Hi JK,
Thank you for your response again.
I am not going to argue over your partner’s/associate’s tweet. Nothing more that can be discussed about it really. People can draw their conclusions based on his tweet i am sure.
Going back to your response to me about the proposal, i fully respect your views. But unlike with a monolithic approach on reaching out developers solely, this initiative is about creating a follower base of true believers by reaching out to as many people as possible, namely to a wider audience. There is no doubt that failure IS an option.
In a nutshell the purpose of the initiative is to make an effort to increase awareness on the value proposition of $ATOM and the Cøsmos Hub.
The consensus among community is that the value proposition of $ATOM is not as apparent (among communities across the space) as the qualities of the code of the Cosmos stack among developers. So although i agree with your claim that the quality of the code is well known this has nothing to do with the $ATOM’s value proposition that is our concern here.
Actually, the value of $ATOM is constantly being disputed even by people from within the Cosmos ecosystem. Hence the initiative.
For us $ATOM is the hub, Cosmos stack may (and does) refer to the wider ecosystem not just the Hub.
Furthermore, we community members of the Hub, do not undermine the importance of communities or the value of growing communities (and we resent elitist behaviours that are not on par with the Cosmos ethos).
It is communities that drive projects forward and upwards. So according to the community’s demand, influencers/thought leaders should evangelise the merits of the Hub, memes will play a part by engaging community with the project, banner ads on mainstream media (see the proposal) will point to the hub and ATOM2021 initiative whose success the community have deemed as quintessential and existential.
So to make this clear this is about the Hub, the Cosmos Hub and $ATOM.
PLEASE NOTE: The initiative may miserably fail or not have the desired results. But the community asked for this and delegators are about to decide if it is worth a shot.
Again i respect your opinions and i respect anyone who remains respectful while engaging in such an important conversation as this. We will also look forward to suggestions how to better promote this cause which i repeat is about $ATOM and the Hub. The Cosmos ecosystem may be benefited because of this initiative but the focus here is - as repeatedly stated - the Hub.
We firmly believe that a strong Cosmos ecosystem cannot exist without a strong Hub and a valuable $ATOM and this is not “whenmoonism” but a firm belief across a wide base of dedicated holders who stake with businesses such as yours.
Still i cannot stress enough that a choice to vote NO or ABSTAIN should be respected by the community. I believe the community is educated and reasonable enough to understand that all opinions including dissenting ones have some utility as long as they are grounded on reason and respect the community. I thus need to point out, having followed these conversations really closely down the community channels for months, that the community has nothing but good intentions here.