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:Where I will report regularily:I will set up a dedicated webpage for this:
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 CompanyCheers
-- 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
Topic: [Delegate Proposal] payroll.delegate.xeroc (Read 9372 times)
