[Omaha.pm] Fwd: [Kc] draft bylaws of Kansas City netflixprize team

Jay Hannah jay at jays.net
Wed Oct 11 05:00:30 PDT 2006


Wow. The Kansas City group is really going to town with a Netflix  
Prize attempt.  :)

http://www.netflixprize.com/

j



Begin forwarded message:

> From: "David Nicol" <davidnicol at gmail.com>
> Date: October 10, 2006 1:27:27 AM CDT
> To: "Matthew Wilson" <matthew at veradox.com>
> Cc: kc at mail.pm.org
> Subject: [Kc] draft bylaws of Kansas City netflixprize team
>
> On 10/7/06, Matthew Wilson <matthew at veradox.com> wrote:
>>  It's taken me about 10 hours
>
>
> Dave's Proposal:
>
> * the Kansas City netflixprize (NFP) team will be abbreviated to  
> KCNFPT
>
> * KCNFPT is a cooperative effort to win a progress prize in the NFP  
> contest
>
> * in the event of winning a prize, proceeds will be divided by  
> share weight
>
> * share weight is a linear function of hours worked for KCNFPT, so  
> that
>   the sum of all participant's share weights is 1
>
> * hours worked are cumulative and nonrevocable
>
> * to add submitted hours worked to your total they must be approved  
> by holders
>   of over half of the share weight before your submission, i.e.  
> hours approval
>   motions require 50% share weight to carry
>
> * you're not allowed to work more than 30 hours a week on KCNFPT  
> unless
>   you're currently unemployed, in which case you may work up to 60  
> hours
>   a week on it
>
> * hours are submitted weekly through the KCNFPT hours submission  
> mechanism,
>   which will probably be a web interface by Dave but might just be the
> mailing list
>
> * that's the KCNFPT mailing list, which has not been set up yet
>
> * on joining KCNFPT, a new participant must declare how many hours  
> they've
> put into their work on the NFP before joining, and that becomes  
> their initial
> hours tally
>
> * people who leave the team are not eligible for a share, but  
> leaving the team
> can be blocked by a 10% share
>
> * joining and leaving motions require a 90% approval by share  
> weight to carry
>
> * amending these bylaws, which are the contract under which the  
> team operates
> as a team,requires full consensus without abstention (although a 90%
> majority can kick
> the blocks out to achieve that)
>
> subject to debate:
>
>
> * participants may leave KCNFPT, but if they leave they may not use  
> methods
> developed within the KCNFPT process in their own NFP submissions or  
> in the
> NFP submissions of other teams; it is expected that multiple NFP  
> teams may
> be used to allow submission of results for scoring more often than  
> would
> otherwise be allowed, and if any team including participating  
> kcnfpt members
> wins, it will be as if kcnfpt had won
>
>
> * there will be a non-disclosure agreement to prevent
>   leaking of team-proprietary methods before the contest
>   is over (or we give up)
>
>
>
> ***********************
>
> Executive summary:  The team will attempt to support Matthew  
> Wilson, and
> possibly other capable and motivated heros who may appear, by  
> discussing
> direction and strategy and by spiking possibile improvements. Time  
> invested
> in the team  equals weight of your share in the event we win  
> something. Even
> without winning, the collaborative experience will be worthwhile as  
> an example
> of a collaborative experience if nothing else.  The potential  
> upside beyond
> the contest at hand is the forming of an execution-capable software  
> engineering
> team who are willing and able to work for deferred reward, who may  
> then seek
> future projects with greater expected reward/effort ratios.
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