I've started working on a design for the Community Foundation Design (s)Election that will be go public soon. I call it a (s)election because in order to satisfy multiple stakeholders on the chain I think it will involve both an election through stake weighted voting to show what the chain supports, and since the majority of the initial funding seems to be coming from Steemit Inc they'll likely have an element of selection in regards to what they want to fund. I've heard Ned suggest the various groups ponder what they would do with 10 Million steem. To me it means this organization can have a huge impact on the chain!
The Backstory
I'm calling this project "Stars Align."
I've been thinking about stars aligning as this process has unfolded. Out of the seemingly massive dumpster fire that was brewing, which was a near witness wide revolt, has come a really beautiful democratic, transparent, and transformative entity called Steem Alliance on a quest to build a community wide foundation working WITH Steemit.
I believe this nascent organization and partnership with Steemit has a chance to push the mainstream adoption of Steem further than ever before and support the token price for all hodlers. In order for this to happen it took a HF threat, a mass exodus of witnesses, a regrouping, an election, planning, a negotiation, a shift, a proposal, a plot twist and now the opportunity. And that's just part of it... To me that feels like the stars had to align to make something with this much potential awesome come out of where we were headed.
The main plot twist
The plot twist to me has been the most exciting. The witnesses and stakeholders who were (and some still are) getting ready to riot I think of as "the dissenters." These Dissenters have had enough of the status quo. The group voted to present to Steemit a proposal for community governance that would be funded enough to support business and development needs on the chain separate from Steemit itself. The plot twist shone through when 2 days later Ned resurrected Steemit's work on the "Steem Research Foundation," which had been sitting on a dusty shelf for a year. Plot Twist: both groups valued the same thing to bring about change! To bring that about I feel like the stars of the platform had to gather and align to make something beautiful come out.
Steem Alliance Process
In the coming week the ad hawk working group will organization an election for the duly elected Working Group.
The new working group will organize and facilitate a community wide Design Contest for a Steem Foundation.
The Working Group will likely narrow down the entries internally, and then present some of the strongest proposals to a voting round open to all steem power holders.
Then with input from the community on the strongest proposals Steemit should have a lot of information handy on what to fund and how based on the designs presented.
From there the working group is dissolved, the Foundation takes over, and the real work of mainstreaming the chain begins.
What is the overall design of the Stars Align Project?
I'm not ready to give too much away, but on the simple side it's a Trust arrangement with a design meant to satisfy the needs of the various stakeholders on the chain. I've identified Steemit, the witnesses, the whales, the community members, the most followed accounts, the dapps, and the normie masses as the groups we need to consider. I have a general process, some roles, and a ton of work we need to complete to create a fully thought project that's worthy of this ecosystem and stands a chance at mainstreaming our community.
Who am I looking for?
I'm looking for passionate, hard workers that want to see a community wide foundation flourish. I need a mix of business, marketing, community, whale, dev, non-dev, and all sorts of people to help flesh out this design and pour their passion into making the best damn design we can. The core team is already a handful of top 20 witnesses and I'm looking to grow that to include people with large followings, large stake, a large presence on the chain, and am especially interested in finding folks who are excited to work with me.
Process
If you're interested please leave a comment below with what you think you bring to the table to help an organization like this flourish. Those of us that are already on this will review and pick out a total of 9 people to complete the design. The design itself will require more than 9 people to operate, but the process of designing it needs to be a little smaller than that for now to be efficient in a short period of time.
Expectations
This is work. It's unpaid work. The stakes may be as high as helping to build and coordinate a 10M steem foundation, or it could all break and that may not happen. We'll have daily interactions for a few weeks and we'll work on documents like process, budget, community guidelines, scope of the various boards, and more.
Opportunity
Personally, I think this presents an opportunity of a lifetime. See our coin mainstreamed, dapps a plenty, community members engaged, and a buzzing community center filled with passionate people who love Steem. This is our chance. Let me know if you'd like to help the Stars Align. Feel free to ask me questions in Discord.
hey aggroed,
I would be happy to help if there is still help needed. I have a short description of my CV written in the SA Discord within the Nominees Foundation Channel, I have been dealing with a lot of the mentioned topics for quite a time within my day to day job and I would be more than happy if this experience could also help move Steem into a brighter future for us all.
Kind regards
Jan
It has surely been an interesting last couple of days and would agree with you when saying that alignment has made a push to get here. I am still reading through most of the discussions and enjoy that there is constructive criticism of ideas instead of all agreement and the sorts. I look forward to reading more about the effort and how it is built by the community, for the community.
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Count me in:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kabirali/
Happy to help in what ever way I can.
As a quick summary, I worked as an auditor and tax advisor in the financial service sector while at KPMG and then Deloitte. Setup a number of small businesses after I left and now operate an accounting practice based in North London as well as managing a private Crypto Fund and as Finance Director at a health care company.
And I like drama and !popcorn
I don't have much to offer in terms of being a whale, having a large following, being a dev, or really anything other than normie bs, but I have been on Steemit for 33 moons and if there is some grunt work that I could help with I would like to devote some of my time.
Hey @aggroed,
Thanks for pushing this work forward.
I'd like to offer my help with project management, organizational structure and governance.
Some time ago I wrote a post that describes how we (the Steem ecosystem) could work together and do governance: https://steemit.com/steem/@borislavzlatanov/steem-s-governance-towards-a-continuous-improvement-system I think something along these lines could work well, while still staying flexible (i.e. it could be as formal as we want it to be).
I'm also on the board of directors of a nonprofit organization called The Venus Project / Resource Based Economy: https://www.resourcebasedeconomy.org/board-of-directors/
I'm happy to help however you think I can.
Please message me in Discord and I can give you a link. Minnowpond.org will take you to PAL and I can be reached there.
I don't like chatting much but I do like to solve problems. Let me know if my fulltimebots can be of service.
Hey @fulltimegeek
I'm having a spot of bother with a malicious Orca named
inventor16
https://busy.org/@inventor16/activity
He has just gone on a opinion flagging spree against me.
I've received neutralising upvotes from @freezepeach but he's undoing them.
Could you help?
You're spreading broscience that could potenially harm peoples lives. @fulltimegeek can you help me downvote him on the Vegan post.
If you revert to maliciously downvoting me because you disagree with my statements what does that say about you and your arguments?
Typical vegan activist.
Glad to hear about the project and I can't wait to see the design. The way you people involve yourself in projects, I wonder what I still doing because I am still yet to create my own projects. I guess you people are doing a great job here and you people should be appreciated.
I'm following along and am wishing you guys all the best on this!
I really hate to think about it this way but the way things were going I'm surprised death threats weren't happening. For a little while I thought that's my Ned went MIA lol
I'd absolutely be interested. I'm a dev, couple of projects for the block chain already, and interested in doing something bigger! I've got a cs degree with math background, great with C and C++, recently started python and js (react specifically). Done a bit of other stuff but mostly small projects with no real investment in learning a full language for them.
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Wow, wow, wow!
This is great. I have a great respect for your leadership skills @aggroed after getting involved with the Steem Monsters map and story generation process.
If I can help I would like to do so, either now or when you are able to move from design to implementation. Here are some things I can offer:
That's my resume. You can find me on Discord
(@)LauraDee#9237
Good luck, we're all counting on you.
Thanks for this Aggro! It's been pretty weird with all the witness statements on Friday, and then Steemit apparently doubling down with it's power down and then.... silence. Slightly un-nerving. So, really great to hear from you.
I would absolutely volunteer, but I don't think I can bring anything particularly unique to the table.
I do have a question though, what prevents Steemit from falling into silence once the threat of a witness-revolt has calmed? I'm not trying to demonize them in the slightest, I'm just not 100% sure what might continually make this project a priority for them.
Please message me in Discord and I can give you a link. Minnowpond.org will take you to PAL and I can be reached there.
I can offer help in the form of German translation and building a bridge to the German community!
Godspeed good sirs and madames!
I am new, but I like this direction
Hey Aggroed: Pick me.
I'm old. I'd be way more interested in working on this 'short term' project than making a long term commitment to the larger project.
I am a reasonably accurate stacker of words. I don't think I'm a real writer, but have over 10 years writing non fiction. Some technical, some just pure fun.
I have significant business experience both in brick and mortar and online. I once worked with an Alexa top 1000 site-it would be really nice to do THAT again.
I have some unique experience and qualifications. I'm fully retired and can't seem to make any money anyway, I might as well work for free. Maybe the most important is that I know HOW to work, and am pretty quick.
Please message me in Discord and I can give you a link. Minnowpond.org will take you to PAL and I can be reached there.
I am a Plankton on my way to be a minnow. I don't have much to offer, but like planktons of the sea, I would delegate a little SP to projects which benefits me so I have some STEEM and can give more, like sex.
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Hi @aggroed,
There has been a lot going on the last few weeks (during which I was facing some personal issues and thus I am not fully up-to-date yet)
I could help out with communication and social awareness if you believe that this will be something needed.
I feel very positive about this community driven project : ) Let's see how it goes!
Please message me in Discord and I can give you a link. Minnowpond.org will take you to PAL and I can be reached there.
Never shyed away from effective, diligent work.
Strengths here are:
Working to build a service oriented teams in global (not globalist), multiple geographic jurisdictions to build cohesive operating models, aligning operations, processes and procedures to function optimally in culturally vastly different environments.
Head of communications and Chief of Staff to COO in multinational company, Head of Operations, Head of Transformation in sectors below.
Experience in following sectors: banking, energy and engineering, hospitality, non profit (voluntary).
Passionate about crypto in general and STEEM particularly.
Bringing the best out of people, building on their strenghts, not on their weaknesses.
It is encouraging to see the effort being made to revitalize and fortify not only Steem as a stake, but also the spirit of self governance, devising a fiat-imdependent economic model that benefits all that participate, being in a position to realistically and practically bypass the robber fiat scheme.
It would be great to join the pioneer team of this Steem Foundation.
Would also like to nominate @pennsif, who has significant talent to organize, bring people together, and to discuss controversial subjects in a contructive manner.
Hey aggroed. Thanks a lot for putting this initiative.
I've been in Steem since 2016 (managed my mom's account @tanybtc), remember lots of stuff happening here. Recently became a witness to support Steem infrastructure.
I'm not a whale, nor do I have a huge following but I went through procedures in Dash governance system with overall budget of over $150k for multiple working proposals. I learned quite a lot during that process. I think that might help somehow.
My main focus for the last few months is assets management on EOS-based decentralized exchanges for PTI token. However over the last two years I gained skills in content creation (including technical docs), blockchain products demonstration (@paytomat multicurrency wallet and payment system), as well as integration processes with different point of sale systems (Poster, NCR Aloha).
My main goal for Steem is to increase a transactional usage and brand awareness through integrations with marketplaces, online stores, blogging platforms, games and so forth. I'm betting a lot on Steemconnect tool and I see it an excellent way to have a single sign-in option across all of the websites.
In any case, I would really like to help in whatever way you see is possible.
Keep up the good work, Dmitry.
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I think what makes me a good spot for one of the nominations is that I would be a good normie.
I take part / lead a few communities and have worked hard to get to where I am.
Im not a whale, witness, dev, designer, etc., but can give view from the average user of Steemit.
Id love to help get something started and help set up the foundation for a possivble 10 million fund on Steemit to help frame the future frame the future success of the Steem blockchain.
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I'd absolutely be interested. I'm a dev, couple of projects for the block chain already, and ongoing steemit dapp project now.