On Sunday, August 07, 2016 08:24:59 AM Florent Daigniere wrote: > > I've also voted for that. > > > > So in other words: I am totally willing to deal with fundraising > > while being > > an employee should I be allowed to continue my employment. > > Willingness is one thing, capacity (and track record) is another. Do > you have any form of experience at successfully raising money? Why > should the project pick *you* as its paid resource to do it? > > "because you're willing to do it as a paid employee" doesn't strike me > as a good-enough reason.
I really don't enjoy going down to the level of bragging. But you did seem to ask for a proof of whether I can do that, and admittedly I feel frustrated and provoked by the constant doubt you express towards me, so I guess it's your own fault :) If you want less bragging, please apply less criticism on persons. So anyway, the bragging follows - anyone who doesn't like bragging please do not read this: Just this week I've been at the local pub with my laptop working on WoT. Complete stranger asked me what I was doing. After 15 minutes of explaining it, he actually handed me cash as a donation. I had not even asked for any kind of donation whatsoever. And I told him like 10 times that it would be really impolite for me to take money, he should instead donate to FPI directly. He insisted on me taking the money. Is getting a complete random stranger to persuade me to take a night's worth of beer as cash enough of a track record? :) Here's the money going to FPI: https://blockchain.info/tx/2e1e2974719dd713c9891ad33a3d62fab08e20e8a77e327c946e371a4f82a335 (Interestingly, Bitcoin Core allows me to prove that the money came from me: It can be used to sign arbitrary messages with the private key of the source address. So here you go: Address: "1CUYEC5LzT6U12wCCiNyQvFmrrpLWfyvzb" Message: "Money indeed given from random stranger to xor" Sig: "HyAY8Ku9B4TX1SlO55Px/q5khqrCirNWEvWmpRuMogR8Y38EM1kw+NgwIhIipwb1mE3PupDM6cFUZTDgfUmLHII=" You can validate this at "File / Verify message". And btw., another nice thing about Bitcoin is that it provides a rough proof of the timespan when something happened. So you can see from the timestamp on blockchain.info that I sent the money 5 days before your mail to which I am replying. So you know I didn't just send it now to make a point.) > > I've did lots of efforts *after* money ran out and it turned out to > > be a bad > > decision to wait for that long with it - it just takes some months to > > reach > > results. > > Thus as a conclusion I'm now eager to allocate some time to it > > *while* we > > still have money. > > Duh. logic fail. Why? The previous approach was a failure, so I'm willing to chose one which looks like an improvement? What is a failure about that? I don't understand, sorry, please explain. > > (I've in fact scheduled 2 interviews with journalists currently to > > raise > > awareness even while being a volunteer. Those things just take time. > > Please be > > patient.) > > That's PR, it's best handled by people who know what they're doing... (Attention: More bragging ahead!) I had already gotten one of those two journalists to dedicate half a page of the local newspaper to an article about Bitcoin. It was half interview with me, half comment - and the comment did seem positive, which I think is a success given how many people doubted Bitcoin in 2013. (I can provide a scan to Ian if you doubt that, he knows my real name so I wouldn't care to give it to him.) > and really, it needs to be coordinated. In the past Ian did > successfully^wskillfully handle it; did you at least run it by him? The interviews / articles are not finished yet. I'll let people know when they are. -- hopstolive (keyword for Ians spam filter) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20160808/77fab79f/attachment.sig>
