These are the minutes for the first Gridcoin hangout on July 30, 2016:
- listen, youtube
- RSVP & Suggest topics
- invited guest: Fuzzy from steemit
0:02:50 - 0:11:55 (9 mins)
- ideas about implementing + funding 4th generation BOINC credit system:
- one BOINC dev seems interested, though the discussion got offtopic (hostility towards Gridcoin's involvement in BOINC)
- see also: 0:16:55, 0:18:5
0:12:10 - 0:16:45 (4.5 mins)
- advantages of the newbie block (fast feedback, ...)
- see tasks: fix newbie block + DPOR whitepaper
0:19:25 - 0:28:48 (9 mins)
- whitelist + remove possibility of like 8-9 BOINC projects (without SSL, cheating)
- see also task
0:29:05 - 0:37:10 (8 mins)
- brainstorming about (new or commercial) BOINC projects
- see e.g. Brainstorming BOINC projects #004 (from January 2017)
0:37:15 - 0:40:00 (3 mins)
- advantages of MPA (market pegged assets) + BitShares: e.g. enabling acess to mobile wallets + payment processors
0:40:00 - 0:42:00 (2 mins)
- wallet (better UI, missing features from windows version) + removing barriers to entries into Gridcoin (0:46:09)
- see also tasks: improve Linux client and improve UI and more in newcomer tasks
0:42:00 - 0:43:50 (2 mins)
- Projectrain: how it works
0:46:50 - 0:54:50 (8 mins)
- thoughts about opening up team membership, and agreement that other problems should be fixed first
0:54:50 - 0:59:10 (4 mins)
- Gridcoin pool: e.g. as a mechanism that could help people with weak hardware to still earn a little GRCs when team requirement removed
- opensourcing the pool
- see also task
0:59:20 - 1:04:20 (5 mins)
- voting mechanism + checking for spoofers, cheaters
1:04:27 - 1:08:22 (4 mins)
- Magnitude+Balance voting type: Magnitude weight unbalanced?
- magnitude had back then too much weight in the votings
- see also: Magnitude+Balance voting type: Magnitude weight unbalanced?
1:08:40 - 1:11:09 (2.5 mins)
- magnitude multiplier: rewarding one BOINC project more than other projects, based on the outcome of polls
1:11:14 - 1:14:45 (3.5 mins)
- info about competition/challenges + raining on people who help there, because it's marketing for the Gridcoin project
- see also task
1:14:55 - 1:17:47 (3 mins)
- searching for a new Gridcoin developper, e.g. interns, at universities, Google's Summer of Code, and making bounties
1:17:48 - 1:21:00 (3 mins)
- marketing activities: steemit, reddit
- see also task
1:17:18 - 1:23:14 (6 mins)
- using all communication areas/media when doing marketing (+ more transparency in Gridcoin)
1:23:55 - 1:25:14 (1 mins)
- email marketing possible to reactivate 7000 users, since users allowed it in their BOINC settings
- see also task
1:25:28 - 1:34:20 (9 mins)
- finding other chatroom software than Mumble (e.g. with more protection) + fuzzy talking about Mumble software
- see also task
1:34:25 - 1:51:00 (16.5 mins + more)
- Fuzzy talks about steemit and their plans (and the topics get more wider after time stamp 1:51)
2:07:40 - 2:08:55 (1 min)
- Is the BOINC community anti-capitalist ?