Two committee members’ terms expire at the end of June: @Wobbzz and @GGuy
Anyone can stand for election (and existing members can stand for re-election). Prospective candidates simply need to nominate themselves by submitting a forum post (ideally five paragraphs or less) in the governance zcg-elections category , announcing their candidacy, and outlining their priorities and vision for Zcash.
The deadline for nominations is 09:00 UTC on Monday 10th June 2024. The deadline for nominations has now passed.
The list of candidates can be found below . Candidates have also been added to the (@ZCG_Candidates) forum group.
This week, we will reach out to the candidates to schedule a community call with the candidates. After the community call, we will open a Helios poll of the Zcash Community Advisory Panel (ZCAP) , which will run until the end of June.
Read this blog post carefully. It contains important information about the election process, the Conflict of Interest policy, and the process of becoming a ZCG Committee member (which includes undergoing KYC, and completing a conflict of interest declaration).
Reply to this topic with a link to your candidacy announcement, and we will add you to the @ZCG_Candidates group. We will add a link to each candidacy announcement in this top post, in the order the candidates announce.
All candidates will receive the title “ZCG Candidate” during the duration of the campaign so forum users can easily identify users that are standing for election.
If potential candidates have any questions about the role or the election process, please post them in this topic.
Any questions for the individual candidates should be posted in their individual candidacy topics to avoid everyone asking/answering questions in this thread.
hi guys the call we had with the community and candidates is out , please check it out
if you guys have any questions for me, please do ask, i am very much availabe to provide answers.
i will also love to ask the community what kind of things you guys expect from the committee over the next year and the kind of grants and the kind of grants you love to see prioritized. please do share your thoughts
I have a favorite in this race. @gordonesTV, you do so much for the Spanish-speaking community - all the educational content you produce, the workshops you run, the new users you onboard. You have first-hand knowledge of the barriers new users face because you teach them to overcome those barriers. User adoption is not a theory for you. You just get it, and it’s been fun working with you! Hope to see you on ZCG! We need that energy.
We have talked about it in other spaces: we can all contribute to the change and growth of Zcash, from our experiences, from our expertise and knowledge.
I will be very proud to continue supporting Zcash from the ZCG.
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Are there major reasons why ZCG can’t be expanded to a larger group of members?
In general here, I believe that all of the parties interested are capable, so it feels possibly counter productive to have to only welcome (back) in a subset of candidates.
My opinion is that while the universal suffrage model appears to be more democratic and open, the “electors” model is more balanced. Are 5 electors enough? I don’t know. But the level of competence in decision making has a greater concentration in the narrow circle of those who read the forum regularly (at least such activity) than the level of competence of the wide range of holders, who for the most part are not immersed in development issues. Probably such holders will not vote on every issue, but there is a possibility of deliberate blocking of any grant-related activity, if for example it will affect the amount of remuneration for steaking. I never rely on the so-called wisdom of the crowd.
I also do not agree that a ZEC holder just because he has ZECs can vote, since his interests could be only economic and personal, and not necessarily for the benefit of the community.
Democracy is not perfect, but maybe it is the least worst system.
. Candidates have also been added to the (@ZCG_Candidates) forum group.
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Hope to see you on ZCG! We need that energy.