A big thank you to everyone who took part in the elections for the new Ark Community Fund board members and good luck to the winners.
| Rank | Name | Address | Votes | Voters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cam | AV3wUEXSR26VZctMGh9ihFR2SokgHbpD6x | 1,072,145 | 29 |
| 2 | Moon (biz_network) | AdVfJE2PLm1vFmknfpuKdGGDAxthyVEqjt | 946,826 | 42 |
| 3 | Del | AXmSz926GSiYjBQok3TVjnxaUQH7QYxiKG | 911,503 | 24 |
| 4 | DustinDry1st | AYddwWZDtRP96PFZyKL7hhhPNS8v2eWuVH | 901,210 | 17 |
| 5 | Charles (dutchdelegate) | Ac6XJSxiDNXjjf4mV8Xd33ENJhGDYmtLm5 | 767,759 | 27 |
I've been involved in the Ark community for 8 months. I am committed to the project and know the tech at a mid to high level. I've endorsed Ark at every turn in their journey and have helped the community progress within my capacity be it via Reddit, Slack etc.
In my full time position I'm a systems analyst. I believe that makes me a suitable applicant for the board. My job is to scrutinize documentation, policy, and tech and determine what is best for the progression of the system I work on to attain the best output.
I've yearned for quite some time to give back to the Ark community. I believe this is my opportunity. I'll do so by creating a better presence in our Reddit. Providing more frequent and accurate advice and responses to proposals and encouraging proposals. I'll find ways to get talented individuals to submit proposals rather than wait for proposals and be reactionary, we'll become a more proactive board.
Please reach out to me with any questions. Hope to hear from you.
I want to help further the community and help enable positive contributions to the ARK ecosystem. I'll continue to do what I've been doing consistently the last year for the community (meetups, events, delegation, etc).
I want to run for the ACF because it’s the greatest community-based organizations ever. The sheer ability for the organization to continuously work with the community, improving it, and allowing its financial power to grow Ark’s developments is incredible.
I hope to contribute to the ACF by devoting my time and current community influence to streamline productive and potentially groundbreaking projects based on the Ark platform. Furthermore, I realize that the current board has been quite preoccupied with establishing a new website and overall identity since it was voted in.
Therefore, I would like to help shed light on the ACF by marketing it accordingly, so that potential developers/influencers can utilize it to help grow Ark. Nonetheless, the current board has done an outstanding job representing and pushing Ark forward, and I can only hope to run as a formidable successor relative to them.
Hi my name is Dustin
I am a father of 3 and became interested in Ark last fall at the behest of friend who had been talking about it since he had first bought some ARK in the summer of 2017. I became involved in 2018 and have been doing documentation writing for the bounty campaign with boldninja and Chris. During that period I was able to understand more deeply the ARK project and what it has to offer and its future potential.
What do I love about ARK?
I love that this community is so friendly, open and isn’t prone to the hysterics we see from others on twitter and other social media. ARK's dev team is one of the best in the space and has done nothing but work their butts off, shunning the limelight like the quiet professionals they are. The hard work ethic is what attracted me to the project in the first place.
With the upcoming release of V2. and the buzz around interoperability in 2018 I think we are poised to become leaders in this space, but we need to take a careful balanced approach in how we approach marketing and PR.
We need to bring awareness to the public about our product and our community. There is so much noise we need to cut through it, but the catch here is that we don’t want to end up being seen as another HYPE project (This is the opposite of what ARK is).
Social Media is the internet, unfortunately Crypto related projects are mostly banned from any platform.
How do we break through this?
Influencer Marketing:
We contact influential people in the space and pay them vs the platform directly to talk about the tech (around V2 launch would be perfect) and the what ARK aims to accomplish.
Snapchat Filters:
Litecoin has already used this, but we pay around $500 to develop a filter (through comm. proposals) and then use that at various conferences and gatherings of cryptofiends to build awareness.
Podcasts
Hit interviews hard. Most hosts are always looking for new guests and we can hit not just crypto podcasts but also tech folks outside the crypto/blockchain sphere, financial etc. for the most part these are free (there is a time cost, but monetary is low) and its another episode that can bring awareness to people 6 months down the road when they download it.
What’s your idea?
This is the Ark COMMUNITY Fund so i want to know the communities ideas? I would like to get the ACF to get in contact with those on social that are interested/own ARK to let them know more about this fund. Many do not. Lets get more minds pooled and come up with (and fund) even better ideas!
Thanks for your consideration
For over an year, I have been active in this enthusiastic community. From my experiences as a delegate (dutchdelegate) and as a developer I have seen things within ARK that - I believe - can be improved.
Attending Hackathons and conferences for ARK gave me the insights needed to further develop these ideas. Therefore I want to run for the ACF board. This way I am not only able to give advice, but really act upon the ideas that the community brings up. I want to make a difference. My contribtution to the community will be on several levels. Firstly on a technicological level, secondly on a business level and thirdly on a community level.
With my background in IT - being a developer myself - I will be able to provide in-depth analysis and feedback on the proposals submitted. Futhermore, I run my own company specialized in the use of blockchain (BlockHub.nl) where I experienced what is really needed for an Ecosystem to succeed in the business world. Lastly I have a strong engagement with this community.
I am in the ARK Ecosystem Slack since May 2017 and take part in a lot of discussion ever since. Also - with Dutchdelegate - we have already organized two meetups in the Netherlands (more will follow).
Vote for Charles, to make the ARK Ecosystem the success it deserves to be!
~ Charles