[ANN] Bitcoin Foundation Board Election Details Announced

[narayan]

I support Dmitry Murahchik.

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[charleshoskinson]

Elizabeth Ploshay is my favorite candidate so far, though I still need to do more research. I wish there had been more active forum users nominated.

If Adam is not running, then I will support Elizabeth.

[Rassah]

I support Dmitry Murahchik.

What? Why? 

[flix]

We should prepare a questionnaire for candidates, so that we can get them to state their position on the major issues that might come up. I'd love to get them on the record on several points.

[Rassah]

I hope Rassah wins as well, but probably not, since this is probably rigged.

Also Rassah if you do win, don't pull a Charlie Sherm, becoming too cool for the community kinda attitude.

Thanks! And nah, I'm a computer nerd through and through. I am very much uncool 

[HeroC]

This is going to be good...

[bernard75]

We should prepare a questionnaire for candidates, so that we can get them to state their position on the major issues that might come up. I'd love to get them on the record on several points.

Thats an excellent idea. Even better would be live interviews.

[FCTaiChi]

I'm not a fan of democracy, and this position isn't particularly important, but this election should be pretty interesting. It'll be the first big election in the Bitcoin ecosystem. There should be a lot of nice drama.

Don't worry, it's not a democracy when you have to buy in to vote, and you can pay $100k for your own board seat. 
Oh wait it's modeled on real rather than ideal democracy.  Never mind, you're right!

[RodeoX]

I'm not a fan of democracy, and this position isn't particularly important, but this election should be pretty interesting. It'll be the first big election in the Bitcoin ecosystem. There should be a lot of nice drama.

Don't worry, it's not a democracy when you have to buy in to vote, and you can pay $100k for your own board seat. 
Oh wait it's modeled on real rather than ideal democracy.  Never mind, you're right!

The only thing that the candidates are running for is the opportunity to work their asses off. Your comments suggest you have a better idea that doesn't cost money. Do tell.

[gweedo]

I'm not a fan of democracy, and this position isn't particularly important, but this election should be pretty interesting. It'll be the first big election in the Bitcoin ecosystem. There should be a lot of nice drama.

Don't worry, it's not a democracy when you have to buy in to vote, and you can pay $100k for your own board seat. 
Oh wait it's modeled on real rather than ideal democracy.  Never mind, you're right!

The only thing that the candidates are running for is the opportunity to work their asses off. Your comments suggest you have a better idea that doesn't cost money. Do tell.

Work their asses off? What board member is working their ass off? None, I have yet to see a board member do more for bitcoins than me or any other bitcoiner. It is a sham, and you are caught in it.

[FCTaiChi]

I'm not a fan of democracy, and this position isn't particularly important, but this election should be pretty interesting. It'll be the first big election in the Bitcoin ecosystem. There should be a lot of nice drama.

Don't worry, it's not a democracy when you have to buy in to vote, and you can pay $100k for your own board seat. 
Oh wait it's modeled on real rather than ideal democracy.  Never mind, you're right!

The only thing that the candidates are running for is the opportunity to work their asses off. Your comments suggest you have a better idea that doesn't cost money. Do tell.

I understand that there are many people gunning for TBF right now.  With no other context I would have gotten that impression myself.  Glad you said something.  I was more being playful with Theymos about his word choice than trying to dig TBF.  
I think that ultimately the community will need to find a way to fund the developers separately from any political action, as to avoid conflict in the basic design process.  This doesn't mean that TBF is superfluous or sinister.

As far as your financial matters, I am fine with however it needs to be done in your situation.  If you take offense to me saying that a pay wall is undemocratic then technically you are right.  There have always been restrictions to voting.

There may be a more direct way to pay for things related directly to development, there have been many proposals.  A recent one I saw was:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=210130.msg2209663#msg2209663

[Rassah]

Work their asses off? What board member is working their ass off? None, I have yet to see a board member do more for bitcoins than me or any other bitcoiner. It is a sham, and you are caught in it.

Did you see the long legal letter that was sent to California in response to the claim that the Foundation was being a money transmitter? That was at least public. Other than that, their members are flying all over the place, meeting with groups and politicians. That you don't really hear about. But they are working their asses off.

[Rassah]

Yes of course I know the California letter. I think that was handled great but that is because Patrick and the legal team for the foundation are that great! Maybe in my mind I heard foundation and thought it would be a step above all of us. I want to say "WOW' due to something the foundation does.

What has the Linux foundation done that made you go "wow?" My understanding is that foundations, being nonprofits and not for the purpose of designing or coming up with products and services, mainly exist to support things from the background, and thus are not really recognized or noticed for the little tweaks they do here and there.

Oh, how's this: When Gavin releases his multi-sig/multi-device authentication to the Bitcoin wallets, where your coins can no longer be stolen because they require two devices or a device and a service to spend, would that be a wow? That would be something that, at this point, is paid for directly by the foundation.

[Rassah]

Hearing about the grants for web wallets didn't exactly make me think they are spending the funds correctly as well.

Grants for web wallets? I missed that news. Can you elaborate of provide a link please?

[gweedo]

Hearing about the grants for web wallets didn't exactly make me think they are spending the funds correctly as well.

Grants for web wallets? I missed that news. Can you elaborate of provide a link please?

https://bitcoinfoundation.org/blog/?p=246

[sbfree]

anyone think eleuthria over at btc guild would a good foundation member make??

[sbfree]

ps,

i didnt ask him and not sure if he would want to anyway, just a thought....

[chmod755]

There are some new candidates now....

We should prepare a questionnaire for candidates, so that we can get them to state their position on the major issues that might come up. I'd love to get them on the record on several points.

I agree.

[dwdoc]

I am going to vote for whoever will best represent the members and interests of this forum. 

[Stephen Gornick]

Edit: Updated list. This should be the final candidate list.

There are three more names for the individual seat:

Individual Candidate: Joerg Platzer 
Individual Candidate: Ryan Deming 
Individual Candidate: Pedro Fernandes