Pre-Community-Takeover Discussion
A few weeks ago, after battbot left, Schild_ temporarily took over as unofficial/volunteer community manager and did what he could to help guide the CINNI community to a recovery. He got busier in his own personal life and a few days ago asked me to step in. Over the past few days, I've tried to figure out a way to put CINNI on a sustainable recovery path and asked for a "roll call" of the community to find out who was still out there, who was still engaged and what each of you could offer.
The response was... well, not what I had hoped. Here's all the PM from my inbox on this, obscured with AAA to respect privacy:
hi there,
i wish u best luck and profit, but mintpal issue is something serious, u should solve mintpal problem before they delist cinni
Hi
I am a Cinnicoin Nut who would like to help.
I have been in the Coin since day one.
I hold about 50,000 coins.
This is my wallet address
I have other coins in cryptsy and Mintpal.
I have a reseller account at Heart internet so I can offer free unlimited website hosting, and email.
I want this coin to be a success.
Let me know if I can help.
Thanks
is there anything i can do to help cinni? i cant develop coin but im holding some
If we get the keys to the website, I can help out managing the current website. Else I can clone the website to a new host and fork the communication of the project.
Right now the website is implemented in Wordpress, which can be nice and easy to use, but is resource heavy and a pain to move to a new host. We could end up choosing a light NoSQL structure like Monstra. Easy to use for editors, but also easy to maintain.
I'm sticking around, lost fair amount of money in cinni but coin has good features that just need a boost to get going again.
No real skills, but i'll post here and there, trollbox news, donate some coins. Followed silk coin through its takeover so may as well follow cinni.
im still with cinni
I can take care of twitter/facebook/reditt or any other news posting or any other thing like that.
i dont have any coding knowledge sorry
That was about it.
In my rough survey of other community takeovers, I've concluded the following ingredients are critical to improving the odds of success and reducing the odds of failure:
1) the coin has to be led by a friendly, communicative, responsive, easy-going, high-frequency-posting C++/Python developer (it can not just be run by a non-coder community manager) like the BTCD dev or the NEOS dev
2) greater engagement from the rest of the community
3) some really new feature or a feature that does what others are doing in a whole new and much more effective way
4) a successful plea to the exchanges to give the coin more time to recover
5) more resources - managing a community to success is now a full-time job. Most of us have real lives outside of bitcointalk. Managing a community on a 7-day a week basis, which is increasingly what is needed to sustain confidence, is not something that can be done on a sustainable basis without some kind of compensation for the time and labor.
6) speed
So with the above said and looking at the reality, I think CINNI needs a relaunch with a new strategy developed by a new dev who
1) takes complete ownership of the coin as his own
2) fixes the existing wallet problems
3) devises a plan to recreate the coin with new features and new branding, to enhance the perception of newness
4) reluanches the coin (allowing owners of old cinni to exchange for the new coin 1:1, perhaps similar to what Summercoin/Navajocoin did) with either some kind of premine or ICO (milestone-staggered or otherwise) to sustain the new round of development and community management
So, I'd propose that the first step needs to be finding a new dev willing to takeover the reins - one who has compelling idea for a new plan.
I'd propose codecaffienecode, if he isn't a sockpuppet account, but he's been nowhere to be found for several weeks. Mindfox, who I tried recruiting has not been communicative and is probably overwhelmed with other tasks or put off by the previous round of discussion that went nowhere because of Cinnicoin dev's previous stubborness/silence - Cinnicoin dev may have dragged this out too long.
The more general problem is, devs who best fit the bill might be more motivated in many cases to either launch their own coins or work with other, healthier coin communities. In any case, I think this first step of finding a dev to take the lead is essential
In the meantime, I'd nominate agent725 as a permanent community manager - he seems to have the energy and some of the marketing elements needed to make a go of it.
Open to any other thoughts or recommendations, particularly if I missed any major considerations here.