoshi â€" he accepted contributions relatively rarely. Just before he left, he set up Gavin Andresen as his successor by giving him access to the Bitcoin SourceForge project and a copy of the alert key.
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Source: [url=http://incryptowetrust.com/who-is-satoshi-nakamoto/]http://incryptowetrust.com/who-is-satoshi-nakamoto/[/url]
This is what I always thought anyway. Anyone know?
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No he definitely wasn’t. He, like ALL The other Bitcoin developers, [i][b]BOUGHT[/b][/i] himself into his position, capitalist style, by investing his time, effort, intelligence, expertise, and patience into the project… which directly equates to money.
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Ok this is great, I feel like we are getting more constructive now. Can you show me like the perfect example of how an open source project is run that I can study so that I can get ideas for how we should run things here?
Thanks so much.
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BitcoinJ [url=https://code.google.com/p/bitcoinj/]https://code.google.com/p/bitcoinj/[/url] Hibernate [url=http://hibernate.org]http://hibernate.org[/url]
Python [url=http://www.python.org]http://www.python.org[/url]
Drupal [url=https://drupal.org/]https://drupal.org/[/url]
Gnome [url=http://www.gnome.org/]http://www.gnome.org/[/url]
The Apache Software Foundation [url=http://www.apache.org]http://www.apache.org[/url]
MySQL [url=http://www.mysql.com/]http://www.mysql.com/[/url]
Ubuntu [url=https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ContributeToUbuntu]https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ContributeToUbuntu[/url]
Reddit [url=http://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev]http://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev[/url]
You should start with BitcoinJ as your example because it’s a great model for how to get started. It also happens to be run by Mike Hearn, the same guy who’s name is on BIP 0037, and the HTML5 spec for bitcoin: addresses.
Make a check list of the things they have:
Wiki
Dev mailing list (open to the public, anyone can subscribe, anyone can post)
Formal process for pull request acceptance
Development homepage to tie it all together