Where are we?
What stage? How close? What's next?
I thought it might be useful to review where we came from while thinking about where we are going.
This project began for me and @fosterlynn when we started our second NRP instance and figured some day these NRPs will want to talk to each other. As we have described many times, we work in spirals between the general and the particular, so that seemed like a signal to spiral back to the general.
So we started looking around to figure out how to do that, and ran into the Enspiral Open Apps Ecosystem initiative in May 2014 (shortly after it went semi-public), where we met @ahdinosaur . Mikey was talking about flocks of tiny apps that all talked to each other.
LOD was mentioned as the way to do it even then, but I can't remember if Mikey or somebody else proposed it. Mikey, do you remember? You seem a little disenchanted with LOD now...or do I misunderstand? This Loomio thread about LOD was started by @simontegg 2 years ago.
I think that's also where we met @elf-pavlik - at least he was in the Open Apps Loomio discussions before Value Flows kicked off, which was in October 2104.
So it's been more than a year and a half. Interesting times! Love it all! Now what?
I'd also be interested in other peoples' stories about how they got here. What was the attraction? Or for people who came and went, what was the repulsion or meh-factor (what was missing for you)?