Thank you for your response and valuable input. This is a good time to clarify some things.
As a 100% paid delegate, I have hired 2 Editors to edit the hangouts for Audio (20% each--Emailtooaj/Mira). I have also Hired BTSWildpig to help bring these hangouts to the Chinese Community (20%). I have also set aside 10% for Mumble Server Administration (JoeyD) as he is going to be working on increasing the maximum number of participants drastically for future expansion. 10% has been set aside for the Delegate Technician.
At current marketcap, the approximate Operating Budget for Beyond Bitcoin (BTS) is: $1300-$1500/month (not including individual taxes, which will range from 15-30% off the top)
Human Resources Expense:Fuzzy: $260-$300/month
Emailtooaj: $260-$300/month
Mira: $260-$300/month
JoeyD: $130-$150/month
Tech: $130-$150/month
Delegate Fees:Delegate Registration: Approximately $600 to start the delegate and the team will not be paid until this initial cost is recompensed (they wanted to pitch in, but this just simplifies things).
Google Virtual Private Server (VPS) Fees: Though we are currently in a free trial period, this will run approximately $75/month starting 50 days from now. Which will
cut down my personal income from this delegate to $185-$225.
Mumble Fees:VPS Server: This Server will run approximately $50 dollars per month (we are still looking into the best deal--not the cheapest, mind you--but the
best deal), but it will help us expand to 800, then 1600, and later 3200 Slots. This will be necessary as we form partnerships with complimentary technologies and DPoS-Based DACs that wish to share the burden of building onto our shared code/infrastructure base (coders/manufacturers working on tools that integrate into alternate DPoS chains in effect are building our infrastructure for
free so this is a very worthy investment by my calculations).
$135-$175 is the delegate pay I receive after this expense.SoundCloud: The SoundCloud Pro Account enables us to upload unlimited amounts of content for $15/month. This means that we can start a Public Service Media Network for all DPoS-Friendly Organizations/DACs that serve in the best interests of BitShares', its holders and the decentralized networks of power that grow from it and its underlying protocols.
Past: I found out approximately 1 month ago that Gamey has been paying out of pocket for the Beyond Bitcoin SoundCloud account. This account has been up for approximately 1 year (12 months) and I intend to pay him back out of my own delegate fees. This means that I will owe $180 out of my first month's salary.
Future:
$15/mo moving forward taken out of my pay, cutting it down to $120-$160/month.As you can see, this 100% delegate actually doesn't give us a lot of room to do what we are doing on a grand scale (yet)--though it is safe to say that the team currently working on Beyond Bitcoin (BTS) has substantially improved the quality of the hangouts already! In fact, I believe that those working for it are worth approximately 10x what they currently are currently making. Luckily there will eventually be many DACs "Powered by Bitshares" to help shoulder the burden of paying for this Public Service.
So why are our workers so valuable? I hire people who have first volunteered their services free of charge and proven their intent to help build our ecosystem first and foremost. My philosophy is that those who work for our community and ask nothing in return are the first who we should compensate and trust with our capital.
Why pay people who would work for free? Because they have proven their intentions and motivations are aligned with our own with no other motivators present. Once that has been proven, the element of "Individual Greed" can be included and I can still be confident that these individuals will be here for the long haul for you. Not only that, but people who would work for free, shouldn't have to do so at a substantial opportunity cost to themselves. Those who sacrifice early on are the ones taking the largest risk both with respect to personal compensation and, in turn, voting power within the system itself--and they are doing it for everyone else. By all rights, there is actually no rational reason why anyone would volunteer for this for personal gain at these marketcaps. Indeed, it would be far more rational for them to pick up a second job and just buy BitShares (or another cryptocurrency that doesn't have this kind of service).
All these factors make them the best candidates to work for this Public Service Team we call "Beyond Bitcoin"--that started and was supported
Right Here first. Now with that said, to your statement here:
A transcript would mean I would be able to cover it and stay updated in a matter of minutes.
By Transcripts, I believe you are talking about what Gamey used to do for us; adding Time Flags and corresponding topics for ease of use.
I agree that transcripts are helpful. I will speak with the team regarding this request, but my initial thoughts are that this should be a task done by individuals in the community who want to gain a reputation and believe they are the best qualified for boiling down the entirety of a hangout into a couple of words. There is a reason why we minimally edit the Context within the Audio--because this is a platform to be used by journalists. It is modeled after Public Services like CSPAN:
3rd Party Journalists Report on our hangouts and give their opinions.
I hope that we will provide the content needed for someone in the space to begin journalistic efforts that report on the happenings in the BitShares Ecosystem and am concerned about constricting the Context too much as I feel it is in your best interest as an investor to listen to the entirety of the hangouts. However I do understand how time-restrictions might cause problems for some listening to all of the content (a very small minority do not even have time to even listen to them while traveling). Though I am on the fence about whether providing these Flags is the correct approach for our own internal efforts...I am open to suggestions and will cover this topic when the Beyond Bitcoin team meets tonight.
For the time being, remember that if you have a smart phone you can listen to our hangouts (
https://soundcloud.com/beyond-bitcoin-hangouts ) while you take your morning run, on your drive to and from work...and nearly any other extra time you have available. I will keep your thoughts in mind and appreciate you taking the time to voice them.
One final note. This delegate position has been created because I in large part paid out of pocket to great expense of myself over the past year to ensure our community had something most do not. So in essence, this delegate keeps me from being in the
RED for my efforts--and maybe provides me with approximately $100 a month after taxes. So I do want to let people know that this is not an easy task and it is severely underpaid and will continue to be so even at 10x the current marketcap (because the workload will substantially increase as marketcap increases). I promise I am not simply taking our community's funds and gambling them away. In fact, this is going to likely be the only source of my own personal investment in BTS as I move forward because I can no longer afford to buy cryptocurrencies with the income I make from my real world job.