TLDR: If the council forms, I am not staying for “Recentraland”.
If I stayed for so long, it is because I do not want to work for a corporation.
If a council is formed that will be composed mostly of the same amateurs who have presided over the sinking into a ghost-town, the situation will be even worse than working for a corporation !
I have pondered long and hard over how to proceed with this.
Instead of being able to use this time creating more wondrous content, mind you !
But in the end, there really is no other choice.
The formation of a council, that will have as one of its missions the establishment of an “Executive Arm”, represents a gross violation of the original trust set forth in the whitepapers.
https://decentraland.org/whitepaper.pdf?page=2
Unlike other virtual worlds and social networks, Decentraland is not controlled by a centralized organization. There is no single agent with the power to modify the […] economics of the currency
https://decentraland.org/whitepaper2.pdf?page=4
Built with open standards as a public good, it operates beyond the control of any single entity
An Executive Arm would be a misappropriation of this “ownership of the LAND-owners”.
Considering that there cannot be legal implication from this is quite ludicrous.
Decentraland is a virtual reality platform powered by the Ethereum blockchain. Users can create, experience, and monetize content and applications.
As one of those who was attracted by this glorious promise, I can personally attest as to how this promise has been broken.
And from conversations I’ve had with others, it is quite clear I am far from being the only one having grievance over this.
Over the last year, I went on a deep dive of the situation in Decentraland, to try to understand not just what needed to be fixed, but also why things had gotten so broken in the first place.
And now I truly have a lot to say about it. And it is not pretty.
The vast majority of the applicants for a position on this council are, in my professional opinion, sorely unqualified for any such position.
Decentraland has become a ghost-town under the “leadership” of most of them, who have been presiding over this downfall with the use of their VP.
Now they are intent on institutionalizing their inability to properly lead the Decentraland project.
A council would essentially provide them corporate powers to push through changes which they couldn’t get the community to approve on.
This is just absolutely not where I intended to invest my vast Software Engineering expertise.
If I stayed for so long, it is because the Great Grand Country of Decentraland, where the American Dream can be possible all over again, is an Arcadia so wonderful that it just had to be given a chance.
If that chance will be ruined by those who are blind to this dream, and want to instead follow corporate ideals, then I will see no further reason to stay in what can only become a doomed company.
What this council seeks to achieve, it can be done with VP Delegation Transitivity.
What is being called to provide to people for a salary, I am ready to provide for free !
I repeat: if this council does not form, I stay in Decentraland, and assist in fixing everything for free, at the service of the DAO community !
I have all the qualifications needed for all 5 of the backgrounds listed in https://forum.decentraland.org/t/open-call-to-dao-council-nominations.
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Strategic Management & Business
Strategy and Software Architecture are my main strengths. My professional employment also gives me important experience. -
Finance
My professional experience has mostly been working for a brokerage firm, where I was exposed to a large amount of matters that are relevant here. -
Creativity
As Artist Coder at heart, I have intimate understanding of what has been the most stymying true creativity in Decentraland (and seriously, you haven’t seen what I am truly capable of yet). -
Technology
I have a Masters’ in Computer Science, and have recently gotten YouTube to play in a 360VR Sphere Video Player. -
Community Building
I have been speaking to a large amount of community members in DMs, as the posts I have been making on these forums have mostly fallen on deaf ears (save those of the hecklers, who seem to have chased everyone else away).
- I fixed the “Invisible Player” bug in my scenes.
- I can get YouTube to play in the desktop apps for DCL (browser still pending !)
- I found how to mitigate the “Green Walls”.
- I have important insight in the “Missing Key-presses” bug.
- I have important insight in the “Rave Bug”.
- I can make most (if not all) SDK6 scenes functional again with a Transpiler.
Just to name a few !
I am fully qualified for the design and creation of web3 tools for Decentralized Committees.
I am fully qualified for the design and creation of an SDK8 API which would be blueprint-based.
I am fully qualified for the design and creation of an Unreal Editor client that can provide VR.
But I will only be doing all this for a community whose governance model remains fully decentralized.
I have the resolution for a number of the outstanding issues in the Client 1.0.
But I have not been willing to release this to a Foundation which has clearly decided to abuse of its situation over a hapless community.
For the Great Grand Dream of Decentraland, however… I was fully ready to do so !
And so I had decided to bring my fixes to the DAO community directly. But the ways to do so still need to be forged…
As I studied how to forge them (Jira !), the whisperings of the formation of a council came about.
A council would be the beginning of the end of the Great Grand Dream of Decentraland.
And so I had to delay even more my wondrous content-creation and go on a deep dive of the past of this DAO to understand what was going on.
And I have reached the conclusion that what is going on with this council formation may actually be highly illegal, and cannot even be allowed to proceed from this last standpoint alone.
