Quote from: Minotaur26 on November 29, 2015, 05:16:33 PM

Quote from: DrkLvr_ on November 29, 2015, 04:22:53 PM

Quote from: Minotaur26 on November 29, 2015, 03:35:15 PM

Quote from: pille on November 29, 2015, 03:19:02 PM

And any progress news about the new website?

About the new website it is going well, although right now the focus is on preparing materials and the presentation for the upcoming conference. On the website, I think we will have time for community discussion and feedback too we are shooting for early next year but it has a lower priority than the the Bitcoin Miami presentation and Evolution development so that takes precedence.

From Dastalk.org https://dashtalk.org/threads/october-2015-budget-proposal.6234/

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Website and Design - $5000+ - Part 1 of 2

We have contracted a company to design our new fancy website and develop the software to run it. This is going to be quite the improvement over our existing website and we look forward to showing everyone!

Once we have the website built, we will ask for a second budget to reimburse the rest of the money that was spent.

You have already collected $5000 for this proposal, now suddenly it is "lower priority" ?

Why would your conferences hinder website development thats been contracted out to a third party?

What I said is that is a lower priority for us than the Bitcoin Miami conference because it is, the conferences represent a prime opportunity to educate important influencers in the industry about the project and those are one time events within the next 2 months while we have a working website that we want to improve.

I don't know how you work with third parties in your own business but in my experience it requires the project owner to be able to communicate what he wants and work actively with the third parties. We have so far received a couple of design samples and are waiting for two more new options and that is only the graphic design part. We are also hoping for community feedback and discussion once we have something to share, but at this point in time our complete focus is on the LATAM conference as we leave for Mexico in a few days.

Thanks for the concern though, I am sure you would do a better job coordinating community projects but since you won't help us, we are doing the best we can.

I don't know how you conduct business but in my experience the project owner's wants are outlined clearly to the third party, well before asking investors for funding. If you haven't even gotten far enough into discussions with the third party to determine your wants, what did you base your website development cost estimates on?