Gridcoin Community Hangout #068
What is Gridcoin?
Gridcoin securely rewards BOINC computation on top of Proof of Stake. Reward allocation is distributed, not centralized unlike other distributed computing related cryptocurrencies.
Why are we holding these hangouts?
- A conference call can provide significant advantages over communicating via text.
- To inform the public of new Gridcoin & BOINC (and related services) development progress.
- To bridge relations between the cryptocurrency & BOINC communities, and our users.
- To be transparent in our actions.
Want to suggest a topic to discuss?
Reply with your suggestions in this Steemit post, or on the Reddit repost, and we will discuss your topic in chronological order of submission.
Want to host a Hangout in another language?
Please let me know if you'd like to add your expertise to the Gridcoin University. :)
Gridcoin University Event Calendar
To keep track of all of our events, I have begun construction of a Google Calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=gridcoinofficial%40gmail.com&ctz=UTC
If you have something you'd like to add to the calendar, even your birthday, let me know and I'll do my best to add it in a timely manner.
Where can I listen to the raw live stream?
Where can I listen after they are over?
Past episode details
067 RSVP & Topic suggestion thread
Gridcoin Hangout #068 will be held on:
July 28, 2018 @ 7pm UTC
Compare 7pm UTC to your time zone!
How to participate:
Step 1: Download Mumble. [Desktop, Android, iOS]
Step 2:
Step 3: Configure Mumble & join the server! You will be initially greeted by a series of servers. Ignore them, and add ours manually. :)
Label: Gridcoin
Address: 207.148.10.181
Port: 64738
Username: Enter your username, try to pick one people will recognize you by - i.e. your IRC username
Step 4: Join the Gridcoin Hangouts channel!
Step 5: Configure your audio settings & setup Push-To-Talk.
That's it! Please show up a bit early for sound check, and to get acquainted. :D
Everyone is encouraged to join, especially those who suggest topics of discussion in this thread.
Need some $GRC to get your wallet going? We will be giving away 5 FREE GRC to anyone that needs it, up to 100 GRC per Hangout!
Free Gridcoins are provided by the other members of the Hangout as a kind gesture from the community.
Thanks for reading, and follow me for more Gridcoin-related updates!
Since I'm very rarely able to participate to respond to questions or statements I've decided to try to start responding in the hangout threads to keep the replies within context. I will keep updating this as I listen to the recording.
Poll participation
The abstain option is there to signal that the voter knows the poll is important but lacks the knowledge to place a yes or no vote. The voter trusts that the ones who voted in either direction do, so abstain is a way for the voter to push the poll towards acceptance without affecting the outcome. We should not discourage people from using this option, nor should anyone be pushed in either direction. Getting people to vote regardless of how they vote is a good thing.
UI rework
@huppdiwupp took the UI a very long way with the previous rework but I think we still have a far to go for a professional looking and modern interface. One could argue that the current UI is functional and only needs minor tweaks, but so did the previous one. It's a matter of raising the standards and increase the appeal.
Remember that the foundation funds were meant to go towards improving the coin. That includes development, advertisement and overall brand recognition.
Priorities
Product development is about balancing resources between new development and maintenance. Parts of the new development comes as requests from the userbase, things they ask for. Equally important is to work on things which have not been asked for but still is needed for coin progress. Examples of this, besides the UI reworks, are Travis, optimizations, contract forwarding, wallet beacon storage and smart contracts. These have not been requested, but if we were to take such functionality away it would be a huge hit to the usability and performance.
Gaming vote weight
It does sound like an issue. What we should do is maybe have the users' vote weight be dynamic as long as the poll is active. Once the poll finishes all the users' balances and magnitudes can be tallied up and the final poll result can be calculated.
Still good studying about it.
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