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Offline vikram

Edit: I have created a worker proposal based on this thread: https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,23495.msg300188.html#msg300188

Hello everyone,

It's been a long time! Some of you will remember me as a former BitShares developer and project manager (https://github.com/vikramrajkumar), particularly during the lifespan of BitShares 1. Since BitShares, I haven't been involved in any blockchain projects, but now I am changing that and want to start contributing to the industry again.

I've linked up with Lance Kasper, or Agent86 as he's known on this forum (https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=9289), who you may recall also previously worked as an active member of the BitShares community. The two of us decided to start a company together, as a vehicle for us to explore some of our own ideas around blockchain technology.

We are Soledger Inc. (https://www.soledger.com/), and are based in Chicago, IL, USA. We are completely independent and are not affiliated with Invictus, Cryptonomex, Steemit, or any other organization. At present, Soledger is focusing on exploring some of our own experimental ideas, which you will hear more about once we have something that we are ready to share. However, we have not forgotten the BitShares community and want to see it grow and succeed as much as possible.

Given the nature of our prior experience with BitShares, we think it could be mutually beneficial for Soledger to handle certain project maintenance/administrative functions for the project.

BitShares seems to have been running with reasonable stability for some time now and we want to help preserve that stability. We think it could be beneficial to have someone who is unambiguously responsible for certain maintenance tasks around the network and platform. In practice, this would mostly mean that someone is in charge of administrating the GitHub organization (https://github.com/bitshares) and repositories, and could include responsibilities such as:

- Emergency security patches
- Emergency network stability patches
- Merge upstream Graphene, fc, other library updates
- Fix important compilation and compatibility issues that may arise
- Tag core releases
- Manage GitHub issue tracker
- Manage GitHub pull requests
- Consolidate high-quality community projects into BitShares GitHub organization
- Consolidate and maintain other important documentation to help ease contributing and integrating

Since the platform is already relatively stable, we would expect these responsibilities to be fairly straightforward to manage. Regardless, we think BitShares could benefit from help with maintaining the stability and ongoing operations of the network, as well an administrator to act as a clear point of contact to help coordinate community contributions, avoid fragmentation of community efforts, and keep things organized to help achieve consensus on decisions.

If there is support for Soledger to take on such a role, we are thinking that we will define it as a simple worker proposal, and thus only proceed if there is sufficient stakeholder agreement.

Let us know your thoughts and questions, and whether you think something like this makes sense for BitShares.
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