[NXT] Community nominations to the funding comittee

[Damelon]

One thing is clear: People should not think of this committee group as the officials who are solely responsible for Nxt to develop further into the future. Everyone in the community still needs to develop ideas and think on their own. The committees are first and foremost responsible for the unclaimed coins as a source for bounties and initiators of discussions on ideas from the community.

This is no foundation.

The committees (as has already been voted on) are only there to approve the funds, not to initiate their own (although individuals will obviously do so, just not as part of their committee duties).

This means that people should ASK if they have something worthwhile.

I talked to neer.g yesterday and he particularly stressed this part himself. He created the Nxtcommunityfund to be used and was a bit non-plussed that people didn't come forward and ask for them. These funds are not the Nxtcommunityfund of course, but the same kind of reasoning applies, I think.

There are many creative people out there that could benefit from these funds if they have something to bring to the table.
Asking doesn't mean they will get them, but not asking will make that a certainty.

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[bitcoinpaul]

jefdiesel,  jl777, Anon136, joefox, l8orre, Allwelder, Uniqueorn, VanBreuk, EvilDave, salsacz, opticalcarrier, msin and all the others who are still not in the list... Please consider it!

[Damelon]

jefdiesel,  jl777, Anon136, joefox, l8orre, Allwelder, Uniqueorn, VanBreuk, EvilDave, salsacz, opticalcarrier, msin and all the others who are still not in the list... Please consider it!

Seconded

And you yourself?

[allwelder]

jefdiesel,  jl777, Anon136, joefox, l8orre, Allwelder, Uniqueorn, VanBreuk, EvilDave, salsacz, opticalcarrier, msin and all the others who are still not in the list... Please consider it!

thanks for nomination.
As far as I know ,the vote result of funding committee has been out.

[Zahlen]

This means that people should ASK if they have something worthwhile.

I talked to neer.g yesterday and he particularly stressed this part himself. He created the Nxtcommunityfund to be used and was a bit non-plussed that people didn't come forward and ask for them. These funds are not the Nxtcommunityfund of course, but the same kind of reasoning applies, I think.

Some of us (like myself) may not have realized that. And personally, I'm still held back by social conditioning. Don't know what's worth asking for. I feel much more comfortable when other people offer (e.g. though tips and donations) than when I request.

I really like what James is doing with the contests. Get people thinking about Nxt and involved in useful, fun things for Nxt prizes.

[rickyjames]

NXT FUND SPENDING COMMITEE MEMBERSHIP SELECTION UPDATE

Since I'm the guy that slammed on the brakes back on page 1854 about no spending from the new NXT community funds until fund committees get organized, and since everybody generally seems to think that was an OK move, I feel the responsibility to try and get the ball rolling again on committee organization.  Here we go.

To organize a small group of people to spend big piles of money, there has to be a legitimate, transparent process to give them that power.

The legitimate, transparent process we have gone through in this NXT community is that we have made the funding committee positions open to everyone.

utopianfuture on Feb 2 started a funding committee nomination thread, almost three weeks ago:  

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=445209.0

rickyjames on Feb 7-8 summarized the nominations made to that date in an identical post placed at four different forum locations:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=345619.msg5007861;topicseen#msg5007861
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=445209.msg5007872#msg5007872
https://nextcoin.org/index.php/topic,3890.msg36822.html#msg36822
https://forums.nxtcrypto.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=753&p=3579&hilit=rickyjames#p3579

Each of these posts ended with:
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NXT continues to develop at an incredible pace.  If you've read this far, it's because you care about NXT.  Consider applying for a committee seat to help take it further.

NXT Community Nominations To The Funding Committee (NCNTTFC) thread :

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=445209.0
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The only further new nominations at all forum sites made as a result of these posts were:

drevil was nominated for TechDev by gs02xzz
hughmanwho and SecondLeo were nominated for the infrastructure committee by hughmanwho

Come-from-Beyond on Feb 9 accepted Pouncer, klee and neer.g as treasurers of techdev, infrastructure and marketing funds respectively, and the 8,714,025 unclaimed NXT from the genesis block under his control was split equally among their assigned funds.  Treasurers have NO authority to make spending decisions.  Their role is to be a bank vault and only let money out when it is authorized by a "designated spending authority" - in this case, a SINGLE spokesperson from an elected committee, to be chosen by that committee once it is elected.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=445209.msg5032217#msg5032217
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=445209.msg5040620#msg5040620

Audit spreadsheets of NXT Fund assets are now permanently available , with the spreadsheet layout still being optimized at:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AoE8nAOEMIa7dFFnWjRNYTM4RkhsN3dRRXFBaTBiaHc#gid=14 ,

Pinarello on Feb 18 picked up efforts to elect spending committee members by opening a spreadsheet for expressions of interest by people actually willing to serve (instead of just being nominated by others):

the post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=445209.msg5220880#msg5220880
the spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsrKGhOkVcFpdFRFeHNUdWx3Qy1nTjBPLUFNWUJKQkE&usp=sharing#gid=0

At the time of this writing, the only new names on this volunteer spreadsheet that have not been previously nominated as described above are:

^[GS]^, abuelau, Arckam (frmelin), bloodyrookie, Chanc3r, ChuckOne, CIYAM, Cointropolis_JustabitTime, Fry, Mario123, Pandaisftw, Ricot, TwinWinNerD, Zahlen, ZeroTheGreat

Thus 55 nominees were picked after the three week nomination process described above, conducted over all three major NXT forum sites, allowing both self-nominations and nominations by others:

^[GS]^, 2Kool4Skewl, abuelau, Allwelder , Anon136
Arckam_(frmelin), bitcoinpaul, bloodyrookie, brooklynbtc, buybitcoinscanada
Chanc3r, ChuckOne, CIYAM Open, Cointropolis_JustabitTime, Come-from-Beyond
Damelon, davethetrousers, drevil, EmoneyRu, EvilDave
ferment, Fry, hughmanwho, Jean-Luc, brooklynbtc
jl777, Joefox, Kattywampus, Klee, l8orre
landomata,laowai80, Mario123, msin, mww
nextern, opticalcarrier, Pandaisftw, Passion_ltc, PeercoinEnthusiast
pinarello, Pouncer, rickyjames, Ricot, salsacz
SecondLeo, smaragda, Asian Prepper, TwinWinNerD, Uniqueorn
Utopianfuture, VanBreuk, Wesleyh, Zahlen, ZeroTheGreat



By the power vested in me from being full of hot air and having a big mouth, I hereby declare the period for accepting NXT Funding Committee nominations to be over.

Anybody that has a problem with that, quote just the red line above and give it a -1.  God help us if that happens.

Since I've still got some hot air left and I still have a big mouth:

We're gonna do a week of campaigning, and we're gonna have a one week long vote starting March 1.

Anybody that has a problem with that, quote just the red line above and give it a -1.  God help us if that happens.

Campaigning is gonna work like this.  I've opened up a new thread, NXT Funding Committee Nominee Statements:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=479167.new#new

If you are a nominee listed above, and you want to serve on ONE AND ONLY ONE of the NXTmarketingfund, NXTtechdevfund and NXTinfrastructure fund spending committees, go post your willingness to serve on this thread.  State the committee you want to be on, and make a statement if you want about why you think you would be a good member for that committee.  

If you are not willing or able to make one single post on this thread, you probably aren't good committee material.  Just sayin'.

I will PM links to this post to all nominees at all sites and will repost it at the other two forums.

I have set up polls on whether each committee should have 5 or 7 members.  Go vote.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=479190.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=479200.new#new
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=479214.new#new

I will set up three more polls for declared candidates on March 1 and repost everywhere calling for a vote for the agreed upon number of committee members for that committee.

Yes, I'm being a dictator here.  Sorry about that.  At least I am a dictator with a suggestion box, speak up if you've got a problem or an idea.

And I'm a dictator that's gonna step down on March 7, the day after I get back from representing NXT at Texas Bitcoin Conference.  

Because on March 7, there WILL be elected committees.  (I hope).