[peppernrino]

Gridcoin Community Hangout #052

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This will be our first hangout in the Gridcoin Discord channel! We hope to increase attendance by hosting the hangout in an application that people already idle in. So, come one, come all! :D

Need some $GRC to get your wallet going? We will be giving away 5 FREE GRC to anyone that needs it, up to 100 GRC per hangout!

Free Gridcoins are provided by the other members of the hangout as a kind gesture from the community.

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Want to suggest a topic to discuss?

Reply with your suggestions in this Steemit post, or on the Reddit repost, and we will discuss your topic in chronological order of submission.

Can we discuss anything?

It's advisable to stay generally on topic, attendees are distributed around the world so they may not (likely won't) share the same views regarding controversial topics not related to Gridcoin/BOINC/computers/cryptocurrency.

What is Gridcoin?

Gridcoin securely rewards BOINC computation on top of Proof of Stake. Reward allocation is distributed, not centralized unlike other distributed computing related cryptocurrencies.

More info: https://steemit.com/beyondbitcoin/@cm-steem/gridcoin-securely-rewarding-boinc-computation-on-top-of-pos/

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Where can I listen to the raw live stream?

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Where can I listen to edited versions of the hangouts?

Past episode details

051 RSVP & Topic suggestion thread

Last Classroom details

Gridcoin Classroom 010 thread

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Why are we holding these hangouts?

• A conference call can provide significant advantages over communicating via text.
• To create opportunities to inform the public of new Gridcoin, BOINC, and related services & their development progress.
• To bridge relations between the cryptocurrency & BOINC communities, and our users.
• To be transparent in our actions.

How long will the hangout last?

Shooting for a hard limit of 2 hours.

Gridcoin Hangout #052 will be held on:

March 17, 2018 @ 7pm UTC.

Compare 7pm UTC to your time zone!

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How to join the Gridcoin hangout

Step 1: Join our Discord: https://discord.me/gridcoin

Step 2: Join the hangout voice channel in the Social category.

That's it!

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Everyone is encouraged to join, especially those who suggest topics of discussion in this thread.

A massive shout out to the BeyondBitcoin community & @officialfuzzy for providing the Gridcoin community a room in their mumble server for free for every hangout until now (even they have switched to Discord), @cm-steem, for hosting the first ~35 Hangouts. Also, to @fkinglag for providing a live stream of the Hangouts and Classrooms for more ways to get in on the action! :D

Thanks for reading, and follow me for more Gridcoin-related updates!

Comments

[geebell]

Looking forward to the Discord Hangout. I intend to make time to attend!

I suggest we, briefly, discuss Halford's response to the concerns regarding developer compensation. The main points are:

• [Success] [The Dev compensation] program definitely drove new development to GRC ... approx. 50% more than we would have had in hours if we did not compensate devs.
• [Increase Rationale] crypto-developers have an average yearly contractor wage much higher than general devs ... I think $60 ... should be high enough to attract quality permanent developers to GRC without constant turnover. ... One point I wanted to stress to everyone is the $60 rate increase was partially due to the assessment that these [current] developers have not been charging us for R&D, overhead, forum posts, or a massive amount of debugging ... they wont bill us for wasted time.
• [Accountability] Payment Systems: I have a custom made program that is capable of generating PDFs, and more professional invoices, and sql reports, but I think the prerequisite to this is for one, requiring the devs to use it for timesheets, and two: receiving more than $5k per month in billings. I realize that $60 is a professional rate and more accountability is required, and Im not against providing that accountability if I see a certain threshhold per month exceeded ($5k).
• [Payment Cap] No more than 160 hours per dev per month with a cap of 12 developers max per month. We currently receive about 30 hours per month per dev with 5 devs.

[jringo]

To keep things brief during the hangout, here's my long-form addition to this discussion.

https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@jringo/let-s-talk-money-regarding-the-current-developer-poll

[jringo]

Bring your feedback on the whitepaper! I (or a few of us) will be there to answer any questions.

https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@jringo/the-gridcoin-white-paper-proposal

[tcblack]

I think I can make it. I'll try to be there.

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[polarbeats]

Already on the discord bro, cant wait to look more into this

[wisecracka]

Unless some craziness happens, I'll be there!

[zipity]

If you intend to speak, use the Android/Iphone apps or the desktop app. Don't use the web version of Discord. Some ports are disabled and you probably don't be heard (you would hear the other though). Hangout is dead, long lives the hangout!

[ragnarokdel]

With the recent forking issues fixed (or at least as far as I know), there's been a lot of complaints about the difficulty of staking and I would like to know if there are plans to implement manual staking like it was discussed a few weeks ago? I'd be more then willing to pay 10 GRC in fees or even a percentage to manually stake if necessary. It would beat giving my boinc stats away to the pool (no offense intented, the pool is a fantastic service)

[jringo]

SotN #10

https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@jringo/gridcoin-state-of-the-network-17-march-2018