# EthSignals Manifesto
## Purpose
### Background
The project was inspired by the [Phil Lucsok and Griff Green presentation](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bQiSw8UveVT_R2f3Yhla61ad6FRefptf/view) at EthMagicians in Berlin on July 2018. The working group was formed shortly afterwards. The project was funded on [Giveth](https://beta.giveth.io/campaigns/5b51bdbdf8ba4732631989f5) by Griff Green, then with the [Aragon Nest grant](https://github.com/aragon/nest/pull/66) and later on [GitCoin](https://gitcoin.co/grants/85/tennagraph-minimum-bias-ethereum-signal-aggregat-2) and [WeTrust](https://cryptounlocked.wetrust.io/tennagraph). Collectively over $43k was attracted for the development and community work. Currently the funds are managed through [Aragon DAO](https://mainnet.aragon.org/#/tenna.aragonid.eth/0x77886861218199f5d98c86f4e707a071cbb82ea5). Info on the team:
* **Max Semenchuk.** Entrepreneur, Product Manager, UX Designer. Partner at [DGOV Foundation](https://dgov.foundation/), [4IRE labs](https://4irelabs.com/), #Decentralization, #Holacracy, #Lean, #DAO. ([Twitter](https://twitter.com/maxsemenchuk))
* **Bohdan Malkevych.** Full Stack Web (python, vue.js, nuxt), Blockchain (ethereum, solidity) & iOS Engineer. ([Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bohdan-malkevych-19357bb1/))
* **Anett Rolikova.** Has experience in marketing, community building, research. In recent months she has organized numerous Ethereum meetups, helped with organising eventsand has had a positive impact on the community. ([Twitter](https://twitter.com/AnettRolikova))
The working group is advised by Hudson Jameson (Ethereum Foundation), Griff Green (Giveth) and Anna Rose (Zero Knowledge). The roles, strategy, reports and meeting notes can be found in [the ethsignals wiki](https://ethsignals.gitbook.io/wiki/).
Find us on [Magicians Ring](https://ethereum-magicians.org/c/working-groups/signaling-ring) & [Telegram working group](https://t.me/tennagraph)
## Stakeholders and needs
1. Foundations (EF, Magicians)
* Quickly aggregate consensus around governance topics
2. Developers (Core, Clients, Consensys, Parity, Status, Gnosis, Giveth, Aragon, Metamask, MyCrypto, Infura, Exchanges)
* More efficient (scalable, functional, etc) protocol
3. Miners
* Increase returns on investments
4. Coin holders
* Price growth
5. Users
* Cheap transactions
* High level of Security
6. Team
* Compensation
* Recognition
## Strategy
### Identify specific stakeholder group stances
Based on the feedback from [Jamie](https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/what-are-the-most-important-topic-to-get-the-community-feedback/3615) and Vitalik.
Can join metacartel to gather the app dev stances
### Increase the volume of signaling
* Creating more awareness about most important EIPs, importance of signaling and Tennagraph as the tools
* Doing promotional campaigns in Twitter on specific EIPs (e.g. [EIP-1559](https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/eip-1559-fee-market-change-for-eth-1-0-chain/2783/8))
* Manual verification and attaching influencers stances to Tenna
* Engaging the EIP writers in signaling promotion
* Create the guide "How to participate in the Ethereum governance"
* Including overview/links in relevant media (coindesk, [eth website](https://www.ethereum.org/), [eth github](https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Governance-compendium) and satellite resources)
* Arrange talks on the conferences (e.g. web3, ethBerlin, magicians) & podcasts (e.g. Zero Knowledge)
* Allow setting signal collection bounties from EF and other parties
* Attract advisors into popularization (tweets why they advise us etc)
* Create an agreement with major dapps dev on signaling
* Making public report on the work
* Add a plugin for Chrome to inject voting mechanics in EIP github interface
* Make cleaner website with more info
* Add the mission statement ([example](https://coin.dance/))
* Add roadmap - with potentially numbers that we want to reach out - get
* Add “about”
* Add FAQs
* Short description of EIP - but you can click on it and see it full afterwards
* Add socials - twitter & telegram
* Make educational media format (like video) with the EIP overview
### Simplify the signal collection
* List the open topics for signaling – Hudson?
* Separate the influencers & majority opinion
* Local / Manual signal collection on conferences
* Connect more identity data
### Increase the Team Capacity
* Raise $5k / mo. budget for next 6 months – Fundraiser
* Create Moloch request (Ameen, Griff, Jamie P, Yalda, Kevin, Hudson, Cassandra, Eric Conner EIP-1559 - need 4 votes)
* Promote Gitcoin
* ECF & EF
* Aragon
* Conduct regular reporting (progress, financial)
* Open up a working group around the topic
* Setup advisor agreements+process
* Hudson
* EthMagicians (Jamie, Boris?)
* Gitcoin
* Aragon
* Griff
* Anna
## Policies
* Governance: We use holacracy framework
* Coordination: Be-weekly calls
* Finance: *\*\**[Cashflow](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rivtjkYQXm2M0ZxqW-ISe3pkRyKpl8frFsAEertS8S0/edit?usp=sharing) is open
### Roles
| Purpose | Role | Assigned to |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | -------------- | ----------- |
| Holding the org purpose, people and resource allocation | Lead link | Max |
| Communicate more awareness and recognition | Communications | Anett |
| Fundraising | | Max |
| Developing the product | Engineer | Bohdan |
| Meeting outcomes are captured and clear
Recognize when coordination is needed
| Secretary | Max |
| Ensuring meetings have a clear process and it's and easy to participate | Facilitator | Max |
| Product is nice and usable | Design | Max |