So, I am proposing two things.
- 1 Community Representative
A community representative who the core team can talk to about how users feel (emphasis on feel) about Harmony’s direction.
Right now a lot of frustration spills out into the forums, reddit, telegram chats, Discord, and many, many, other places.
A community representative with a term of 3 months can do weekly AMAs, write down feedback, and present it to the Harmony team.
The community representative can then do weekly reports on how the Harmony core team is responding to the users and their feedback.
This should reduce a lot of frustration and goes to the important issues regarding decentralization in Harmony.
- 2 grant/investment reviewers
In the current iteration where grant applications will continue to grow (and ask many people associated with the 1DAO Alliance and they’ll tell you nearly all the questions are related to funding) then we need people to work, full-time, reviewing projects.
What does reviewing actually mean?
Literally meeting the team. Doing KYC of the team. Reading their proposal. Giving feedback via the forums and via video/conference calls on their proposal/business plan/tech dev plan.
Let’s make this professional everyone – if you are asking for 15,000 to 150,000 dollars over the internet, you need to have someone actually talk to you on a weekly basis until you finish key milestones that will get the milestones activated.
I spend a lot of hours each week helping new projects who are SUPER excited about building on Harmony. But, 90% of them have 0 clue about how anything on Harmony actually works. Just 1 hour of time could save a new dev team a month of work.
By sharing ideas, knowledge, and bringing knowledge and spreading it around via actual video calls by professional community grant/investment reviewers, we can massively speed up the grant/investment application process, bring great projects to Harmony, and increase the size of the ecosystem because there will be someone on the other side who ACTUALLY seems to care.