Ian Miers: Board elections, the foundation's mission, and making usable privacy a reality

[anon47418038]

ohhhh, nice, what branch has the windows rust build working, your mingw one in your repo or a diff one?

[str4d]

The mingw32 one (that you used for WinZEC 1.1.0). The first two commits fix the Rust compilation.

(We should probably get a moderator to shift these into another thread )

[pjv]

I wrote my response to this here. In 2016:

Some usability / adoptability suggestions

I have some high-level suggestions for the Zcash team in the area of the overall usability and public adoptability of Zcash. These are ultimately based on some Really Deep Thoughts about the nature of money in human culture, but I'll spare you the metaphysics. My assumption, following the Hello World blog post, is that Zcash is about the private, trust-less, non-intermediated transfer of value from party A to party B and that any other uses (smart contracts, yada yada yada) are totally inciden…

whole thread is worth reading.

[hloo]

@secparam

I think some clear goals for the Foundation should be to build and package cross platform GUI clients:

On Windows, OSX, and Linux (in that priority order)
On mobile platforms
On the web (for example, post-Sapling it should be possible to generate shielded TXs efficiently in WebAssembly)

@secparam

The main role of the Foundation board, in my opinion, is to assemble a team that can address these key technical challenges in the short term. While this doesn’t preclude additional (future) missions for the Zcash foundation, building this team – with the buy-in of the Zcash community – is what I plan to do if I’m elected to the Foundation.

@secparam I know that it is often hard to predict software development timeframes, but what are your thoughts regarding a rough timeframe for the above goals (“build and package cross platform GUI clients”)? I ask so that the community can hold the board accountable regarding how effective the board has been at executing the goals. I’m talking really rough timeframe here: 1 year, or 2 years, or 3 years? Basically some number that you think the community can use down the road to reasonably measure the effectiveness of the board.