hahahahaaa,

long before there were "bylaws for coins", or bureaucrats for govts, or written text for people there were 'common laws' -- unwritten understandings that guided you through life.  As the earth got more populated and people lived closer and closer there was greater need for more well defined understandings and expectations.

The bylaws are for the continuity of the respective communities not so much for the coin itself, look around do you see any coin communities without a developer, do you know of any coin communities that was PND raided to the point of near death; how about this do you know of any coin communities that don't have a 'foundation'?  

The simple facts are: without leadership a coin will surely die, and without an organized membership coin communities will suffer greatly when adversity strikes.  Bylaws make it easier to know what to do, and what to expect, that's what every civilized society wants, expects, and deserves.

Not one family has ever existed without rules, even if it only had one rule -- 'no rules'.

Spoetnik, you received a real invitation to sit on a real committee, vetting a real project, for a real cause-coin.   

I don't know why you are paranoid, I know it's probably rare for you to get invitations to do good, but yes its real.

After seeing a number of your posts I've come to the conclusion that you appear to have a sincere desire to willingly
see negativity where none exist in order to have something to complain about, that is both intriguing and perplexing.
Nevertheless it may serve a good purpose on a vetting committee in which their purpose is to find things that may
otherwise be hard to see.  A vetting committee is actually looking for bad in order not to reward evil, although we
are careful not to manufacture facts.

Take the opportunity to put your dreadful paranoia to good work, join the EMC2 vetting committee.

1)  Your comment is clearly off-topic.  The topic is 'coin bylaws' not 'poloniex chatter'.

2)  I see your personal motto is: "FUD first and ask questions later"

3)  As for the Ebola matter, the Ebola initiative was a major project that needed to involve multiple cause-coins.  Each of the cause-coins would likely have to do a preliminary examination of the effort, to determine if their respective leadership wanted involvement, and to what extent.  Then to present their intentions to their respective communities for guidance.  A delegation from each of the interested cause-coins would come together, with or without delegates from other coins, to form a leadership body for the project.  From that leadership body would originate the particulars for involvement including but not limited to: ebola research funding targets, ebola education and awareness efforts, and any other ebola related concern. 

Of the 5 coins that expressed some level of involvement interest, only two boards approved the preliminary measure, and only one community approved the measure.

When the idea was first presented, I said there was no way our tiny research grant budget could do anything meaningful about the Ebola matter.  But later I realized that if all we did was to donate 1 million EMC2 to any worthy cause connected to Ebola cure research it would be well worth the effort.  However, the  1M coins would still be worth less than $1000.  So it wasn't likely to get the appreciation we would want for our effort, so the notion of finding strategic partners for the effort was considered.  What we found was as we broadened the pool of participants (other coins) it became easier to move from our intended target of scientific research for Ebola to some bigger target like Ebola awareness.

So the question was put out there, 'do you want to help fight Ebola with your coin'?  not many people answered the question and only 30% of the participants said yes. 

One thread on the matter in the btc area was over heated because specific individuals could not understand how funds and resources could be pledged for an effort that didn't have a well defined target -- 'how do you raise money for Ebola research but not know who the money will go to'.   To me that was like saying, 'how do you start saving for your child's college fund, when you don't know what college s/he will go to'.    NOTE, NO ONE was asked to donate a sat to anything, the discussion was strictly to measure  grassroots sentiments on the matter.

The measure didn't move forward because we didn't receive what I felt was the necessary minimum number of cause-coin participants of 3.  The effort had to be multilateral not just bilateral.   Although the EMC2 board approved the measure to move forward and had the power to disburse EMC2 donated funds to a cause they themselves saw as worthy,  for that particular measure they sought the overwhelming support of the EMC2 community, sadly it was not forthcoming.  A lot of homework went into studying how we could do something about the Ebola matter, sadly we ended up doing NOTHING.   

EMC2 did nothing about the Ebola crisis, the cause-coins did nothing about the Ebola crisis, and the cryptocurrency industry did nothing about the Ebola crisis, absolutely nothing -- what a shame.

4)  Spoetnik, EMC2 has a mandate to give funds to deserving scientific research projects, currently we are preparing to vet a project: 
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=494708.msg9631987#msg9631987  it just so happens that the vetting committee has 1 more seat available I think would
serve you well to take.  The exercise will give you a better perspective on EMC2 and how things are responsibly done by cause-coins.  Hopefully you move from destructive FUD and move towards constructive engagement.

The Einsteinium (EMC2) foundation is currently working on creating a set of bylaws for the organization, you are invited to help us in this endeavor.

As you will see once the process is completed for EMC2, with minimal revisions for customizations specific to the coin, country, etc ..., you have a set of bylaws for your coin too.

Here is a good reference http://nonprofitally.com/start-a-nonprofit/nonprofit-bylaws: "Your nonprofit’s Bylaws are your organization's internal affairs guidebook. Your Bylaws establish procedures for holding elections, organizing meetings, quorum requirements, membership structure (if needed) and other essential operations of your nonprofit.

Your Bylaws will serve as your organizational manual and will help guide you through the orderly operation of your [foundation]."


Here is the original document: http://nonprofitally.com/resources/sample_bylaws_nonprofitally_no_notes.pdf
Here is was pasted in: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eZoES8nKwh3iN4jeEhaa_b8gw8pCEwmQ8le4hWrxEuo/edit?usp=sharing

There are many ways you can help, you could read the document and indicate what you feel should be changed or included; or you could send me your email address to get permission to edit the document.

The project will be divided into 4 parts:

1)  Style layout - after we bring pasted document to the same layout as the original document, we then add, move, and/or remove content to achieve a targeted layout.
2)  General changes - place items specific to Einsteinium in document.
3)  Committee changes - change content to receive final committee approval.
4)  Board changes - change content to receive final board approval.


thanks for your help, and hope it helps your community too

The one vote pers person, is understandable per coin; but if the rule is one vote per person period, that would be foolish.  There is no one in the alt community that has allegiance to only one coin; and highly unlikely that they are only associated with only a single coin, or only invested in a single coin.   But I'm not here to push "the spirit of the rule" only to make life better for everyone through cooperation.   Sorry it could not work out this time.

We will do a strategic partnership deal in the future.



 

The rules for coinpayments.net are rather odd, however if there is a way to do a cross vote deal, ie: you promise to provide 3 votes to EMC2 and I will promise to provide 3 votes to HBN, would you agree?  

This would be a strategic partnership to advance the mutual goals of non-associated coins, let me know if you agree with the premise so that we could then examine the details.

could I be pointed to the merchants that accept HBN

Yes, Community coin is still accepted at https://sites.google.com/site/einsteiniumbiz/shopping

It's really great if you could get on coinpayments, it's a tough one,  but should be worth it if it happens.

good luck. 


btw, your project is in my sig, and I travel alllll over this site.

EMC2 is convening a Vetting Committee

A few days ago I received a message that said in part: "I am a scientist ... at the University of Pennsylvania ... I am working on [the problem of] sleep loss
Some of my work was mentioned http://www.neuroscientistnews.com/research-news/memory-problems-caused-sleep-deprivation-prevented ..."

I did a cursory examination of the facts, and have found that the project is real and that the dots connect.  Now I would like to have the researcher and project vetted for fitness. 

To me this looks like a good project, I want it checked thoroughly so that the board can make a truly informed decision.

I would appreciate it if 3 to 5 people would volunteer to join this committee.   I will appoint a committee chair and will provide some guidance, the committee chair will determine the exact direction that the committee will travel.

Let me know if anyone from this thread is interested in being a part of the EMC2 vetting committee for specifically for this project.



[edit]  Nov 24, we have our first committee member, we now need 2 to 4 more members (including the chairman)

Apparently the above project was too ambitious, it failed to move beyond initial talks.

Will keep this coin in mind for other projects.

Vetting Committee Wanted

A few days ago I received a message that said in part: "I am a scientist ... at the University of Pennsylvania ... I am working on [the problem of] sleep loss
Some of my work was mentioned http://www.neuroscientistnews.com/research-news/memory-problems-caused-sleep-deprivation-prevented ..."

I did a cursory examination of the facts, and have found that the project is real and that the dots connect.  Now I would like to have the researcher and project vetted for association fitness.  

To me this looks like a good project, I want it checked thoroughly so that the board can make a truly informed decision.

I would appreciate it if 5 people would volunteer to join this committee.   I will appoint a committee chair and will provide some guidance, the committee chair will determine the exact direction that the committee will travel.

Let me know if you are interested in being a part of the vetting committee for this important project.



[edit]  Nov 24, we have our first committee member, we now need 4 more members (including the chairman)
[edit]  Nov 24, very pleased to report we have 3 committee member, we are in need of 2 more
[edit]  Nov 25, the committee is now composed of 4 members, we need 1 more member.
[edit]  Dec 9, the committee is now at target capacity -- 5 members.










I nominate Varvarin.

THOSE are some seriously "fine" coins -- WOW!

very many people think as you think, and that's because as soon as an alt gets on an exchange the developers strike gold and finally paid for long months of hard work.  Instead of them taking the coin to the next level (utility) they rather go back to what they know best and just start coding a new coin with a different twist.

A cryptocurrency is not a true currency if it isn't used as a currency, if it is only, or primarily, traded on exchanges that would make it a commodity not a currency.

 

I nominate Varvarin.

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If this is in reference to the Report To The Community message, it is a statement written on behalf of the board which may be written by anyone committed to the EMC2 community and willing to interact closely with the board. 

Ideally it should originate from a board member, but that isn't necessary however it must receive unanimous board content before release. 

The general protocol is as follows: it should have a bit of the past, the present, and future, should be factually true, serve to motivating, and be relevant.  It should provide notice, congratulations, and perhaps some advice.  In rare occasions when individual board members are speaking each should be quoted directly (as board members not officers).

Let's all chip in where we can to make EMC2 what we want it to be.

I'm on everyday without a hitch. 

Nevertheless, go with your instincts and critical thinking. 

That was nice of you.   

Well I'm glad the wormhole is closed now, that was a whole lot of coins -- wow!.


Varvarin, let me be the first to congratulate you on your nice sig.

yup, that's one sure way to lose your money