Hello everyone!
I am pleased to announce my candidacy for the Community DAO.
My name is Jason (ILL_DIE_TRYING) and I am mostly running for the little guys. The entry level developers trying to solidify their knowledge and skills to build on the Harmony blockchain. I am also running to push for better organization and communications between the Harmony team and developers while they are working on grant projects.
You can see my experience with my own project here: PHP Class, API requests for scripting languages, and Harmony Node API Explorer
I have a few things I would plan to bring to light as a Governor, mostly focusing on the developer end of things:
- Lack of prompt communication with grant projects
- Lack of accountability for grantees
- Lack of maintaining the documentation which new developers count on being there and accurate
- Lack of entry level assistance for new and aspiring developers
Thank you for considering me!
If you have any questions, feel free to ask away!
- Are there obstacles you see in being able to commit up to 10 hours/week as a DAO governor? This amount of time is not a requirement, but an inability to commit time by some members has been an obstacle for the current DAO council in progressing objectives.
No obstacles. I work for myself and have flexible hours.
- What skills and/or abilities do you hope to bring that would be beneficial to the Community DAO?
Although relatively new to the crypto world, I have been working in the IT industry for over 20 years. Some of those years for companies including working on grant projects for a national non-profit for eight years. I have two IT related degrees (BS IT&D and AAS Networking). I have also recently completed a bounty for my project PHPH1. My goal is to help ensure the community has the tools and information it needs to work within the Harmony metaverse, namely interaction with the Harmony grant system and the Harmony Team. Mostly, my plan is to leverage whatever positive outcomes I can for developers to ensure they have access to complete and accurate documentation, responsive and helpful results when they need information, as well as produce better accountability for projects which have been funded by Harmony Grants. I think we have a lot of basic improvements that could be made to bring Harmony to the forefront of the list of blockchains developers would like to build on, especially new developers migrating to web3.
- How long have you been in the Harmony community and why do you want to run for a position on the council?
I have been in the Harmony community for just over a year now. I am running for this position due to the experience I have had with my recent bounty. Everything worked out in the end, but now I would like to try to make sure that my poor experience with the process never happens again. I experienced first hand multiple shortcomings in the grant process and plan to address them so future developers have a positive experience developing their Harmony apps. I also believe as a new developer just learning blockchain technology, I can relate to entry level developers and would like to push to expand Harmony’s community education plans to include an entry level education track for brand new web3 developers with minimal programming experience. ZK is great but you have to have some pretty serious experience to even qualify for it. We all started somewhere, and I feel welcoming entry level devs will help solidify the foundation of Harmony projects in the future. I believe developers are absolutely necessary to bring value to the blockchain and should be treated as such.
- What timezone do you live in for the purposes of potentially scheduling a 2nd AMA?
I live in Mountain Standard Time (MST) USA
