The Community Well Project makes an impact in Northern Ghana.
We would like to start by first thanking everyone who has contributed to Value Plan, to the 2025 Strategy, and to the general development and design of supporting elements, including all of the ongoing work with metrics and reviews. Your contributions are what make Hive promotional initiatives possible.
In this proposal we are seeking to fill out the 2025 Q1 budget with 250,000 HBD out of which a portion of 55,000 HBD will be kept aside as long as plausible for our legal opinion (it will be rolled back in and re-initiated in Q2 if delayed).
Normally this proposal comes out two weeks prior but as we were focused on the Strategy it was pushed into February.
As per the deliverables outlined in the 2025 Strategy, each event and activity is to have a SMART goals spreadsheet attached to it, which will be communicated on event accounts. This will help us all track our successes and identify any points of struggle. The template and example for developing and tracking SMART goals can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HR_dPdkAsMzcLU7PV5_APakaubG1hrKLlsoPq0CK-vw/edit?usp=sharing
The Value Plan project managers are @lordbutterfly, @guiltyparties and @crimsonclad. And as always, your Value Plan keyholders remain @theycallmedan, @smooth, @guiltyparties, @crimsonclad and @blocktrades.
Confirmed Activities
Talent Land Mexico
Date: April 21-24, 2025
Talent Land was a huge success for us last year and is projected to have a significant impact this year. We are projecting an interview space at the event and may bring in the Hive motorcycle instead of a traditional booth, in order to save on booth costs and logistics which would be far more expensive and less interesting than leveraging focal points.
Follow: @josepimpo
https://talent-land.mx/en/home/
Young Art Fair
Young Art Fair is Poland's celebration of emerging artists. Please see their introduction post here which has additional links to follow their progress. Deliverables from this partnership include marketing across social media channels and printed event branding.
Follow: @youngartfair
Community Well Project
The LATAM version of the CWP will be completed shortly. Instead of being a well, it is a far more extensive installation of a water line that feeds from a stream on a mountain and runs down its length to a village. We aimed to publicize the project after the installation completed but it seemed our reputation preceded us.Follow: @mcsamm (Ghana) and @crazy.men (LATAM)
The Ghana-based well installation that everyone is familiar with is scheduled to deliver its final planned wells. Two wells are expected to be completed in Q1, tying off deliverables and giving the project time to pursue Hive partnerships.
Both of the CWP projects are instrumental in attracting the attention of NGOs and potential regional partners. These activities have distinct marketing approaches, with Ghana more focused on presentations and LATAM on digital.
Scheduled and In Progress
These events are being worked on and all details are not yet known.
Modular Carnival
Date: 24 February to 5 March 2025
The Modular Carnival, held in Belo Horizonte, Brasil, is a conference and series of side-events highlighting tech. It is projected to attract 3,000 participants over the course of the week. Activities during this event will include presentations and exploring B2B opportunities while showcasing our tech.
https://www.modularcarnival.xyz/
Web3 Amsterdam
Date: 13-14 March 2025
https://web3amsterdam.com/
We have a speaker invitation to once again present at this excellent conference. The entire plan for this activity is not yet in place but we are expecting the usual partnership plus an onboarding component, same as previously. @Crimsonclad is representing Hive as a speaker for this event.
Dev Expo
Date: 15-16 July 2025
Dev Expo is a new conference located in London, UK. We are currently working out what the engagement could look like on our part. This event is organized by one of the former organizers of Tech Ex and a long-time industry contact. While this event takes place in Q2, we will complete the planning phase within the next few weeks in order to ensure we maximize our opportunity to present Hive during it.
https://dev-expo.com/
B2B Venezuela and Spain
Printing + Restaurant Franchises (VZ)
Hive members are working with a restaurant franchise and a large printing business in Venezuela to integrate HBD as a payment method both via Distriator and in general. This engagement has a presentation, educational, implementation assistance and communication component to ensure the new vendors are set up for success.
Sucre Multiple Companies (VZ)
Several companies of various sizes have requested meetings to be introduced to the process of integrating HBD payments. Businesses are excited to take a step towards Web3 through Hive.
Initiation (Spain)
The work to branch out into Spain has also started and is set to continue one step at a time. Brochures have been printed and a list of potential businesses suitable to accept HBD is partially developed. The small team of Hive community members in Spain are also getting to know the local crypto tech scene and working out the next best steps for Hive.
Monthly Commitments
Krolestwo
Królestwo Bez Kresu is a physical location and cultural center in Poland. It hosts a variety of events and acts as an onboarding and engagement hub for local Hive community members.Follow: @krolestwo
VIBES
VIBES started off as a pilot project but has gained success and allowed Hive to connect with many talented professional musicians all over the world.Follow: https://hive.blog/trending/hive-140169
India Digital
Digital promotions in India with the help of @finfarm and other media points is designed to bring Hive to the Indian tech community. This is a relatively new initiative which was launched in the second half of last year and is still seeing active development.
Community Activities
Maratón CAF Caracas on February 16th. This is a fun activity with a representation and onboarding focus.Physical activities designed to showcase Hive will be spread over Q1 as usual. One we'd like to highlight today is the Hive Run @hiverun which is a Venezuela-based running club. Every year it participates in the
LATAM Digital Program
The LATAM strategy has been developed to include a series of digital marketing initiatives including podcasting, ads, and influencer-related target marketing. It uses the North Star Metric for a growth-focused plan. The purpose of this digital approach is to drive the success of Hive marketing in LATAM and support physical initiatives in order to amplify their reach and ensure that deliverables are met.
General aspects of the program:
- Support growth through research-driven goal-setting
- Focus on the online community and its development
- Ensure an adequate supply of digital elements such as graphics
- Focus on onboarding and retention
Hackathons
We are looking at selecting the best hackathon experiences in order to invite more talented developers to consider building their dapps on Hive. At this time there is no explicit list as none are yet confirmed.
Hackathons allow a unique opportunity of direct engagement for experienced Hive developers who act as mentors and judges, helping to make these events a success and streamline the integration of new teams into the Hive ecosystem. More volunteers are always needed so please let us know if you are available to support future hackathons with your expertise.
Proposal
While the above events are to be paid in Q1 and largely take place in both Q1 and Q2, there is a potential of having to prepay for some Q3 events. This is only in relation to conferences where early spots have to be secured. Normal non-conference activities do not require a run-up time of more than a month.
This proposal is asking for 250,000 HBD for Q1 2025.
https://peakd.com/proposals/335
https://ecency.com/proposals/335
We thank you for your interest and consideration,
~ The Value Plan Team
I wish proposals would have a downvote button as well.
same way as youtube has ?.. 😃
Absolutely. That's outrageous...... im impressed this kind of thing was happening here on hive. We really need a DOGE kind of action here
Something definitely needs to be done as the current system is like throwing money out of the window.
I will do my best to make people aware of this. You are 100% correct
We need to be careful what projects we support and also vote the return proposal. So many are not aware of this and are only after milking the pool anyway they can and this is not going to end well.
This!
What makes you think I haven't already?
We do. We just wish we could downvote this extra!
This team need to stop burning through community funds.
I'm fully in favor of conferences, onboarding businesses and other activities that tie into hive and expand it's reach but with full accountability and receipts.
Money is being thrown away too easily and without any accountability. It's as bas as the US government right now with money going in all directions and nobody in charge of it or accounting for it.
It's also time to axe the rally car.
While it was an interesting experiment there is no signs that it has done anything to enhance our visibility or onboarded any new users or apps. Instead it's a very expensive junket for the guys driving the car on our dime.
I won't support this proposal and hope that others don't either until the team is reigned in.
These are not big asks but should be basic parts of any proposal looking for another 250K.
Crazy stuff.
They have the support of blocktrades and have zero need for accountability. They don't give a fuck and have also stopped responding to comments from people who want them to improve their processes.
This is quite honestly abhorrent behavior and will further bring down the reputation of hive as a platform this blatant shit goes on unchallenged.
Edit - I stand corrected they've responded. Hopefully I can find some good stuff in there!
You're absolutely right. I noticed the amount of money some specific people are receiving and sending directly to Binance in form of HIVE, it’s crazy. I didn't know about that. People who are not even Brazilian, earning money to go participate in Brazilian conferences in belo Horizonte. It's crazy. I really need to spend more time here on hive and understand what's happening . We need a DOGE here.
LOL we do need a "DOGE" version for Hive :D
Who is voting for this crap?
Have you seen the project evaluation, and the financial statement of the latest event by @macchiata? Can we see same reports from projects supported by Value Plan? I believe such transparency would help!
What are the KPIs of mentioned projects? Do they deliver them?
Probably the people in charge do not even know what a KPI is. Asking for 10K daily(!) and not even defining KPIs... just crazy!
I am perfectly aware of that. The proposal will likely be pushed through as it is, sadly. No transparency, no accountability, no responsibility.
Par for the course for value plan.
Yes, we spoke about her receipts to ensure she could share them in a safe manner. The designs were also done through Value Plan and the portion that she generously shared through post creation was removed off the total. She did a great job for this event and so did OCD who helped finance it.
Yes, and every project aspiring for a DHF funding should be at least that transparent, and provide at least such details.
Value Plan is unfortunately very heavy on sponsorship and partners but what I'll do is see which conferences will oblige us sharing their decks/requirements publicly. We also have to very heavily redact as we've had cases of people harassing partners. Right now I'm looking for a timekeeping app that can be connected to the chain to ensure we can optimize where possible. Any help with that from anyone would be greatly appreciated.
Sorry, but this is not at all what @godfish had asked for. It is not about redaction or no redaction, just tables of how exactly the funds were spent are needed, as in the example. Timekeeping aka prioritization is the individual problem of the project managers, but not of the DHF. I think you are just evading the topic. Transparency is what counts. Any serious potential investor into Hive would frown when he sees how intransparently millions are spent here.
If a project is funded from DAO, the stakeholders should behave accordingly I believe.
I am quite reluctant to believe Value Plan funds are spent efficiently, and that the projects deliver what they had promised to deliver.
Nothing would please me more than being proven wrong.
You could possibly check our comment for some information about how we have used funds from VP. If you have any further questions for us, let us know.
Cool, thanks!
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Indeed it is, a small group of Hivians active in Spain, so I find it rather curious that I've not heard anything about a project that is already partially developed. Have I missed any news announcing activities in the area?
I would like to have more details of this information in order to support this proposal consciously. @valueplan
The project is in very, very early stages of development and this is its first announcement, which is incomplete as resources aren't ready yet. We so far tested one meetup and last year did Talent Land in Spain, both of which went great. I think Spain promotions will take off just as soon as research is ready.
I would like to know who you have to follow to know about the initiation activity in Spain. It is the first news I have on this subject and as a Spanish I am interested and maybe I can collaborate.
Nothing started yet and there is no main organizer. The project is in its very, very early stages. We will put up a post call to action just as soon the resources and research are ready to actually get started.
Before considering to vote for this proposal renewal, please check out the posts of @blanchy about it, e.g. this one: https://peakd.com/hive-167922/@blanchy/valueplan-the-numbers-cumulative-payouts-part-2-gym-street-workout-is-it-worth-it
One should also consider his/her upvoting pattern to selectively less upvote users who vote for this garbage proposal!
It is not about the amount of money (we have that) but the fishy way it is spent, the lack of documentation and evaluation and some dubious projects that are funded which never came to life (e.g. that borehole in Venezuela)!
One of the project managers gave me the name of the account running the borehole project in Venezuela called @crazy.men after I had a little rant on their previous post. Interesting posts from @crazy.men . No individuals names mentioned as per usual so nothing learned about transparancy whatsoever. Just photos of a bunch of guys lifting pipes etc. Their wallet is interesting though. Had a look at the people who are upvoting the proposals myself. Some names surprise me but most are recipients or master accounts of the recipients. It will get through anyway as the whales always vote for it. Is it a coincidence that most of the recipients are active on the 3speak platform!
It's also funny in their posts that the plants, grass and trees in the photos are lush with green which means only one thing. They get plenty of water. I was somewhat surprised and I checked it out. Venezuela gets more rainfall on average than the UK and Ireland. 🤣. They even have a wet season. 🤣. Ghana I can understand, Bringing the wells initiative to Venezuela is another story completely.
🤣 🤣 🤣
I know very well what I wrote in that publication, since I wrote it myself, but if you want me to tell you that it doesn't rain in the village, firstly I would be lying to everyone and secondly I would be in the Guinness Book of Records for such a feat. Indeed, the village has a tropical rainy climate, of which only the name remains, in the year 2022-2023 the farmers lost large areas due to an intense drought, the fires destroyed almost all the production. In 2008, the rainfall was so intense that part of the mountain collapsed. These are climatic inconsistencies that we have created and as it can rain for a day, and on a few occasions for a week, it can go a semester without a drop of water falling. Don't you read the news? In the SAHARA DESERT (ARID WEATHER AND DROUGHT-RELATED) it has RAINED and EVEN SNOWED.
Very interesting your perception, I am glad you had an example to follow. For the next rainy season I will ask the collaborators to go to work, well and if they go out downhill, I will appreciate their effort, when I see the fire in the crops, I will tell my neighbors calm, all those things are not impediments, go and enter the fire to save the seeds. As far as being political, it would be interesting for you to define for me what you consider being political. You know something, I think you take my publications as insignificant, you think what we DO is just a game and figure in an ecosystem and you REALLY BELIEVE I want to be made a statue, maybe like Rocky. This discussion can go on forever and you know why? Because we have cultural differences that you don't understand. If you talk about your father, I can tell you that mine raised 9 children, all professionals (including me), a farmer who got up at 4 am to get ready to go to the fields and came home at 5 pm. And at harvest time it was worse, because I got home at 7 o'clock at night, you want me to tell you how I studied and what I am a specialist in. Really,
I don't know who started this 3Speak conspiracy garbage but out of everything that was ever said, I can't even start to imagine how someone could get to that.
The area has no potable water supply aside from rain, which is not potable water. I don't know why you'd want the names of the guys installing the pipes but I'm sure we can get those. They're locals there.
Awesome thanks for the link! I'll for sure check it out.
What really bothers me is they get blocktrades support so it's almost guaranteed to pass. It's nearing criminal.
I have supported this and will continue to support @valueplan. I don't disagree with many users calling for things to be transparent. I think a Town Hall style event or AMA event that is recorded and put on chain would be very nice. I can understand having to redact much of what could be posted publically cause people online can get a little weird and harass people. I mean, if it's on chain it's not like only Hivians can see it. Anyone can see it, even the people that want to see Hive fail. Those people can very easily reach out to badmouth event coordinators or whatever.
I've seen ValuePlan do a lot of great work and I will continue to support it, but I would like to see as much transparency as possible. I can also understand how responses from people like @lordbutterfly can rub people the wrong way, but I don't hold that against ValuePlan as a whole. Some people are just rude and aren't a good representation of the values of an organization or project, but that doesn't mean the project is bad. I'm sure plenty of people don't like @bookerman (WOO's CEO) but that doesn't mean WOO is inherently bad.
Again, it's understandable what people are asking for in regards to transparency, but I think we all need to understand the sensitive nature of this. Anytime WOO has helped promote Hive we have had to supply receipts for costs before any funds were ever issued. I think ValuePlan is a net positive for Hive and helps do a lot of good for the chain that would otherwise not get done.
The whole conspiracy about VP and 3Speak is just kinda wild tbh. It would be different if there was some evidence backing it up. Everyone can just go on chain and see where funds are being sent and track the money themselves. https://hivehub.dev/@valueplan for example with the filter of transfer shows all accounts that receive tokens with memos for what it's for. I also feel like @guiltyparties has a great reputation and has built a lot of trust over the years. Again, I understand some of the concerns and would love to see improvements.
Actually, maybe WOO could shed some light on how VP funds sent to us have been used to help bring eyes to Hive. We had a massive presence at WrestleCon 2024 where 10s of thousands of people saw the Hive branding and were introduced to Hive for the first time. Also, videos with Hive branding and QR codes and calls to actions to create Hive accounts have been seen 1,175,900 times and there are still move videos to go out, our wrestlers have openly promoted Hive on podcasts and interviews over the last couple of years, and our CEO @bookerman has done various interviews promoting Hive as well as help during various Hive events (Rare Evo, Breathe, and others).
If anyone has any questions for WOO and how any funds have been used please let us know.
We're being asked for a million HBD a year. Let that sink in.
Valueplan has been running for a few years now. I haven't seen any figures for a tangible benefit it's delivered in terms of increased userbase, increased market capitalisation, or increased HIVE price.
Is there any concrete data showing that Valueplan is generating an increase of over 1,000,000 HBD in Hive's value year on year ?
With my accountancy head on, if someone came to me with a proposal to spend a million dollars a year, I'd want to see either a detailed business plan with financial cost-benefit analysis, or a proposal to have the funds as a loan (with details of how repayment would be funded and over what time) rather than a gift.
If I had to drain Hive's capital by a million HBD a year, I'd rather use the funds for something like Distriator, which has been demonstrating a significant tangible benefit to Hive rather than some kind of nebulous "brand awareness" claims.
https://peakd.com/gems/@stickupboys/what-is-the-value-in-value-plan
All fluff and absolutely no evidence or receipts. Can’t say I would ever expect anything different from the Value team. Keep up the sketchy activities folks!
We need more information plus we need to have feed back and updates on every event. Currently as @valueplan operates I cannot support any of this and surely we need a townhall or an event to get the community consensus on how the funds are handed out. HIVE can do far better than what we are doing and this should all be placed on hold until this is sorted out within the community. Why not pause valueplan for Q1 and lets all work this out as a community.
Hackathons huh? I have an idea to evolve that. HMU later this month and I fill you in.
Seeing comments about transparency, I wish for more of that. Where are the receipts? It shouldn't be so hard to provide some, right?
Don't even think of trying to finance initiatives in Spain. The infrastructure is not adequate and fiscally it is hell for a business (if you want to do things right, of course).
Society is not sufficiently incentivized to accept HBD. The EUR itself is stable enough.
Please don't make me embarrassed to know that people in my country are receiving HBD from valueplan. I assure you at 99.9% that this HBD will be wasted.
Better keep this HBD on savings, or even better, burn it directly.
It would be more useful.
Thank God! Now everybody can earn on it, not only the few!
Just short!
Well, everybody can earn Hive :) And then swap it on the internal market for HBD and back, yiealding like 10% per month with the current volatility.
Be nice to know what you think this has all done for Hive? in terms of actual impact statements with figures? I would also love to join the Car community on hive as there must be one right? With regular reports and the onboarding done while on tour. Please send me the link.
We have stated how we have used VP funds in our comment. If you have any questions for us, let us know.
nice but on what basis of accountability did they give you the funds? and on what basis of performance? and how did you apply to receive these funds?
I had to send itemized receipts for everything before any funds we received and most of everything had to be paid for beforehand. Can you explain exactly what you mean by "on what basis of performance"? Our situation is slightly different than most as we have 10 partnered wrestlers giving celebrity endorsements directly to their fans. How we applied for the funds is we wrote what we were looking to do and give a gameplan how we would do it and provided it to VP and answered any questions they had for us.
I know you do a lot out there in the wrestling world. I guess it is about due process of people obtaining Hive funding. We have one called the DHF but VP gets money and spends it on anything they fancy with not much transparency or due process. In terms of performance I would think if I am paying people to promote hive I would expect performance related targets. This would mainly be about social media exposure or onboarding and user retention and perhaps investment. Any business or charity giving funding given out in the normal world would have these as standard procedure. Of course this is Hive and it just being used like most of Hive as a hobby and a cash grab.
I kinda feel like you're undermining what we are doing for Hive by saying "I know you do a lot out there in the wrestling world." That kinda implies we are doing nothing for Hive. We have over 1 million views on videos that are actively promoting Hive. I don't see a ton of other projects or people on Hive that have brought over 1 million views to Hive or Hive branding.
We aren't just about doing something in the wrestling world. We are ride or die for Hive and have proven such. We have onboarded professional wrestlers to create content on Hive, discuss Hive on videos and podcasts, talk to their fans directly about Hive, and many others.
We bought 100's of millions of views to hive projects .....but saying you do "a lot out there" I would not say is undermining what you do but hey I would prefer you not to verbally abuse me again in chat so cool cool lol
on the plus side at least you bothered to reply, so big up you!
Confidence.
Stop this idiocy for fucks sake
No it's fun to throw money out the window into the wind.
gez fuckin christ stop with this dumb shit already!
This project would fail so hard if blocktrades was not voting on it they are pretty much 70% of the vote value on this.
Yup he keeps this albatross afloat.
10k per day!??? That’s a joke. I’m not paying for that.
Why are u supporting this proposal? @blocktrades ?
I think most of hive users agree that this is scam and all these people participating are scammers:
@lordbutterfly, @guiltyparties, @theycallmedan, @smooth, @crimsonclad
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Whilst I don't necessarily disagree with what you have written I have downvoted you for being a bit of a mad wank