Community Action and Agenda: Working with The Groundskeepers

#1

Greetings forum.grin.mw,

This forum post seeks to expand on the agenda and creatives for community groundskeepers Stakervali and I (aka Jankie)

While the community continues to grow, there becomes a need to attend and maintain various project assets past, present, and future. That is where Stakervali and I come in.

As of now the Groundskeeper agenda consists of:
i. Bi-Weekly Newsletter Community updates.(A future forum post will be created to organize and facilitate new-releases)
ii. Maintaining Community meeting agenda and notes for community review
iii. Remaining available to expand on and meet work requests from the community.

While the mentioned numerals are our existing commitments, Stakervali and I are expanding on some additional initiatives that have already been suggested by the community.

Stakervali is contributing work on updating the main website grin.mw through front end application pulling from github code. Since the Official grin site has been developed and maintained by OC council, but since source code of the website is stored on github, it is possible to contribute/request changes with pull requests. Based on community feedback/update requests, we will implement them and present to confirmation of OC. We will design and maintain a user friendly website for grincc via github pages service, in which users can navigate grincc documents, search previous meeting notes and more features based on community feedback.

Meanwhile, I am organizing a method of support through which exchange contacts, and community developers may have access to provide a ‘point of help’ where further assistance can be reached. In the meantime I will organize the resources necessary for this support initiative and helpengine@protonmail.com is standing by.

What do you think of the initiatives currently in play? Are we not seeing a particularly important action that should be considered for the agenda? This task list is an open discussion and we are waiting feedback/additions from the community.

Like time, Grin moves on and while we move with it many will choose to tend the path of it's trajectory. -JankieClause
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Jankie - progress update thread
Possible next steps, small wins, improving project foundations
#2

In your original post from May, one of your theoretical task items was to “head hunt new devs.” I think this is both necessary and worthwhile use of time, especially if the only concrete items right now is newsletter and notes.

Perhaps create a "classified ad"or poster/graphic You can share amongst cryptography and dev communities

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#4

Hey satoshocrat, I appreciate that you have been keeping an eye on developments here. I totally agree with you and I do plan on addressing developer outreach as it is indeed significant. Aside from the suggestions that you made here, I have had a thought about organizing forum content into a readable txt document so that it can be shared to a wider cryptographic audience,(request for comment etc). I may be missing something, but there seems to be excellent technical information inside these forum posts but to expect busy developers and cryptographers to wade through here to comment may not be entirely effective. I can also source devs from local tech populations due to being located near a ‘Tech-Hub’ city.(tap into local communities etc)

I think there is a lot that can be done that we haven’t tried yet, and These are my initial thoughts on ‘dev head-hunting’. Before I push forward on this I would first need to figure the tech solution we are looking for and work from there. Thanks for taking the time to stop by to bring this up. I agree, bringing in developer help will allow the project to sustain more fluidly with more ‘mechanics’ to tend. Allow me to circle back to you after I research into how this idea can be fully realized.

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#5

Great to hear, in terms of seeking developers, there is still value to a “classified ad” approach targeted to relevant blockchain/crypto communities; it would serve to stir interest, and of course, they might bring something to the table that we haven’t conceptualized yet.

As far as targeted search, perhaps a bounty for review/audit of the atomic swaps is in order. In addition, developers that can assist in the realm of “usability” would be of high value to the community, improving both user and exchange experience. (Maybe using @davidtavarez post on the matter as an idea wall). Just some thoughts. Will continue to post as I identify more

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#6

Yet another resource for bounties and targeted “developer head hunting” is the “post 5.0 wishlist”

I urge the council to support this effort as a constructive and actionable use of “groundskeeper” time,

#7

Agreed, these are major tasks that we need developers for but also people to check RFC’s, quite a few of these items on the wish list require RFC’s. The groundskeepers can use some of their time to try to find people for these tasks. But I want to also stress that finding devs works best for people who already have them in their network. If you are well connected (e.g. @Kurt), please guide talented and motivated people to worthy projects, like Grin.

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#8

Yea I also like the idea of advertising the wish list/grin and then (even outside) devs familiarizing themselves with the protocol and setting their target rate. I don’t think there’s any downsize to also expanding the talent pool for MW or grin in general in parallel

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#9

I can see a ‘Call-Out’ for experienced devs on ‘targeted’ social having the potential to at minimum begin a conversation with those outside the community. Through the facilitation of the call-out post, word that the Grin project is seeking assistance will hopefully be realized.

I will begin working this Agenda item currently. Also, I am thinking that it would be beneficial for a ‘litmus’ test to be conceptualized so that we may gain a deeper understanding of those who may be brought on, so I am looking to initiate conversation with existing project developers on how a ‘litmus’ test may look in action.

Again, thank you for bringing this to attention. I will be sure to be in contact and update the community as progress is made on the action item.( Dev-Outreach)

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#10

Awesome, just responded, just to summarize for the community… I think it’s best not to have a litmus test but make it based on the individual. Have him or her introduce himself on the forum and then have relevant parties can vet the merit.

Not everyone will be suitable for one of the items, however you never know what unique insight is out there.

#11

I would like to see in the meeting notes of each CC meeting:

  • Top’s (list of all covered topic
  • topics we voted on (top of the meeting notes)
  • important discussion / take-aways from this meeting

Please come up with a suitable template we can use for any meeting notes.

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#12

I am working on a template suitable with jekyll. I am hoping to show it and take feedback in the next meeting.

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#13

I would like to add design and maintenance of grin cc community website to task list. The information about current situation of grin ecosystem (meetings, on going funded projects etc.) is spreaded on different channels (keybase, forum, github). In my vision, web site will not replace these channels but will present a summary of current state, and redirect the interested user to specific channels.

i . Bi-Weekly Newsletter Community updates.( A future forum post will be created to organize and facilitate new-releases )
ii . Maintaining Community meeting agenda and notes for community review
iii . Remaining available to expand on and meet work requests from the community
iv. Design and maintenance of grincc website
v. - Contribution to official web site (Based on community requests assist to fix an issue/ add a feature or help when a new blog post text needs to be converted to jekyll template, and make pull request)

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#14

:+1: :point_up_2:
The above task list is for you, right @stakerV?
@NewJack777 can you also provide us your list of tasks (of which some might overlap with those of @stakerV). Then we can discuss them in the Grin Community Council meeting for feedback today at 15:00 UTC ,and wrap up the topic.

#15

We are working on meeting agenda notes and newsletter alternately. For the other tasks, we are helping each other. For example I am mainly working on grincc web site but jankie will help me with content and coding.

#16

I understand that many tasks will be shared among the two of you, nevertheless, it would be best if we approve two bullet points list of task during the Grin CC meeting,
Although some tasks might be shared between the two of you I also expect there will be different task between the two of you so you each have your own projects to focus on.
E.g. one might do more for the website, the other might do more contacting of developers and managing of sub-teams and interaction with the Grin OC… or some other division of tasks.
I think for the sake of discussions as well as for the sake of responsibilities such a division is desirable.

#17

@Anynomous I adjusted the list for myself accordingly

stakerVali’s tasks:

  • Design and maintenance of grincc website
  • Contribution to official web site (Based on community requests assist to fix an issue/ add a feature or help when a new blog post text needs to be converted to jekyll template, and make pull request)

Joint tasks:

  • Bi-Weekly Newsletter Community updates.( A future forum post will be created to organize and facilitate new-releases )
  • Maintaining Community meeting agenda and notes for community review
  • Remaining available to expand on and meet work requests from the community
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#18

You mean the grincc github page I assume?

#19

I meant a static web site, which can be deployed to github pages. I am creating site with react/next framework which produces same output (static html pages) like jekyll.

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#20

I am comfortable with finalizing this task and working on responsibly meeting these expecations of the community. Of course Items may be added as needed.

For a refined view on StakerVali and I contributions perhaps it would be clear to agree to a shared responsibility list [agreed on here] then expand on additional working initatives in a single forum post for work updates. For example, I have been currently reacting to dev-outreach from community request. This item would not be listed but it falls within scope under item iii. iii . Remaining available to expand on and meet work requests from the community> So the community will be informed of these unique updates on the single forum post ‘work updates’.

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