LONDON (Bywire News) - Eden’s Chief Delegates met once again to resolve a number of issues including Eden independence, election cycles, on-boarding and funding for delegates. Here are the highlights...
First, though, it was their weekly updates. As a reminder, the current list of delegates are:
- Aaron Cox: Co-Founder Greymass.
- Chris Barnes: 1st Eden Mock Election winner.
- Jesse Jaffe: EOS Bees Queen.
- John Williamson: Founder Violet Garden.
- Brandon Lovejoy: Multimedia Creator.
- Randall Roland: Founder of EOS Support.
First up was personal updates.
John Williamson
It was a quick update from Williamson who has been mainly focused on work with Fractally and working on a PowerPoint presentation which he hopes to share with the community.
Randall Roland
EOS Support has been working hard on building its platform. They have received a number of tickets on the network acting up.
They have also worked with the API working group on tools that will help them to see what’s happening in the network. The group has decided to educate them with basic information to look at what’s going on in the network and provide support for the end-users.
EOS Support squad is consensus building to make sure they pay people who are providing support content and helping their community.
Jesse Jaffe
Bees have been very busy launching an Instagram strategy called EOS Memes. Putting all the memes coming out from the Hive in one place with the hashtags. This is a good strategy to get EOS noticed on Instagram. They will be posting one meme per day.
They have launched EOS rants with Nova Crypto. He has produced short-form video content. Yves La Rose, he says, has promised to match the rewards. People can participate by getting their rants out. This is part of their suite of EOS beginners’ content.
They have also produced a pie chart which separates the bounty funds by contest type. This has shown that the largest shares are going to influencers (20.3%) and translations (20.1%).
Jaffe has been working with Roland to produce an onboarding and referral system. The goal of the proposal was to qualify people to give them free EOS accounts and pay them to set up accounts to solve the problem of account creation.
Their team has also been working to address a couple of negative posts from influencers and has translated the Fractally white paper into Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Turkish and Vietnamese.
Chris Barnes
The launch of the My Vote EOS has not happened quickly. However, although the big push has been slightly delayed it is coming out. He believes the South Korea Presidential election, the winner of which is going to deregulate crypto so that bodes well for part of the My Vote EOS campaign.
Aaron Cox
He is working on reviews for account creation libraries on ways to optimise it and not break any reverse compatibility.
He has been talking with one of his guys and may send him to volunteer with EOS Support for more knowledge and to serve as another point of contact.
Brandon Lovejoy
He has been doing some writing which will be coming out on the ENF side of things and building some bridges between the various teams working on EOS. He has made a donation to the translation efforts for Fractally and is probably halfway to the total.
So far 1,100 EOS has been donated. They have 900 EOS to go. He will end up funding whatever doesn’t get covered. He has been communicating with the Chinese community and keeping track of what’s going on there with Eden.
Eden independence
With the updates out of the way, they moved onto the other big issues hitting EOS, starting with how Eden could move forward by itself without the Fractally team. They have someone who is willing to help them manage the code and run elections. They are looking to polish the software and make onboarding better.
The future is uncertain as Aaron Cox explains, “We need to see a change to keep this engine moving. At the bare minimum, this process is good for distributing funds to the community through a unique mechanism which should continue forward. Even if we align it with Pomelo seasons it can continue until there is something better to replace it with.”
Talking about the mission statement
They have been working to define their mission statement for some time. This has been difficult because it’s different for everyone. Some see it as a source of governance; others see it as a way to hand out funds.
Eventually, they came up with something simple which can catch everything: “To create value for EOS ecosystem”.
Election cycle
Further debate raged around election cycles and how much people should pay to join Eden. The current Chief Delegates cycle is six months. The current consensus appears to be a three-month cycle, although there are some who would prefer something shorter.
Funding shares for delegates
As well as election cycles, there have been issues about how funding should be divided between delegates. The consensus is to reduce the amount of funding given to the head chief delegates to the normal chief delegates to 1.5 times.
Eden onboarding
As they look to the future, they also want to make Eden more inclusive. This starts with the charge of 10 EOS for joining Eden. Considering that many people would want to join from low-income parts of the world, there are questions about whether that money excludes people who could otherwise contribute to the system.
For the most part, there was enthusiasm to bring this down considerably, although John Williamson was more resistant. 10 EOS equates to around $20 however this might change if the EOS price climbs as much as some people hope it will. If this is too much for them, he asks, will they be able to make an effective contribution.
The team eventually agreed on a lower price of 3 EOS. This would be enough to prove that people have ‘skin in the game’ and prevent spam, but without excluding people.
Exclusion and engagement
While discussing exclusion, another problem is the need to speak English. Having people who can’t speak English makes things difficult in calls trying to get them to understand what’s happening. It takes time so they need people who can speak English for this to work, but how can this be enforced? They suggest that people who can’t speak English should be moved in the direction of EOS Support or EOS Bees.
Keeping people who lose in the first round of elections engaged is also a big issue. They suggest a consolation election could keep those people who do not win in the election involved in the Eden ecosystem.
(Writing by Tom Cropper, editing by Klaudia Fior)