Frequently Asked Questions - Organization
How the project is organized.
Currently, the Metropolis Project is an informal association, so no one "runs" it per se. John, the project's founder, maintains the website. As the community grows, we intend to organize it as a formal non-profit, controlled by a board of directors. The directors, in turn, will be elected by the members who donate to the project. See this article for more details.
Formally incorporating as a non-profit doesn't really make sense at this point, while the project is still small. Incorporating adds costs in terms of fees, reporting requirements, and accounting requirements, that can be better spent growing the community and improving the project.
Nor should you. The project will be incorporated long before we reach the point of actually collecting any funds. In the meantime, pledging is safe and non-binding.
For the moment, anyone who registers on the website is considered a member. As the project is organized more formally, the intention is for full membership to be based on contribution. Tentatively, we envision a contribution of $50 or so, (the same as one would pay for a game in the store) as the condition for becoming a full, voting "shareholder" of the project.
Right now, the site has a simple poll functionality in place for member voting; We intend to evolve this into a more rigorous voting system, as described in this article.