Option A Diver Focused NonProfit

Option A -

This is a proposed, imagined setting to guide our discussions and development. Since the X-Squared project is a learning experience, we can imagine without restriction, the setting and real-world context that we might find ourselves in executing this project as a team. This is one try at that definition. See also Option B-Commercial Entrepreneurs

This scenario is a that X-Squared is motivated and funded as a Do-good/Feel-good, non-profit supported effort. The vision and goals are to provide the best-possible system for divers as our users in supporting their activities.

We are being well-funded as contractors to develop the system, being paid salaries/reetainers to develop the system by the DAMN, the Divers Association of aMerica,iNternational, Inc. It is a nonprofit supported principally by a wealthy advertiser/entrepreneur who has taken up diving with a passion. He saw no satisfactory platform to manage his diving data so created the X-Squared Concept. His IT department consists of his nephew who wisely decided to contract the development to us for our NodeCode skills and collaborative teamwork.

The goals are to support the divers of the world and maybe some other types of extreme sports participants, like drone pilots or parachutists in managing information they would like to collect and present later. Initially it will be data about the events, perhaps supporting certification but ultimately will involve pictures and videos made by or for participants to relive and share their experiences later. This may be in the form of links integrating at some level with existing services like Flickr, Picasso, YouTube or Vimeo to actually manage the files. A stretch goal would be to integrate effectively with FaceBook or other big players in our divers digital lives.

These often involve trips or events which recur over time for participants, but not daily activities.

Commercial entities are often involved to provide training, certification, travel arrangements and ultimately support for the events, such as access by boat to dive sites and equipment rental, guides and more. These entities may participate in the X-squared system, but their roles are supportive of divers. Their interests, especially monetary, are secondary to the divers' interests for our purposes. However, they may be key players in providing information about the events they manage and that divers participate in.

For example, it may be valuable to divers to compare services and promote competition rather than favoring an entity based on advertising or other exclusive access contracts.

These service companies, however, certainly serve divers interests in providing the best possible support for events, where bsest is defined from the divers perspective.

These services are generally expensive and cost is not the strongest factor in the way this industry and sport works. For better or worse, the divers are probably well-funded, to be able to afford such an extreme hobby in a repetitive manner.