VOTE FOR ME! (If You Like) I Am A Candidate For the Steem Foundation Working Group.
Voting has started for the nominated candidates for the working group that is being set up for the new Steem Foundation - an idea fully supported by @ned and Steemit inc. - I am a candidate and you can help me by going to the Discord voting area, registering and clicking against my name in the relevant place. All help is much appreciated!
Who Am I?
Greetings all, I am @ura-soul and have been nominated for the Working Group election.
I have been a software engineer for 36 years and wrote my first program at age 4. I have a degree in applied computing, which is a combination of business management, systems engineering and practical problem analysis / solutioneering. I have worked in numerous industries at all levels, including investment banking software, media companies and a social network startup. Separately, I launched my own social network about 10 years ago focused on healing, balancing and evolving. After seeing the power of Steem’s design and that an intention of it’s design is to support free will, I decided to shift my focus into growing Steem. I aim to integrate Steem into my own social network via an SMT when that becomes possible.
I have been running a witness on Steem for over a year. I also run the community stats site ‘Steem Ocean’ and the Steem onboarding project @steempassport that aims to provide novel methods of scaling user account creation to ensure we can support very large numbers of users moving onto Steem powered sites.
Politically, I most align to voluntarism and am not a fan of divisive agendas and power struggles – I know we can always find a balance that feels good to everyone if we take the right, respectful, steps and don’t move too hastily. I fully recognise that the expansion of Steem requires it’s public image to improve and I’d like to see the unique selling point of ‘proof of brain’ to be reinstated. We also need the economic model in use by Steem powered projects to be more aligned towards generating revenue than on purely distributing rewards.
I currently split my time between helping improve Steem, working for private clients on tech projects, writing my first book (on human and language evolution), keeping healthy (and coaching others) and researching a huge number of different topics with an aim of helping us create the best versions of ourselves.
My Witness Introduction Post
Steem Passport
Steem Ocean
Ureka.org - my Social Network
Wishing you well,
Ura Soul
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You’ve got my vote!
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You got my witness vote. good luck
Oh great, thanks a lot - Always appreciated! :)
I voted for you in the group election. Can you help me understand what the roles & responsibilities of the members of the working group is going to be in the short term and long term? Will there be re-elections ?
Thankyou! I have done what I could to keep up with the agenda of this process, but I am not the best person to ask about what is to come. It seems those who are at the center of things have a plan that I have not heard full details of. I have reviewed the docs uploaded by ned and that's probably the greatest detail I've seen so far - other than some comments in discord.
Here are some quotes from the post on this topic from @steemalliance
And from Discord:
So as I understand, the working group is intended to receive ideas from the community about what the Foundation itself should be and how it should operate. They will then arrange votes to decide on the outcome. My understanding is that there is only one election for the working group and the people who are elected into roles/positions in the foundation itself are going to be the ones making the most important decisions.
Love to offer my support, Brother, but not being much of a Discord User the instructions on voting are not understandable.
No problem, thanks for the intent. I just learned that members of the working group can't be in the actual real foundation - so it's maybe not such a big deal if I don't win anyway.
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Already voted for you earlier. Good luck!
Well I did!
Best of luck!
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URA!
Great to meet you, I'm a little late on the draw but your name has been popping up here and there and you have a compelling profile! We are quite different but then again, I'm sure we are both UNIQUE by any measure. I have witness votes available, I am this close to "pulling the trigger" my friend :-)
Ahoy! Absolutely - we are unique! Just like everyone else ;)
Oh thanks, I'd appreciate the vote, for sure. I'll follow you in case.
BAM! Gina will notify you momentarily ;-)