Zcash Protocol Hangout, Dev Fund Edition

[mistfpga]

@joshs

I don’t recall promising that I would provide an update immediately after the meetings this week.

Sure, here:

@joshs

On Thursday, most of the day is set aside specifically for community and increasing engagement.

I read that as on Thursday you would be engaging with the community. - I guess you could read it that you set aside Thursday to talk internally about it. to me the wording would seem clumsy if that was the intent. (not having a go, just saying that is why I read it the other way)

@joshs

On the proposals, we have stated that we will honor the community’s decision with the trademark. If the community determines it won’t fund ECC, we have no intention of blocking that with the trademark agreement.

Okay that sort of answers my question but doesn’t at the same time. The company can accept that proposal and another one that doesn’t wind down and pivot. but this is getting circular so I will leave it we both have better things to be doing. I think we understand each other.

@joshs

Where are we saying that the forum is the primary means of communication?

Not the primary, you do also say GitHub too.

Seeing as this is the protocol section and I dont want to fill this post up with lots of quotes, please check zip 0. and search for forum.

• zips/zip-0000.rst at master · mistfpga/zips · GitHub

Here are few quotes from zip 0

Comments from the community on the ZIP should occur on the Zcash Community Forum and the comment fields of the pull requests in any open ZIPs. Editors will use these sources to judge rough consensus.

ZIP Editor Responsibilities & Workflow
The ZIP Editors subscribe to the Zcash Community Forum.
For each new ZIP that comes in an Editor confirms the following:
Read the ZIP to check if it is ready: sound and complete. The ideas must make technical sense, even if they don’t seem likely to be accepted.
The title should accurately describe the content.
The ZIP draft must have been sent to the Zcash Community Forum or as a PR to the ZIPs git repository

Then you have zooko on twitter asking people to add proposals to the forum so they can be discussed. (The person came to me asking me to write their proposal and saying zooko told them to put it on the forum when they suggested it on twitter. I have not seen the twitter conversation)

And old post from zooko

@zooko

Should the company hand over control of Reddit - Dive into anything to The Foundation? Or should we leave it closed, with a sign on the door saying to come to this forum?

I really don’t have time to find more examples but There are plenty out there.

There are some threads in the meta category about it. (there is 10 threads total in meta)

From the website

• Discover the Zcash Ecosystem - Z.Cash

The community forums are sponsored by the Zcash Foundation and run by volunteer members of the community, Foundation employees and Zcash Company employees.

I am on the community governance panel so i feel i should keep abreast of what is going on regarding the proposals I will have to vote on. If that is other places than the forum and github, where are they?

I do not have time to follow all the other places. I need to eat and pay bills too.

Thinking about it, if the forum and GitHub are not the primary places for official engagement from the ECC, where is.?

(I wrote my last two posts between midnight and 2 am, I was up again at 6 for work. It is now 10:30 and I still have a full day of work ahead. this is what I mean when I said we both had better things to do. I wasn’t being passive aggressive.)

Cheers,

Steve