[XDN] Foundation

[Brian Gerald]

XDN Foundation

Our goal:

Our mission is to inspire the world to adopt XDN more actively. Notably contrasting XDN’s decentralized nature, we unite our proponents and enthusiasts in a community to give them a louder voice and stronger acting power.
We believe in personal and financial freedom. The cryptonote technology employed in XDN allows its users to do completely anonymous and untraceable transactions, while ensuring secure note movement.
We strive to set the world free through XDN’s groundbreaking technology.

Our aim here is to give voice to everyone who wants to join the foundation or discussion about its operating issues. We want the foundation to be 100% community based and focused.

Our community:

Crowdfunding campagin results:

Our plans:

Attracting community experts

Finding key speakers with sufficient authority that will be able to adequately represent XDN’s community from both technical and philosophical standpoint.
Engaging with those figures and securing their continued cooperation and support for the Foundation.
Production, distribution and publication of press-releases covering the fact of experts joining the Foundation in major new publications.
Planning, organizing and conducting experts’ participation in major industry events and expos.
Helping distribute the articles regarding XDN written by experts to major news publications.
Organization of inside-foundation expert gatherings.

Finding and employing administrative and marketing personnel


Searching (both actively and passively) for capable people to fill in marketing and administrative vacancies within the Foundation.
Organizing and conducting highly effective selection, initial testing and onboarding processes.
Building an optimized organizational structure, ensuring that every participant of the Foundation is able to deliver a 100% performance on their goals.
Developing and maintaining a system of staff compensation and motivation.
Establishing channels of communication inside the Foundation to allow for secure, effective and fast communication of knowledge between its employees.


Developing sales channels:


Exchanges, e-shops, micropayment platforms, etc.
Developing a system for constant search and selection of partners for the XDN network.
Building the framework of communication with selected partners
Distinguishing people responsible for initial contact.
Figuring out best ways to approach new potential partners and secure cooperation with them.
Developing a pricing strategy for commercial partners.
Constant searching and selection of new partners and negotiation of the integration of the Digital note with them.


Newsmaking:

Negotiations with journalists and news publications
Compiling a shortlist of marketing agencies suitable for the cause of promoting the XDN in partnership with the Foundation.
Running a contest between the shortlisted agencies and selecting the best one.
Negotiating the terms of partnership with the winning agency and signing a contract with it.
Figuring out the best news triggers and writing press-releases in a tight cooperation with the partner agency.
Outsourcing the distribution and publication of the press releases to the agency.


Production of a series of educational videos

Producing the scripts for a series of 7-8 educational videos aimed at cryptocommunity newcomers, that will explain the downsides of Bitcoin and how Digital note solves those.
Designing the storyboards for the videos.
Hiring a contractor to produce videos based on the storyboards.
Distributing the videos to popular websites in the industry with newcomers as their principal audience.
Working in conjunction with the platforms hosting the videos to increase the videos’ SEO and drive newbies towards them.


Doing all this we aim to achieve next results: first of all we wish to at least double the number of XDN holders and raise XDN market capitalization up to $5 000 000. Second, we aim to introduce XDN to not less than two cryptocurrency exchanges and 50 businesses. All this should not be a problem considering how much we’ve already done with your support, and now when we have resources more results will follow.

If you have any ideas and suggestions that might help us reach our common goal - you are more than welcome. We really value every member of the community, your help and support which every day help us move forward. All what has been done so far, was made possible thanks to you!

XDN Foundation members:
In charge of administration - Brian Gerald
Spearheads finances - Xian_XDN
Responsible for marketing - JypsiCreme

XDN Foundation website:

xdnfoundation.org

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[DarkNote Books]

So here we are, moving on to our next goal of setting up the XDN foundation. Our aim here is to give voice to everyone who wants to join the foundation or discussion about its operating issues. We want the foundation to be 100% community based and focused. So the key focus now is on finding volunteers and employees for foundation, and working out a policy on their compensation, responsibilities and terms of work.

At the moment, I see three key positions that we need to fill: head of the foundation, administrator and senior marketing manager.

Whoever wants to apply for those positions please post a link to your CV here or send it to me in a PM.
If you do not want to apply for any of the above positions, but want to be actively involved in developing foundation policy, please shout out.

What are requirements for these positions?

[JforJoker]

Hah, another foundation - I hope you'll be more productive then the others.

I have some questions:
Where do you get your funding? And where do you plan get money for the foundation in the future? I mean you can't always rely on inner resources and donations.

[hodlbananas]

Are you working on the employment policy in-house? If you are open to suggestions, I have a few:

First of all, I don't think it's possible to define a well-working system right off the bat: there are just too many things factoring in and at least something you make up today is bound to fail to work properly tomorrow.

That being said, I think there are some basic things that can be determined before you even start. First of all, given the anonymous, decentralized nature of XDN, you probably won't be able to, or even should hire full-time, complete-commitment public figures to PR, senior management, or indeed, any other position. By doing so, you will contradict the very idea of the coin, which kinda makes the Foundation pointless.

Instead, I suggest you mostly rely on remote freelance personell with compensation made for achieving certain goals (not for worktime, or, god forbid, a fixed wage), which they define themselves, or the head of the foundation defines for them (each has its pros and cons, so you guys will have to make a judgment call here). You'll have to develop a set of tests to make sure that you hire people that are entirely capable of managing the tasks they are given and are willing to commit their time (which will probably be after their day-jobs) without the monetary compensation being their primary goal.

That way, you'll have a unified group of people working towards achieving a single goal (like your mission statement says), which is at the same time decentralized and, to a certain degree, autonomous, thus following the original philosophy of the XDN's developers.

[Brian Gerald]

Hah, another foundation - I hope you'll be more productive then the others.

I have some questions:
Where do you get your funding? And where do you plan get money for the foundation in the future? I mean you can't always rely on inner resources and donations.

Our aim is to make the Foundation a focal point of the community. Any member of the XDN community will be in a position to raise a question that the Foundation will have to address and make the necessary resolution. The community will be the primary beneficiary of the Foundation’s existence and, therefore, we expect the community to support the Foundation financially in the ongoing crowdfunding campaign. The Foundation will work for community and we hope the community will support the foundation with a though, word and action 

In this transition period, I will support the foundation with personal finances until the community will see the benefit of the Foundation and start supporting financially.

[Brian Gerald]

So here we are, moving on to our next goal of setting up the XDN foundation. Our aim here is to give voice to everyone who wants to join the foundation or discussion about its operating issues. We want the foundation to be 100% community based and focused. So the key focus now is on finding volunteers and employees for foundation, and working out a policy on their compensation, responsibilities and terms of work.

At the moment, I see three key positions that we need to fill: head of the foundation, administrator and senior marketing manager.

Whoever wants to apply for those positions please post a link to your CV here or send it to me in a PM.
If you do not want to apply for any of the above positions, but want to be actively involved in developing foundation policy, please shout out.

What are requirements for these positions?

Given the unconventionality of our endeavor, it’s somewhat difficult to develop rigid requirements for the announced positions. However, there are general qualities that, I believe, the candidate has to poses in order to be successful in securing the position at Foundation. Foremost, the candidate should be a proponent of the crypto philosophy with good understanding of the principles of doing business in crypto world. Secondly, he/she has to be passionate about the work he does. And lastly, the successful candidates will have to have exceptional communications skills as they will represent the whole XDN community to the world.

We will consider any CV receive and evaluate them according to the value the person will bring at the position to the community. Bursting passion could compensate for lack of experience.

I terms of specific roles:

Head of the Foundation: We are looking for a successful multi-skilled manager with experience of leading online communities and management of cross-functional teams.

Marketing manager: We are looking for a specialist with around 3 and above years of experience in marketing position with outstanding understanding of SMM, SEM, SEO and PPC.

Administrator: The successful candidate is likely to be a person who can effortlessly schedule ten meetings at different times at various locations a day, while skillfully managing all the document circulation in the office.

[hodlbananas]

So here we are, moving on to our next goal of setting up the XDN foundation. Our aim here is to give voice to everyone who wants to join the foundation or discussion about its operating issues. We want the foundation to be 100% community based and focused. So the key focus now is on finding volunteers and employees for foundation, and working out a policy on their compensation, responsibilities and terms of work.

At the moment, I see three key positions that we need to fill: head of the foundation, administrator and senior marketing manager.

Whoever wants to apply for those positions please post a link to your CV here or send it to me in a PM.
If you do not want to apply for any of the above positions, but want to be actively involved in developing foundation policy, please shout out.

What are requirements for these positions?

Given the unconventionality of our endeavor, it’s somewhat difficult to develop rigid requirements for the announced positions. However, there are general qualities that, I believe, the candidate has to poses in order to be successful in securing the position at Foundation. Foremost, the candidate should be a proponent of the crypto philosophy with good understanding of the principles of doing business in crypto world. Secondly, he/she has to be passionate about the work he does. And lastly, the successful candidates will have to have exceptional communications skills as they will represent the whole XDN community to the world.

We will consider any CV receive and evaluate them according to the value the person will bring at the position to the community. Bursting passion could compensate for lack of experience.

I terms of specific roles:

Head of the Foundation: We are looking for a successful multi-skilled manager with experience of leading online communities and management of cross-functional teams.

Marketing manager: We are looking for a specialist with around 3 and above years of experience in marketing position with outstanding understanding of SMM, SEM, SEO and PPC.

Administrator: The successful candidate is likely to be a person who can effortlessly schedule ten meetings at different times at various locations a day, while skillfully managing all the document circulation in the office.

So far you seem to be very focused on marketing activities, hiring only administrative and marketing personnel. To me that kinda sounds like pump&dump: blow a huge bubble out of nothing and then burst it for profit. Your intentions might be good, but the image you're casting can be considered bad by some people, including me.
I recommend you start looking for developers and IT people as well, so that you have a capability of producing new, necessary products, which you will then market.

[JforJoker]

To me that kinda sounds like pump&dump

Elaborate pump and dump is exactly what it is. But right now it doesn't seem that it's even working - all I see now is blabber and no actual pump or at least some action.

[sdmathis]

There are all these foundations controlling coins and all they are is another form of centralization. The coin goes from being centralized through the developer to being centralized through the foundation.

[Darknotenan]

I think this foundation should only work for the purpose of promoting XDN on the internet not represent it. XDN is not owned by anyone, not even the developers. It is up to each individual to value the price of their held XDN's based on the effort they put into mining them. It doesn't matter what the exchanges say. All we need is for the cryptocurrency to be known and to let the people know why Darknote is better than any fiat currency. I think Darknote should pay for itself. Just like Gold and Silver pays for itself.

[hodlbananas]

I think this foundation should only work for the purpose of promoting XDN on the internet not represent it. XDN is not owned by anyone, not even the developers. It is up to each individual to value the price of their held XDN's based on the effort they put into mining them. It doesn't matter what the exchanges say. All we need is for the cryptocurrency to be known and to let the people know why Darknote is better than any fiat currency. I think Darknote should pay for itself. Just like Gold and Silver pays for itself.

Well, I believe that some ways of promotion require a centralized organizing body: for example, adding a coin to as much exchanges as possible can be very helpful for letting people know about it, but there should be someone who will negotiate the addition of the coin to the exchange, or otherwise the natural process may take too long. I could think of more examples like that, but I'm sure you get my point: if the community wants to keep the momentum of promotion and really drive it home, there should be someone who will lead the way.
I do agree that the centralized controlling body becomes unnecessary when the popularity of the coin is secured and basically everyone knows about it, so I'd suggest the dissolution of the Foundation upon achieving the mission.

[KylePleaseNotAgain]

I think this foundation should only work for the purpose of promoting XDN on the internet not represent it. XDN is not owned by anyone, not even the developers. It is up to each individual to value the price of their held XDN's based on the effort they put into mining them. It doesn't matter what the exchanges say. All we need is for the cryptocurrency to be known and to let the people know why Darknote is better than any fiat currency. I think Darknote should pay for itself. Just like Gold and Silver pays for itself.

Well, I believe that some ways of promotion require a centralized organizing body: for example, adding a coin to as much exchanges as possible can be very helpful for letting people know about it, but there should be someone who will negotiate the addition of the coin to the exchange, or otherwise the natural process may take too long. I could think of more examples like that, but I'm sure you get my point: if the community wants to keep the momentum of promotion and really drive it home, there should be someone who will lead the way.
I do agree that the centralized controlling body becomes unnecessary when the popularity of the coin is secured and basically everyone knows about it, so I'd suggest the dissolution of the Foundation upon achieving the mission.

It's all good and well, but I am indeed interested in hearing some more specific examples of activities, or even a plan, because so far it was only laid out without consitency. I've even submitted my own attempts at designing their logo in another thread (check my post here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1066676.msg11476338#msg11476338) and tried applying to work with those guys, but got no coherent response.
Another thing that bugs me is how are they going to fund all the potential stuff they need to do.

[Brian Gerald]

There are all these foundations controlling coins and all they are is another form of centralization. The coin goes from being centralized through the developer to being centralized through the foundation.

I think this foundation should only work for the purpose of promoting XDN on the internet not represent it. XDN is not owned by anyone, not even the developers. It is up to each individual to value the price of their held XDN's based on the effort they put into mining them. It doesn't matter what the exchanges say. All we need is for the cryptocurrency to be known and to let the people know why Darknote is better than any fiat currency. I think Darknote should pay for itself. Just like Gold and Silver pays for itself.

I think this foundation should only work for the purpose of promoting XDN on the internet not represent it. XDN is not owned by anyone, not even the developers. It is up to each individual to value the price of their held XDN's based on the effort they put into mining them. It doesn't matter what the exchanges say. All we need is for the cryptocurrency to be known and to let the people know why Darknote is better than any fiat currency. I think Darknote should pay for itself. Just like Gold and Silver pays for itself.

Well, I believe that some ways of promotion require a centralized organizing body: for example, adding a coin to as much exchanges as possible can be very helpful for letting people know about it, but there should be someone who will negotiate the addition of the coin to the exchange, or otherwise the natural process may take too long. I could think of more examples like that, but I'm sure you get my point: if the community wants to keep the momentum of promotion and really drive it home, there should be someone who will lead the way.
I do agree that the centralized controlling body becomes unnecessary when the popularity of the coin is secured and basically everyone knows about it, so I'd suggest the dissolution of the Foundation upon achieving the mission.

The purpose of the XDN Foundation is to facilitate optimal and efficient XDN market penetration. The foundation will not compromise the decentralized nature of XDN by focusing on solely promoting the Darknote and widening its scope of use. The community will remain the driving force behind the XDN and the foundation.

In regards to the funding of XDN Foundation and continual promotion of XDN in the world, we developed the Foundation’s website and started initial negotiations with service vendors to include XDN into their payment systems. All this and some further actions are financed from my personal savings. We already have some first tangible results with the capitalization of XDN reaching close to $1 million (http://coinmarketcap.com/). Following the original idea behind the Foundation, it will be 100% community managed and crowdfunded. We have developed a section on the XDN Foundation website where any member of the community can financially support the Foundation in its attempt to promote XDN (http://xdnfoundation.org/fundraising). The section will start working soon.

[Darknotenan]

I think this foundation should only work for the purpose of promoting XDN on the internet not represent it. XDN is not owned by anyone, not even the developers. It is up to each individual to value the price of their held XDN's based on the effort they put into mining them. It doesn't matter what the exchanges say. All we need is for the cryptocurrency to be known and to let the people know why Darknote is better than any fiat currency. I think Darknote should pay for itself. Just like Gold and Silver pays for itself.

Well, I believe that some ways of promotion require a centralized organizing body: for example, adding a coin to as much exchanges as possible can be very helpful for letting people know about it, but there should be someone who will negotiate the addition of the coin to the exchange, or otherwise the natural process may take too long. I could think of more examples like that, but I'm sure you get my point: if the community wants to keep the momentum of promotion and really drive it home, there should be someone who will lead the way.
I do agree that the centralized controlling body becomes unnecessary when the popularity of the coin is secured and basically everyone knows about it, so I'd suggest the dissolution of the Foundation upon achieving the mission.

Sounds like a good idea.

[Brian Gerald]

We are still looking for enthusiasts and partners who can help us promote Darknote in the market. Two new team members have recently joined us at the Foundation – a motion artist and a marketing assistant. We are still looking for the head of the Foundation and a senior marketing manager. So, please, keep your CVs and PMs coming.

[Brian Gerald]

If you have ideas how to boost our XDN marketing effort, please join our discussion here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1066676.new#new

[Brian Gerald]

After we have established the Darknote Foundation’s website and started to employ new team members to drive the process of promoting the coin, we are looking to find a marketing communications company to spearhead this movement. I know a few marketing communications agencies in the community and outside it that have good experience in leading similar projects, but it’s important that the community contributes to this discussion. Which companies do you want to see in the tender to assist the XDN Foundation in promoting the Darknote?

[Xian_XDN]

Hello everyone!

I wanted to announce that we have launched a crowdfunding campaign on our recently released Darknote Foundation site: we have a long road ahead of us, making every effort possible to promote the XDN's cause, and all those activities will require funding.

The wallet address for donations is dddDuFCdYkmUYDPzxc52eiWkW3QMpawcF5b93tBjaHai12c6krts7GydAMTtD2qF2xaRMC5UvSrrURp gJQnGxdRG2aNscqke6.

Edit: here's the Payment ID to use with transactions: 28eaca07b76c4b0aeb140cfe4d1496eb3797a7ee5a6131f5d2356021d2aff361 so that we can keep a more thorough track of donations.

Currently we are conducting a market study into how many people are willing to invest money in this project and how much: after we are done with it, we will publish the funding target and the timeframe within which we're going to collect the XDN. In the meantime we are happy to accept just any sums you wish to invest.

In the nearest future we will also publish a plan for our short-term marketing activities, so that everyone can see what the collected money is going to be spent on.

The official page for this campaign is http://xdnfoundation.org/fundraising, please stay tuned to it and to this thread for upcoming updates on the campaign.

Thank you very much, and make the cash flow, guys Also, make sure to add some commentary to your donations, it can be anything: your name, the name of your site, etc. We'll make a list of donators shine eternally in our hall of fame on the Foundation's site.

P.S. I'll be donating a certain amount from my own pocket, in case if anything's wondering.

[KylePleaseNotAgain]

Hello everyone!

I wanted to announce that we have launched a crowdfunding campaign on our recently released Darknote Foundation site: we have a long road ahead of us, making every effort possible to promote the XDN's cause, and all those activities will require funding.

The wallet address for donations is dddDuFCdYkmUYDPzxc52eiWkW3QMpawcF5b93tBjaHai12c6krts7GydAMTtD2qF2xaRMC5UvSrrURp gJQnGxdRG2aNscqke6.

Currently we are conducting a market study into how many people are willing to invest money in this project and how much: after we are done with it, we will publish the funding target and the timeframe within which we're going to collect the XDN. In the meantime we are happy to accept just any sums you wish to invest.

In the nearest future we will also publish a plan for our short-term marketing activities, so that everyone can see what the collected money is going to be spent on.

The official page for this campaign is http://xdnfoundation.org/fundraising, please stay tuned to it and to this thread for upcoming updates on the campaign.

Thank you very much, and make the cash flow, guys Also, make sure to add some commentary to your donations, it can be anything: your name, the name of your site, etc. We'll make a list of donators shine eternally in our hall of fame on the Foundation's site.

P.S. I'll be donating a certain amount from my own pocket, in case if anything's wondering.

Cool! Did any $ come in already? If not, hope it'll start soon.

[hodlbananas]

Hello everyone!

I wanted to announce that we have launched a crowdfunding campaign on our recently released Darknote Foundation site: we have a long road ahead of us, making every effort possible to promote the XDN's cause, and all those activities will require funding.

The wallet address for donations is dddDuFCdYkmUYDPzxc52eiWkW3QMpawcF5b93tBjaHai12c6krts7GydAMTtD2qF2xaRMC5UvSrrURp gJQnGxdRG2aNscqke6.

Currently we are conducting a market study into how many people are willing to invest money in this project and how much: after we are done with it, we will publish the funding target and the timeframe within which we're going to collect the XDN. In the meantime we are happy to accept just any sums you wish to invest.

In the nearest future we will also publish a plan for our short-term marketing activities, so that everyone can see what the collected money is going to be spent on.

The official page for this campaign is http://xdnfoundation.org/fundraising, please stay tuned to it and to this thread for upcoming updates on the campaign.

Thank you very much, and make the cash flow, guys Also, make sure to add some commentary to your donations, it can be anything: your name, the name of your site, etc. We'll make a list of donators shine eternally in our hall of fame on the Foundation's site.

P.S. I'll be donating a certain amount from my own pocket, in case if anything's wondering.

Good job guys, you're moving forward pretty fast. Keep your momentum and this might turn into something big.