I would like to bring up a good point a person on NEM official forum posed:
NEMSecretariatOffice wrote:
In the development for Catapult, there will need to be localised trainings (likely most will be digital) that can be understood in all levels (enterprise, government, individuals, startups etc), guides and manuals along with partnerships with other parties with the distribution and scale. This all supports to the development of Catapult.
A lot of the work will come also after Catapult is launched, like the commercialization, localisation to various languages, projects to manage etc. We are taking a revenue-driven approach through some sort of consulting, advisory (managed by the Chief Revneue Officer) for NEM Foundation to continue to provide support for version updates and further applications to be build on Catapult.
spizzerb replied:
thx for trying to answer my question but i have to ask again:
given that one of the goals of this propposal is to advance the development of catapult, how does it actually achieve this? from looking at the numbers I don't see a clear focus on tech development itself
the propsoal calls for 8M of which 2.5M (31%) falls under the CTO. of that, there appear to be only 4 FTEs (together at 275k) working on nemtech development (excluding docs and websites). what happened to the positions listed on nem.io jobs?
Out of 8M in funding you only plan to spend 275k on actual devs which support catapult/nemtech development. Can you pls comment how this fits the strategy "catapult first"? Jobs from nem.io which are online at the moment are not considered in your proposal at all. Why?
Thank you
The new foundation basically wants to give themselves 2.5M USD and the devs, who actually do 99% of the work, only 275k USD. Smells really fishy and scammy.
And who is NEMSecretariatOffice? Who handed her the job and from my understanding she is asking for a 500k USD annual salary. When was the community informed about her hiring? How did it happen?
Vote "NO" on the new proposal by the "foundation".
Reward the developers and those who hodl through the gains and losses.
Fund a small marketing team who answers to the community and developers.
Don't allow the "foundation" to enrich itself again at our expense.