[A close friend of mine sent this to me via email.—whit537]
Here is the evaluation as promised/threatened:
What is gittip? How is gittip not just you? (Paying people out of pocket, pushing a personal goal of $2,000, writing essays about your inspirations.) How do other people resonate with gittip, beyond wanting free money from their posse?
The answer represents what gittip will become. It is your market / dedicated userbase, who will represent the drift of gittip, if indeed you want gittip to be run by them. (This is the same conversation we had about your lecture school project.)
I see dowski, thiloplans, and lyndsysimon on the forum... are you going after those people? Do you deal with them directly, outside of their services? Or are they just watching you run gittip & chiming in on your thought processes?