Topic: [DVC]DevCoin - Official Thread - Moderated - page 252. (Read 1059181 times)

Would open source medicine be something to consider? I only just read about them maybe a week ago and tagged it for research for a future article, so I cant speak to their suitability, but the idea seems to fit.

http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/267234/open-source-medicine-puts-health-above-profits
http://osmso.org/

The blog usually gets about 175 - 250 hits a day, so not a ton of traffic but it is read and quickly indexed by Google.

Great! Well as I have the power to assign a small number of shares for marketing purposes - you will get 6 next month to contact all the blogs at http://www.moneycrashers.com/top-personal-finance-blogs/  and ask for guest posts Please PM me with your DVC address which can accept generated Devcoin shares (a wallet on your computer).

I've noticed Heavy covers many different cryptocurrencies (http://www.heavy.com/tech/2013/12/dogecoin-what-is-shibe-cryptocurrenc/) so I have contacted them about doing a write up about Devcoin.

In re to guest posting on your blog - does your blog get a lot of traffic?

Yes it's called Devcoin  Seriously though - if we could build partnerships with for example Ubuntu - that is probably the way to go. Start canvassing open source organisations / movements / groups.

I agree with this. Is there such a thing as an open source charity? Or is that just a weird question?

Wouldn't it be better for the cause to be an open-source project? Not a comment against charity but it's usually local, and philanthropy/funding and charity aren't the same thing.

Re. Wikipedia - basically needs a decent length and depth article by a very mainstream source that focuses on Devcoin.

Just a heads up, managed to get 12-hr chart data off markm's ticker into my db in one piece, and you can see the long term history of dvc/usd here: http://dvcusdchart.blisteringdevelopers.com/daily

It's not a candle chart, just a spot price but it's sure interesting to look at. Forgive my crappy aesthetics.

EDIT: oops forgot to convert to USD, will fix.

EDIT2: fixed

I would do it if someone else can provide the "news" (I can write it up as copy but need material)

if you ever get Secession rolling, let me know.... "colorado is becoming "Kolorado".... although there is a secessionist movement here too... the State of Jefferson.....

When the devcoin price went up we could afford more shares, so I asked Smeagol to contact big projects, like Blender, to see if any of their developers wanted to go on a share list. No one from the contacted projects asked to go on the share list, so I asked Smeagol to stop the outreach and handle the bounty payouts instead. He made the page:
http://devticker.pw/business_bounty/business_bounty_32.csv

He'll put the bounties there, it's listed on the account location page:
https://raw.github.com/Unthinkingbit/charity/master/account_location.csv

as:
Business Bounty,http://devticker.pw/business_bounty/business_bounty_xx.csv

it will get picked up whenever account.py is run. I'm still keeping bounty_xx.csv to handle the ongoing payments. I asked Smeagol to call it business_bounty_xx.csv, even though it's for all awards, to avoid a name collision. If a bounty is awarded on this thread, and it doesn't get listed there after a few days, please contact Smeagol.

A very good idea! Since it will greatly increase our community awareness.  I'd like to do it, but i'm not native english speaker, so if someone else does it, I'll translate it into Chinese.

I asked Psybits to issue a press release for devcoin and be the PR spokesman. Within a few days he wrote a press release which covered all the main devcoin points, without being too long. He sent it out to many, I think hundreds of sites, including the Wall Street Journal. The devcoin price went from around 50 satoshis to over 150. We got many new contributors, including writers and programmers. I was so happy with the press release that I gave him 6 shares ongoing afterwards, and boosted that each round. In round 31 it was 12 shares, and in this round it's now 18 shares.

In large part because of his press release and marketing, we can afford to pay more people and do more stuff.

I prefer links in the article rather than footnotes at the end. In my opinion; footnotes are for printed articles, on the web links are better.

I agree that links are important, so I recommend that raters put a higher weight on links. I changed the recommended link weighting from 10 to 30 at:
http://www.devtome.com/doku.php?id=devtome_rater#rating_method

Sidhujag, I think your Android wallet will be a major, major step forward. I have been using the Doge Android wallet, tipping people and so, a lot and with great pleasure. It keeps the coin at the center of my attention.

I would love to do the same with Devcoin, showing it to people when discussing it. I cannot value your work enough in this respect.

if there's anything i need to expand on, or clarify, any feedback would be helpful....

http://www.devtome.com/doku.php?id=cryptocurrency_day_trading

Finished, well mostly. i probably will add more links, but the main body is complete.

there was a BOUNTY for presenting an Investment/Trading strategy?

have a look....... I'm not a financial wizard, but this should work for most people who can do basic math and a little web browsing....

Great to hear that everyone is wanting to rev up publicity. It's important. But not all PR is good PR, regardless of what Miley Cyrus may have told you.

Hairy-beard dude on youtube, i hope you read this. We all love your spirit, but you need to take down those videos and replace them with something a bit more useful. If we want to see devcoin accepted by the public we need a public image, ie face, that is acceptable.

Also, Anyone who follows peer or primecoin might know that Sunny King does a weekly update. Can we do something like this?

DVC/BTC. Thats why I said Satoshis instead of, for example, Liteoshis.

(At Vircurex.)

-MarkM-

I was thinking about the conversation being had about devtome and it's accessibility. I agree it needs quite an overhaul in the long run to appeal as a source of "stuff" to the general public.

I'd like to propose a bounty, if I may, for "A better devtome system". 6 different strategies for 6 shares each, on how devtome can best be organised to:

Allow contributors to easily add content (as they do currently via the wiki version, but it doesn't have to be this way; think about the options).
Allow easy indexing of the content so categories form more naturally.
Allow easy administration for tasks such as plagiarism checks, copyright checks, managing writers (if need be), etc.
Allow the audience to find what they want quickly (front page with random articles? automatic related article finder? automatic internal hyperlink system? etc).
Ideas for a better categorization system, if one exists.
Ideas for other ways of delivering content - eg reading apps for mobile devices?

This is a discussion paper where the writer describes what the perfect system would be like, by identifying problems with the current system and imaging improvements. You don't necessarily have to practically solve them, just logically. I would expect each page to be 1000 words or more, to thoroughly explore the topic. The above parts are just examples of things to think about, but there are tons more worth considering and the writers can explore ideas and brainstorm. I'd also encourage the later bounty seekers to absorb the good ideas from the first few in their own, if they can - this is open source, after all!

I'm not sure whether the wiki has plugin options, but if it does, we can either consider building the current one out to better fit our needs (and the needs of our readers), or biding our time until we can build our own software in the future if it's more valuable. Again, this is just about ideas at the moment, on how we can make it a pleasant experience as possible for mass audiences, such that they would find themselves having a hard time staying away.

Any objections? Is 6/6 overkill?

Please do, and keep us updated!