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Main => Stakeholder Proposals => Topic started by: xeroc on July 16, 2015, 09:13:51 am
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Who I am:
My name is Fabian and I am a communications engineer from Germany looking for
an exciting new job. Most of you already know me and have an idea of my passion
for BitShares (active BTS member from the beginning) and my contributions to
the ecosystem and the community so far.
My current plans are as follows: When my contract with the university ends in
mid-August, I'd like to assist with growing the BitShares ecosystem and the
community. Going BitShares full-time comes with a lot of financial risk for me
as 100%-delegates currently get roughly $900 a month. Hence, I will not only
work for the BitShares ecosystem directly but am willing to take payed jobs in
this space as well. As long as this business stays mediocre profitable, I am
willing to stay for at least a years.
Now let's get to some hard facts.
How I contributed so far:
- Technical Support
- Content creation (Wiki, documentation, forum, several webpage)
- German translations (web_wallet/bitshares.org/bitsharesblocks/...)
- Python-bitshares libraries (rpc, tools)
- Pyhton tools for end users (coldstorage, offline voting, sharedrop, ...)
- Python tools for delegates (feed scripts, switchover, slates, ...)
- Technical assistance when setting up delegates (fuzzy, datasecuritynode, favdesu, ...)
- IRC channel #bitshares@freenode (bribble bot/operator/moderator)
- Subreddit /r/bitshares (content/design/moderation)
- Proof reading of public and technical documentation and articles
- Assistance with Conference Presentations
- Technical Assistance for the creation of the info-gfx
What I'd like to Offer the BitShares Ecosystem:
- Infrastructure:
- Setup dedicated BitShares machines for (Seed nodes/Chain servers/Plain full nodes)
- General Technical Support (in English or German)
- Content Creation:
- Use-cases with clear description
- bts.wiki: complete overhaul for BTS2.0
- Assist with (Technical) Documents and Conference Presentations
- Adoption/Media:
- Continue maintaining of reddit (possibly also voat)
- Technical Assistance for Service Integrations
- Coding:
- Python Scripts (users, witnesses, delegates, etc ...)
- NodeJS/Angular coding (Watch coldstorage page, ...)
- Assist web development where possible:
- web framework for coldstorage monitoring and live updates
- Brainwallet.org equivalent for BTS/BTS2
- Block monitoring similar to bitlisten.com and dailyblockchain.github.io
- Translation Service for the core products (German/English):
- continuous updates for bitshares.org, web_wallet, graphene-ui
- possibly translation of "bitshares 101"
What's the name of the delegate:
- payroll.delegate.xeroc (https://bitsharesblocks.com/delegate/votes?name=payroll.delegate.xeroc)
Where I will report regularily:
I will set up a dedicated webpage for this:
- http://payroll.delegate.xeroc.org (http://payroll.delegate.xeroc.org) (not available yet)
How do I plan to distinguish work and politics:
- I will not run for global moderation or administrative rights in bitsharestalk.org
- Unless otherwise approved by the community, I will only moderate support-related subforums and the German subforum(s)
- The payed delegate will not be included into the slate of delegate.xeroc -- ever
- I'd like to create two distinct pages for delegate.xeroc.org, and payroll.delegate.xeroc
How I can be contacted:
- bitsharestalk: xeroc
- mail: mail@xeroc.org
- mail: fabian@bitshares.org
- by other means: just drop me a line
What I'd like to have as a compensation:
- Operating costs
- Delegate registration fee (one-time)
- Server operation costs and hosting
- Infrastructure, licensing, co-working space, legal and financial consultation, and other business operating costs.
- Payroll (xeroc)
- capped at a typical salary for a full-time job
(until then, I will sacrifice personal profit necessary as long as I can pay for operating costs, rent and food for as long as possible.
This may require working for 3rd parties in addition to the BitShares ecosystem) - no personal carry-over, alternatives if income is higher:
- donations to charity/bounties/...
- burning BTS
- reducing the pay rate, in case the price is expected to stay high (which I hope for)
- Business-related traveling expenses (conferences, development meetings, etc..)
How I would like to run a delegate/worker:
- Until BitShares 2.0 goes live:
- Delegates should be run outside Germany (if possible outside Europe)
- I will hand over the signing keys of the delegate
- 3rd party runs a 100% delegate on my behalf
- Delegate pay shall be maintained by the 3rd party
- The 3rd party will require to reveal his identify and agree to receive a proper (e.g. monthly) bill
- An anonymized version of the bills will be published together with the corresponding transaction ids
- The 3rd party should agree on a fixed price for their own service in this setup, which will be payed separately
- Proper price feeds are required
- After BitShares 2.0 goes live:
(details need to be discussed with tax attorney)
Remarks on working hours:
- Once I have defended my PhD (I hope for late october), I will start working towards a self-employed business
- At the moment this business is registered (I am hoping for Q1 in 2016) I can go full-time, officially
- Until then, I am only permitted to work up to 15h/week, which translates to $50-60/h at current share price
Hoping for some exciting times and looking forward to working for BitShares -- The Decentralized Company
Cheers
-- Fabian
// edit: fixed link to bitsharesblocks
Update 20. July 2015:
- Slate: 167dff3b0d8ad57291b265582db45315971cc8e0
- PublicData: 21971346ada0c21c23b009f81d6248dd5709cb05
Update 21. July 2015:
- Delegate is now maintained by truested forum member @cube
- Handover to his machine was performed 21. July at 10:00 UTC+2
- Location is China, feeds will be published as soon as the scripts are setup correctly
- Delegate's pay will not be withdrawn until my business is registered successfully
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I WILL FULLY SUPPORT YOUR DELEGATE - VOTE with some LOVE for Fabian!!!!!
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I WILL FULLY SUPPORT YOUR DELEGATE - VOTE with some LOVE for Fabian!!!!!
Me too ! +5%
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I'm glad to see this!
Good luck!
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+5% You get full support from me too! Will also add you to my slate as soon as I get around to it.
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I support you xeroc. Xeroc was the only one who allowed me to film him on the bitcoin meeting. He is a gentleman with a good heart and a smart brain and very very active.
+5%
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Glad to see you joining bts full time. bts will benefit from your dedication. :)
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Your efforts and personal time spent on this project are clear to everyone.
Full support. +5%
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+5%
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+1 !
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xeroc has been deserving of a 100% delegate for 2 years running!! +5%
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Just voted! +5%
You totaly deserve it :D
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Amazing vote result, respect!
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+5%
you have my vote
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I support him +5%
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Thanks @everybody for this positive feedback and the votes ..
Looking forward to the months and years ahead!
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Very happy to see this happen. +5%
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Full support with my Stake.
Once we have our MUSE requirements defined, you'll have to create another thread of the sort for Note holders ^^
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It's about time! You've got my support. +5%
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It's great to have you onboard like this Xeroc. You are certainly one of the most helpful contributors here.
Can you please turn on your market feeds for your new delegate using the very scripts you made for them? :)
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Fully support this Xeroc. You are an irreplaceable asset for BitShares.
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Can you please turn on your market feeds for your new delegate using the very scripts you made for them? :)
of course .. gonna do so soonish!
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You made it !! Congrats :)
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Boy, that was quick! Congrats!
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Thanks you everyone!!!
Feeds are up and more on-chain details will come!
What are your thoughts about a slate? Shall I put the same slate as "delegate.xeroc"?
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Congratulations!
I think it is one of the fastest, if not the fastest ascend, I have ever seen. Amazing!
Your slate has helped many a delegate. Do keep it going.
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I do now have published a slate and more information in the public data.
Slate: 831ca8d46ef9a44cd4b42ba501f6f7292b9e7ac2
PublicData: 21971346ada0c21c23b009f81d6248dd5709cb05
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most active
most helpful
most useful
so, you deserve it. Now the market cap has to rise to support you fulltime :D
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xeroc, would you consider (in the future, once 2.0 is released) assuming the role of our missing Marketing Director?
Of course, we should run some kind of community vote on this but I'm sure you are going to get a lot of support.
I know that officially this position is empty and Adam Ernest is supposed to cover this area but I have the impression that he's too busy with FMV to be able to take care of BTS as a whole.
I think it would be really nice to have this position filled by someone actually chosen by the community. The technical side needs to be delegated to Cryptonomex for the time being as there is no other developer team matching their skills and experience. But regarding the marketing and PR aspect clearly we can manage on our own. And to be able to do that efficiently we need somebody in charge. For me you are the perfect candidate for this role.
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xeroc, would you consider (in the future, once 2.0 is released) assuming the role of our missing Marketing Director?
Of course, we should run some kind of community vote on this but I'm sure you are going to get a lot of support.
I can support marketing efforts but don't see myself in the position of a "marketing director". I'd rather do consulting and help grow the ecosystem by coding some useful tools.
I know that officially this position is empty and Adam Ernest is supposed to cover this area but I have the impression that he's too busy with FMV to be able to take care of BTS as a whole.
Don't know much about what is happending in Blackburg. From what I know, @ak introduces alot of people from the non-crypto world to BitShares, and that is VERY good!
I think it would be really nice to have this position filled by someone actually chosen by the community. The technical side needs to be delegated to Cryptonomex for the time being as there is no other developer team matching their skills and experience. But regarding the marketing and PR aspect clearly we can manage on our own. And to be able to do that efficiently we need somebody in charge. For me you are the perfect candidate for this role.
With the referral program, I don't see that we need a 'central' entity for marketing. BitShares a decentralized business and so should be the marketing (IMHO). Let's wait and see if the referral program can make BTS go viral.
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xeroc, would you consider (in the future, once 2.0 is released) assuming the role of our missing Marketing Director?
Of course, we should run some kind of community vote on this but I'm sure you are going to get a lot of support.
I can support marketing efforts but don't see myself in the position of a "marketing director". I'd rather do consulting and help grow the ecosystem by coding some useful tools
+5% - Personally i'm thinking we should get away from the classical point of view on marketing etc ... IMO the nullstreet community marketing is what we should try to get forward ...
@xeroc .. i like your way of thinking!!!
P.S.: I'm also thinking Max and Michael are doing a great job!!
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P.S.: I'm also thinking Max and Michael are doing a great job!![/i][/u]
Absolutely!!! +5%
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A big THANKS for what you have done and what you will do....
You absolutely deserve this and I expect you get to the first place of delegates with the most votes.
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Just a quick update for those wondering:
* Today is my final day at my last work
* However, I will need to put some more hours (just a few) into my PhD defense and correcting some minor bugs for the final release version
The last couple of days I mainly put my time towards writing whitepapers for BitShares. At current stage they mainly consist of the content
presented at the webpage with some general blabla about transactions/operations/accounts aswell as some stuff about the financial instruments.
Nothing worth talking about publicly yet, but I hope to have at least the one whitepaper about the DEX finished before official launch date of 2.0.
Luckily, I will have plenty of time to concentrate almost solely on the whitepaper in the near term
Besides the whitepapers, I also started reading into react and did some initial "get-in-touch" work with the web wallet. Quite nice stuff. However,
I am not as good and by FAR not as efficient at coding as BM, Valentine, James, or svk, but I hope that I can contribute at the front-end too.
There is at least one other projects I would not like to disclose yet as they are not yet in a presentable state but they focus about content
creation to get people into the BTS space more quickly. Stay excited.
As most can be seen, I am still quite active in the forum giving feedback, explanations and support.
/end of quick update
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Great to hear of your increasing participation in bitshares. Looking forward to your white papers and other secret-projects-to-be-revealed. :)
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eager to know more about that potential new project. +5% and goold luck in your PhD
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+5 to xeROCK of bitsharestalk.
Terrific news!
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Short update:
The last three weeks I have been working on:
* whitepapers (one of which is currently under review by BM)
* implemented a easy to read JS API interface example which evolved to ..
* stats.bitshares.org webpage to show statistics of the current graphene testnet
* regular tech support in the forum
* enhancing the python tools (in particular I am interfacing with websockets to have the posibility for live-updates in python)
Additionally, I am learning alot more Javascript so that I can eventually assist with development of the GUI .. but that may take more time as I am by far not as good a coder as BM
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If I can ever help you with something let me know. +5% for a good man