I’d like to formally put forward my candidacy offer for Community Council membership.
I’ve been following Grin since I first heard about it back somewhere between 2017-2018. I attended the two London pre-launch meet-ups and got involved in testnet mining and a little mainnet mining on launch. I’ve been fairly quiet in the community otherwise. I do also use the account @cryptised here and previously on Telegram a little.
I never felt the need to get involved in governance until recently when I noticed that some of the CC were no longer participating. I’m aware of the challenges faced by the CC in recent years and don’t take the role lightly. However I believe that I can contribute and take a turn holding the torch.
I’m currently a full time software engineer and business owner in the rapidly changing AV control systems industry. I have experience working with technically minded teams who support a wide range of users in the corporate sector, mostly investment banking. Things are changing so fast though, that I’ve had to explore new opportunities to prepare for the inevitable shake up of global business as a whole. I’d love to bring some of my newly found energy and insights to the Grin project.
What do I think I can bring? My passion for crypto and technological innovation, alongside my experience in the software industry. I’d love the opportunity to support the project and become a member of its story.
volunteers in the Community Council，This is not a paid job, as Anynomous said, it is simply willing and highly qualified victims.Attending meetings, reviewing proposals, and making payments consume a lot of personal energy and time.
However, volunteer job does not mean one can Long-term or ignore demands,which puts the work of the Community Council in jeopardy and affects the teamwork of groundkeepers and Community Council members, undermining the trust of community members.Being elected as Community Council members is a commitment.
Of course, life is a struggle, Community Council members should prioritize having a paid job and taking good care of their families.then,handle community affairs when there is free time.
Finally, being elected as Community Council members is an honor; you are leading all griners forward. On the road to the success of the grin project, you make the decisions, you fight for free currency, and you fight for human freedom.
Thank you for standing up.@waynegeorge@transatoshi
I do make my candidacy humbly. I don’t really think I’m worthy, but as time goes on it’s more apparent that the people I think should be on it don’t exist.
All I’ve got is free time and I’d be honored and start taking initiative to take more care of and build more stuff like touching up the website+documentation, tools like the faucet, a proper easy to use Wiki, etc.
I would nominate @waynegeorge to take my voting seat on the CC.
I never took on a signing key to the wallet, and I get concerned about those being transferred to new signers. I believe the signing key that I didn’t take on is still held by Hendi? Personally I would trust Hendi with it more than anyone new.
That’s all to say I don’t really have a position on the key transfer. I think it’s Hendi or the original CC as a whole that should be convinced about the key transfer decision.
Thank you @trinitron. I really appreciate your nomination. I did suggest previously about creating new signers. I would actually prefer not to have the responsibility. My original concern was to do with too many of the original key holders becoming permanently unreachable and therefore losing access to the funds. To prevent that scenario, I’d be prepared to participate in key holding. I’d love to hear from @davidtavarez to know if he would consider being a contactable key holder and nominating a representative. In the meantime, I suppose we could focus on reviewing the current funding request structure to see if we could simplify the process to lessen the burden on key holders/nominees
That’s always been my position, haha. But I recognize that hibernating requests by not showing up to meetings is not respectful to the community. It is of course just that I have been busy though. And also I can never get Keybase to actually reliably notify me about my mentions. (Not a supporter of moving off keybase either though, until OC also agrees they like another platform better).
If hibernating, it’d be important to ensure that none of the key holders become permanently unreachable. Could a periodic signing be done, say every three months? Is it difficult to arrange and execute?
If you divide the funds between yourselves then you don’t need multi-Sig. Any member who want to contribute to a specific bounty or project for grin, can add their shares of the fund-budget to the project.
Grin is suppose to be decentralized, anyone can do anything for grin, pay for listenings, advertisement etc and they don’t need some self appointed grin government’s permission.
Free the funds! I know for a fact each and every one of you could do remarkable things for this project if you were given free rein over your own community budgets! As it stands it seems like yall are paralyzed by some notion of unanimous consent.
We aren’t a hive mind like the old guard, no more hierarchy! We are freethinking individuals that are united by a single thing, - grin coin.
As for your meeting, they could continue but yall would have tons of fun stuff to talk about as you brag to eachother about all the useful things you’re using your share of the budget on, and could share progress reports with one another and appeal to eachother to add some of their budget to this or that project etc.
For any “cc” members who successfully spent their budget. Their budget could be replenished yearly.
True, this is a common misconception, CC members and OC members are regular community members that take on the role of facilitating governance through forum discussions and regular meetings.
There are no magical people or bosses who take care of this project, just regular people. So CC mebers are simply community members taking on extra responsibility.
That is exactly why we have this thread. CC members individually do some things but we should joinedly facilitate discussions and meetings and keyholders should be able to sign transactions. Right now we are not functioning as a whole since coordination does not work without meetings. Discussions are fractured in space and time and many of us are bussy and lack time to keep up.
The solution is simple, we need some commitment and good habits to join meetings and respond to tagging. Especially the old CC are simply not available, they want out. Quite obvious, …look who have not participating in this whole discussion even after tagging and direct messaging. Anyone who has not responded to this thread should be counted out. This is why change is the only way forward.
A sense of grin community identity is privacy and freedom.
to attract more people joining in and building the grin community, We may have an easy thread section on our website,there may be jokes or memes
This thread itself was made on purpose in public, as an experiment with a duration of 14 days to measure and display who are actually involved and available from the current CC. I know that many do not like change, personally I am definitely not looking forward to setting up a new MultiSig, but the results of this experiment speak for themselves and clearly display the problem which to be hones is even bigger than I anticipated.
See below a nice overview which CC members and keyholder responded, and if our new CC candidates responded. The results were partially to be expected, many old CC members want out and indicated so in some cases years ago, lets respect that. Note that current CC members were tagged in the CC group chat on Telegram as well as on the forum, some even received private messages. There is no room to reasoning that they might be “excused” for being unaware of the current situation. A check mark means that someone actively participated and responded to this thread in the past 14 days. A red cross mark means they were inactive, unavailable.
New CC candidates ready to commit: @waynegeorge (software engineer, who long followed Grin) @bruges (aglkm) (well known from making https://grincoin.org/) @wiesche (C/C++ developer who build a grin web wallet with the flutter framework in dart) @transatoshi (built the website https://grinminer.net and maintains Grin’s testnet)
This little experiment shows us clearly that we need a Community Council Reset. Without it, we are dead in the water according to these results. Especially response turn out of CC key-holders is dramatically low. Luckily, as we see we have plenty of good CC candidates willing to commit and help out in governance and if needed as key-holders
Notice how only 1 of the 6 key-holders responded to this thread while we have a 4/6 MultiSig wallet… quod erat demonstrandum.
They should indicate themselves if and how they still want to be involved with the CC
To keep continuity and not burden new CC too much with administration, @Cobragrin will continue to function as CC groundkeeper
There will be no CC election since we have exactly as many new volunteers as CC members needed, but anyone can file objections against specific candidates or the proposed new CC setup.
If any of you prefer not to hold a key they can indicate so, @mcm-mike or @Neo can hold the key for you. The idea is that their key functions as a backup, so if they are less responsive to Signing requests, it is not a big issue since the new wallet will only be 3/6. In practice it will be a 3/5 multisig with an extra spare key held by an old CC member.
If any new CC candidates come along, I can retire as active CC member and only function as key-holder .
check mark means that someone actively participated and responded to this thread in the past 14 days. A 
red cross mark means they were inactive, unavailable.
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Notice how only 1 of the 6 key-holders responded to this thread while we have a 4/6 MultiSig wallet… quod erat demonstrandum.
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