Create Decentralized Forum RFP

[SatoshiSoramoto]

Hello there, here's my proposal for review. I'll be happy to add anything that may miss from the current proposal if it's needed.

[WRRicht3r]

Hello! Thank you very much for your RFP!
A quick observation, the scope of work section is more about the technology requirements for the implementation. The info you have added there at the moment corresponds to "Evaluation Metrics and Criteria"
For more info on the different sections, please take a look at this article
Also, for an RFP, it is not necessary to include the budget, that will be assigned once your RFP becomes a proposal.
Thanks again!

[WRRicht3r]

Hello! Thank you very much for your corrections! One last thing, for workflow reasons, the initial proposal should be called RFP, could you please rename this to Create Decentralized Forum RFP?
Thank you! Your proposal will now be available in the RFP summary.

[SatoshiSoramoto]

Hello, I just renamed it, please let me know if anything else is needed. Thank you for your support.

[pgolovkin]

What contract do you mean? How the system will track the contract execution?

[WRRicht3r]

There will be a contract system that will work on-site only. All the people on the forum will use it in order to have deals with other members. As they start the contract they will explain in detail what is the contract about and also what are the terms of the deal. Once the deal is done, they will both rate each other customer-vendor. Also, they will have the ability to open a dispute in public and explain what went wrong so other members will deal with caution in case something shady happened with that customer/or vendor.

[pgolovkin]

Where the information about subscriptions, sales, contracts etc will be stored?

[WRRicht3r]

They will be stored on the server that will host the forum and it will be controlled by the main team but at the same time, the information will be in public for everyone to view it as we will use only Sora Addresses and we will announce what are the official addresses for every group and also for the group sales, paid stickers, and everything.
Just because you might misunderstand. I'll try to explain with an example:

Let's say you want to buy 1 month subscription for a group. Every group's Sora address for the payment will be known in public, everyone can see how many people purchased a sub.

What will be stored in the server, is the buyer's address, so when they visit the forum and connect their Sora-Account, they will have access to the group. This is the ''centralized'' part. We couldn't somehow make it decentralized at this stage, I'm sure that in the future we will find a way to make it more decentralized.
So when I say that the info will be stored in the server I mean the info that says ''This address has access to this group in the forum''.

[pgolovkin]

Please, split it in 3 milestones. Scope seems big and I'm not sure that it may be completed in 6 months.

[WRRicht3r]

The forum may be completed for testing in 6 months, that is our expectation. We could split it into 3 milestones as you suggested, like;
a) Create a forum and edit its UI
b) Polkadot.js/signing messages implementation
c) Fix the bugs and get it done for testing.
But from the way we see it, it is better to do multitasking work and build it as is from the scratch than building a forum that works independently and then trying to implement polkadot.js features on it.

[pgolovkin]

fully functional has a very wide meaning. Please be more concrete.

[WRRicht3r]

What I meant is that we will deliver a forum that every section/button will work as it should be and that whatever we proposed (stickers, groups sales, subscriptions, everything will be paid only with XOR, including the 40-50$ worth of XOR per address to prevent spam/bots) will be implemented.

[SatoshiSoramoto]

Answers to the questions above:

1. There will be a contract system that will work on-site only. All the people on the forum will use it in order to have deals with other members. As they start the contract they will explain in detail what is the contract about and also what are the terms of the deal. Once the deal is done, they will both rate each other customer-vendor. Also, they will have the ability to open a dispute in public and explain what went wrong so other members will deal with caution in case something shady happened with that customer/or vendor.

2. They will be stored on the server that will host the forum and it will be controlled by the main team but at the same time, the information will be in public for everyone to view it as we will use only Sora Addresses and we will announce what are the official addresses for every group and also for the group sales, paid stickers, and everything.
   Just because you might misunderstand. I'll try to explain with an example:

Let's say you want to buy 1 month subscription for a group. Every group's Sora address for the payment will be known in public, everyone can see how many people purchased a sub.

What will be stored in the server, is the buyer's address, so when they visit the forum and connect their Sora-Account, they will have access to the group. This is the ''centralized'' part. We couldn't somehow make it decentralized at this stage, I'm sure that in the future we will find a way to make it more decentralized.
So when I say that the info will be stored in the server I mean the info that says ''This address has access to this group in the forum''.

3. The forum may be completed for testing in 6 months, that is our expectation. We could split it into 3 milestones as you suggested, like a) Create a forum and edit its UI b) Polkadot.js/signing messages implementation c) Fix the bugs and get it done for testing. But from the way we see it, it is better to do multitasking work and build it as is from the scratch than building a forum that works independently and then trying to implement polkadot.js features on it.

4. What I meant is that we will deliver a forum that every section/button will work as it should be and that whatever we proposed (stickers, groups sales, subscriptions, everything will be paid only with XOR, including the 40-50$ worth of XOR per address to prevent spam/bots) will be implemented.

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Also, I would like to add that our team would like to propose the RFP in this launch period so we can start working on it. For transparency reasons and just because we want to be clear and honest with the community, in the proposal we will set our XOR payment as RESERVED coins. So, whenever we deliver (hopefully will be done as planned, this summer) the forum as we presented in this RFP, we will create a new proposal to unlock the XOR.

[WRRicht3r]

Hello Satoshi, for the sake of order, do you mind answering each question in the reply section? (right under the question) It would be much appreciated and very helpful for following up. I have gone ahead and done it, but for further iterations please consider this.
Thank you kindly

[SatoshiSoramoto]

Hello Satoshi, for the sake of order, do you mind answering each question in the reply section? (right under the question) It would be much appreciated and very helpful for following up. I have gone ahead and done it, but for further iterations please consider this. Thank you kindly

I replied to the section although to my end it seems like Pending i.e. http://prntscr.com/llUr8Yht2dae

[SatoshiSoramoto]

I'd like also to announce that our team will present our idea, our goals, and a demo of the website through a video before the next launch period so we can propose it in public.

[SatoshiSoramoto]

We have updated the RFP, added some info and changed the milestones. Please let us know what are your questions.