Jeff Shultz <jeffshultz@sctcweb.com>:
It will be interesting to see, should this get off the ground to any significant amount, if it turns into a bit of a popularity contest - where a few get the lions share of the donations and the rest a pittance.
I'm aware of that possible failure mode. It's why I designed in a three-way fanout. The Loadsharer pledge strongly encourages its takers to to find and sponsore *three* LBIPs.
It might be a good idea to provide the list in a random (and frequently re-randomized) fashion to avoid the same names always being at the top of it. I see that Matt Harris had the same thought.
There is no one list, by design. That would be a single point of failure. Each adviser keeps his or her own list. Loadsharers choose which advisers to pay attention to. Didn't anyone actually read the webpage? -- <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>