Zcash Media YouTube Channel

[decentralistdan]

Hey all, first I will say I think this is a very important discussion that will help to shape future community decisions and outcomes. Also that I am very much excited to see a qualified team like @37L take on this media work and spearhead the discussion at large. It should also be noted that the below views are my own as a long standing community member and ZCAP participant, and do not represent the ZF’s perspective in any way.

@37L

Will Zcash Media be an official or unofficial Zcash channel?

I am a bit confused as to why this is posed as the “Central Question” to this discussion. I am curious what @37L would view as being “official”? What does that entail? A trademark agreement? Social consensus for longterm funding by @ZcashGrants? Complete ownership of footage & channel? What is the purpose of classifying as either or?

@37L

• Posting a grant for distribution funding (so we can begin to make trailers, etc)
• Creating a long term proposal for ongoing content

Considering these as some of the action items, I think this quote is relevant…

@tromer

The idea guiding ZIP 1014 is:
ZOMG is not supposed to be the third entity; it’s supposed to sponsor the third, fourth and perhaps fifth entities, while leaving small grant-making to ZF .

With that view of ZCG’s role in mind, I’m starting to contemplate the idea of 37L(Zcash Media) as one of the major sponsored entities to come from ZCG support, alongside QEDIT. Although 37L is not doing protocol development, they would be developing on the social layer of Zcash…Although, I don’t think that makes such entities “official” necessarily. To my mind there are only 3 entities that are classified as “official” to the degree that they receive funds directly from the DevFund as laid out in the ZIP. (ECC, ZF, ZCG).

I think it makes sense to look at it like this: Does QEDIT getting funding for ZSAs equal the need to classify them as an “official” protocol dev team? I don’t think that matters at all, they are a team working on the open source Zcash protocol with support/funding from an “official” entity. I view this ZcashMedia situation similarly, Zcash Media doesn’t need to be classified as “official” to work on the Zcash protocol’s social layer with large longterm funding from ZCG.

But considering this below comment that was just posted:

@37L

We agree totally, so I think we are saying the same thing - perhaps there is a better word than “official” we can use to clarify?

It does seem we are all saying the same thing. So how can we reframe the central question posed and move on from using the word “official” to something else and continue moving this discussion forward?