by 0xd6eff8f07caf3443a1178407d3de4129149d6ef6 (Canessa)
Should CarlFravel be added to DAO Council?
Address
0x63f587fc66d140368be6f808785937d63b8e6fc4
Reasons for adding
Name: Carl Fravel
I use my real name in Decentraland.
Resume:
My full professional resume can be seen at https://linkedin.com/in/cfravel
Highlights of especially relevant experience for Decentraland:
• Technology Management and Software Development - more than 40 years, including a senior manager of Java and C++ tools at Borland
• Serial Entrepreneur - Founder of a number of startups, two of which have current activity in Decentraland
○ Gentle Electric - Synthesizer accessories and custom audio compoents
○ AFI - hardware and software for musicianship training
○ Synchron Networks - Enterprise software for system management - VP Engineering, COO - grew team to 40 employees.
○ Applied Talent - technology and management consulting.
○ ChessLand - virtual-world chess play and tournaments in Decentraland
• Fund Raising - led successful Angel and Venture Capital fundraising of over $18M
• VP of Engineering at TurboSquid (Online 3D model marketplace, 2007-2009)
• Early adopter of virtual worlds and scene-building (Second Life since 2009, Decentraland since 2017)
• Retained by the DCL founders on a 2 year contract as a consultant in virtual worlds, district formation support, and community development (2017-2019)
• Founded the Decentraland Conference Center, cofounded the Decentraland Film Festival.
• Founded ChessLand - fully functional chess boards and tournaments in the Conference Center park.
• Authored a book on creating virtual experiences (Kindle)
Cover Letter / Vision statement for Decentraland’s future:
I have seen Decentraland grow from a brilliant idea and evolutionary platform development, to a rich ecosystem of visitors and creators. I can see it growing in traffic and experiential quality far into the future. To do this we need to put the right attractions and incentives into the environment for creators to make engaging, innovative and improving experiences for visitors to want to return, to stay, to bring their friends and social networks. This is truly a need for collaboration, great communication, alignment, and mutual support between the DAO, Creators, and the Foundation. Where I see the DAO playing strongly in this mix is to be very engaged with the Creators - listen to their needs, understand what brings and retains visitors, and bring both support and appropriate resources to those things that will build long term value and traffic.
I think that the DAO and its leadership could have its ears closer to the ground of what the strengths and opportunities of the world and its community are and could be.
Evidence
Evidence of expertise in the Decentraland ecosystem
• Served as a retained consultant by the founders (2017-2019) for my previous experience in virtual worlds and to help with community and district development.
• Provided days of online user support to the community during the terraforming event.
• Purchased land in the original auction and contributed to 9 districts.
• Founded the Decentraland Conference Center and built it out in time to be live and highly functional on day one of the public opening of Decentraland in 2020.
• Hosted over 20 conferences and 10 Film festivals, bringing in new, external traffic to Decentraland.
• Hosted twice-weekly dance and social parties with live DJ in the Unity Café since 2020.
• Hosted monthly 7-hour Music festivals in the Unity Café since 2021.
• Hosted creator (vendor) events both in the conference center and the “Vendor Row” in the VRS district, enabling DCL creators to show their wares.
• Created numerous scenes in Decentraland including 44 in the Conference Center, 6 in the VRS district, and deployed many scenes in Aetheria.
• This creative work includes design, model creation or enhancement, and software development.
• Provided consultative help to several companies formed to provide services in Decentraland.
• Have had over 900,000 visits to scenes I have created since I started monitoring them in July of 2020.
• Have assisted many other creators to structure their content into functional scenes and get them deployed.
• Have developed many functional code modules to support advanced interactive behavior in scenes, and have collaboratively made those available to other Creators.
• Provided documentation for Creators - created early documentation for Creators in the original DCL doc Wiki, taught a Decentraland University course in scene building, created documentation for district leaders to do DCL land management, and created documentation for the conversion of SDK6 scenes to SDK7.
• Have submitted dozens of issues to the Decentraland code repositories, of which nearly all have been accepted and resolved.
• Authored an appeal to the community for improving the culture of communication in the DAO.
• Although I refrain from voting on many DAO proposals because I have quite a lot of land-based VP, I have voted on about 60 proposals that I felt that i should, with an 83% alignment with the community.
• Have initiated a monthly series of successful Chess tournaments in Decentraland, with cash prizes and enthusiastic spectators.
I love Decentraland and its community, and would be happy to contribute value by serving on this council.
