I haven’t watched the whole video yet so maybe what I write is addressed, but I can’t hold back on ranting this:
It’s all well and good providing these ideas, and I applaud you guys for having the courage to do this. I will happily participate and throw my ideas out there. Many of us can sit down and provide good ideas. But ultimately who makes the decisions at the CF? This is the source of the problem is it not. I don’t want to sit down and waste my time participating if this goes back to the CF board and they conclude arbitrarily that they don’t want to do anything on the matter, or they pick and choose what they want to do. I think a lot of the community feel we don’t have a voice.
Currently it seems that an unelected person or a small group of people make decisions FOR the community, with the communities money. I believe this generally leads to bias - people in power are incentivised to make decisions that benefit themselves and their egos. Look at the political/financial system that doesn’t entirely if at all function for the majority of the people as an example of that.
CF belongs to the community, correct? but it doesn’t feel that way. Why did the broader community not get to vote on the board members? Where are the accounts of the CF. How much did the McCann hiring cost? Who is being paid for what. Why is this not public information IF the CF is owned by the holders of ADA. Why were we not asked as a community if we wanted to hire McCann. Why did a community manager get fired? Someone made a decision FOR us, without considering community opinion. Why is everything a secret. One thing I love about Charles and IOHK is the transparancy.
My feeling is that some of the group of people in power think their decisions are more important than the people they work for. Some of the past admin team were ridiculously self righteous. That along with the secretive firings, says to me that the corporate culture at CF is not in line with Cardano values.
For example. I critique the website on the forum. I get no feedback from CF. I’m not expecting personal attention but some obviously unprofessional and embarrassing things on the website that I mentioned, have since been removed under the radar without any comment. It’s good they got removed, but it seems that some workers at the CF want to pretend that they didn’t make any mistakes. (I’ve learnt since that this is one department or just one person at CF). That’s the corporate marketing paradigm: “Every one must be positive about everything we do, and you have to walk on eggshells if you make any criticism because it will get ignored or we will ban you if you discuss xyz subject more”.
This is the reason the website went so long with those obvious mistakes being uncorrected.
Everyone is scared of FUD but complete non disclosure is the result.
They hire workers and ambassadors that fit in line with these/their values. Who concluded the community wants these values in the ambassador program that CF took upon themselves to make…
It would be nice if it was admitted openly by the CF that the CF isn’t functioning well at present. Currently I see no accountability.
I would love the CF to come out and say “Yeah, eventually we want to make the CF a DAO”
Until the governance problem of the CF is fixed I find it hard to be motivated to input.