Beyond Bitcoin Hybrid Worker Proposal Exploratory Poll
Beyond Bitcoin would like to partner with Freebieserver's team and help them expand their community-building efforts far beyond the forum tipbot (https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,19190.msg251058.html#msg251058) and shapeshift competitor. We will continue offering the other services we have in the past (or iterations thereof, based on the new BTS governance/marketing structure), but would like to bring onboard a team of developers who understand the vision that I and the rest of the Beyond Bitcoin team have for our community. This would also include building foundational elements that will enable things like DPOSHub to grow and prosper (while hopefully minimizing a large portion of the funding requirements that Cryptopro and Data are paying out of pocket). And naturally, we would want to cover the initiatives that grow from it.
Now with that said, I am going to attach a poll to see what everyone thinks would be "fair" for funding a group of approximately eight volunteers and 4+ developers with extensive crypto, backend and UX/UI experience. Please remember that paying for this worker proposal will likely give us the ability to give a high level of ownership to the products constructed and their returns on investment (ROIs).
So if this is done, we can essentially also call the Beyond Bitcoin worker proposal a hybrid Dev/Media/Community-building proposal...which also keeps us in line with what BM had hoped to see. It is and always has been important to the Beyond Bitcoin team to give as much back as possible to our community and I dare say that most of our team has actually given more money/time than paid for working on this project over the course of 2 years. However, the delegate did take away a large portion of those expenses and allow us to focus solely on what we have proven we do well. And now what we do well could be expanding in ways that make me giddy. The only issue right now is seeing if the funding we can provide Freebie and his team of devs will be enough to cover the bare minimum of expenses.
I am personally looking at getting a day or two more of work per week to help pay $500-700/mo to them in addition to the worker proposal funding, but I need to know what the community would vote for in terms of helping me pay our workers and them. Thanks to This Worker Proposal Poll (https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,18877.30.html), I am confident we will get a worker voted in. The only question at present is how much the community is willing to donate to a cause that has proven its intent to always give back as much as possible to the community...and add enough extra to build the kind of infrastructure no other crypto-community has.
Between myself and Freebieservers team, we have 26+ combined years of experience managing guilds/clans and other decentralized communities---we have a very good idea how to utilize those strategies to give BitShares' community a first mover advantage in the space...I just need someone to build it for us.
Please vote on the poll above and remember that over time any bts given us to build it will likely be burned by the infrastructure as it gains more and more profitability...with the intentions to essentially burn more than we received over time (which would make this proposal more like a loan).
If there are any questions and comments feel free to bring them on and I'll do my best to answer them. As always please try to be respectful and productive in your opinions and comments.
P.S. I voted 20 billion dollars because my vote should not be counted in this (imho).