Proposal “Weekly-keynotes-throughout-Ukraine“ (Completed)Back
Title: | Dash/cryptocurrency conferences throughout Ukraine |
Owner: | dmitriybtc |
Monthly amount: | 20 DASH (1206 USD) |
Completed payments: | 3 totaling in 60 DASH (0 month remaining) |
Payment start/end: | 2017-03-20 / 2017-06-18 (added on 2017-03-12) |
Votes: | 517 Yes / 133 No / 10 Abstain |
Proposal description
This is a brief overview of proposal. A detailed version can be found on dash forum.
Monthly conferences about cryptocurrency and Dash in Kiev and other cities of Ukraine.
Key points:
- first meetup was held on April 8th at Reikartz Zhytomyr (Zhytomyr) - report
- second meetup was held on April 20th at Hub 4.0 (Kiev) - report
- third meetup was held on April 26th at 1900Coworking (Kiev) - report
- forth meetup was held on June 17 at Optima Vinnitsia (Vinnitsia) - report
Dash presentations that were used:
If you have any questions or suggestions, let me know and consider voting YES.
Monthly conferences about cryptocurrency and Dash in Kiev and other cities of Ukraine.
Key points:
- 3 months
- price: 20 DASH
- proof of work (photos, videos) on twitter and separate forum thread
- events calendar and results on a website (https://blockchaintalks.com.ua)
- long-term commitment
- first meetup was held on April 8th at Reikartz Zhytomyr (Zhytomyr) - report
- second meetup was held on April 20th at Hub 4.0 (Kiev) - report
- third meetup was held on April 26th at 1900Coworking (Kiev) - report
- forth meetup was held on June 17 at Optima Vinnitsia (Vinnitsia) - report
Dash presentations that were used:
If you have any questions or suggestions, let me know and consider voting YES.
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It's working. I'm not sure why but Dashcentral adds "s" at the end :)
We would like to see.
https://twitter.com/dmitriybtc/status/846021672318717955
Good to see that you will set a date soon. Please update us on forums/blog/twitter each step of the way. We would love to see the presentation material, some pictures of the many locals scanning their dash QR cards, etc.
We would love to see a video of the meetup so put a video camera up if you can.
Dash evolution is getting closer every day and this will only become easier for you as the tools for the public to use become more user friendly.
Donations, meaning I'll contribute to Dash developers or communities who needs it right now.
To clarify, I'm not asking for additional money to make donations to others. It's just because of the price getting higher, people started to make proposals of where the additional money should go into.
I'm not entirely sure this approach is right but I suppose some sort of method of reallocating extra funds should be created.
Otherwise, people will always judge all of us :)
It would be smart to allocate ~$300 for Dash QR cards to promote the meetup. Think of how many people will show up if the first big group of them get free Dash after they show up and participate?
Now about those possible extra funds.
Take any extra funds and be sure you have some Dash t-shirts, stickers, informational cards, a pack of drinks/snack for people that attend, etc.
If the dash price drops a little bit, that will spend most of the funds, and if it rises a donation can always be made to Dash Core/Fondation for a few hundred dollars worth of Dash.
Lets keep this transparent of course, the node owners who are not sure if they will support always like to see where anything over your allocated $1200 is going.
Cheers and keep it legit mate :)
https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/budget-proposal-weekly-keynotes-throughout-ukraine.13544/#post-118441
Truth to be told, this month is kind of the last one for actual study. I'll have free April and May, June is when I'll have my diploma work.
And if it goes very well indeed, give yourself a raise next time around. After all, you will be a proven performer then.
In fact, if nobody new comes and tries to expand the community and make Dash more valuable, what's the point of all of this then?
It seems that with such decentralized governance it's harder to trust people, especially those who you don't know but I believe we have to overcome this.
A person is a person no matter where he is from and how long his involvement with Dash is.
The money is what probably bothers you the most, and I totally understand. I didn't expect the price of coin will rise so high either. But we already agreed the Max limit so there will be a lot more Dash giveaways for newcomers.
Traveling will be a part of my plan but I suppose that's okay to go to different cities and spread the word of Dash there as well.
I already see things coming together like a list of places to do meetups, a schedule, and I will keep my yes votes up pending the first successful meetup.
I can't vote because I don't have a masternode (yet). I see you live in Kyiv and that is where I live too. Let's have a coffee somewhere, I would like to talk about this idea and other proposals we could submit to make Dash mainstream :-)
Add me on Facebook (dmitriybtc), let's meet when you have spare time.
Fair amount of Dash, it's a great start to get involved with bigger projects! Good luck!
You got my vote!
We should look more to how much is left of the budget when voting as well. Why vote no to a lot of proposals and just burn the rest of the potential funding? Then no one gets it..
I'd rather see some sort of giveaway to new users who "prove their humanity" by publishing a short video on YouTube in order to get free Dash. Or a rainy day fund for the dev team, or any number of potential uses.
Surely Dash's opportunity to capture user growth is too short to simply burn $500k per month because we couldn't figure what else to do with it?
I get the "prevent dilution" argument, but Dash is on a roll and burning such a large sum of Dash doesn't seem like the best decision for the community as a whole.
So I'm not planning to speak at somebody's meetings or conferences. That's my long term plan.
Instead, for now I'm planning to create meetings or events so that other people can come over.
That doesn't mean I'm not going to speak at other people's events. It simply means that I'm not on that level yet, it all takes some time.
Budget allocation I probably will do today so that other people can see what is going for.
Evaluation of how good or bad I made a presentation will be simply made my attendees on a Facebook page or some other resource that I may accidentally find. Also I'll record the presentation on video, make some photos and put all of the on a blog.
This weekend I'll meet a few people in crypto space. I'll let everybody know how it went. As always it will be on my blog.
- all presentations are announced (tour scheme),
- live presentations are video- or audio-streamed
- people are invited to give feedback after the presentation by means of a survey and or feedback
This could give a good insight and will give the possibility to make the presentations better and better.
In my case, I don't want to talk a lot about very low-level deep information about Dash but instead to show people who have never heard about crypto an alternative financial system which already works.
My main focus will be to:
1) Introduce people to the world of digital currency in the simplest way that will make total sense to them.
2) Emphasize on importance of usability and problems with mass adoption in this space.
3) How Dash and Dash Evolution is going to change this and what problems it already solved (instant transaction confirmation, privacy, a very unique infrastructure, voting and budgeting system).
By the way, I recently had an idea of publishing the text/script of my presentations on my blog so that you all can check it out.
What's your thoughts on this one?
Besides it is very interesting to tap into psychology of how to market to general public, even if the product haven't been launched yet. In any case I'll keep sharing the progress on my blog so that you know.
Some looming questions. What venues will you book to speak? Will this be costly? How will you get people to show up and be interested? What kind of presentation will you be giving and is it factual / logical? (perhaps ask some questions in slack about your presentation or let us see the script)
I like the idea, I hope to see you stay engaged with the Dash community on here, proposal dash forums, and #proposal channel in Slack. This will be your best chance at getting approved! Good luck and keep up the hard work.
2) This week I'm planning to contact most of them to figure out the details. Usually there's some cost involved but not that big.
3) I will start with low hanging fruit and ask my friends to share the details of event with others. Also usually all of those coworking spaces have a website where they put up information about upcoming events so that people know in advance. Plus I might do Facebook ads to target people with certain interests and certain areas.
4) I'm thinking on presentation style right now. I want it to be very simple to understand and digest because not many people know about cryptocurrency.
5) As a start I will do it on Russian and after I get comfortable I'll do it for foreigners but I will definitely ask questions on slack so don't worry about that.
Also I'm trying to figure out the best way to share my progress, maybe I'll create a YouTube channel which will add an extra layer of hassle, fun and transparency on me :)
I know this is all challenging and takes lots of preparation but it is very exciting as well.
A few people do this that this is a bit expensive (and the dash price continues to go up). I hope you will consider that dash cards loaded with funds to burn some that we discussed on slack. Maybe have some fun on social media giving a few of them out.
Hope to see some lovely screen shots (and of course be sure not to accidentally share those private keys on the internet in a picture).
http://imgur.com/a/4vLRY
Keep up the good work, good luck!
The agreement between the Dash community and @dmitriybtc is a max of $1200 USD per month, for 3 months, with all excess funds donated in the form of "Dash QR Cards" (Paper Wallets) either at meetups or on social media to gain attention for meetups.
When the Dash funds arrive to the proposal address the community will be able to see how they are spent! Please load the cards using a simple amount like .25 Dash so this can be easily verified. So excited to see some pretty Dash QR Cards being handed to those eager to learn about cryptocurrency.
Thank you again for working with the community to come to a reasonable goal. Will check back in soon to see how things are going and please feel free to share your presentation ideas in the slack chat.
It will be a very interesting process for me and for others as well.
By the way, I'm moving towards creating a Vlog where I'll document this whole process and my journey with Dash. It will be absolutely fun and educational to watch it 2 months from now.
What do you think about this idea?
Slow and steady wins the race.
I think you know the best ways to appeal to your community, and have the farthest reach possible as you are a local and know the area.
As for the knowledge and training thanks God we have Internet and Amanda's videos, various blog post on the web etc. And I have a very great group of friends who are leading developers and cryptocurrency enthusiasts.
My main purpose of presentations is not to talk about deep technical stuff because nobody will care and understand it. My main goal though is to show people an alternative of the current financial system, and how can they incorporate Dash specifically into their life and/or business.
As I already told, I will make presentations for different sectors, and my core strategy will be to find their biggest problems and offer them sweet solutions.
For instance, the biggest problems in retail are chargebacks, fraud, big transaction fees (3-4%), a lack of consistent flow of new and returning customers.
By thinking from this perspective I can say that Dash can eliminate chargebacks, secure their payments, reduce trx fees, create a brand new type of clients etc. Obviously it's a very short sample, we can dig deeper and find even more.
So my point is that we have to approach different types of people with distinct angle that will speak directly to them. Also one of the keys will be to present them a Dash Evolution, even though it's not even an Alpha version yet. I always found it's better to show people that cryptocurrency space is working, it's just the absence of apps that is the main cause of its slow growth.
And yeah, here's my top 10 reasons of why I think Dash rules the world:
10) Although there are 3 types of cryptos that have a privacy feature (Dash, Monero, ZCash), Dash is the only one that can be used by normal human beings, not nerds. Monero is kind of like Linux, and ZCash don't even have a wallet yet.
9) It is the only cryptocurrency that actually cares about user experience, even with the current Dash wallet. Coinbase is the only one that makes crypto easy to use but still it is a 3-rd party.
8) Dash is the only network that pays for running full nodes which is fairly important.
7) Dash is the first real working DAO and their approach to take what is already working and make it decentralized rather than creating something from scratch is phenomenal.
6) Dash has one of the strongest, most secure and sybil-resistant networks.
5) Amanda B Johnson. No comments :)
4) Dash is the only network that is funded by its Blockchain. Thus it cares about developers, marketers, managers, and long-term strategy. Basically Dash is the only one who can survive independently from the other companies or networks because their governance model is mind-boggling.
3) Dash will be the first non 3-rd party service that will pay you interest. That alone eliminates the necessity to have a bank account.
2) Dash is the only one who cares about merchants and small businesses who need an instant transaction's confirmation.
1) Dash is the only one who cares about everything that non of the rest of cryptocurrencies don't. They are doing things right.
P.S. Most of the items apparently are applied for Dash Evolution specifically but that's a good thing I guess. And probably there are a lot more, I may miss some.
I hope this this clarification helps you at some extent.
But right now, the added value (given the insane budget...) that you can bring > 0, and there are not enough proposals to cover the budget.
Also you took a risk by paying 5 dash on a very low request. You have my nodes