Gridcoin Community Hangout #009 (RSVP & Suggest topics)
Gridcoin Community Hangout #009
A massive shout out to the BeyondBitcoin community & @officialfuzzy for providing the Gridcoin community a room in their mumble server for free.
Another massive thanks to @peppernrino for editing the hangout recordings, without him the released hangout recordings would be slow and of poor quality.
What is Gridcoin?
Gridcoin securely rewards BOINC computation on top of Proof of Stake. Reward allocation is distributed, not centralized unlike other distributed computing related cryptocurrencies.
Past episode details
Link to SoundCloud channel
Link to YouTube channel
008 RSVP & Topic suggestion thread
Why are we holding these hangouts?
- A mumble conference call can provide significant advantages over communicating via forums and IRC.
- To create opportunities to inform the public of new Gridcoin, BOINC and related services & their development progress.
- To bridge relations between the cryptocurrency & BOINC communities.
How long will the hangout last?
The first 3 hangouts lasted 2.5 to 3 hours, with a bit of time beforehand and a few hours of unrecorded hangout time afterwards. The 4th, 5th and 6th hangouts lasted approx 1.5hrs.
When the Gridcoin Community Hangouts start really picking up traction we can become more strict with allocated speaking time if need be (so you're not waiting hours to talk).
Want to suggest a topic to discuss?
Reply with your suggestions in this Steem post & order of discussion will be from highest to lowest voted suggestions.
Can we discuss anything?
It's advisable to stay generally on topic, attendees are distributed around the world so they may not (likely won't) share the same views regarding controversial topics not related to Gridcoin/BOINC/Cryptocurrency.
That said, this 'on topic' guideline fizzles away once official recording has ended & the hangout becomes a more relaxed environment.
Proposed time for Gridcoin Hangout #009:
San Francisco (USA - California) Saturday, 01 October 2016, 13:00:00 PDT UTC-7 hours
Austin (USA - Texas) Saturday, 01 October 2016, 15:00:00 CDT UTC-5 hours
New York (USA - New York) Saturday, 01 October 2016, 16:00:00 EDT UTC-4 hours
London (United Kingdom - England) Saturday, 01 October 2016, 21:00:00 BST UTC+1 hour (9PM GMT)
Frankfurt (Germany - Hesse) Saturday, 01 October 2016, 22:00:00 CEST UTC+2 hours
Auckland (New Zealand) Sunday, 02 October 2016, 08:00:00 NZST UTC+12 hours
How to join the Gridcoin hangout
Step 1: Download Mumble. (There are mobile apps too)
Step 2:
Step 3: Configure Mumble & join the server!
Password: w0rldCh@NG3rsUN!t3
Step 4: Join the Gridcoin channel.
Step 5: Configure your audio wizard & setup Push-To-Talk. Join 10-15 mins before the hangout starts to test your configuration.
I hope you decide to attend the hangout - everyone is welcome to join, especially those who suggest topics of discussion in this thread.
Best regards,
CM.
Topic suggestion:
Now that we have an Android wallet for GRC maybe we could start advertising to Android users. With the Coinomi wallet and the pool, the setup for new people should be very easy.
There are more than 1.4 billion Android users in the world, according to this TechCrunch article from last year: https://techcrunch.com/2015/09/29/android-now-has-1-4bn-30-day-active-devices-globally/
That is a LOT of potential Gridcoiners out there!!
How could we advertise directly to android cryptocurrency users?
I guess full guides for android would be a cool idea, however without dedicated android projects these users may stand to only make a few GRC per month.
We could target various Android websites via Google AdWords, but it's expensive and we would probably recruit more users by simply advertising on boincstats.
Forums ads might be a good way to get the word out. We may approach forum admins as see if we could get some kind of ad package.
Boincstats has 100k visitors per week and charges us 300€ for a month of advertising. Popular Android websites have 10+ million visitors per week and I am afraid the cost of fixed advertising will be proportional to that.
I see your point Vortac, it definitely won't be cheap. Maybe we could start with the smaller ones?
Topic suggestion:
Addition of Gridcoin to Coinomi: http://www.razor-forex.com/2016/09/multi-coin-hd-wallet-coinomi-adds.html
Topic suggestion:
Should we register a company or LLC for legal purposes? email marketing in the UK, BOINC project legalities (for the hashing thing we were discussing), etc.
Whose name would it be under?
I'm going to look into some business advice in the next week or so.
Regarding BOINC project legality, that'll be up to whoever decides to create said BOINC project. I'm not personally planning on creating the password recovery project, another user within the community may though.
But yes, we do need to adhere to email spam regulations or the person sending the emails will potentially be in for a world of hurt :(
Whose name would it be under? Very good question. Team founders most likely for email marketing.
I'd be specifically looking into creating an LLC for:
Topic suggestion:
Attempting to get ShapeShift to add Gridcoin: https://twitter.com/grctester/status/780031107421143040 (retweet/like that tweet!).
Disclaimer: I am just a bot trying to be helpful.
they should call you "redundantbot". thank you for taking up space.
Idk, I kinda like the twitter bot :P
i must have been in a mood when i posted this... lol
Topic suggestion:
Attempting to get Coinvert to add Gridcoin!
Like/Retweet: https://twitter.com/customminer/status/780843115250872320
Disclaimer: I am just a bot trying to be helpful.
https://twitter.com/customminer/status/782201298104057857
Like/Retweet the above tweet too - let's see if we can get Gridcoin added to Coinvert and Shapeshift!
Disclaimer: I am just a bot trying to be helpful.
Topic suggestion:
Discussing the open source pool project: https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/49262-open-source-project-gridcoin-pool-boinc-account-manager/
If we have an open source pool kit, we'll potentially see dozens of pools being created which would be good for new users & android users.
Topic suggestion:
Anecdotes about terrible experiences with traditional banking, and also experiences/first impressions of the crypto world thus far.
Since many of us are now writing here on Steemit, I started a new thread on cryptocointalk and uploaded all ads, images and banners I have created so far for our various advertising campaigns. That way, everybody can use them for enhancing our articles here on Steemit.
We should probably have something like a central repository for such stuff, otherwise all those images (like for example splash contest images) get scattered and buried in various threads and it will be hard for future newbies to find them and use them.
Gridcoin ads, images and banners
https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/50138-gridcoin-ads-images-and-banners
Topic suggestion:
Potentially revisiting old threads from cryptocointalk which are no longer active.
Team requirement: https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/44260-discussion-mandatory-team-gridcoin-membership-requirement/page-5
Voting weight balance: https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/40773-discussion-magnitudebalance-voting-type-magnitude-weight-unbalanced/
Ideas for BOINC projects: https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/10694-brainstorm-session-ideas-for-boinc-projects/page-3
Magnitude multiplier: https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/38994-magnitude-multiplier/
Extending POR https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/42995-is-it-possible-to-extend-por-to-other-project-types/
Gridcoin utilising graphene in the future? https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/24622-dposbitshares-tool-kit/
Foundation rules/definition https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/38607-discussion-foundation-definitions-and-rules-proposal/page-2
Ripple networks gateway https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/41878-ripple-networks-gateway/