I've read through your proposal, and here are my thoughts.
1. You need to clean up the English a bit -- the occasional omission of definite articles (e.g. the) gives it a slightly Eastern European accent. I suggest having a Brit give it a once over to make it sound a bit more "British".
2. The proposal appears unfocussed to me. It ranges from studying open source development to management implications. That's a very broad area of study and makes me think that you are fishing in hopes of finding a topic, rather than actually choosing a topic.
3. You have mentioned management several times, but have not defined what you mean that that. In particular, what management issues are you aiming to study? Corporate management? Development management? Open-Source management? Operations, Finance, Engineering management? Or is it team dynamics that you are actually interested in? I think you need to be much more specific about this.
***
Nostr is a fascinating enterprise. It was concieved in the Bitcoin community, and driven by many of the same values. It started with a single paper from fiatjaf that described an absurdly simple protocol and then grew organically from there.
We programmers have found it within our power to thwart the censorious efforts of our governments, institutions, and corporations who want to control our speech, our opinions, and therefore our thoughts. The passion that you mentioned in your proposal comes from the desire for freedom of speech and expression.
Studying how and why nostr has grown, and continues to grow, as an example of how other freedom movements grow, could be very valuable. I wonder, however, if any university in the west would want to support a freedom loving ideology.
D L (npub1cpa…xxpk)
From: LifeLoveLiberty<-... at 09/17 02:31
> Would you please look at this and give me your feedback
> Thanks
>
> https://filebin.net/jgba60z72wytwkvc
CC: unclebobmartin (npub19mu…jnft)
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2023-09-17 14:14:44
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