Call For Working Group Nominations | UPDATE; ALL NOMINATIONS NOW CLOSED
Call for Working Group Nominations
As mentioned in the town hall update, we are now taking written nominations for Working Group candidates.
We will be accepting ALL nominations on this post and NOT just those who cannot make the town hall meeting.
WE WILL STILL BE ACCEPTING ADDITIONAL NOMINATIONS DURING THE TOWN HALL MEETING. This will hopefully just make that meeting a bit more organized as nominations can be partially collected before hand.
As a reminder, the Working Group's main purpose will be to organize the VOTE for the Proposals for Governance and Structure of the Foundation. See the town hall update for more information. This is not for the Foundation itself: this is a precursor to the Foundation.
To nominate, add a comment for EACH nomination. Each nominator must place a NAME into Nomination. A Seconder must REPLY on the Nomination Comment. The Nomination Comment MUST be accepted or declined in Reply, by the Nominee, ON the COMMENT. Optionally, the nominee may add a short blurb about themselves, which will be pasted in the #candidates-wg channel of the Steem Alliance discord.
Before nominating, please check if someone you wish to nominee has already been nominated, and second the nomination comment instead.
To summarize, to be considered as a potential candidate for the Working Group, one must be:
- Nominated in a comment.
- The nomination comment must have a reply seconding the nomination.
- The nominee must reply to the nomination comment accepting the nomination.
- (optional) The nominee can add a short blurb, to be pasted in the #candidates-wg channel of the Steem Alliance discord.
ALL NOMINATIONS on the blockchain, will close tomorrow, January 27th, at 1pm EST / 6pm UTC.
DUE TO AN IMPORTANT DISCUSSION HAD WITHIN THE GROUP TO ENSURE THE ELECTION WAS DONE IN THE BEST WAY POSSIBLE, THIS POST IS OUT LATE AND THEREFORE THE CUTOFF TIME HAS BEEN ADJUSTED. WE ARE SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE OF THE BELATED POST, BUT THIS ENSURES 24HRS WILL STILL BE ALLOTED FOR NOMINATIONS.
Further Notes
Any on-chain nominations not done in this form will not be considered valid and NOT eligible to be voted upon.
A reasonable amount of nominations is expected. More than 11 nominations from an individual will be discounted.
Questions / Answers
I am a Foundation nominee. Am I also a candidate for this Working Group?
No, the nominations for this Working Group are completely independent from the ones mentioned in the initial Steem Alliance post. However, you are free to accept nominations for the Working Group as well!
What if I miss the deadline?
We will also take nominations during the town hall, so simply show up Sunday in the Town Hall and get yourself nominated by voice. See the Working Group Election Process for more information.
I nominate @sorin.cristescu.
Thank you ! I accept the nomination.
Short blurb about myself: I believe the community around the steem blockchain is trailblazing on a transformation path that is possibly the most relevant social experiment since the fall of the USSR. Yep, no less. Does such a belief indicate that I'm crazy enough for this place?
Other than that I work for "big government" in Europe (European Commission) where I lead a team of like-minded individuals (luckily more skilled than myself) where we attempt to solve "consensus among peers"-type problems using the steem blockchain.
At that level, the "peers" are not individuals though, but States (the EU Member States) and their national agencies.
Which makes me think that I haven't posted since a week ago and I owe everybody an update.
You are welcome, and I hope to see you as a member of the working group, soon! :)
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I nominate @shaka.
UPDATE: It became evident that I had misinterpreted the role of the new working group and I thus respectfully DECLINE my nomination. My below statements can therefore be removed from the #candidates-wg channel @shadowspub. Thank you!
I gladly offer my support to help setting up a Foundation which aims to advise(!) on managing and allocating liquid or staked funds of a single stake-holding party (Steemit Inc.) to advance the Steem ecosystem as a whole. Basically, an institution that aims to somewhat decentralize some of the influence of our platform's major stakeholder. I also understand the scope of the envisaged Foundation as to attract investments and donations from the outside and to make proposals to Steemit Inc which of these to top up._
_In contrast, I would not be able to support a Foundation that aims to govern Steem-wide matters or introduce changes to Steem’s core logic. That always has to be the task (and burden) of the Witness panel. In this context, I deem it mandatory that a Foundation refrains from using stake under its influence to directly or indirectly engage in witness voting. Especially in the (likely) event that witnesses or their proxies will become board members. Refraining from diverging portions of the Steem-Inflation towards the compensation of Board-Members and/or to finance the Foundation's operations is a commitment I would consider mandatory too.
Further self-restrictions may be necessary depending on the amount of funds allocated under the Foundation's influence.
Also, I will always oppose any proposal to weaken or even replace DPOS / stake-weighted voting as the single mean to consent on Steem-critical decisions. If you consider stake-weighted voting a flaw or worse you should NOT vote for me. Having said that, I consider second layer solutions for non-stake-weighted allocation of separate SMT-pools or 1account/1vote enabling dApps valuable additions to our Steemsphere.
These critical remarks are in no way intended to express a negative stance towards the intension of constituting a Foundation but rather to clarify the direction of my input that is to be expected in case of my participation in the working group.
If done well, I believe a Foundation that focuses on how to help allocating portions of Steemit Inc’s stake and on attracting financial commitments from the outside can be of tremendous value for all of us. I don’t foresee a role for myself in such an entity, but I will be happy to provide my input in order to set one up.
Thank you!
You for sure will have my vote buddy!!
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Shameless selfvote to lift this nomination up.
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Secnd this nomination!
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I wholeheartedly second this nomination.
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I nominate @redpalestino
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Nominating @jedigeiss - his thoughtfullness and age will take out the rush, his mind and knowledge will make things more secure and neutral!
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My brother @jedigeiss ! I second and third that!
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Could not agree more with your comments. I second that
(100% recht)
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I of course second that!
I second that guy 😎
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I second the nomination of @jedigeiss
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I second the nomination of @jedigeiss
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I nominate @twinner
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Will do it, but can not attend tomorrow in the town hall meeting, I'm on transit in this time.
Your acceptance is noted, and will be on ballot.
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I second the nomination of @twinner
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I nominate @edicted.
Very sharp blockchain thinker with some innovative ideas.
Conceived the idea of a Proof-of-Brain DAO and active member of the @dolphincouncil.
Posted using Partiko Android
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I second the nomination of @edicted, he can be a pain in the keyster sometimes but he knows his stuff.
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I nominate @alexvan
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Thank you for the nomination. I will respectfuly decline it. My votes shall go to @shaka, @twinner, @redpalestino, @jedigeiss and @sorin.cristescu
My nomination for the foundation still stands.
Oh Mann Alexander - Dich nominiere ich nochmal für irgendwas... haha
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I nominate @holger80
Thanks for nominating me!
I'm the wrong guy for such a job, I'm more the uncommunicative python nerd, who loves it to program.
I decline
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I second the nomination of @holger80
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I nominate @felixxx
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@felixxx declined in a Discord Server
the decline has to come from the nominee to be recorded as a decline .. thanks though.
I nominate @balte
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@balte declined.
Source: https://steemit.com/deutsch/@balte/re-theaustrianguy-re-cloudlynx-re-theaustrianguy-heute-ist-wahltag-auf-der-steem-blockchain-20190127t121905305z