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Core dev team is still at 4 (or maybe 5, I lose track) devs, we had one guy drop out recently but he wasn't all that active, so no real issues.
Jean-Luc has been lead dev for a very long time:
https://nxtforum.org/index.php?action=profile;u=33
and CfB has been out of Nxt as an active dev for about a year:
https://nxtforum.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2

He is working on his own coin to power his IOT jinn project.

Thanks for making this clear, I just saw Marc being a little desparate about 2 devs leaving NXT, so I thought I might ask for details. Nothing serious then

From NXT core?
He's not been involved in the core per se for ages now.

so, cfb is gone?

https://nxtforum.org/general-discussion/%28marketing-business-and-development%29-the-tennessee-project-fundraiser/

The people who will do this (in full cooperation with many others with supplementary skills) are EvilDave and me.

As stated in the Tennessee plan, we'd get a retainer for the hours we will take out of our normal jobs (at least, I will, as Dave is a freelancer).

Part of the funds is our wage and part is our working budget. We will work with open books, if only because we want to set an example, but also because it's how it needs to be done.

Over the past years, we have worked closely with most people in the NXT community, and we will both make use of their skills and also offer our services to help in any way we can.

This at the very least means taking each and any legitimate project details with us to conference, into meetings, and when applicable pitch them.

Our motivation is multifold:

1) We hold NXT and have a stake and want to work to create value
2) We love NXT as a platform and think it's seriously undervalued and underrepresented
3) We believe that the project at this stage needs this, and that our bootstrapping phase has only just begun.
4) We wish to inspire others to do the same.

In short: it's a mix of business, pleasure and values. 

We are still building a list of markets, but we already have a portfolio of ventures we are talking to.

Damelon, I have to say I like it.  Who will go about these tasks and what is their motivation to do so?

Have you targeted any markets, angles, channels, or value propositions yet?

There are several methods, all of which we are already doing, but imperfectly.

Let's take an example where we'd actually have an application, say a tool that allows you to create a token, and allows your customer to trade it within your own environment. What the actual token is doesn't matter in this use case.

1. You define what markets and industries this specific use case may appeal to or be of use to.
2. You define the level of competence with regards to crypto solutions applies.
3. You create an attractive PR package centered around the specific value proposition you have to offer them (centered around themes like efficiency, cost reduction and security for example)
4. You pinpoint industry outlets to target with your campaign.
5. You pinpoint major players within the industry
6. You find out if you already have possibilities for introductions and make use of them to get first contact
7. You find a good value for money spot to promote your solution at and fight to gain a speaking or pitching spot there.
8. You find out who is an up and coming underdog in the industry and go at him
9. You go to said conferences and do a shitload of networking
10. You follow up on the gathered contacts and go into a feedback loop with them, feeling out potential pitfalls

Etc. etc.

A lot of these things are actually free or nearly costless in terms of having to pay for a lot of materials. Time is the bottleneck in most of these cases because proper talks and follow up take a lot of time and attention to detail.

Still, the essential process is the same: pinpoint market (and be bloody creative about it!), pinpoint angles of "attack", pinpoint channels and pinpoint the value proposition.
Combine it with a healthy dose of doggedness and time investment and you are well under way.

Such a program should not be done in a vacuum: it needs to be supported by a broader appeal, but no entrepeneur is going to be interested in "This is NXT and it's cool because {fill in crypto term of endearment}"
You need to talk in terms of benefit and value, not in terms of tech.

Specifically how will you provide "PR/marketing/outreach" in order to help bring applications to market?

Because they go together.
There are quite a few devs in NXT that can and do built things that have a good chance of being succesful.
However, a lot of projects are abandoned due to lack of business acumen, so the projects tend to be shortlived.

One of the major aims that Tennessee has is to take these "sleeper" projects and help them get to market. I am sorry this wasn't completely clear in the above.

From a sales perspective, it is at this moment almost impossible to pitch NXT to any investor, because he is going to ask "show me what you have got". So the loop that needs to be created in use cases <> PR/marketing/outreach <> investor/entrepeneur.

Note that the above is not linear, it's looped. The elements feed each other. Tennessee is aimed at breaking the vicious circle we find ourselves in that there is a continuous lack of funding and eventually motivation. We are confident that once that cycle is broken, things can and will progress at their own pace.

And sure, if people have the acumen and start up cash to do so, they should put the money there. http://otdocs.com/ does, http://debune.org/ does, http://nxtty.com/ and https://lythmmo.com/ does.

Tennessee is meant to help open it up further. From what we hear and see in our day to day talks with potential users and businesses, it's dearly needed.

Definitely, keep it promoted on all social media, and here in the forum too, because it needs more promotion.

I think we need to get agressive on promoting it, otherwise Ethereum could inflict more harm in us.

We need to show that we are better than Ethereum, better transparency, and already done features, not just empty promises like ETH guys do.

Why not put that time/energy/money directly into building a real world application?

Indeed, I could not agree more

Promotion is useless without showing something. So, shameless plug: https://nxtforum.org/general-discussion/%28marketing-business-and-development%29-the-tennessee-project-fundraiser/


 

Agree, Nxt is offering the best feature set of all crypto currencies and frameworks at the moment. But they need to be implemented in real world use cases and applications, otherwise they are useless.

Not until it sees application in the real world.  NXT has a lot of tools but no one is interested in using them.  There is a lot of talk about promoting NXT but the greatest promotion in the world would be using it to build something useful.

@RealBitcoin
you are good man
Thanks for update
you can join nxtforum or slack supernet, great idea and amazing people are here
http://slackinvite.supernet.org/  

Sorry english is bad  

Ok let me get it right, with SUPERNET and all of it, so we have:

• Complete and functional lightweight client
• POS forging, easily
• Offline transactions, and cold storage
• News feed inside the client
• Alias system (trademark registration, copyright or other intelectual stuff)
• Messaging system
• Contact system
• Marketplace
• Monetary system (create own NXT derivative currency)
• Asset exchange (create own asset based on NXT)
• Dividend system
• Coinomat & Coinimal -> Exchange cryptocurrencies between eachother, or exchange them to fiat, and send it to credit card or wire transfer
• PIN code system, for extra security
• Jay built in web wallet
• NEODICE built in dice game
• OPALDRIVE, decentralized storage, competitor to STORJ
• Synchthing: File synching system
• PANGEA: Decentralized poker system
• SKYNET: Decentralized trading site, with bots,API, charts and the rest of it
• CRYPTOPANELS: Portfolio visualization
• Freemarket: censorship resistant market
• NXTVAULT: 2 factor authentication for extra security and android compatible
• ATOMIC: Decentralized corporation platform
• OMNIGAMES: Cross platform mobile game creation with cryptocurrency as ingame money

You have all of this is 1 client, that is only 17 mb, and can be used easily.

UNBELIEVABLE!

WHY IS NXT ONLY 8 MILLION $? IT SHOULD BE 8 TRILLION $!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Keep buying NXT folks, this needs to go to the moon!

I seem to have misplaced my paraphrase for my NXT account....the passphrase was the default genorated upon account creation... if anyone has any information on how to recover this..please let me know.   I think I already know the answer to this....bah...stupid me.  If anyone wants to try and crack my account, they are welcome to do it.  The address is NXT-3UHE-JZ5H-SJN2-5LQSJ  It contains 11759.6445917 NXT.  I was dumb enough to loose my key, so maybe someone is smart enough to take it.

Proposal for New CoinexV2.0 Asset solving some complains about Current Coinex Asset.

"This way users that complaining that Coinex asset is big also can join. Also some confusing about Coinex will be solved. it's officially pegged to CNY."

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.12673471

Project "Tennessee" fundraiser went over the 50% barrier within 48 hours!

For more information, read: https://nxtforum.org/general-discussion/%28marketing-business-and-development%29-the-tennessee-project-fundraiser/