PLEASE don't use security as a price discriminator. The web is already too full of shitty security. "Enhanced" security should be baked in to the app for EVERYONE.
There's a reason the "command and control" model has evolved. The history of mankind has shown an increasing tendency toward specialization of expertise in our daily jobs. One of the risks of doing things this way is that people that aren't specialists in a field and have no context about how a proposed decision came about will start dragging down the group like lead weights. Think about the kinds of comments you see in newspaper articles. It's lowest common denominator for a reason. Everybody there is commenting on stories that are, at best, second-hand information (not to mention whether the information is even accurate to begin with).
I wish you the best of luck, but I have to admit I don't think I would find your tool to be very useful. If people working for me are that unhappy that they feel the need to resort to anarchism, then maybe they should question whether working for the company is something that they should even be doing. Put another way, if I were working for somebody and felt like a pawn, I'd choose to work elsewhere if trying to engage the leadership and persuade them on issues failed.
No major ones. Until something goes wrong and every deliberation and discussion about how to respond is dissected and quoted without context in public. I mean are you going to do everything in public? Hiring and firing decisions? Whether to sue someone who screws you over somehow? Whether to change hosting suppliers?
As I write this I'm arguing with myself about the power and value of genuine transparency, it's something I believe in deeply but done asymmetrically, as you are doing verses your competitors or as our governments are doing verses the private sector does provide a huge soft underbelly for easy attack.
I agree about the huge soft underbelly.
It definitely feels exposed and vulnerable to write everything in the sky. But after a while you get used to it. It keeps us honest (well more honest), and fair, and hopefully encourages more and more people to join.
What we lose by the competition reading our every move, we gain by having a large, engaged team.
I don't think it's for everyone, and there's definitely a place for stealth, privacy...etc. But I do think that businesses can afford to be a LOT more transparent than they are today. Hopefully it doesn't blow up in our face.
Also, there are no hiring or firing decisions. Anybody can contribute, contributors have non-binding votes.
Members can nominate contributors to become members (this voting happens in private) and then they can have binding votes. It's a mod of the apache foundation governance and it's baked into the platform.
