Hey Guys!
Once again, huge Hive ✋ to everyone who came to the meet-up.
I know it was a bit of a last minute muck around with the time but I'm glad I changed it since 8pm seems to be a good time for a lot of us. Moving forward I'd like to lock in 8pm as THE meet-up time from here on in.
One of the things I love about going to meet-ups is being able to put a face to the name. It becomes more personal, instead of just names on a screen you get to know the person behind it and the story, and/or family behind them.
I've had the pleasure to meet in person, @mattclarke at the Team Australia 2018 Christmas Party and @quochuy at the Team Australia Bavarian Bier Meet-u. Both meets were quite some time ago and a lot has changed for all of us, so it's awesome to see them (and their kids) on video even though we're mostly about business these days.
In attendance was also @ryivhnn (great to see you!!), @shaidon (who I also met at the Christmas Party), @ctrpch and @aagabriel.
We went through the list and discussed the following points as per my last meet-up post.
🔶️ @HIVEAUSTRALIA "OWNERSHIP"
... a little back story
From the get go I have always wanted @hiveaustralia to be a community owned asset like @hiveph. As a founding member and lead of @steemph, making @steemph a community owned account was a top priority.
Our focus was to build communities and as such, we needed to have the power to support that community which meant implementing a strict no power down rule. When the great bear market of 2018/2019 happened upon us and then came the hostile takeover, I decided to rebrand to @hiveph and start over but this time taking a back seat as custodian with @romeskie as lead/boss chick.
Between us we hold all the keys. This is our "fail safe". Just in case one of us drops off the chain, the other person will be there to keep the community going. That said, we are the only two who hold the owner keys and we are also volunteers, meaning we don't get paid for our time and effort.
That is pretty much what I had in mind for @hiveaustralia. Strict no power down with a group of unpaid volunteers working together to build a foundation for the Australian community on Hive, current and future.
When we decided to rebrand as Hive Australia and revitalise the Australian community on Hive, @ausbitbank very kindly (and quickly) created the new account for us making him the primary holder of the keys. Days later @quochuy, also very kindly (and quickly) set up the @hiveaustralia bot on the new server, making him another key holder.
I consider them two of the most trustworthy people on Hive and I (along with everyone else who attended the meet-up) absolutely have no problem with them being our "Keeper of the Keys".
As for the posting keys, I, along with @riverflows (and whoever wants to volunteer as a writer) have access to that.
If anyone objects to @ausbitbank and @quochuy being our Keeper of the Keys, please comment below along with your suggestion as to who would be suitable and we can vote as a group.
🔶️ Curation and Volunteers
We discussed the topic of curation posts and considering that:-
- We are still rebuilding and don't have that many people to curate.
- The ones we can curate are the same ones who keep posting, so really we'd be featuring the same people all the time.
- We're still trying to get on the same page about using #hiveaustralia.
- Don't want to burn out.
We thought it'd be best if we slow down and revisit the curation initiative later when we're a bit busier.
As for post volunteers, at the moment we have @riverflow with her monthly "Vegemite Roll Call" and @scooter77 and whatever he can think of.
If anyone else wants to volunteer to write for the @hiveaustralia account, please comment below. At the moment our volunteers are unpaid. We will have to decide via voting if we want this to change.
🔶️ Voting Bot
This was quite a lengthy discussion with a lot of good ideas put forward by everyone, which is another reason why it's great when people can make it to the meet-ups.
To sum it all up.
Delegator payments are not possible at the moment.
Since we won't be producing curation posts it's even more important that we use the account to vote. And even though the bot is being used to upvote member posts, it's still not being used enough.
Several ideas were discussed on how we can best use the upvote bot. One was for comment upvotes to reward engagement and another was to allow members to vote for any content they want to reward on the chain.
In the end we decided that allowing members to use their daily votes to reward any content on the chain would be the best way to go as this would not only allow us to grow the Hive Australia account but make us more visible to fellow aussies.
@quochuy is working out the bot details and when it's ready well put a notice up on discord and on @hiveaustralia.
Please keep in mind this will be in trial for now and is open for discussion, so feel free to share your thoughts in the comments so we can vote on which way we prefer as a group.
My Role
What hasn't been discussed, but I feel needs to be addressed, is my role within the community.
Personally, I just wanted to gather everyone and get the gang back together, and now that I've achieved that I'm quite happy to take a back seat if you'd all like to have someone else take on whatever I'm doing lol.
I realise I'm "self appointed" and that might not sit well with people so I'm putting this on the chain and up for voting.
As per usual, please share your thoughts in the comments. Voting will end when this post pays out at which point the majority will win.
And that's all folks! Catch you all in the comments!
