Witness Team Alpha
Introduction
Greetings community, we are launching Witness Team Alpha! The idea of Witness Teams is described here and Witness Team Alpha is the first implementation. We are creating an organization funded by witness pay that consists of a combination of experienced witness node operators, software developers, marketers to support and grow the Steem ecosystem. There has already been a trend of using witness pay to fund Steem community and software development projects, but this Witness Team is more formalized than previous approaches. It would be great to see many more Witness Teams in the future!
We hope to receive your votes! Thank you!
Mission
- Maintain reliable witness node block validation & price feeds
- Evaluate & maintain witness parameter settings and approve new blockchain features
- Grow the number of Steem users with marketing initiatives
- Increase engagement of existing users with a variety of Steem projects
Goals
99.99% reliability in block production & price feeds
Acquire 10,000 new Steem users in 6 months
About
Team Alpha is composed of Steemit community members who have significant experience running witness nodes and include blockchain, software development and digital marketing entrepreneurs.
Witness Operations
@lafona has extensive experience running witness nodes on the Bitshares, Muse, and Steem blockchains. He will share maintenance & emergency duties with @picokernel who is a long-time witness operator for Steem and @xeroc who is a Steem and graphene blockchain expert.
[Note: @lafona currently runs a witness node ranked #28, @picokernel runs a witness node ranked #41 and @xeroc runs a node ranked #16]
Growth Marketing & Software Development
@sirwinchester is a multi-talented Entrepreneur, Investor, Programmer, Specialist in Social Media Marketing, Writer and Dancer/Artist. He’s travelled around the world and has over 50,000 Instagram followers. He is a co-founder of WeCare4U, a digital marketing agency focused on brand strategy and design.
@mrs.steemit is Co-founder and COO of WeCare4U and is an Instagram Brand Builder/Ambassador and Social Media Marketing Consultant
@allasyummyfood - Youtuber and chef has independently grown her social media following for her cooking channel to nearly 200,000 facebook and over 60,000 Youtube followers. She also does all her own photography, filming, editing, and marketing.
@roelandp - organizer of Steemfest, fullstack developer has created the following projects: Radio Steem, Steemtools, Steem-o-Graph, Steemfighter, SteemyOrNot, SteeMVP, Steemstream, Steemstory
@picokernel - fullstack developer and created the following projects: Squeek, Peep
@steemrollin - founder of Peerhub & Bitcash
Advisors
@xeroc is a blockchain and Steem expert and founder/CEO of Chainsquad GmbH, a blockchain development company. He is also the creator of Piston, python tool and library for Steem and Streemian, a curation, blogger syndication, and notification tool.
@faddat is a blockchain & devops specialist and Co-founder/CTO of the Dawn multichain blockchain project.
@modprobe is a blockchain engineer and one of the architects of the Graphene Blockchain Framework, the foundation upon which Steem and Bitshares are based.
How do you support us?
Please Vote
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to spread the word! Thank you!
Who is administrating the witness node?
Good question. @lafona is the primary witness operator, but he, @picokernel and @xeroc will help share the monitoring/emergency duties. Thanks!
Will all of them have access to the owner key? Anyone else?
They will all have the active key. The owner key will be with @lafona until we find the best way to set up multisig in the future. Thanks!
Very excited to be a part of this! I'm looking forward to our future projects.
Thanks @steemrollin for bringing us all together.
Steem on everyone!
It's a veritable All Star team! Looking forward to seeing what you can accomplish.
Thanks so much for the support and look forward to sharing progress with you!
Very excellent initiative team!
Excellent to hear and thank you!
How you would like to achieve that? Goal should be S.M.A.R.T.. How you are going to measure that you will bring 10k users, and not someone else?
Love the goal, but I would also like to see a concrete action plan for this.
Yes it will be important to measure our progress and there are tools available to do that. Some outreach efforts will be easier to track than others, but we will be focused on just one in the beginning . The overall goal of user acquisition for Steemit is hopefully 100k+ and above within that time frame.
This looks outstanding! You guys get my vote! :)
Thanks so much for the support @jrcornel!
10k new users within 6 months? Yes please :)
Yes that is the goal and the plan and thanks for the support!
Several of my favorite people on steemit :) You get my vote that's for sure.
Thanks! Hopefully everyone on the team will be among your favorites soon!
Cool!
Very! Thanks!
Great idea, you got my witness vote! Has the team been tossing around any ideas regarding how to reach that 10,000 new users goal?
Thanks for the support @shenanigator! Yes preliminary discussions, but it should narrow down to just one focus after some iteration.
All star team, look forward to seeing what you come up with!
This is going to be amazing!!!
Good luck guys. We have a good community here. Just need to spread the word
Thank you. We have a great community!
Thank you and agreed @steevc! Let's spread the good word!
Where people gather an economy develops! This is good news!
Yes we want this to be THE place where people gather! Thanks!
This is looking swell!Resteemed, and you will get my vote as witness.
Thank you for the support @shiri!
Sounds great, you have my upvote and resteem. Good luck!
Thank you @heymattsokol!
Good luck
Thank you!
Good luck guys. Great idea.
Thank you!
Great Idea! Steem on!!
Thanks and steeming on!
Interesting idea. Watching to see something good happen.
We'll be working to make something good happen!
Good to know glad to have started to follow
upvoted and resteemed @team.alpha
Thanks so much for the support!
Nice initiative and an impressive roster of team members. You guys have my witness vote! Looking forward to seeing what kind of positive developments come out of this.
Thank you for the vote!
A very talented team indeed, best of luck to you!
Thanks..and thanks for the compliment!
I love it! I look forward to hearing more from you guys!
Look forward to sharing our progress! Thanks!
Voted and resteemed. Good luck to you guys!
Thanks for the vote and resteem!
Great idea and team! up-voted and voted! I like that you specified the team goal. Actually I would love to see a site where the goals of all the top witnesses are stated so that the community can measure if they succeeded or not. I have the opinion that if you are voted for a witness position you need to deliver up on your promises that brought you their in the first place.
Thanks so much for the support and vote! Yes goals are great to have!
Is it too much to ask each of the members to confirm/comment/brainstorm about the specific initiative? Since I am not yet familiar with the above author/idea :)
We'll have a blog with updates as we move forward so feel free to follow along. Thanks!
Resteeming for you , I'm not acquainted with witnesses so if you could answer the question from @liondani , so reblog , .. brainstorm , maybe make a podcast or something.
Anyway great team, hope everything goes well for you , Upvoted and such , just don't forget the little fish , people tend to get lost forever , unless they go to the trending posts and leach people from there :D ,
Cheers ! watching out for you :)
Thanks for the resteem and support! Keep checking in for updates!
Very, very good.
It will be very interesting to follow your actions and progress.
Will you track new members through some sort of referral system? I really do think that referral system and affiliate program is necessary for Steemit to grow.
Voted for your witness, of course.
Thanks so much for the support! Yes referral systems have incredible potential and may also be the easiest outreach efforts to track. Will keep you updated on our efforts & progress!
Cool!
Will the team be working for a platform without the public flag, flag disputes and flag wars currently so often an issue? Would be great to know that you will be working at least for a separation of the Steemit flag from regular downvoting due to overvalued content.
So many great names on this team. I think it's great to see a mix of developers and content creators. What more is awesome is the formalized approach, which encourages greater transparency and responsibility for all witnesses.
Resteemed.
que es el Team.Alpha?
which is the Team.Alpha?
Is this witness updating to newest version of Steemd soon? It shows as currently running 0.19.0 rather than 0.19.1.
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