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Hello Everyone -
Introduction & Overview
I'm here today to pre-propose a service to the Dash community that builds upon my previous proposal based on the variety of helpful feedback I've received.
In my previous proposal, in an attempt to facilitate the discussion and engagement of MNO's in the voting system, I created summaries and commentaries on every proposal each month (Examples of which can be seen here). While a handful of people found these details quite helpful, many rightly noted that they tended to be a mile wide but often only an inch deep. I believe that is certainly fair criticism and am proposing something today that attempts to address it.
During the same time and separate from my previous proposal, I also had the opportunity to interview a variety of proposal owners about their ideas for the Dash community. Here's a list of these interviews:
Dash Proposals: In Detail - CryptoFeed
Dash Proposals: In Detail - Dash Academy
Dash Proposals: In Detail - Dash Help Venezuela - Support Center
Dash Proposals: In Detail - Feedbands DashInformer Advertising on Google, Facebook
Dash Proposals: In Detail - Hardfork Series
Dash Proposals: In Detail - Feedbands/Only-Spend-Dash
Dash Proposals: In Detail - Bit-To-Byte
Dash Proposals: In Detail - Dash For Southeast Asia FX Trader
Dash Proposals: In Detail - Dash Documentary
Dash Proposals: In Detail - Evolution Offers & Promotions Platform by The Acme
These interviews were much more in depth than the proposal summaries and I received overwhelmingly positive feedback and demand for more. Given feedback received as well as my experience from both the prior proposals and these interviews, I believe that the interviews create more value for the community.
Having watched the Dash proposal ecosystem very closely over the course of the last 6 months, it's my observation that (as is often the case) that a small percentage of the proposals deliver the most value. Additionally, another small (and sometimes overlapping) percentage of proposals are truly worthy of (or at least garner such) debate to the point that said debate likely actually makes a difference in the outcome of the vote.
As a result, I believe that these interviews will help in better elucidating the potential value and ROI (or lack thereof) of a proposal by allowing the community to see someone with a business background (10+ years in accounting for small businesses, started and sold two businesses.) have a sort of shark-tankesque (although perhaps more friendly) discussion with the proposal owner who is pitching his or her services to the community.
Proposal Structure
I propose to do 5 interviews/month in the same format as the links above with proposal owners who have active proposals up for vote in the current month. The proposals would be selected by me as a result of feedback from the community but would be done so weighted toward the aforementioned criteria of potentially high value proposals and proposals that appear to be likely to be close (in terms of pass/fail) in the vote.
The interviews would be delivered at as regular timing as possible (i.e. not all in the last few days); however, due to the general timing of most proposals coming in towards the later part of the month, the schedule would likely be weighted in that direction.
In order to get maximum traction and provide the most value, the interviews would be posted on the r/dashpay reddit, in the Discord, in the appropriate thread on Dashcentral, and on the Dash.org forum.
Cost
In order to prepare for, record, and manage this process, it takes approximately 4 hours of time for each one. I believe conservative hourly rate (in the US) for an hourly rate for someone with my background is $250/hour.
That said, of course I don't subscribe to the "labor theory of value", although the two (labor and price) are often correlated, a proposal should provide more value than it costs. I believe the value for this proposal comes in the potential difference in approval vs. rejection of one single proposal that is potentially "flipped" as a result of the information provided therein. (i.e. if one $60,000 proposal is rejected that otherwise would have passed, this proposal will pay for itself 10x or, if one $60,000 proposal that will provide $80,000 of value, the same principle applies.)
The cost breakdown would be as follows (assuming 5 interviews)
Time for preparation, interview, management: 5 interviews at 4 hours each at $250/hour = 5 x 4 x $250 = $5,000 (12.5 Dash at current prices)
Video editing costs: $180/video x 5 videos: $900 (2.25 Dash at current prices)
Proposal reimbursement: 5 Dash
Total: 19.75 Dash
Conclusion
I hope that this proposal can help the Dash community continue to improve its decision making process in allocating treasury funds. I believe that this decision process will be the key factor in determining Dash's success in the future, and I look forward to your feedback and would be honored to continuing to assist in that process.
Introduction & Overview
I'm here today to pre-propose a service to the Dash community that builds upon my previous proposal based on the variety of helpful feedback I've received.
In my previous proposal, in an attempt to facilitate the discussion and engagement of MNO's in the voting system, I created summaries and commentaries on every proposal each month (Examples of which can be seen here). While a handful of people found these details quite helpful, many rightly noted that they tended to be a mile wide but often only an inch deep. I believe that is certainly fair criticism and am proposing something today that attempts to address it.
During the same time and separate from my previous proposal, I also had the opportunity to interview a variety of proposal owners about their ideas for the Dash community. Here's a list of these interviews:
Dash Proposals: In Detail - CryptoFeed
Dash Proposals: In Detail - Dash Academy
Dash Proposals: In Detail - Dash Help Venezuela - Support Center
Dash Proposals: In Detail - Feedbands DashInformer Advertising on Google, Facebook
Dash Proposals: In Detail - Hardfork Series
Dash Proposals: In Detail - Feedbands/Only-Spend-Dash
Dash Proposals: In Detail - Bit-To-Byte
Dash Proposals: In Detail - Dash For Southeast Asia FX Trader
Dash Proposals: In Detail - Dash Documentary
Dash Proposals: In Detail - Evolution Offers & Promotions Platform by The Acme
These interviews were much more in depth than the proposal summaries and I received overwhelmingly positive feedback and demand for more. Given feedback received as well as my experience from both the prior proposals and these interviews, I believe that the interviews create more value for the community.
Having watched the Dash proposal ecosystem very closely over the course of the last 6 months, it's my observation that (as is often the case) that a small percentage of the proposals deliver the most value. Additionally, another small (and sometimes overlapping) percentage of proposals are truly worthy of (or at least garner such) debate to the point that said debate likely actually makes a difference in the outcome of the vote.
As a result, I believe that these interviews will help in better elucidating the potential value and ROI (or lack thereof) of a proposal by allowing the community to see someone with a business background (10+ years in accounting for small businesses, started and sold two businesses.) have a sort of shark-tankesque (although perhaps more friendly) discussion with the proposal owner who is pitching his or her services to the community.
Proposal Structure
I propose to do 5 interviews/month in the same format as the links above with proposal owners who have active proposals up for vote in the current month. The proposals would be selected by me as a result of feedback from the community but would be done so weighted toward the aforementioned criteria of potentially high value proposals and proposals that appear to be likely to be close (in terms of pass/fail) in the vote.
The interviews would be delivered at as regular timing as possible (i.e. not all in the last few days); however, due to the general timing of most proposals coming in towards the later part of the month, the schedule would likely be weighted in that direction.
In order to get maximum traction and provide the most value, the interviews would be posted on the r/dashpay reddit, in the Discord, in the appropriate thread on Dashcentral, and on the Dash.org forum.
Cost
In order to prepare for, record, and manage this process, it takes approximately 4 hours of time for each one. I believe conservative hourly rate (in the US) for an hourly rate for someone with my background is $250/hour.
That said, of course I don't subscribe to the "labor theory of value", although the two (labor and price) are often correlated, a proposal should provide more value than it costs. I believe the value for this proposal comes in the potential difference in approval vs. rejection of one single proposal that is potentially "flipped" as a result of the information provided therein. (i.e. if one $60,000 proposal is rejected that otherwise would have passed, this proposal will pay for itself 10x or, if one $60,000 proposal that will provide $80,000 of value, the same principle applies.)
The cost breakdown would be as follows (assuming 5 interviews)
Time for preparation, interview, management: 5 interviews at 4 hours each at $250/hour = 5 x 4 x $250 = $5,000 (12.5 Dash at current prices)
Video editing costs: $180/video x 5 videos: $900 (2.25 Dash at current prices)
Proposal reimbursement: 5 Dash
Total: 19.75 Dash
Conclusion
I hope that this proposal can help the Dash community continue to improve its decision making process in allocating treasury funds. I believe that this decision process will be the key factor in determining Dash's success in the future, and I look forward to your feedback and would be honored to continuing to assist in that process.
