Introducing Witness Team Alpha! - @team.alpha
Witness Team Alpha
Introduction
Greetings community, we are launching Witness Team Alpha! The idea of Witness Teams is described here and Witness Team Alpha is the first implementation. We are creating an organization funded by witness pay that consists of a combination of experienced witness node operators, software developers, marketers to support and grow the Steem ecosystem. There has already been a trend of using witness pay to fund Steem community and software development projects, but this Witness Team is more formalized than previous approaches. It would be great to see many more Witness Teams in the future!
We hope to receive your votes! Thank you!
Mission
- Maintain reliable witness node block validation & price feeds
- Evaluate & maintain witness parameter settings and approve new blockchain features
- Grow the number of Steem users with marketing initiatives
- Increase engagement of existing users with a variety of Steem projects
Goals
99.99% reliability in block production & price feeds
Acquire 10,000 new Steem users in 6 months
About
Team Alpha is composed of Steemit community members who have significant experience running witness nodes and include blockchain, software development and digital marketing entrepreneurs.
Witness Operations
@lafona has extensive experience running witness nodes on the Bitshares, Muse, and Steem blockchains. He will share maintenance & emergency duties with @picokernel who is a long-time witness operator for Steem and @xeroc who is a Steem and graphene blockchain expert.
[Note: @lafona currently runs a witness node ranked #28, @picokernel runs a witness node ranked #41 and @xeroc runs a node ranked #16]
Growth Marketing & Software Development
@sirwinchester is a multi-talented Entrepreneur, Investor, Programmer, Specialist in Social Media Marketing, Writer and Dancer/Artist. He’s travelled around the world and has over 50,000 Instagram followers. He is a co-founder of WeCare4U, a digital marketing agency focused on brand strategy and design.
@mrs.steemit is Co-founder and COO of WeCare4U and is an Instagram Brand Builder/Ambassador and Social Media Marketing Consultant
@allasyummyfood - Youtuber and chef has independently grown her social media following for her cooking channel to nearly 200,000 facebook and over 60,000 Youtube followers. She also does all her own photography, filming, editing, and marketing.
@roelandp - organizer of Steemfest, fullstack developer has created the following projects: Radio Steem, Steemtools, Steem-o-Graph, Steemfighter, SteemyOrNot, SteeMVP, Steemstream, Steemstory
@picokernel - fullstack developer and created the following projects: Squeek, Peep
@steemrollin - founder of Peerhub & Bitcash
Advisors
@xeroc is a blockchain and Steem expert and founder/CEO of Chainsquad GmbH, a blockchain development company. He is also the creator of Piston, python tool and library for Steem and Streemian, a curation, blogger syndication, and notification tool.
@faddat is a blockchain & devops specialist and Co-founder/CTO of the Dawn multichain blockchain project.
@modprobe is a blockchain engineer and one of the architects of the Graphene Blockchain Framework, the foundation upon which Steem and Bitshares are based.
How do you support us?
Please Vote
Resteem
to spread the word! Thank you!
Who is administrating the witness node?
Good question. @lafona is the primary witness operator, but he, @picokernel and @xeroc will help share the monitoring/emergency duties. Thanks!
Will all of them have access to the owner key? Anyone else?
They will all have the active key. The owner key will be with @lafona until we find the best way to set up multisig in the future. Thanks!
Very excited to be a part of this! I'm looking forward to our future projects.
Thanks @steemrollin for bringing us all together.
Steem on everyone!
It's a veritable All Star team! Looking forward to seeing what you can accomplish.
Thanks so much for the support and look forward to sharing progress with you!
Very excellent initiative team!
Excellent to hear and thank you!
How you would like to achieve that? Goal should be S.M.A.R.T.. How you are going to measure that you will bring 10k users, and not someone else?
Love the goal, but I would also like to see a concrete action plan for this.
Yes it will be important to measure our progress and there are tools available to do that. Some outreach efforts will be easier to track than others, but we will be focused on just one in the beginning . The overall goal of user acquisition for Steemit is hopefully 100k+ and above within that time frame.
This looks outstanding! You guys get my vote! :)
Thanks so much for the support @jrcornel!
10k new users within 6 months? Yes please :)
Yes that is the goal and the plan and thanks for the support!
Several of my favorite people on steemit :) You get my vote that's for sure.
Thanks! Hopefully everyone on the team will be among your favorites soon!
Cool!
Very! Thanks!
Great idea, you got my witness vote! Has the team been tossing around any ideas regarding how to reach that 10,000 new users goal?
Thanks for the support @shenanigator! Yes preliminary discussions, but it should narrow down to just one focus after some iteration.
This is going to be amazing!!!