Don't know about others but at least I never laughed at your ideas. Though the problem is not the idea is ahead of its time, problem is nobody is willing to step up to take the risk and make it happen.
This is the first tough lesson I learned in entrepreneurial projects. Idea is only the first small step, execution is 99%. If I didn't learn this lesson well, ppcoin wouldn't happen either.
My first advice to netcoin is, limit the scope to the point that you can execute within one year.
Sunny I think the problem is we don't have enough competent programmers who aren't already working on other projects. I'm an idea guy but I'm only an average programmer, on top of that I'm still a bit busy with other things to invest enough time into some of my ideas. If I get the chance to, I intend to launch the AskPeers site, and the Tube site idea as well but in my case if I have to do it then we might not see it for 6 months which is why I'd rather someone else with less on their plate take up the cause.
I have registered the domain name, outlined the idea, I could even make a step by step guide of what needs to be done, but I cannot do it all. Maybe if I make enough money to pay my bills I'll be able to focus exclusively on this but I don't know how people manage to create enough time unless they do this full time. Tacotime is having the same problem himself with this project so I think he knows what it's like to want to do something but to be so busy with other more immediate concerns to not be able to do it and he's the kind of person who likes to do stuff right.
You made an excellent point and gave advice that I'll listen to. If the project cannot be launched within a year then it might be better to do something else and the amount of time it takes to launch does matter to maintain this momentum. I actually think the window of opportunity is in the 6 month range for Netcoin, so perhaps if we can figure out how to make a list of people in the community who are willing to help out and give them points for doing it that would be a start. Perhaps a mailing list for programmers, a mailing list for web developers, a mailing list for marketers, and discuss the ideas on these lists and then when an action has to be taken then put it on the main wiki as a to-do list.
I'm not familiar with Git just yet unfortunately.