elena_di

Down in Bulgaria

Yes ants and bees! And the intelligence with which they organise their work and life https://blog.colony.io/the-future-of-work-cf99211e7ac4

The name actually comes from the idea of colonies as occurring in nature https://blog.colony.io/the-future-of-work-cf99211e7ac4

Actually we said we won't do an ICO until we have a product live on mainnet https://blog.colony.io/the-colony-token-sale-7ac14c845bc0

Because we haven't implemented the white paper yet. But we are coding that now and the repo will be opened once we're ready. Meanwhile we did publish the source for the token-weighted voting implementation, see https://blog.colony.io/token-weighted-voting-implementation-... and have opened more than just code, e.g. our employee equity plan https://blog.colony.io/on-creating-a-better-employee-equity-..., the legal reasoning behind a token sale etc.

Aragon's focus is mainly on Board-level governance, while Colony is focused on the day-to-day management of tasks with a built-in reputation system to allow contributors to be rewarded in proportion to the value they provide a project while having reputation-weighted influence in the governance of that project.

The white paper just got published so we're relatively early in the process of implementing that.

You can have a look through the Solidity language documentation http://solidity.readthedocs.io/en/develop/ then setup an environment with truffle (contract deployment and testing framework) and testrpc (lightweight blockchain client) as the client then write some contract code