Nice initiative...
Gittip at Khan Academy
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Re: Gittip at Khan Academy
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Can we get a hint about the new project that is in early planning stages?
Hint: "Will It Blend?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USiaeXzYkOE
So definitely a high performance open source kitchen appliance.
Or something to do with open source movies/3d (Blender).
Or maybe its something like literate CoffeeScript but allowing you to use any language that compiles to JavaScript.
Or maybe its a way to edit programs interactively by using a non-textual abstract syntax storage format that allows for different types of presentations or editors. Like reactive CSS for ASTs or something.
LOL.
Re: Gittip at Khan Academy
#63Is Gittip any different than Flattr? Other than being explicitly linked to Open Source?
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#64Can someone explain to me why Gittip is called that?
I've never looked into it before because I assumed it was related to Git/Github and was thus some complex Git-related method of moving money around.
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I had a go-round on this with Gabe Stein of FastCo.Labs. Since Gittip is anonymous in the particulars I thought maybe that would get around the journalistic conflict of interest, but Gabe articulated how that probably wasn't sufficient because there's always the threat of finding out (as with jashkenas and Khan in this case). Queued up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OerW0Q_2_7o#t=32m03s Not sure yet what, if anythin…
What if there was a mode that folks could set their accounts to, where they couldn't cash out and could only pass it on to other users? People could go into that mode when they were in a job that frowned upon gifts, and it could be displayed prominently so that allow donors were aware :) Perhaps the system could even convert dollars to some sort of non-monetary "token", which they could pass along to someone who coul…
That would still allow bribes. Let's say I'm a jouralist and a good friend of mine is on gittub. Someone can give me money, and I give it all to my friend. I now think very highly of the person who gave that money.
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Yes. When you're working in the newsroom, you generally need to steer clear of accepting any gifts, free services, or free products. It really matters when it's from a company that the Times has covered, or might write about in the future -- but that's a pretty wide net, and most startup employees would arguably fall into that category. The Khan Academy's sponsored donation program certainly would. Here's the actual…
Maybe a gittip feature (I don't know if it already does this) is an option to make all donations anonymous so that the recipient does not know the source. This should remove the conflict of interest then.
That doesn't stop bribes. I could "gittip" you a lot of money. It comes up as anonymous, but I tell you that it was me.
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Since you ask, I happen to run my own asset-backed digital currency w/ an open REST API. See profile.
Nice looking site - except for the text/background contrast. Very pretty and I enjoyed the video. Evergreen looks like a polished app experience. However, like the previous commenter, I too am curious about what the assets are and what kind of security measures it takes.
At the moment we are sorting through some legal issues, but we plan to make this transparent very soon.
Re: Gittip at Khan Academy
#68Can someone explain to me why Gittip is called that? I've never looked into it before because I assumed it was related to Git/Github and was thus some complex Git-related method of moving money around.
Here's whit537 explaining the name at PyCon 2012.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=iv7...