Team Proposal: Add More Farmers

We are voting today to onboard 4 new hires to the ICHI core team:

• Samuel Mendenhall, core dev
• Vladimir Stemkovski, core dev
• Kobayashi, ecosystem
• Ethan Lehman, community

This vote will go a long way in deciding the future of the ICHI protocol.

Each candidate has provided an intro to themselves “in their own words’. I’ve added “titles” but (in my opinion) they really don’t mean anything in an org like ICHI.

• Samuel Mendenhall (full stack developer)

He was behind the new ichi.org website. Ex-RedHat and currently a software engineer at Microsoft, he has 16 years experience in software engineering.

He most enjoys both the reward of solving challenging problems and constantly learning new things.

You can read more about him in this proposal: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19meaanCzmg84fvUO9WCJBpzIVcT2FP0jQ5M_gELyOlQ

• Vladimir Stemkovski (full stack developer)

Vladimir joined ICHI three months ago. He has been involved in UI updates and the creation of the new farming contract. He is a prolific contributor and is essential to the continuity of the project.

You can read a proposal he posted here : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XAjjgaEsjf4kEyln5apurQCTgPY2UdrQSs1HZrg1eG4

• Kobayashi (ecosystem)

Kobayashi has been involved in ICHI for the past several months and is stepping forward to help sign on new projects for their own oneToken.

He wrote a little more about himself here : https://docs.google.com/document/d/14JLyYCCi9BhZOkd-Yc7ymjBomtwDipWCSkoPrC_GDWk/edit?usp=sharing

• Ethan Lehman (community manager)

Our last hire would be Ethan, he is our newest addition but very well known to the community. He created a series of Twitter threads around the partnership of ICHI and Strudel. And he has created a new ICHI FAQ.

He wrote a little more about himself here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QbPlUISJH6Lxu-8aY9LSJ9pqhqReyFNK-Krp1LVbxSE/edit?ts=60637d31

In addition to the hires, we are voting the following, updated ICHI hiring and monthly budget process: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CI8VS2L40RXOz4Y_ciKrzot1a96wp_GUSZ6OkR5PT2g/edit?usp=sharing