When responsibilities get chopped up to the point that nobody is responsible for anything, problems that have an easy and obvious fix become impossible to solve because nobody has the authority to just do the needful and everything gets hung up because the only person with the authority to do some tiny part of the task got laid off 3 months prior and the person who would have noticed stuff not getting done was eliminated during the merger. But at least it's all documented and CYA'd.
For those of you wondering what I’m talking about: in response to tumblr attempting to drive off the better part of its user base a bunch of fans got together to spec out what they wanted out of a social platform for fandom. The finished doc is 134 pages long & includes discussions on everything from federated vs centralized to identity verification to How Tags Should Work.
If you want to read it, you can do so here: http://docs.google.com/document/d/1r-Wof6X0aPXjU15edcqukZjwqIiNfrbJFOwaYT48UMg/
Innovating without a budget and giving the result away to the world seems like a better thing to give an award for than successfully taking other people's money to start your for profit company.
They should send me an award anyway. I've innovated stuff and done it on a budget of approximately $0.
If anybody legit wants to help support my free software work, you can do that at https://typica.us/ (there's a form right on the front page, JavaScript needed for the credit card processing).
In the month of November I got precisely $0.00, down from $50 in October. Right now all the money goes toward keeping the project web site online, but there are certainly uses for more.
This just arrived in my inbox and, umm... I didn't have an Indiegogo crowd funding campaign? There aren't any super-obvious signs of a scam going on, so I think maybe this just got pushed to the wrong mailing list? If someone used my email address to set up an Indiegogo campaign I'd think I'd've gotten an email about that and rather than an award I guess I'd rather have the money. I'm sure I can find a project to push that to.
Author of Typica software for coffee roasters.