Monday to Tuesday 2021-09-14

#Funding_Proposals :
How best utilize funding allocated to the upcoming election became one of the major topics discussed over past few days. What area should we focus on for tangible results in the short time span until next election, keeping in mind still limited funding to distribute and at a rate of 5% per month.

Here just some snippets to show range of views:
- "I hope we’re all considering things which will produce shorter term returns. Projects which can have a measurable impact in the next 3-6 months as opposed to 1-3 years."
- "So how best can that money be used to accomplish the main strategic objectives?"
- "What are our strategic objectives? I believe we’re going to perform poorly if we don’t have a cohesive strategy as an organization that guides our decision making. It’s very easy to squander $50k a month by being spread too thin and across too many different areas."
- "Genesis Eden may joint venture with some Eden Members to push for a "for-profit subsidiary" entity to co-Brand products with Eden members."
- "We’ll have so much more integrity if we generate our own funding eventually"
- "I'll also add that while people are proposing what they believe needs to be done to address the problem, that they haven't yet completed any meaningful sort of discovery phase to determine its viability."
- "I find myself constantly returning to 3 primary areas of focus, all of which need attention to truly create what I think we all desire EOS to be.
1. Onboarding: People need an easy way to enter the ecosystem.
2. Tooling: Developers need fundamental building blocks to build their apps upon.
3. Discovery: People need an easy way to find things they can do.
None of them alone really make a meaningful impact and all of them are severly lacking when you look at the options today."
- "We could still apply with pomelo with all that onboarding and prioritize something different if it's of more value for the Eden funds we get to get the best result for Eden and EOS."
- "With Eden paying out "only" 5% of the treasury per month, there will not be a lot of funding. So we have to prioritize (again) to the projects which could bring (for that amount) the most win for Eden and EOS."
- "Is the Eden treasury % monthly distribution adjustable? We were talking today about possibly increasing to 10% instead of the current 5% due to the size of the treasury at this time."
- "Not currently, but there is a way to make this configurable in the future."
- "Can we set it to 10% for the first election and then configure it later when the treasury increases in size?"

#BP_Proxy :
The Eden Member's Approved Proxies are up and ready and the purpose of this initiative is to:
- Unite the EOS community
- Vote with our tokens in unison
- Have the greatest influence on BP selection…choosing BPs that the community wants to see receiving rewards and protecting our ecosystem.
The details around the proxies are all found at https://edenproxy.org/

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Friday to Sunday 2021-09-19

#Miscellaneous topics discussed past 3 days with quite a number of these related to #Onboarding, #Inductions and EOS related technical advise. Also new project ideas and #Funding_Proposals were presented and discussed.

#Google_Cloud_BP became a major topic from the viewpoint that once they achieve top 21 and become an active BP this will present itself as a marketing opportunity. Discussion continue whether it is a good idea to already now support and push for Google in order to try make this happen sooner rather than later.

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Monday to Tuesday 2021-10-12

#Funding_Proposals :
Much of discussion recent days has been follow ups from Saturday's election. Number of posts on various pitches and several calls to keep in mind also older EOS projects and apps in need of funding. In the words of one Eden member ""We need there to be outreach to these old projects and see what kind of needs they have, and what we can do to help.""

#Funding_pool :
A number of Eden delegates have committed to work together and pool part or all of funding received as elected delegate. This to enable consideration also projects in need of more funding than amount received by the lower level delegates. Work is underway to make this happen and to make use of Pomelo with their quadratic voting and fund matching to increase final value of input.

#Eden_Calendar :
The Eden Calendar has been updated and include day/time live chats and videos. The first live ""Eden Delegates open discussion about tech needs and priorities for EOS and Eden"" is tomorrow Thursday at 13:00 UTC.
Here the link to Calendar: https://www.notion.so/033119fc80a7489692a29ac96d39d51c?v=4d7aebaf7e4b40f191ae536d6df0e2ee

#donates2eden posted following update :
""Update on the donates2eden BP. Emptied the holding4eden EOS account and sent a 10 EOS test followed by this transaction of 3,013.592 EOS to genesis.eden -https://bloks.io/transaction/6c01785cb55267d455844a1644c38e8279ce7b078287ecdea4520ff23b8155b2

Going forward the daily amount based on current rewards approx 166.4887 EOS which we started send today through our automated system - https://bloks.io/transaction/af9ed72ac45291ac10be9e0d1091485cbcdb714cf1e421bacf216fc299842c7f

I hope we're proving our commitment to the 80% of rewards going straight to the Eden Treasury. In return I hope we can expect support from every eden member in voting for our BP. In the end it benefits the community to vote for the donates2eden BP node. We've also upped our infrastructure as we promised once we entered a paid position.""

#Official_Elections :
This video very worthwhile, especially if interested in behind the scene comments and the planning ahead on improvements of election software and more. Also words on the issue with video uploading experienced by some.

""Brandon Fancher Uncensored! Find out the TRUTH about Saturday's Eden election! 😉 "" https://youtu.be/Qs18kmvNZzc

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Monday to Tuesday 2021-10-19

#Miscellaneous :
Past few days much of discussion among Eden members related to grants from EOS Network Foundation (#ENF) to DeFi on the EOS platform as well as EOS DeFi/finance options generally.

#Official_Elections :
During a discussion on #Funding_Proposals Dan Larimer posted: ""Eden isn’t a worker proposal system. You shouldn’t be pitching projects in groups, you should be selecting representatives for your values and needs. Not any single potential solution.""

#FUD :
How to moderate EOS related telegram groups was raised. Here below copy of initial words in the post starting off a wide range of views and suggestions.
"Telegram Admins have the ability to restrict users from interacting. I propose that we encourage the Admins of all EOS-related Public Telegram Groups to restrict the capabilities of FUDsters. The current moderation policy on most Telegram Groups does not seem to help our cause. Just because someone is privileged to be in a group that does not mean there are no rules and they can behave inappropriately."

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Lennie, [24/04/2022 12:28]
#Funding_Proposals : One member view!
"We need 2 special tweaks to our process:
1. Anyone who wants their project and/or paid position greenlit, declares prior to the election, Then we take that group of people, randomize them, but evenly across the election rooms first.. Then we randomize and add everyone else to fill the rooms. That way a bunch of projects/pitches don't get clumped in a few rooms and we can have a genuine discussion.
2. The group can reach multiple consensuses depending on how many pitches are in their group. So it's not winner take all, it's each room makes the decision as to whether or not to greenlight the projects which have been randomly assigned to their room, with the 2/3+1 consensus.
3. I guess there's a 3rd change. we only do one round. just an hour and we're done.
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I think we also pre allocate budgets either for each room, or for the CDs to distribute after via pomelo. Either way though, I think we take additional money for this directly from the treasury, assuming the CDs approve it."

#Empowering_Eden_Contributors : Weekly meetings on "Mighty Networks"!
"Based on the results of the POLL, I've initiated a recurring weekly meeting starting Wednesday, April 27th. Please consider RSVPing and attending! "

#Eden_Telegram :
-- M1 --: "Might I suggest in lieu of recent discussions regarding lack of engagement, challenges following community news and activities, that we avoid things like promoting pomelo projects in here? It’s kind of shitty to take advantage of peoples attention in a way that they’re not expecting in a private channel. Think about it. If you’re honest, you’re posting in here because you know it’s going to get in front of people because this channel isn’t full of spam and members tend to make an effort to keep on top of the channel. "
-- M2 --: "I'd vote to keep this channel 100% clear of any promotional content. If this chat was focused on strictly organizational matters it would be a lot more sparse, but also far more focused and deliberate. This would allow for likely more participation from those who only check out the channel every so often."
-- M3 --: "Agreed".
-- M4 --: "It's a tough question. I don't like the "spam" for lack of a better word(I don't really want to categorize anyone's Pomelo pitch as spam). I think adding search or categories of "by Eden Member" in Pomelo would definitely be a plus. As membership increases though, if we dont control this in the channel, it will get flooded by Pomelo Ads."
-- M2 --: "If we're going to tackle this I think we need to consider that the issue is more than just Pomelo adds. YouTube vids, people's tweets, anything that is self-promotional could likely be all bucketed together and encouraged to go to the public Eden channel. Keep this channel as clean as possible and focused on the objectives and actions of Eden on EOS as an organization."
-- M5 --: "I agree that shouldn't be in here".
-- M6 --: "sry I'm a spam bot, please don't ban me 😂"

#Chief Delegates-meet :
" EdenOnEOS Chief Delegate Meeting #2 - Thursday, 21 April 2022 on Odysee: https://odysee.com/@EdenonEOS:f/chief-delegate-meeting2:2 "
MEETING MINUTES - 21 APRIL 2022
https://bywire.news/articles/eos-chief-delegates-meeting-2
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-- M1 --: "New Chiefs are on fire! - Regarding the convo about 45 mins into the meeting... I think having a separate sub-org is an excellent idea. I've been advocating lately to call it Eden Contributors. We have Eden Members and Eden Delegates, but we don't yet have an organizational structure of Eden Contributors to manage the priorities. These are the 3 key roles that so called "DAOs" have."
-- M2 --: "Awesome intro!"

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