Topic: NXT :: descendant of Bitcoin - Updated Information - page 1176. (Read 2761624 times)

I have no problems with someone being critical about funds, but as regards to marketing a critical mistake is made: it's treated the same as a technical funding.

When you fund a technical or development effort, it's easy to put measurable parameters: "If we spend X, we expect to get Y" and that is cold hard fact.

With marketing, especially at the start, this is very hard to do, and sometimes downright silly. Anyone who has any experience looking at marketing analytics knows that at some point you just can't say: "X happened because of Y".

That means that sometimes money is spent unnneccessarily. That's what bad marketeers do! And most people, I am sad to say, tend to judge marketing and PR by that standard.

The other side is, that marketing gets subjected to over-auditing.

I believe in this case, this is happening. I'll be blunt: if people want hard facts on what the result of marketing efforts like LTB minutes and conferences would be, you won't be able to get them. I can tell you that if you don't get good people out there, Nxt has a major problem.

Take the Miami conference. If you'd have audited Nifty and JustaBit up front about numbers, that would have been silly. Even now, when we know that they have made very good contacts, it's still silly. All they can say at this moment is that things are in the pipeline. If you take the hard line now, you'd say: "you don't get funding, because you don't have results". And that would mean they wouldn't be able to get those results.

I sense a large amount of distrust towards the marketing efforts from some corners. Distrust is something different from critical questions.

I'll be blunt once more: marketing at this point needs trust up front. That means funding without too many questions, based on the fact that you know some people who know what they are doing are taking care of it. I put it to you that some developers in here would get blind funding because of their reputation and there wouldn't be as many questions asked as there are of marketing.

Also, from a "division of power" perspective, I would be less than happy if the person who does the audit also is the person who takes the end decision about actual spending. That is putting jury and judge together.

I'm not going to beg for PR funds, but I do want people to know that I really dislike being put in a place where I feel I have to defend my talents and job and explain I'm not evil.

Nxt features.....multisig, service providers, decentralized auction, etc.


EDIT: sorry I meant subcommittee....like marketing committee...etc.


or we can have one big committee and they can divided it up as they see fit.

Still, I strongly advice you to add another layer (compression whatever) instead of using a binary format.

We have brilliant and trustworthy people here. If they fuck up, well, then bye bye 10 Mio. NXT. But that's it. Better than babbling till April and CfB throws the NXT away.

Ok, thanks for clarification. We should stick to one committee for this 10 Mio NXT which makes the polls etc.

Don't get into freaking detail and blah for this. Let us discuss, which people should be in it.
The committee gets the NXT, they do the polls. It is not THE committee for Nxt, it is one lousy committee for 10 Mio NXT. Don't freak out on that and let's do it.

We have brilliant and trustworthy people here. If they fuck up, well, then bye bye 10 Mio. NXT. But that's it. Better than babbling till April and CfB throws the NXT away.

Nxt features.....multisig, service providers, decentralized auction, etc.


EDIT: sorry I meant subcommittee....like marketing committee...etc.


or we can have one big committee and they can divided it up as they see fit.

Sorry, what? A feature committee?

                       NXT FEATURE DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE:

This committee will be tasked with determining and implementing the most requested Nxt features.


Budget: 3 million Nxt

member: 7 Maximum

Keep up to good work....just try to develop an objective way for the community to judge the results of the spending. (accounts created, Nxt mentions in media, Google searches. etc.)

This is normal practice for  any marketing department when they have to report to management.

                       NXT FEATURE DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE:

This committee will be tasked with determining and implementing the most requested Nxt features.


Budget: 3 million Nxt

member: 7 Maximum

What does that mean? Is the binary format already in use?

I guess after the migration that the API as we know it now would cease to exist?  If so, how about if we did switch to full TF, but kept JSON transport?  Obviously we couldnt expect 1Mtps then, but could we expect 200Ktps?

If so that should sustain us well long enough to get a testbed setup to convert peerexplorer, block explorers, and custom clients over to a binary transport protocol.