RE: Gridcoin Poll: How much GRC should be allocated for the weekly GRC community hangouts?
I believe this is a great idea as it will promote attendance and encourage, hopefully, people with a more diverse mix of skill sets to get involved in the Hangout and as a result the Gridcoin community.
We do need an increase in the attendance of technically orientated people across all spheres in order to continue our technical progress.
However we also need attendees who have skill sets such as marketing, social media, web design, general business, students, finance etc.
Most of our in depth discussions, presently, are of a technical nature and not everyone may feel knowledgeable enough to participate in those discussions.
We need to encourage the participation of people who have the other, very important, skills we need in order to 'future proof' Gridcoin and ensure its success by actively pushing it out in to the general population.
The maximum reward for participation will ensure the maximum quality of participation!!
You're right that rewarding participation will ensure involvement but we can not neglect the work done by @cm-steem and @peppernrino for these hangouts. I think it should be rewarded in some ways.
There have certainly been instances of new users not understanding what on earth we're talking about when we've been discussing technical Gridcoin/BOINC topics.
I agree that rewarding users will lead to more attendees/participation. If each attendee walks away from a hangout with a small task/goal for the week then we'll be a very productive crypto community! :D