There are many projects at which you can contribute:

engineer--> a)open source ecology: open sourcing and reducing the cost of hardware

programmer--> b) value networks : programming a value accouting program to deal with peer production(many different people coordinating)

me right now -->c) provide an information system to consumers so that they become investors of the products they need. (reputation system)

programmer -->d) ripple: creating a decentralized system of insurance for money.

programmer -->e)creating an new peer/open currency.

lawyer ---> f) Since the ownership of infrastructure will need to change according to the people using it, someone needs to find a structure that complies with the current laws

in a way that noone could manage steal the infrastructure from its users.

I need to go back to work.

2013/2/5 Patrick Anderson <agnucius@gmail.com>

Apostolis Xekoukoulotakis wrote:
> need exterior investment from someone that doesnt
> want the resulting product for personal use.

Traditionally yes, but Crowd-Funding is reducing this dependency.

Crowd-Funding can be thought of as an interest-free loan repaid with product.

Though the approach I propose is more like Crowd-Ownership since the
micro-investors receive real co-ownership in the Physical Sources
instead of just a one-time payout of the Object(ive)s.

In the case where Crowd-Funding cannot meet our needs, we can treat
some non-zero percentage of Profit as Payer Investment while the rest
is used to pay the VC Angels or bankers.

I hope we can work on this iteratively, solving small issues such as
this along the way without throwing out the entire approach.

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Sincerely yours,

     Apostolis Xekoukoulotakis