Recently, two major events in the EOS community have caused heated discussions, and they are the EOS Work Proposal System (WPS) and the EOS Alliance. These two events have important implications for the long-term development of the EOS eco. The former provides a basic framework for EOS community development, while the latter helps promote collaboration, decision-making, and information sharing in the EOS community, becoming an important bridge for communication between EOS community and the external world.
I have already talked to you about WPS before, so today I want to talk about the EOS Alliance and my observations and understandings of it.
01 Why set up the EOS Alliance?
Before the establishment of the EOS Alliance, there were two organizations in the EOS Eco: 21 BPs and the ECAF The former focuses on solving the block problems, while the latter isresponsible for resolving disputes between EOS holders.
However, the EOS eco not only has these two types of problems, but also has other problems as follows:
(1) Communication problems between different organizations:
Different organizations represents different interest groups, and they speak for their respective groups, making it difficult to reach a consensus among themselves:
Between BPs and ECAF: On June 17, 21 BPs bypassed ECAF, and announced the freezing of 7 accounts, on the grounds that 7 accounts were suspected of stealing tokens. At the time, ECAF was confused for being ignored.
Between the ECAF and EOS community members: On June 23, the ECAF notified all BPs to freeze the transfer of 27 accounts, and said that the reasons would be given later. This is the typical matter of urgency. Although the EOS New York BP gave a statement later, but the community members still expressed disapproval, which caused controversy in the community.
Between EOS community members and Block.One team: Some community members always blame the Block.One team, especially BM, for intervening too much in EOS community governance. However, other community members accuse the team of the absencein EOS eco governance. Block.One team are suffering from these controdictory opinions no matter what they do.
In addition to the communication problems caused by the interests of different organizations, EOS holders are all over the world speaking in many languages, which also adds obstacles to each other's communication.
(2) EOS Constitution revision issues:
The EOS Constitution was drafted by the Block.One team at the beginning of EOS, but it is aggregated by a very small number of people and can not represent the opinions of all or most of the EOS community members.
At the same time, with the development of EOS, the Constitution also needs to keep pace with the times. Since this process has many changes in affairs and concepts that need to be reflected in the Convention, there must be a process of revision and improvement in the EOS Convention. So who is proposing and who is going to modify becomes a problem that needs to be solved urgently.
The EOS Alliance was born to solve the current problem of governance.
02 EOS Alliance's current organizational structure
The current organizational structure of the EOS Alliance is as follows:
The EOS Alliance will launch initially with a seven member Board, expanding as needed in a process currently under draft. There are five working groups for dispute resolution and arbitration, community communication, code management (GitHub), exchanges, and convention drafting and adoption, which are responsible for different categories of affairs.
At the same time, two observer seats have been established for representatives to be selected by the paid Block Producers via a mechanism to be decided by them.
In addition, the EOS Alliance intends to have a fully elected board, to include members of diverse backgrounds and geographic regions, representing a variety of EOS community stakeholders and perspectives.
03 Planning of the EOS Alliance
In the latest announcement, the EOS Alliance proposed a plan for a referendum on the EOSConsititution.
Its first initiative is to open Consititution Referendum Series - a 12-week organization framework for anyone to help shape the future of EOS. They aim to encourage community members towards producing widely accepted constitution drafts for referendum vote.
The timetable is planned as follows:
Week 1: Announce series, distribute information about Week 2 video conference calls.
Week 2: Open video conference calls multiple times per week in English, Chinese and Korean; help form working groups of 5–7 members.
Week 3: Working groups of 5–7 members break down individual constitution articles into their design principle level. Publish summaries of findings.
Week 4: Continue working groups and discover common values, design principles, and core beliefs between current v1 constitution and v2 proposal from Daniel Larimer.
Week 5: Establish design clusters — the most important 2–3 values and principles to work from for building articles of a v3+ constitution.
Week 6–9: “Articles and Explanations” — working groups build candidate constitution drafts from design clusters.
Week 10: Revise, publish and distribute candidate constitutions.
Weeks 11–12: Community members openly campaign for their constitution of choice.
04 EOS Alliance plays more role of a coordinator
After the establishment of the EOS Alliance, some community members expressed concerns about its independence. But in fact, this kind of worry was greatly reduced by the promoters such as Thomas Cox through the following two measures, long before its establishment:
The first is the membership of the EOS Alliance Board Members, which will eventually transform to a board that is fully elected by the community, which will speak for the benefit of the majority of the community;
This is followed by the charter being drafted by the EOS Alliance. It is important to avoid any administrative power in the governance structure of the EOS Alliance. In other words, the EOS Alliance does not have any real power and will not participate in or interfere with the formulation of community decisions.
It plays a more coordinator role, including coordinating community communication and information sharing, and providing the community with a platform for making decisions.
Brock Pierce, a board member of the EOS Alliance, said, “It’s a vehicle just to create structure and facilitate communication, amongst the various constituents from the token holders, the fans, the community, the block producers, the Dapp producers, block.one, etc. EOS Alliance aims to facilitate conversation and communication so that we can create consensus when and where possible,as much consensus as possible. EOS Alliance is like the facilitator, they are going to figure that out together as a community, to feel like everyone’s got a seat at the table, and their voices were going to be heard, because all of our voices matter.”
We believe that the various BPs, EOS holders, ECAF, DAPP developers and other stakeholders within the EOS eco, will unite under the leadership of the EOS Alliance and become the endless force for the EOS eco to move forward, thus leading the development of EOS to a new height.
We look forward to the arrival of this day.
居然能团结起EOS社区所有力量，这个组织是怎么做到的？
近期EOS社区有两件大事引起热议，分别是EOS工作提案系统（WPS）和EOS基金会（EOS Alliance）。这两件事，对于EOS生态的长远发展都有着重要的意义，前者为EOS的社区发展提供了基础框架，而后者则有助于推动EOS社区的协作、决策和信息共享，成为EOS社区与外部世界沟通的一座重要桥梁。
前面已经和大家聊过WPS，所以今天我想和大家侃侃EOS基金会，说一下自己对EOS基金会的一些观察和理解？
01 为什么要成立EOS基金会？
在EOS基金会诞生前，EOS生态存在两个组织：21个超级节点，以及EOS仲裁论坛（ECAF），前者主要解决出块问题，后者则负责解决EOS网络持币者之间的争端问题。
可EOS生态不仅仅只存在这两类问题，还有：
（1）不同组织之间的沟通问题：
不同组织背后代表着不同的利益群体，他们为各自群体发声，导致彼此之间很难达成共识：
超级节点与ECAF之间：6月17日，21个超级节点，私下里一合计，然后绕过了ECAF，宣布冻结7个账号，理由是7个账号涉嫌盗币。ECAF当时表示一脸蒙圈，我这是被架空了吧，还能好好做朋友吗？
ECAF和EOS社区成员之间：6月23号，ECAF通知所有节点冻结27个账户的转账，并称后续再给出原因。这就是典型的事急从权、先斩后奏，虽然后来EOS纽约节点给出了说法，但是社区成员还是表示不认同，由此引起社区一番争议。
EOS社区成员和Block.One团队之间：一部分社区成员总嚷嚷着Block.One团队尤其是BM对EOS社区治理插手太多，另一部分社区成员又指责他们在EOS生态治理的空白，里外都不是人，Block.One团队表示心里苦。
除了不同组织利益博弈引起的沟通问题，EOS持有者遍布全球、涉及的语言之多，也为彼此的沟通增加了障碍。
（2）EOS公约修改问题：
EOS公约在EOS成立之初就由Block.One团队拟定了草案，但这只是一份由极少数人意见汇总而成的公约，并不能代表全体或大多数EOS社区成员的意见。
同时，随着EOS的发展，公约也需要与时俱进。因为这个过程会有许多事务和理念的变动，需要体现到公约之中，所以EOS公约必然存在一个修改完善的过程。那么由谁提出，由谁修改就成了一个亟待解决的问题。
而EOS基金会，就是为了解决目前这些空白的治理问题而诞生的。
02 EOS 基金会目前的组织架构
EOS基金会目前的组织架构是这样的：
EOS基金会在启动时将由七名初始成员组成董事会；下设争议解决和仲裁、社区通讯、代码管理（GitHub）、交易所以及公约的起草和采用五个工作小组，分别负责不同类别的事务。
同时还设立了两个观察员席位，将由获得收益的节点通过由他们决定的机制而选出代表。
此外，EOS基金会董事会成员会不断扩充，并且最终过渡为一个完全由选举而产生的董事会，将包括不同背景和地理区域的成员，从而代表EOS社区中多数的利益相关者和观点。
03 EOS基金会的规划
EOS基金会在最新发布的公告中提出了对于EOS公约进行公投的规划。
其第一个倡议就是设置开放性的“公约公投系列”——一个为期12周的组织框架，让任何人都可以参与塑造EOS的未来。其目标是鼓励社区成员制定能被大众所接受的公约草案来进行全民投票。
时间表规划如下（8月27日晚9:00-10：00，开始第一周会议讨论）：
04 EOS基金会更多扮演着协调者的角色
EOS基金会成立后，部分社区成员表达出对它独立性的担忧。但这种担忧，其实早在其成立前，就由Thomas Cox等发起人通过以下两个举措大大降低了：
首先是EOS基金会董事会的成员组成，它最终会过渡为一个完全由社区选举而产生的董事会，它们将为社区大多人数的利益而发声；
其次是EOS基金会正在起草中的章程，很重要的一点就是要避免EOS基金会在治理结构中获得任何行政权力。也就是说，EOS基金会不具备任何实权，不会参与、干涉到社区决策的制定。
它更多扮演着一个协调者的角色，包括协调社区的沟通和信息共享，以及提供给社区一个作出决策的平台。
EOS基金会董事会成员Brock Pierce如此说道，“这是一个便捷的沟通工具，维系着 EOS 持有者、社区、节点、Dapp 开发者和 Block.one 等不同社区角色。我们希望建立良好的沟通桥梁，形成尽可能多的共识。EOS基金会扮演者类似主持人的角色，我们以整体的社区身份，去理清整个治理体系，促进不同群体，不同地区间的沟通。让每个人都觉得自己是社区的重要一员，有人愿意倾听他们的声音，为他们发声。”
我们相信，EOS生态内的各个节点、EOS持有者、ECAF、DAPP开发者和其他利益相关者将在EOS基金会的引领下团结起来，成为EOS生态得以向好前行的生生不息的力量，从而将EOS的发展引领到一个新高度。
我们期待这一天的到来。
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