Quote from: ahbartsch on April 20, 2014, 01:43:04 PM

Quote from: David Latapie on April 20, 2014, 01:34:18 PM

Hello all,

A summary of what is on the way:

Mintcoin Fund, the world's first legally-registered NGO for a crypto. The bylaws are been sent for registration with the French administration. The goal will be to promote Mintcoin and sustainable developement through financing of actions. As the dev said: "MintCoin Fund will bring us a lot more media coverage than Coinkite could ever do" (source)

The website will be made public soon, hopefully for Earth Day.

What is needed for the moment:
- contacting sustainable developement causes that you have an active part in (because these are the easier one to reach), ideally, they could get matching contribution for the government and would not need much money, since Mintcoin still has a low value
- donating to the Fund (the fund had been finance with the pre-mine, so these donations would not go to the funding, they would be used later projects). The donation address is: MsKZ6xRSPJAVVJ7m1oZfNqVcpJ9MyvRzha[/font]. Presently it is at zero since it was just created (please someone send a link to the a working explorer for direct access)

There is already an ongoing project, Sonoma County Reforestation Plan. THe Project leader is tokyopotato, who is working there.

Teams:
We have several thematic teams:
- Web team
- Coding team
- Marketing team
I won't give the name of the members without their authorisation. Positions are opened. If you wish to join, contact public or privately (in that latter case, please tell me if you wish your participation in the team to remain invisible - if you say nothing, I will considered you are fine with being mentionned)

Website:
We acquired mintcoin.cc website and are planning for a revamp. Our main designer will soon be on holidays for half of May (he plans to deliver before his temporary leave, though), so could someone else step in? You would be part of the Web team.
- http://www.mintwoot.com/ just got published (thanks coinmany!)

Coding:
Some of the projects are:
- Android Wallet (coding team, leader paspi). Check the latest update.
- Mintstart, an eBay-like store for mintcoin (coding team, leader unek). It will try to address the famous "merchants cash out bitcoin for fiat" issue, on top of, well, being a store:)

Requested projects
Coding
- Mintcoinpool (our own pool, not someone else's pool like hashco.ws) (link). Its realisation will all depend on the interest by the community. Notice that the very idea behind mintcoin is to reduce carbon footprint, whilst multipooling is the exact opposite.
- A new mintcoin explorer. I read here and there some questions, request and announcement (like here) but I'd like some more specific news
- Improvement on the wallet: notification for upgrade or even autoupgrade (here). Some other requests too, like x64 suppport, bootstrapping the blockchain, easier installation, chancing the logo (right now, a banner is used as the logo), password request for sending mints (answers from kergekoin)
- Raspberry version (here)

Marketing
- Mintcoin T-shirts (here, glad to see you back, lumeire!)
- Communicating on price stability (here and there, something that appeals to merchants)
- Security of the network. Mintcoin is supposed to be the network with the most stacking, hence the most secure (source Gonzoucab). It would be great to back this up with facts, something that would require a a joint project with the coding team. Anyone interested?
- Popularity of mintcoin (source moderdezigns). Once again, could we get some comparative facts and numbers? My biggest concern is confirmation bias and wishful thinking. I am ready to help setting up a project for backing up these claims. Here is one: http://www.coingecko.com/ has us at the fifteenth position - still be wary that a lof of coins are not represented so even if it is a nice-looking chart, it has its shortcoming.
- It might be interesting to do something regarding organic growth, as opposed to "unnatural growth" like various sort of bribery or "showing dedication". This is slippery slope though, which should better be handled by people good at marketing (in other words: join the marketing team

As you can see, I am trying to back up as much claims as possible with facts and sources, because I am very concerned of confirmation bias. I encourage you to do the same and backup with sources and facts

I probably forgot some things, so don't hesitate to add!

Excellent list David! As long as the community continues to work together I see bright things for Mintcoin's future!