Proposal “all-things-open-2016“ (Closed)Back

Title:All Things Open Conference 2016
Owner:perrywoodin
One-time payment: 94 DASH (5303 USD)
Completed payments: 1 totaling in 94 DASH (0 month remaining)
Payment start/end: 2016-10-05 / 2016-11-19 (added on 2016-09-22)
Final voting deadline: in passed
Votes: 868 Yes / 30 No / 0 Abstain

Proposal description

This proposal seeks funding for expenses to represent Dash at the All Things Open conference in Raleigh, NC October 26-27, 2016. https://allthingsopen.org/. The conference organizers reached out and asked if someone from Dash would be interested in presenting, with no payment required. Last year attendance was around 1,700 people. They have a blockchain track and there are Bitcoin, Ethereum and Hyperledger presentations already scheduled. This is a great opportunity to present Dash to a potentially new audience.

Perry Woodin from Node40 offered to speak. The 45 minute presentation will be about Dash (using Evan’s Atlanta presentation as the base) with a concentration on how Dash has changed the funding model for development and infrastructure. This aspect should be particularly interesting for the All Things Open audience. Note this will be a presentation about Dash (NOT about Node40).

Conference Website: https://allthingsopen.org/ Funding of this proposal will be for the following expenses:
  1. Air travel: $611.20
  2. Ground transportation in Raleigh: $40 (est)
  3. Lodging: $189 x 2 nights.

Total: $1,029.20

Requested funding is as follows for the October budget cycle:
  1. 89.03 Dash for conference expenses. ($1,029.20 USD @ $11.56 per http://coincap.io on September 22, 2016)
  2. 5.00 Dash reimbursement for the proposal cost.

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0 points,8 years ago
im voting yes for this as well.
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0 points,8 years ago
All for it and GL with presentation.
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0 points,8 years ago
Definite yes from me, Perry helped me set-up my masternode, and this is a very cost-effective way to spread the Dash gospel. Will the talk be filmed? Could you upload the talk online? I'd be interested to watch it! Thankyou Perry
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0 points,8 years ago
I will ask the organizer for details about access (either streamed or recorded) and will report back. Thanks for the vote.
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0 points,8 years ago
Heard back from the organizer. They would like to record all sessions, but they are not sure yet if it will happen. It will come down to a financial decision for them.
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1 point,8 years ago
Nice! Good luck Perry!
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3 points,8 years ago
All for it. Perry is a good speaker and this cost is reasonable.

Please bring up InstantSend and how it can enable things like the Dash N Drink without double spend risk. I think the instant downloads, instant payments for IOT stuff, and instant settling of payments would appeal to many in the audience.
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0 points,8 years ago
Thanks for the votes of confidence. I will definitely be talking about InstantSend as there is a strong relationship between the functional features that make Dash unique and the funding model used to incentivize infrastructure and development. InstantSend is a great feature to highlight because it is something the audience can truly see value in. Instant txs versus waiting on a mined block... a no brainer. We just need that one person in the audience to have the ah-ha moment and follow up on the work you guys have already started on the POS side of things.
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1 point,8 years ago
easy yes
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1 point,8 years ago
WAYYYY more affordable, why do we need $15,000 things when we can do this stuff instead? Way more effective, way better ROI.
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