Hey everyone, the forum is experimenting with a new incentive system to encourage contribution and to build a strong framework for collaboration. To encourage new users to familiarise themselves with the community, an initiative is being set up for new users to claim +10 likes on the forum if they join a user group. This applies to current users as well, so if you have already joined a user group, make that known here to get the boost. The current user groups available to join are as follows: Advocates Designers Developers Miners (coming soon) Testers (coming soon) Translators If you want to join a user group, follow one of the links and post there or send me a PM if you want to keep details private. This thread is for users in groups who want to claim the boost, or for users who need help finding a group. There is no deadline for this initiative - if it has interest, it will stay open and be updated with new user groups in the future.
If there's anyone else (like me) who doesn't fit into any of those user groups, let's get some new ideas flowing in ways we can contribute. I personally don't have a huge fanbase to inform about decred - nor do I have any artistic skills - and my only language is English. I'm sure I am not alone.
Hello _ingsoc I am a Reddit Advocate and I would like to receive a Booster PowerUp. This initiative looks great and would help the new guys to become more collaborative and increase the morale and team-spirit. Thanks.
This is a good way to introduce discourse on ideas for new areas. A new section will open up soon called "Meetups", so people can get together in-person and work on stuff or get to know local community members in their area. The goal is to open that once testnet is out - since things are just a little bit more "real" at that point.
It'd be really nice to develop a kind of hacker collective around Decred. People getting together hacking on code, or making stuff, that kind of thing can be a lot of fun. This is obviously a longer-term thing, but it's not just about currency, there's community too.
Hey David, Nice to have you around here. My suggestions for new user groups are Miners, Traders, Service or a Product Seller, Escrow or Middleman. There is no group you would not fit in. Find your area of expertise.And, also you do not need a huge fanbase. Start with your family, close friends then your social circle, acquaintances and finally strangers. Decred is sure to become a very huge community in the future.
Thanks anondran! I'm sure opportunities will arise for everyone here to contribute. Some fields just may take longer than others. I like your suggestions of user groups - each one contributes to the project in it's own way. Without knowing about the roadmap of development for client side applications, would a Tester user group be applicable at all? This could be testing beta releases of mining software, offline wallet generaters, etc, on various platforms.
Tester is a fine idea for a user group. It's anticipated that quite a few areas will open up specifically for technical development-related roles once the code is public and open-source - which isn't that far off.
Yes, we would definitely need a technical user group for the geeks and nerds. Hackers/Testers/Coders/Sub Developers who can carry out identifying bugs, reporting and/or fixing them, An open source project like Decred definitely needs a large support from Computer wizards.
For the technical user group I think it should be named Engineer and each have a sub branch type e.g; (Some ideas) Engineer (Hardware) Engineer (Software/Coder) Engineer (Tester/Debug) Engineer (Designer) - a merging of the two groups Engineer (Hacker) - a bit iffy on this. Engineer (Enthusiast) - for more allround. etc.
That will do I guess if we put it that way it's easier for people (like me) to understand and choose which part they want to join It would be great if that coder group is active
I'm an indonesian translator and i don't even know if that would be needed. :") But if you need one, i'm in