On Mon, 2016-08-08 at 00:11 +0200, [email protected] wrote: > 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 :)
You have to accept the fact that you can't be the right tool for doing everything. In the past few days alone, you have suggested that you're qualified to be: - the resident website design guy - the PR/spokesperson - the fund-raising guy - the WoT developer I have never argued that you can't do any of it, I have argued that you are not good-enough at it to be our paid resource working on it. Other members of the community accept criticism and the standard our RMs are setting, you don't seem to. > 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? :) > No. It's even the proof that you don't understand the job description. Raising $20 once isn't what is going to keep the project afloat. The idea of having a paid resource raising money is that it should be able to raise more money than it costs; you have brilliantly demonstrated that you don't even understand that! [snip] > > > (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.) > Have you asked for the permission to do that? The line is pretty clear, you're allowed to do advocacy (like anyone else), but if you represent the project in front of the press, you run it through its coordinator. For the record, I am definitely not comfortable with you representing "us" and I have made that clear to our coordinator (Ian) in the past. > > 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. > "ask for forgiveness is better than asking for permission" is the moto, right? Florent
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