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<p>(Forwarding this to the Linux Aus list - which I'm presuming
Derren is not a member of)</p>
<p>Best, K. <br>
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<td>Re: [Announce] AUD $35, 000 available in the 2017 Linux
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<td>Mon, 13 Mar 2017 21:48:31 +1000</td>
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<td>Derren Desouza <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:derrend@yahoo.co.uk"><derrend@yahoo.co.uk></a></td>
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<td>Joshua Hesketh <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:president@linux.org.au"><president@linux.org.au></a>,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:announce@lists.linux.org.au">announce@lists.linux.org.au</a>, Joshua Hesketh
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<pre>Hi guys,
Just to let you know I'm not actually getting mail from the regarding
community feedback, I did a quick google search earlier and found some
responses on
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.linux.org.au/pipermail/linux-aus/2017-March/022957.html">http://lists.linux.org.au/pipermail/linux-aus/2017-March/022957.html</a> and
so I'm sending this email now to address some of the points being raised.
"I'm also struggling a little with the project budget, which is
presented in approximate form and without the type of detail I would
expect in a grant application. For example, $1000pa PAAS hosting - what
host? Why?"
I see the point here. In my rush to jot down a budget and send in an
application I did only estimate the costs and idealize the situation.
>From a bare bones perspective we can exclude noncritical expenses such
as re-basing the project to core os and simply run on a single ubuntu
instance which would reduce costs considerably.
There was $35,000 available and no applicants though so I figured I may
as well go for it.
"I don't think LA should provide business start-up grants. Our
grants programs should be community-focused. Building a self-sustaining
service that has strong community demand might fall into that category;
supporting a for-profit service like this doesn't seem to."
Weather an applicant intends to generate revenue or not is irrelevant I
believe. The only consideration of importance should be the value of
service provided to the community.
Cryptoproof will be available to the global community, it has the
potential to prevent people becoming victims of fraud or even ingesting
counterfeit medication which is of great benefit in my opinion.
Just to provide some perspective, cryptoproof earns $0.01 (expected to
be reduced as popularity increases) for each instantiated key which
means to cover hosting costs each server instance at $20 per month would
require 500 new keys per week so I don't think I'll be shopping for a
new Lamborghini any time soon.
"I don't believe that cryptoproof is fundamentally capable of achieving
it's stated goal of proving a physical object is unique and/or genuine"
I get this a lot. This tells me that the community member has failed to
understand how it works. In a previous comment it was expressed that it
wasn't clear how the service would generate revenue even though it's
outlined specifically in the announcement section of the website itself.
The ann page gives explicit reasoning as to why the service is trustless
and how it achieves it's goals -
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1579977.msg15863685#msg15863685">https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1579977.msg15863685#msg15863685</a>
It's certainly not a concept that's easily grasped, I myself had to
wrestle with it for a while but if community members have any points
they would like me to clarify or any scenarios that don't seem to make
sense please let me know and I'll be happy address them.
If linux australia sees value in the idea and is interested in helping
me bring it to fruition then I'd be happy to work out the details.
Of critical importance would be -
Web app code audit and review, ~$4000 (less thorough but cheaper)
Mobile app feature expansion, ~$2000
Flat design video tutorial and explanation, ~$2000
The rest can be put on the back burner until the service gains in
popularity and the request can be reduced to ~$8000 if this is more
agreeable.
Kind regards
Derren
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