it's your time to use as you see fit. but yeah in general, I wouldn't do such a task for a profit-making venture without a contribution back

could argue that whatever they're trying to build off of only exists because the Monero community funded its creation

and it always rubs me the wrong way to see private enterprises profit without contributing

Thanks for the input, everyone

hi everyone. I am reaching out on behalf of the Greek Cryptocurrency Community. We have talked in the past about doing a meet up . We started talking with Mastering Monero sponsoring it but it did not work eventually. We would like to investigate any interest from other sponsors. This will be an online meet up in the start of June.

The total cost is involved is relatively small. Happy to show work from our previous meet ups with Komodo, Zcash , Cardano, Tezos, Sys etc as proof of work.

We are looking at doing a Monero meet up obviously

Cool

Were any of your other meetups also online ones?

all of them

oh sorry

all the previous were done with guests turning up on our locations

in Athens and Thessaloniki

we just had 1 online meet up last week.. we will release the video today

This is going to be our second online meet up

hey hey

hey :)

Here is some proof of work from our latest meet up. I will have the video available tonight if anyone wants to verify meetup.com/Greek-Cryptocurrency-com…55&comment_table_name=event_comment

Inge- All our previous meet ups can be found here youtube.com/results?search_query=gr…eek+cryptocurrency+community+meetup

it is the 1 first may and on the website I can't find any link to the Monero Means Money film anymore. Would like to show it to my Grandma because she is one of the few listening to me in my familiy

We would like to do something similar for Monero... 2-3 speeches... 1 guy has to be someone from the Monero Community... we will add a couple of more educational speeches..

Once the meet up is done, it gets uploaded on Youtube.

thank bro :]

*thanks

IF there is anyone willing to sponsor this, please let us know by emailing us at greekcryptocurrencycommunity⊙gc

We will obviously add logos on the banner and everything.

The cost is relatively small

Monis: Why do you need a sponsor? consider opening a CCS proposal btw. I'm having a deja vu, so i think this was already discussed in past

yes... we dont have much time... and we are not very sure how to do this

We want to avoid doing it after the start of June as summer vacation kicks in....

We thought that speaking to a sponsor would be faster

ErCiccione: I also remember the same story from from a few months ago.

and that there are a lot of potential sponsors

How much funding do you need? How are he funds going to be used?

yes... we paused our meet ups due to Corona... but we now have the know how of doing it online so...

we need 30 EUR for the banners, say another 20 for zoom and say another 70 for our expiring meetup.com subscription. looking at 120 EUR

selsta: yeah, i think it parkled the discussion "for what reasons should people open a CCS"

people were divided on this on whether CCS was the right route or not at the time

Monis: use jitsi

Jitsi... ?

no zoom required :)

oh :)

we ll look it up... its just that... you know.. the moment is important... and we dont want to screw things up

Ok so you don't need funding for the meeting, you need fundings for your expiring meetup subscription, mostly. I think a CCS is good for that

but we are mindfull of the privacy concerns.. therefore everybody else will join Youtube live.. for questions on the chat

ErCiccione well.. obviously.. the meetup.com thingy will be used on our Monero meet up as well.

So ErCiccione that is not exactly correct

yes, sure, but i guess that will cover an yearly subscriptionof something like that. So the request is mostly: we need fundings for the meetup.com subscription, which is fine IMO

well... we are not going to argue over 60 EUR....

We just want someone to help us in our cause. and our cause.. is an online Monero Meet up

but thank you for the suggestion ErCiccione

Why argue? i'm just summing the situation up. You would be asking for: 30 for banners and 70 for the meetup.com subscripton. I think that could be Ok for a CCS. I'm definitely not willing to supprot the funding of a privacy invasive service like zoom, especially when there are excellent free and open source alternatives

as i sai, it's a good use case for the CCS, feel free to open a proposal

I respect that ErCiccione. I hope it is clear that only the speakers and our admins would be joining zom.

Monis: is the most important need the money or speakers?

we need both Inge-.

The money amount is fairly small - and if you already have a name in the national scene, you could do a fundraiser on your site - And if it also had a monero address, you might have some people in the monero community who would chip in a few bucks. I'd kind of think that a CCS is a bit slow to get through the system?

I had no intention to argue ErCiccione. Just respectfully disagreeing :) We are more than happy to look at other software as per the community's suggestions. We are not narrow minded and we are aware of the ZOOM issues

disagreeing with what? i think i'm lost

I'd kind of think that a CCS is a bit slow to get through the system? <- inge- yeah, agree. A simple address + QR would be the faster way

Disagreeing on the fact that this is a meet up for us to cover our meetup.com subscription. This is a meet up to show monero to our audience.

I'll contribute something via a Monero address

Regarding speakers, Monero has an Outreach workgroup, and there is always Rehrar who is awesome about talking about WHY Monero (But timezones could be challenging)

Thanks Inge-. Appreciate the positivity here.

? I never said that's a meetup made to cover the meetup.com subscription. I simply said what you are asking is to cover the meetup.com subscription

ok.. thats perfect. Thanks rehrar

I can't promise rehrar, I'm just saying that he is great at promoting Monero and often enjoys doing it. I have no control over his time :D

I understand Inge-.

But lots of other people can speak - and it depends on what you want the focus to be?

is he on twitter?

we want to present Monero to everyone who does not know it....

we are doing this to make sure people stay away from garbage.

Monero HAS to be heard

he is in this channel, but likely asleep now. Also easy to find on the Monero Telegram groups. HE is on Twitter as @ofthesalazar

perfect

There is a youtube video from 2014 that is a pretty cool primer for monero (has nothing to do with monero). Panopticoin

super

There are also a few animated videos that describe the different elements of Monero in easy to understand byte-size chunks: youtube.com/channel/UCnjUpT9gGxyQ_lud7uKoTCg

regarding fundraising... that is something we have not done in the past in the form of QR... and I am not sure this is the route we would prefer to take but appreciate the suggestions guys. Preferably, since our talks with Mastering Monero failed, we would like to go get in touch with Cake Wallet or something... as we don't have much time for a

CCS... as you said... the process would not be fast enough.

good stuff Inge- all this helps.

Anyone knows who is the person to speak to at Cake Wallet ? I think that was the 2nd alternative that we were looking at back at the time

re Cake Wallet: maybe @vikrants on Telegram, or @CakewalletXMR on Twitter?

Inge- you are the real MVP

But putting up a fundraiser for your own community, and possibly posting about your upcoming XMR meetup on the Monero subreddit, being quite honest and upfront about what you need funding for and making it easy for Monerians to toss you a little support, might be faster/easier than doing sponsorships (Monero as a community is quite familiar with donation-based funding...) - But Cake Wallet is a

decent candidate

I'd place a bet on a CCS request for this being funded faster than finding a sponsor. Who knows how much time you've wasted by trying to find a sponsor already when a CCS request could sit and get funded in between finding sponsors :P

I also don’t know why you would want to waste $20 on Zoom when Jitsi does the same for free while being open source.

A sponsor for 100 euros? when literally any other alternative would be better and no time to open a CCS, but they contacted the community the first time months ago, already looking for a sponsor. I smell fish 😉

for entertainment: twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1256177810550460417

mccafee full shilling monero on every comment he is making

selsta I think we tried it and something did not work as expected... I am not sure of the details

ErCiccione what do you mean you smell Fish ?

A moment ago you did not want to argue...

plus you agreed yourself that opening a CCS would be slow.

we received 3 times the ammount for all our meet ups which took place in 2 physical locations... and we delivered. There is videos for that.

We contacted the community 2 months ago and changed our plans due to Corona Virus. Which part of this, is not clear enough ErCiccione?

What makes you think that i want to argue with you? I just have the feeling there is something you are not sayin. The approach you are taking doesn't make any sense to me, but hey. To each their own. Also, i really don't like your tone, so i'm done. Good luck.

camthegeek yes... we will now consider this option... To be clear its not that it took us ages to find a sponsor... its just that we stopped searching for one after 1 week because Corona changed everything.. Now we are picking it up from where we left it

ErCiccione " I smell Fish" is not a nice thing to say and I have the feeling that you do this to all newcomers.. This is toxic behaviour. The approach is in line with the fact that we want this to happen in a month and when things are done by volunteers they are done at their pace.

We may not have 2 weeks to wait for a CCS. This is the reason we reached out to sponsors.

And I am happy to explain everything that does not make sense.

Lol seriously? "you have the suspect", so you basically dont know, you are assuming things based on info you don't have. That's just stupid. I'm not even answering to the rest.

Not here to make a scene, but not here to be insulted by ErCiccione. Thankfully, everyone else has been nice.. and I therefore really want to thank Inge-, selsta, and camthegeek for your constructive comments

No one insulted you, you just joined the channel and were really demanding with wanting donations now, which immediately makes it suspicious.

so.. Monero community... thank you for your input.. I am trully grateful for your help... goodbye to everyone , except for 1 person.

selsta I would like to clear all those supsicions

Lol

Please express your concerns.

I want to come clean here, whatever the case

Good luck finding a sponsor. I would recommend you to use Jitsi so that you save a bit on Zoom costs.

selsta I promise, I will take your suggestion very very seriously

you have a point

We will start testing this asap...

Be aware that the internet can often lead to statements getting misinterpreted

I'm with ErCiccione on this one. He did not come across as a nice guy.

Hmmm

he's likely not a native speaker

he is not azy.

I am sorry you feel this way TrasherDK1.

he has a youtube channel: youtube.com/channel/UCkLGxNtp2w4CMtrnYMuc8Kg/videos

seems fairly popular with positive comments

its not mine azy. its our Youtuber's Channel

and all our meet ups are uploaded there

our youtuber is one of the community's admins

Funny how this became a "who was nice with who" situation. I made some questions, he answered suspicioulsy aggresively and most of the things he is saying don't make sense. That's enough for me to not trust the guy.

whats not to trust with all this proof of work ErCiccione?

i imagine the guy just wants to earn some crypto for his efforts

This guy represents a community on Telegram which has done many meet ups in the past. There is evidence for all this in the links that I have provided.

Not a single soul is making a cent out of this.

this is all community effort, as it has been for the last 2 years that our meet ups are taking place.

You guys need some pillows or something?

alright, i'm falling for it: You are contacting the monero community to fund your meetup about Monero, but your request for refunds is weird at best. You claim you are volunteers an you don't make a cent out of this, but you are asking for 30 euros for people to make banners, which is one of the most basic things that any volunteer can do for free and 30 euros are not going to funda graphic. You are also asking

for 60 euros to renovate your meetup.com subscription, which is not monero related and cherry on the top, you ask people even to pay zoom for you, when many pointed out there are open source alternatives. You first said you tested jitsi and found problems, then that you still have to test jitsi. When i pointed out that you are mostly requesting people to pay your meetup subscription, you claimed i was offending

you, which is a suspiscious behaviour.

swimming trunks?

So, Monis, you are either hiding something or your community really needs to find a better PR person

Gib Monis

I need Monis

ErCiccione I imagine you are trying to imply that we manage to fool Zcash, Cardano, Tezos and some other people.... ok I will answer that and then I think I am done with the insults.. 1) yes we pay for banners , we don't know anyone within the admins' team who can do it that well. 2) the 60 EUR represents the MAINTENANCE of our meetup.com subscr..

(something we will use for our Monero meetup as well) 3) The technical set up is not something that is done by me. I was told there was issues.

OK fine...

Thank you for your help everyone.

i'm starting to think you don't know the meaning of "insult" at this point. I'm trying to be as clear as i can: it's fine if you want to ask people to pay for your meetup subscription. Clear that? it's -> OK <- . if you reread what i wrote before, i was pointing out that it was ok and i was suggesting the best way to get funded before you started to feel offended for reasons to me unknown

i admit i'm not famous for my diplomacy, but jesus christ, nothing of what you said make any sense and your contacticting claims and gratuiutus insult don't help your cause.

Hello all, I would like to share a big news, we have working blockchain scanning on our hardware wallet: rmxwallet.io/rmxwallet_scanning.jpeg

(I hope you see the picture)

It's a picture of a stagenet wallet, with some testing in and out Tx's.

(I am talking about full scanning inside our HW - no viewkey leaking. All txs are fed through the RMX device)

Monero Means Money premieres for FREE in a few hours: twitter.com/MoneroMovie/status/1256228374256762881

i_a: nice :) you might also want to post this on reddit

We are talking with my friend now about it.

Basically we would like to take ALL design files, all maufacturing files, firmware code, pack it into one single package and give it to monero community for free, if there is some interest in doing this.

selsta: do you think the best place to open this idea is post on reddit?

I guess reddit is a good start to get some input

selsta: ok

i_a agred, thanks for sharing :)

Unfortunately the original talk of MoneroMovie is not online but the old monerujo. media.ccc.de/v/34c3-ChaosWest-4-monerujo_android_monero_wallet

boldsuck: that monerujo one is good too

what statistics/information about monero do you routinely check? reddit posts, price, what else?

azy: Reddit, StackExchange, IRC

price

block reward

transaction pool

block height

lmao

hahaha

are those RAM chips dead though?

Then the box would contain memory chips, which sparks memories about the memory they provided.

that pic is so old

Mochi101: k, thanks. Then I take back what I've just said, because it obviously doesn't to older pictures.

*doesn't apply

82 people are watching the movie premiere

did the paying with xmr/crypto get worked out?

yeah, we processed the payments manually

selsta, vik finally replied

We have it received from the receive screen. We have it on the send screen because some exchanges still use it

But will do

I think he meant removed from the receive screen

okay thanks

if anyone is watching the livestream chat, this is why I want a Monero live chat tool haha

?

someone didn't know about encryption and antivirus

the movie title may be *slightly* misleading haha usercontent.irccloud-cdn.com/file/P…shot_20200501-170946_Blockfolio.jpg

lol sgp_

Brave 35 people selecting "airplane"

I bet so many people were like... "damnit"

Maybe because with Monero it just flies so effortlessly from one person to another.

So there's an upcoming gitcoin hackathan on privacy technology: gitcoin.co/hackathon/privacy/onboard

Any interest in supporting as a sponsor?

s/hackathan/hackathon

good bot

sarang: can you show us the current prizes?

or are those not posted yet

I don't see them posted

Just throwing it out there as an idea. I don't have details