To update the community on a few things:
- EverGreenCoin decals - That's right, stickers! A community member, James (not to be confused with James Magee), is constructing some EverGreenCoin vinyl decals. He has agreed to accept EGC as reimbursement for the expenses. High quality vinyl is being used, so outdoor use will last. While the final cost is not precisely known, we expect to be able to make 100 decals at under $300 (15,000 EGC @ $0.02) with an ETA of 2 weeks. A sample is being made and I will post a picture as soon as it is.
- Chinese outreach - A Chinese community member, Tony, has recently surfaced, though he has been following EGC for a long time. He would like to help EGC better serve the Chinese audience and of course, we all agree. He is running a small IT business and getting it more active in the crypto space. He has worked for 2givecoin doing translations. To establish a good professional relationship, we have agreed a Chinese Whitepaper translation would be a good first step. After his initial offer, I negotiated him down to 4000 EGC ($80 @ $0.02) due after delivery and acceptance. ETA early this coming week.
Art is busy working with Tony to get some images (cover page date, staking for charity diagram) in Chinese language. Many thanks to Art for making the time on a short notice to help get this done. If you may remember the plan when we started work on the whitepaper was, when we feel we have the whitepaper in a well revised form, we want to proceed with generating translations. That time has come after at least 4 revisions. Of course, long-standing community members being the preferred source and payee of these translations. We hope to generate additional languages in the coming weeks also.
- Eco Wealth - Brandon from Eco Wealth joined us for today's meeting. He is very excited to help promote EGC and has tremendous sprite and enthusiasm. He has mentioned EGC on his website here alongside some eco-giants. Brandon and I have been communicating over the past few weeks, mostly via twitter DMs. You may have seen some retweets of https://twitter.com/Eco_Wealth. It was great to get to talk to him in person today and we look forward to working with him more. Please give him a follow and, if you care to, welcome him to the EGC community.
- 2019 Roadmap - Taking into account my hesitations of timeline commitments mentioned in the most recent video update, the new roadmap will be public this weekend. Please understand, I only do not want to over-commit and raise expectations we or I may not be able to deliver on. But that said, I do feel we can put forth a solid, achievable, progressive, and considerable path forward.
- Hosting expenses - Both Mike and Art have hosted services, wiki and fonzobot respectively, for a year or better. While both of these gentlemen do this with no expectation of reimbursement, I would like to offer them both a couple thousand EGC as a token of appreciation.
I would like to use foundation coins to help me pay the mentioned expenses. Expenses being: Chinese whitepaper translation (4,000 EGC), Vinyl decals (less than 15,000 EGC), and Mike and Art's hosting (2,000 EGC x 2). If the community agrees, I would like to pay half of those expenses personally and half from foundation coins. Final cost to the foundation would be below 10,000 EGC. The foundation balance is now just over 290k. I know at a current market value of $0.02, it might not be the best time to spend, but they are going into the hands of community members and supporters looking to increase their holdings. Not sell.
Ok, that is just a summary of recent events and things discussed at today's meeting. Sorry for the silence in this thread the past week. Please do not misinterpret that as a lack of progress being made. Please join our
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Thanks for the continued support!