Open Sourcing Supply & Demand

Fortune 500 companies need software. Individual users need software. Some software is used by millions. Some software is used by hundreds. PrizeForge can accomodate fish of all sizes. Meeting the scale of what needs to happen enables things to happen at-scale.

It takes ecosystem value to power ecosystem action. An individual can only justify action when they get more than what they give. We can't realize ecosystem value without unifying ecosystem action. Tying our actions together into ever larger mutual efforts is the foundation of solving the volunteer's dilemma.

We don't all have time to check on hundreds of fund-raising campaigns. Maintainers & contributors don't have time to run campaigns. PrizeForge is designed for continuous, recurring operation. The plan can change when it needs to, but otherwise just keeps going.

We don't need a million people to decide the same obvious thing. We don't need everyone to become an expert on every topic. We only need different voices and differentiation of choices where there are real differences. Attention is a limited resource. Representation uses participation more efficiently. PrizeForge is designed to achieve and maintain the same results as universal participation while using as little of our time as possible.

By definition, not everyone is a specialist who can judge what needs to happen. However, specialists are also not perfect representatives. Needs change. Situations change. Goals run into dead ends. Better solutions emerge. PrizeForge is designed to ensure that specialized skills and knowledge can maintain constant alignment with the interests of those represented.

All wildly popular things start small. Some important, well-agreed upon needs are niche. Some of our interests overlap. Some interests are unique. PrizeForge is designed so that islands of mutual interest can cooperate among themselves but also refine niche interests independently. Not forcing everything into one singular outcome enables more great things to emerge.