LONDON (Bywire News) - It was the final meeting for Eden’s third group of chief delegates and a chance to look back on a term that – one way or another – will be important for the future of Eden. It’s a term that has included bylaw changes, some new technological developments, and one or two fiery exchanges.
Personal updates
In terms of updates, this week’s business was fairly light.
Dan Singjoy, as ever had been holding his fractal meetings and finalising some of his proposals that he believes could improve Eden. One of these is an incentive scheme for those people who post on the new social media site Eden Talk. He suggests rewards of 25 EOS to get people to contribute. The site is up now on Edentalk.com.
Luka Percic is moving into the final stages of his and believes it will shortly be ready for testing. Hahn Ryu’s own project, for the Eden vote proxy, is also nearing completion with the smart contract nearing completion.
Chris Barnes has completed work on the Hypha tool on Telos although engagement has been less than stellar so far. He’s also completing the introductory video to Eden which will include a video introducing how the fractal voting process works – something he believes could be applied to other political and corporate entities.
Aside from that, there were final preparations for the election. They have had one application for the bounty they posted for someone to provide technical support during the election. Edgar Fernandez’s Edenia, which has been doing valuable tech work with Eden this term applied for the job. Given their extensive understanding of EOS, they were the perfect – and indeed only – choice for the work.
Another former Chief Delegate Michael O'Sullivan – CEO of Bywire – has taken responsibility for providing an MC to keep the event running smoothly. He himself plans to take part in the election which means the job will fall to someone from the Bywire team. A community Zoom room will be open about an hour before the election starts taking you through the process.
So far, there are 49 registered participants with more expected. The event takes place this Saturday – if you fancy taking part you need to get registered at least 24 hours before the event kicks off. You can see a handy guide on how to register for the election here.
Political potential
Eden’s three monthly elections are another chance to showcase Eden’s star attraction – its novel takes on democracy. Derived from the book More Equal Animals, by Dan Larimer, Eden’s fractal process sees candidates dividing into groups and voting amongst each other for who will advance to the next round. The process repeats until they are left with a final group of chief delegates.
It’s something that aims to build consensus and be more democratically representative than the conventional approaches to democracy seen in most of the Western world. Anyone who wants to understand the limitations of these approaches just needs to look at some of the things that have been happening in the US, France and Britain, among others, recently.
One of the core goals of Eden has to apply this process elsewhere and in this term, we’ve seen the first concrete moves toward that. Chris Barnes will be demonstrating Eden’s fractal process at a conference for all the third ‘alternative’ parties in the US. This event will feature speeches from the likes of Brock Pierce and will be open to all parties outside the traditional two-party system.
Chris believes Eden’s unique voting structure could be adapted by various parties for sorting local leadership.
Hahn has been doing the same thing, reaching out to political parties in South Korea and exploring ways in which they could use the fractal voting process.
This, then, is the real revolution of EOS. It has already been battle-tested in three elections and so far things seem to be largely successful. You can get a chance to see it in action this Saturday.
(Writing by Tom Cropper, editing by Klaudia Fior)