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Finally EOS west plans to explore the possibility of creating a non-profit organization to enable the transition to the sovereign digital society and economy we envision.\n\n<h1>1) Public Presence</h1>\nWebsite [eoswest.com](http://www.eoswest.com)\nTwitter [eoswest](https://twitter.com/eoswest)\nMeetup [SF EOS Meetup](https://www.meetup.com/SF-EOS)\nID on Steemit @eoswest\n\n<h1>2) ID on Steemit:</h1>\nOfficial block producer candidate name: EOS West\nLocation of company headquarters: SF/Wyoming\nExpected location of servers: US West Region\nType of servers (cloud, bare metal, etc): AWS Cloud\n\n<h3>Team</h3>\n![jdamx170.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmeKRbgdYgiK1knGuz6Yo9nTrwDhrhpnFjFKMr7Mo9z325/jdamx170.jpg)\n**Jun Dam, Co-Founder & CEO**\nJun Dam is founder of Bitcash/100x & Peerhub, early stage startups that plan to integrate EOS technology.  Bitcash is currently a Bitshares-based digital wallet and gateway startup that plans to make it easier for new people to invest in cryptocurrencies. As part of Bitcash, he created the 100X brand to educate people about investment opportunities with cryptocurrencies, token sales, and startups.  He created the 100x Blockchain Investors Summit, a virtual webcast conference that had over 500+ participants. He has recently begun hosting his own show 100x Crypto and is building a content platform using the Steem blockchain.  Peerhub is a peer-to-peer marketplace startup that is designed to allow people to buy and sell goods & services using cryptocurrencies.  \n\nJun has been involved in the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency space since mid-2012 and is a recent angel investor. He also co-organized the first World Crypto Economic Forum in the SF Bay Area that drew over one thousand attendees.  As a voluntaryist and advocate for freedom, he believes in the potential for blockchain and EOS technology to usher in a new sovereign digital society.  He has had a long career in financial services, earned an MBA from UC Irvine and a BS from UC Berkeley, and is a CFA charterholder.\n\n![Shawn_croppedx170.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQma3qYyTHZGKSPC6RaA5orWEoLhNPpHtVTVz6p11eK1tiJ/Shawn_croppedx170.jpg)\n**Shawn Douglass, Co-Founder & CTO**\nMr. Douglass is CEO of Amberdata, an advanced analytics platform for monitoring, searching, analyzing, and securing public and private blockchain, providing actionable insights into the health of smart contract platforms like Ethereum, EOS, AION, and Hyperledger. Amberdata provides operational intelligence for blockchain infrastructure, on-chain decentralized applications, Token utilization, and transactions. The platform provides both service providers and consumers transparency into to the health of services as well as empowers any user to set and receive alerts on key performance indicators for your on-chain offering.  Prior to founding Amberdata, Mr. Douglass served as President of Software and CTO at Unified, building and operating the company's rapidly-expanding SaaS offerings in cross-platform data management, analytics, and reporting. Mr. Douglass was CTO at ServiceMesh (acquired by CSC) and drove the strategy and vision of the ServiceMesh Agility Platform and contributing to IT transformation at Global 2000 enterprises. Prior to ServiceMesh, he was Managing Director at EMC Ventures where he led strategic investments in cloud, security, big data/analytics. He has been a cloud visionary and key contributor to the emerging enterprise cloud operating model for over a decade. He has held roles as Board Member, Operating Executive, Technologist, Advisor, and Investor. 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He currently serves on the Board of Hanmi Bank (NASDAQ: HAFC) and advises several tech startup companies.\n\nMichael received his BS degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley, an MS degree in Computer Science from Columbia University, and an MBA degree from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. He has served on the advisory board of the Stanford Institute of Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) at Stanford University as well as on the IT Advisory Council for President George W. Bush. Michael is a co-founder & founding Chairman of the Council of Korean Americans (CKA), a national non-profit organization of Korean American leaders. He also serves as a director and as the Treasurer of La Cañada Flintridge Education Foundation. Michael holds a fourth degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do and enjoys playing golf and soccer.\n\n![gee2.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmX1ySJKLZV3FtsFftak1wQSV89AZRQ2FYUvy2MfMNW2XN/gee2.jpg)\n**Gee Sivalingam,  Co-Founder & COO**\nA tech entrepreneur, crypto evangelist, and life hacker, Gee is a prominent leader in the Bay Area high-tech community and is founder of various collaborative groups, including the Open Protocol Alliance.  He is the founder of the Tulip Conference, a digital currencies conference that showcases new emerging technologies like EOS and is the host of one of the first EOS Block Producer Summits in the US.  He is the founder of Token Garage, a syndicate of product designers, engineers and technologists who enable decentralized virtual economies through cryptocurrencies and whose mission is to empower entrepreneurs to build open and community driven projects that can enable and drive new economies.  He also runs the SF EOS Meetup the SF Blockchain Collective, one of the largest cryptocurrency meetups in the Bay Area.  He is also highly skilled in cloud computing, digital and mobile payments, infrastructure services and has served as technical lead for large technology projects for top blue chip companies such as StubHub, Cisco, Ebay.\n\n**Jay Tsukamoto, Senior Operations Engineer**\nJay has spent the last two decades automating, building, planning, and securing a wide array of infrastructure and systems architectures for companies ranging from mid-sized startups to large, established commercial banking institutions.\n\nCurrent areas of expertise, realms of responsibility, or subjects of proficiency:\n• Amazon Web Services - applications, architecture, systems\n• Big Data applications, tools, and ETL workflows\n• Configuration automation and management - CI/CD, \"Infrastructure as code\"\n• Containerization and virtualization technologies\n• Datacenter and cloud PaaS hosting\n• Infrastructure and systems architecture, deployment, design, high availability, and security\n• Network and server models, processes, protocols and their implementations\n• Security best practices and regulatory compliance\n\n**Ravikanth Andhavarapu, Development Operations Engineer**\nRavikanth Andhavarapu has built a 6 member team, 150 member team and highly sophisticated 9 member team. 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EOS technology enables startups to effectively service consumers because it is designed to enable developers to create practical, low-cost, performant and user-friendly solutions with less uncertainty and risk.    \n\nWe plan to invest, advise and incubate EOS startups to help them succeed.  Hence one of our main priorities at EOS West is to foster a support network for startups and businesses that are currently using EOS and also recruit more startups and businesses to use the technology.  Some of the services we’ll provide include: invest in internal and external dApp projects, build incubation & accelerator programs, hold tech education & workshops, provide token advisory services. \n\n*Non-Profit Activities*\nEOS west plans to explore the possibility of creating a non-profit organization to support the broader ecosystem.  This organization could be setup as a IRS 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(6) non-profit organization to serve the public interest. It may be a membership-based, mutual-benefit EOS industry trade association of EOS BPs, developers, investors, and other stakeholders to promote and advance the interest of EOS technology in the industry, public policy and regulatory arenas around the world (e.g., United Nations, World Bank, US Government, EU, China, Japan, Korea, etc.). In addition to providing public education on EOS technology, this organization will lobby appropriate legislators and executive branches of the government as needed and partner with other blockchain and cryptocurrency advocacy organizations to form an alliance with them to achieve the vision. This organization may also support academic research projects most relevant to improving the EOS blockchain protocol. (e.g., governance, technology, economics, cryptography, security, distributed systems, open-source hardware) as well as basic income research and development.   Some of the activities of the trade association may include: \n\n*Business*\n-Foster business partnerships via directory services \n-Educate startups and enterprise businesses on EOS\n-Engage business community and trade groups via conferences, educational events and workshops\n\n*Technology*\n-Work with complementary distributed/decentralized technologies like IPFS/Filecoin\n-Work for interoperability and alliances with other crypto communities such as Bitcoin, Ethereum and other blockchain/DLT/DAG systems. \n\n*Government*\n-Educate and lobby government for more favorable laws for EOS, cryptocurrencies, \ntokens and distributed technologies. \n\n*Community*\n-Engage community via educational conferences, events, webcasts and workshops\n-Work towards enabling a community support structure via basic income.\n\n*Academia*\n-Collaborate on research projects most relevant to improving the EOS blockchain protocol. (eg. governance, technology, economics, cryptography, security, distributed systems, open-source hardware)\n\n-Build research and build coalitions in basic income research & development.\n\n\n<h1>6) Telegram + Testnet: EOS West / eoswestblock</h1>\n\n<h1>7) Road Map (subject to change)</h1>\n\n**Member Values**\n\n*Peace & Freedom & Equality*\nWe believe the non-aggression principle leads to peace, freedom leads to prosperity, and individual sovereignty leads to equality.  We will support constitutions that support the non-aggression principle, freedom and individual sovereignty.\n\n*Honesty & Integrity*\nWe believe that honesty and integrity are paramount in a well functioning society.  As a representative of the broader ecosystem, we will hold ourselves to a high standard of ethics.\n\n*Respect & Tolerance*\nWe want to foster respect for everyone from all walks of life and those from any race, religion, sex, creed or culture.\n\n*Transparency*\nBlockchains enable us to be fully transparent with our books.  We plan to provide detailed and open accounting for our operations.  We aim to be a model of transparency and all cash flows will be accounted and categorized from end-to-end from the time of receiving inflation rewards in the treasury fund to the ultimate expenditure. \n\n*Independence*\nAs block producers, we hold independence to be critical to prevent collusion and risk to the broader ecosystem.  Our organization is also entirely self-funded.\n\n*Justice*\nWe will support all arbitration decisions that are consistent with our bylaws and EOS constitution. \n\n*Efficiency*\nWe believe that efficient use of our resources will allow us to provide the most value to the ecosystem at the lowest cost to the network.\n\n*Security*\nWe believe in best-practices in security and will perform security audits from time to time as necessary to prevent any systemic risks to EOS block production.\n\n**Estimated & Potential Range of Reward Allocation (subject to change):**\n20 - 100% Network Infrastructure\n0 - 80% Business & Startup Support Ecosystem\n0 - 20% Non-profit Activities\n\n*Jurisdiction*\nEOS West plans to register the entity in Wyoming, one of the most favorable jurisdictions in the world for cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.  Recent Wyoming legislation has defined virtual currencies to be property, under state jurisdiction and exempt from money transmission laws.  Wyoming was one of the first states to recognize LLCs in the 70s and has no corporate income tax.   Wyoming has some of the most accommodating regulation and attractive tax (no state of franchise income tax for individual and corporate) laws in the world.  \n\nThe US is still the largest and most vibrant economy in the world and excessive regulation may make the country less competitive globally it still remains the most stable country in the world to conduct business.  Also, the US is still one the most innovative countries in the world with talented developers and entrepreneurs, especially in the SF Bay Area and Silicon Valley whose entrepreneurs have been in the forefront of creating disruptive new technologies and innovations. \n\n*Governance*\nThe EOS West will create a constitution & bylaws based on our values and that are consistent with the EOS constitution.  We aim at brevity and each clause, if open to any loose interpretation, is expected to be consistent with the values and spirit of the constitution and bylaws.  The founding team will be the initial Board of Directors of EOS West.\n\n<h3>In 2018 (subject to change and depending on budget):\n- 2018 Q3: Governance - Create EOS West Constitution & Bylaws\n- 2018 Q3: Form Investment Committee with Investment Guidelines and Criteria\n- 2018 Q3: Create EOS West Hackathon\n- 2018 Q3: Create workshops for EOS developers\n- 2018 Q4: Identify Incubator/Accelerator Space for EOS Startups \n- 2019 Q1: Create membership 501c3/ 501c6 entity</h3>\n\n<h1>8) Dividend Policy</h1>\nEOS West will not engage in any vote-buying.   We plan to work together and collaborate with other BPs and the broader community, but understand the importance of remaining independent from other block producers and the potential that collusion could create systemic risks in the ecosystem. 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