Quote from: Memnon on August 03, 2018, 11:20:29 AM

Quote from: XeLaZoP on August 03, 2018, 10:07:03 AM

Being in Discordia does not improve transparency in the information ... recently it was possible to see how one of the chapter leaders was asked to remove the video of "What is IoP?" and when he asked for the reasons, that part of the video was no longer correct, no one in Discord knew how to respond.

Good spot! Looking back that discussion in discord fell kind of flat now that I look at it. So to explain:

IoP divisions had produced that "What is IOP" video and the Ukrainian chapter was translating it. However we later found that some things were either technically incorrect or could give the false impression. So for instance it was suggested that you can "retract your data" you can not take back your data, you can only deny the permission to continue to use the data. But data sent once are obvioulsy sent data, technically there is no possibility to undo this again.
Furthermore, the video promoted an internet world without middlemen, but this is also not entirely true there will be some (sort of) middlemen sometimes. For instance dApp developer who, for example, develops a decentralized UBER, must also earn money. he does not do that out of charity. But with the Mercury protocol we address this core principal on who controls the permissions. Fundamentally changing it from what we know of traditional services and apps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdUggytSg3c

To some it might seem like a small thing, but this principal lies at the core of many of the issues we're facing with current internet usages.
So we made that new video, which explains more correctly, what we do. And obviously we don't want to waste the time of our community members so it was suggested to remove the old one and work on the new one instead. The fact that this process isn't happening in backrooms and is just a normal interaction between community members speaks to our benefit in terms of transparency. Not saying that we're optimal currently, but we're trying to be as open an as transparent as possible.

I hope this helps, and should you have any further questions, feel free to reach out, if you're in our discord. You know I'm pretty much online most of the time anyway. Simply ask and I'll do my best to answer.
I am however also human, I am flawed and I can't spot everything everywhere, but feel free to help out where you can or at least keep me on my toes This is the point of a community, to help each other. At least that's how I look at it.

Thank you for your quick response, first of all I would like to clarify that I am not questioning the passion of the members of this community, especially the most active ones like you, nor the cooperation of them. I am aware of how they help each other to try to get the community to come forward and the effort that is made so that the new members feel integrated.

In any case I make a criticism, I hope it is seen as a constructive criticism, about the current internal politics, especially in the internal communication of the same, between those who make important decisions and / or the developers and the members of the community (cooperators and investors).

An example is the transparency reports, which look like monthly press releases of a company and where information is exclusively informed about the project's novelties and the upcoming efforts or objectives, but it is not reported who makes these decisions, based on what criteria , who are the employees of IoP Venture (positions, salaries, etc.) that is the one that is officially releasing the technology, who is taking the decisions about the possible lines of action, how this action is being coordinated, who decided the new consensus of the chapters ...

I think that all this is important to be able to say that this is a community project, at least it is my opinion about what transparency means. I hope they do not take me for a hater, on the contrary, I still have hope and I am still excited about the technology that IoP and its partner Libertaria are developing.

At least these changes I would consider necessary to increase confidence in the project and even open a chapter to contribute to it, much more necessary than increasing the internal competition of the chapters or increase profits, since I see more important human development what is being done with the development of decentralized technology and the creation of decentralized alternative economies, luck with the project.