Skatopia
Member
(Part 1)
Overview and Agreement Structure
We (Skatopia) wish to present the Dash community with a chance to sponsor an expansion of a world famous extreme sports and concert venue in exchange for a number of benefits, including naming and labeling the new edition (to the existing Lula Bowl) after Dash. We also have some future proposals in mind, which will be explored below.
We at Skatopia also have seen the sharp rise in Dash's market capitalization and price recently. Congratulations! However, as you all know, the rise in price leads to a dilemma for those with smaller proposals - and the higher the price goes, the more proposals this will effect, leading to only larger and larger proposals being submitted to the Masternodes for approval.
We know Dash's developers will likely come to some technical solution to this problem (if indeed they view it as a problem), but until then (or in place of it) we came up with our own quick fix. We thought this might make our proposal far more likely to be accepted, so we didn't lose our (extremely precious) dollar equivalent of 5 Dash. As a non-profit, we just can't risk that kind of money without some way to ensure we'll have our proposal accepted. We understand entirely the need for an anti-spam fee, so we thought the following technique might reduce risk for the Dash treasury, and also therefore increase our chance of having the proposal accepted (almost assuredly, is the hope):
If this pre-proposal is accepted by Dash's Masternodes, and then submitted and approved as a proposal on the network, no funds except the return of the proposal submission fee will be paid to Skatopia immediately. All funds asked for in this pre-proposal are paid NOT upfront, but instead paid on delivery of evidence that the specific funded activity has been actually completed. We will present pictures and video where practical to provide this evidence, including images of the areas of importance before, during and after construction. The duration of this arrangement with Dash's Masternodes is from the date of the first payout (the return of the submission fee) until the completion of the project. The completion date is set for April 2nd, 2017, but if weather doesn't cooperate, it will absolutely be completed by July 1st, 2017. The latter is the deadline date of construction for the sake of this agreement, but Skatopia will have, if needed, the entire month of July to submit evidence for payment on the August 2017 budget. Further explanation for the dates will be given below.
To sum up, if the proposal is passed by the Masternodes, the 5 Dash anti-spam submission fee will be returned immediately to Skatopia in the first payment. All other payments will be agreed to (but deferred) by the Masternodes, paid out only as evidence (the standard of which will be explained in detail below) of the completion of those tasks is presented to the Dash community. No further proposals or voting will be required for these payments based on evidence. Instead, evidence will be presented on the same locations as the pre-proposal any time within the duration of the agreement (the date of the first payment and until the July 1st, 2017 deadline). Once the evidence is presented, the next treasury payment period will be the time to release the funds to Skatopia (so the final payment to us may not come until August 2017).
We hope this inventive, risk mitigating method of pre-proposal, proposal and agreement lead to the Dash Masternodes giving us extra consideration and a higher than normal level of consensus (to ease our minds about the amount risked on the proposal fee).
Interesting detail:
The reason we don't need the funding from Dash ahead of the project's completion (but instead only need reimbursement payments after the fact) is that we are being extended a short term line of credit from a friend of the park who first introduced us to Dash back in October of 2016. This individual is confident enough in Dash's Masternodes and treasury system to loan us the total upfront for the project based on the proposal gaining sufficient support on the network. So, a Dash treasury agreement is being used as the basis for the creation of credit in the form of a loan in real life.
What is Skatopia?
Skatopia is an eighty-eight acre, nearly 22 year old non-profit skateboard park and extreme sports destination located in Rutland, Ohio. It's owned and operated by founder, Brewce Martin (a now retired professional skateboarder). It features a museum of skateboarding history with exhibits spanning nearly 100 years of skating culture, thousands of unique boards, many ramps for skating (seven unique bowls), two standalone stages for bands and one small stage for more intimate shows, 88 acres of land for visitors to explore and enjoy, and the Pabst House (the product of a former long term sponsorship with Pabst Beer Company). It has a dedicated annual turnout which is dependable and enthusiastic, and hails from all over the world.
Skatopia also has strong long term business relationships with dozens of area businesses in several States, both as collaborators and sponsors, some of which are featured on the skatopia.org website. The park was featured in an episode of MTV's 'True Life', 'Viva La Bam', Fuel TV's countdown of 'Best Backyard Scenes', and more recently in an episode of the documentary series on Netflix, 'Unplanned America'. The park was also featured in the video game 'Tony Hawk's Underground 2', as the final level. Further, it's constant coverage by skateboarding media led to a profile in Rolling Stone. They also have a full length documentary filmed on location over a several year period, 'Skatopia: 88 Acres of Anarchy', which was an official selection of several film festivals, including Sundance. More than a thousand bands have played live at Skatopia, including names like Black Flag, GWAR, Lamb of God, Immortal Technique, Green Jelly, etc.
At the Work Party this proposal focuses on, we have no less than 10 bands booked (as of the time of this post).
There are two entities: Skatopia the museum and park, and Skatopia's print shop. The print shop has the capability of printing stickers, signs (up to billboard size), and t-shirt production. Skatopia also has its own line of wheels for skateboards, in collaboration with Bones Wheels, and had a shoe line with Draven (a company licensed to do work for bands like The Misfits and The Ramones). Skatopia also had its own clothing line through their deal with Volcom, and a skateboard line with Eastern Skateboard Supplies.
Skatopia is also a community, with several people living on the premises full time, contributing labor to the park and print shop to maintain them, fill print orders, and set up for expansions (in preparation for additional labor to realize the plans). In addition to in-house labor, Skatopia has a small but constant flow of volunteers. Work Parties are held to attract more labor for expansions, and are annual events.
Skatopia has one in-house vendor on location, a website, and an outsourced/contracted vendor that can all potentially offer Dash as a payment option. The park also never closes. It's open 24 hours a day, seven days a week (although the contracted vendor is only present for parties and possibly conferences, and the in-house vendor keeps regular business hours).
What Can Skatopia Offer The Dash Community?
What Skatopia can offer to the Dash community is a relatively large following of people who can be made aware of the technology, an in-house vendor that can adopt Dash as a payment option, a contracted vendor who can adopt Dash, a website that can adopt Dash, several daily quick presentations over the 3-day Work Party on what Dash is, how to download the wallet, receive and send payments, use instant and private features, and how to use Dash at point-of-sale in real life.
Skatopia can also offer a large banner displaying that Dash is sponsoring the Work Party. This also includes six medium size banners posted all over the park to the same effect, and a t-shirt for the presenter of the Dash how-to tutorials (identifying him instantly to all, inducing conversations). The presenter will also get an area (or "booth") near the vendors to set up for point-of-sale demonstrations and general help, highlighted with a medium size banner.
We can also offer to name the new expansion of the Lula Bowl we are constructing at the Work Party after Dash ("The Dash Expansion"). When sponsorship is in place the expansion is permanently (barring unforeseen considerations*) named after the sponsor. We have precedence for the market value of such an arrangement, given past sponsorship and past marketing agreements for specific areas of the park (the Pabst House, as part of the overall Pabst Beer Company sponsorship deal, as one example). We also have some very long term and loyal sponsors who have their brand featured all over the park (Independent Truck Company, for example, and Volcom Industries). We may market long term sponsors more than contractually obligated, as a show of appreciation.
If this proposal passes, Skatopia will receive reimbursement for the funding necessary for the Dash Expansion, and Dash will receive in return:
1. A new audience for Dash
2. An in-house vendor adoption
3. A website vendor adoption
4. A contracted vendor adoption
5. Several daily Dash how-to presentations (for the duration of the three day Work Party) on how to download the wallet, sending and receiving coins, using private and instant features, and using Dash for in-real-life point-of-sale scenarios, etc.
6. Printing and hanging one very large banner and 6 medium sized banners** signaling Dash's sponsorship of the event and project
7. Printing a t-shirt for the presenter of the Dash how-to tutorials and giveaways
8. A large outdoor skateboard bowl expansion (obstacle) named after Dash; this expansion will feature the Dash logo and website painted all over the decks around the bowl and on the back of the extension (logo includes the "digital cash" phrase along with the Dash logo itself)
9. The above mentioned presenter will also hand out $5 in Dash to anyone who sits through a presentation and/or downloads a Dash wallet, then will steer the recipients to the participating vendors; prices are structured in such a way as to promote people taking home a little Dash - which promotes their return to spend it, and keeps them thinking about Dash
10. Video and/or photo evidence of all of the above where possible and practical (obviously the identity of some participants may not be revealed due to their preference)***
11. Free entry into the park any time of the year for the duration of the sponsorship for the Core Team, active Developers, and any other Dash employee or person deemed a friend of the company (up to the mutual discretion of Skatopia and Dash communities)
12. A box of "goodies" from the project mailed to Dash (if someone provides us an address), possibly including some of the banners as keepsakes, and definitely 25 stickers of the type handed out to everyone at the party
(* 'unforeseen considerations' such as events that might damage the reputation of Dash so severely as to negatively effect Skatopia's bottom line; however, no such considerations have ever come to pass for any of our sponsors, and Dash is also free to ask us to remove any sign of sponsorship of the expansion at their discretion, as we are free to remove it at any time, or remove Dash as a payment option, due to the above mentioned reputation damage)
(**The large sign (banner) is 44 inches by 8 feet ; The six medium signs (banners) are 2x2 feet; six flip-board signs for the how-to presentations are 25x36 inches; one 2x2 feet sign for the Dash giveaway and how-to area)
(***Photos and/or video will be presented of the area of construction before major work begins, during the process of construction, and after the completion of construction. Further evidence will be presented, where practical, of the purchase of the concrete and other supplies. Evidence will also be presented of any of the other aspects of the project where practical, especially if requested.)
Schedule
The Work Party is on Friday Mar. 31st – April 2nd. The work will be complete no later than (barring unforeseeable weather delay related to the concrete pour) April 2nd. Weather could delay completion until the next scheduled large Skatopia gathering, due to labor needs for completion, which would put the alternative completion date at July 1st, 2017. This possible delay would not effect any other aspect of this proposal (only the concrete pour and subsequent sponsorship art). Skatopia is incentivized to get the work done while we have all the extra labor at the Work Party, so proscrastination on the project is not an option.
(To be continued in Part 2)
Overview and Agreement Structure
We (Skatopia) wish to present the Dash community with a chance to sponsor an expansion of a world famous extreme sports and concert venue in exchange for a number of benefits, including naming and labeling the new edition (to the existing Lula Bowl) after Dash. We also have some future proposals in mind, which will be explored below.
We at Skatopia also have seen the sharp rise in Dash's market capitalization and price recently. Congratulations! However, as you all know, the rise in price leads to a dilemma for those with smaller proposals - and the higher the price goes, the more proposals this will effect, leading to only larger and larger proposals being submitted to the Masternodes for approval.
We know Dash's developers will likely come to some technical solution to this problem (if indeed they view it as a problem), but until then (or in place of it) we came up with our own quick fix. We thought this might make our proposal far more likely to be accepted, so we didn't lose our (extremely precious) dollar equivalent of 5 Dash. As a non-profit, we just can't risk that kind of money without some way to ensure we'll have our proposal accepted. We understand entirely the need for an anti-spam fee, so we thought the following technique might reduce risk for the Dash treasury, and also therefore increase our chance of having the proposal accepted (almost assuredly, is the hope):
If this pre-proposal is accepted by Dash's Masternodes, and then submitted and approved as a proposal on the network, no funds except the return of the proposal submission fee will be paid to Skatopia immediately. All funds asked for in this pre-proposal are paid NOT upfront, but instead paid on delivery of evidence that the specific funded activity has been actually completed. We will present pictures and video where practical to provide this evidence, including images of the areas of importance before, during and after construction. The duration of this arrangement with Dash's Masternodes is from the date of the first payout (the return of the submission fee) until the completion of the project. The completion date is set for April 2nd, 2017, but if weather doesn't cooperate, it will absolutely be completed by July 1st, 2017. The latter is the deadline date of construction for the sake of this agreement, but Skatopia will have, if needed, the entire month of July to submit evidence for payment on the August 2017 budget. Further explanation for the dates will be given below.
To sum up, if the proposal is passed by the Masternodes, the 5 Dash anti-spam submission fee will be returned immediately to Skatopia in the first payment. All other payments will be agreed to (but deferred) by the Masternodes, paid out only as evidence (the standard of which will be explained in detail below) of the completion of those tasks is presented to the Dash community. No further proposals or voting will be required for these payments based on evidence. Instead, evidence will be presented on the same locations as the pre-proposal any time within the duration of the agreement (the date of the first payment and until the July 1st, 2017 deadline). Once the evidence is presented, the next treasury payment period will be the time to release the funds to Skatopia (so the final payment to us may not come until August 2017).
We hope this inventive, risk mitigating method of pre-proposal, proposal and agreement lead to the Dash Masternodes giving us extra consideration and a higher than normal level of consensus (to ease our minds about the amount risked on the proposal fee).
Interesting detail:
The reason we don't need the funding from Dash ahead of the project's completion (but instead only need reimbursement payments after the fact) is that we are being extended a short term line of credit from a friend of the park who first introduced us to Dash back in October of 2016. This individual is confident enough in Dash's Masternodes and treasury system to loan us the total upfront for the project based on the proposal gaining sufficient support on the network. So, a Dash treasury agreement is being used as the basis for the creation of credit in the form of a loan in real life.
What is Skatopia?
Skatopia is an eighty-eight acre, nearly 22 year old non-profit skateboard park and extreme sports destination located in Rutland, Ohio. It's owned and operated by founder, Brewce Martin (a now retired professional skateboarder). It features a museum of skateboarding history with exhibits spanning nearly 100 years of skating culture, thousands of unique boards, many ramps for skating (seven unique bowls), two standalone stages for bands and one small stage for more intimate shows, 88 acres of land for visitors to explore and enjoy, and the Pabst House (the product of a former long term sponsorship with Pabst Beer Company). It has a dedicated annual turnout which is dependable and enthusiastic, and hails from all over the world.
Skatopia also has strong long term business relationships with dozens of area businesses in several States, both as collaborators and sponsors, some of which are featured on the skatopia.org website. The park was featured in an episode of MTV's 'True Life', 'Viva La Bam', Fuel TV's countdown of 'Best Backyard Scenes', and more recently in an episode of the documentary series on Netflix, 'Unplanned America'. The park was also featured in the video game 'Tony Hawk's Underground 2', as the final level. Further, it's constant coverage by skateboarding media led to a profile in Rolling Stone. They also have a full length documentary filmed on location over a several year period, 'Skatopia: 88 Acres of Anarchy', which was an official selection of several film festivals, including Sundance. More than a thousand bands have played live at Skatopia, including names like Black Flag, GWAR, Lamb of God, Immortal Technique, Green Jelly, etc.
At the Work Party this proposal focuses on, we have no less than 10 bands booked (as of the time of this post).
There are two entities: Skatopia the museum and park, and Skatopia's print shop. The print shop has the capability of printing stickers, signs (up to billboard size), and t-shirt production. Skatopia also has its own line of wheels for skateboards, in collaboration with Bones Wheels, and had a shoe line with Draven (a company licensed to do work for bands like The Misfits and The Ramones). Skatopia also had its own clothing line through their deal with Volcom, and a skateboard line with Eastern Skateboard Supplies.
Skatopia is also a community, with several people living on the premises full time, contributing labor to the park and print shop to maintain them, fill print orders, and set up for expansions (in preparation for additional labor to realize the plans). In addition to in-house labor, Skatopia has a small but constant flow of volunteers. Work Parties are held to attract more labor for expansions, and are annual events.
Skatopia has one in-house vendor on location, a website, and an outsourced/contracted vendor that can all potentially offer Dash as a payment option. The park also never closes. It's open 24 hours a day, seven days a week (although the contracted vendor is only present for parties and possibly conferences, and the in-house vendor keeps regular business hours).
What Can Skatopia Offer The Dash Community?
What Skatopia can offer to the Dash community is a relatively large following of people who can be made aware of the technology, an in-house vendor that can adopt Dash as a payment option, a contracted vendor who can adopt Dash, a website that can adopt Dash, several daily quick presentations over the 3-day Work Party on what Dash is, how to download the wallet, receive and send payments, use instant and private features, and how to use Dash at point-of-sale in real life.
Skatopia can also offer a large banner displaying that Dash is sponsoring the Work Party. This also includes six medium size banners posted all over the park to the same effect, and a t-shirt for the presenter of the Dash how-to tutorials (identifying him instantly to all, inducing conversations). The presenter will also get an area (or "booth") near the vendors to set up for point-of-sale demonstrations and general help, highlighted with a medium size banner.
We can also offer to name the new expansion of the Lula Bowl we are constructing at the Work Party after Dash ("The Dash Expansion"). When sponsorship is in place the expansion is permanently (barring unforeseen considerations*) named after the sponsor. We have precedence for the market value of such an arrangement, given past sponsorship and past marketing agreements for specific areas of the park (the Pabst House, as part of the overall Pabst Beer Company sponsorship deal, as one example). We also have some very long term and loyal sponsors who have their brand featured all over the park (Independent Truck Company, for example, and Volcom Industries). We may market long term sponsors more than contractually obligated, as a show of appreciation.
If this proposal passes, Skatopia will receive reimbursement for the funding necessary for the Dash Expansion, and Dash will receive in return:
1. A new audience for Dash
2. An in-house vendor adoption
3. A website vendor adoption
4. A contracted vendor adoption
5. Several daily Dash how-to presentations (for the duration of the three day Work Party) on how to download the wallet, sending and receiving coins, using private and instant features, and using Dash for in-real-life point-of-sale scenarios, etc.
6. Printing and hanging one very large banner and 6 medium sized banners** signaling Dash's sponsorship of the event and project
7. Printing a t-shirt for the presenter of the Dash how-to tutorials and giveaways
8. A large outdoor skateboard bowl expansion (obstacle) named after Dash; this expansion will feature the Dash logo and website painted all over the decks around the bowl and on the back of the extension (logo includes the "digital cash" phrase along with the Dash logo itself)
9. The above mentioned presenter will also hand out $5 in Dash to anyone who sits through a presentation and/or downloads a Dash wallet, then will steer the recipients to the participating vendors; prices are structured in such a way as to promote people taking home a little Dash - which promotes their return to spend it, and keeps them thinking about Dash
10. Video and/or photo evidence of all of the above where possible and practical (obviously the identity of some participants may not be revealed due to their preference)***
11. Free entry into the park any time of the year for the duration of the sponsorship for the Core Team, active Developers, and any other Dash employee or person deemed a friend of the company (up to the mutual discretion of Skatopia and Dash communities)
12. A box of "goodies" from the project mailed to Dash (if someone provides us an address), possibly including some of the banners as keepsakes, and definitely 25 stickers of the type handed out to everyone at the party
(* 'unforeseen considerations' such as events that might damage the reputation of Dash so severely as to negatively effect Skatopia's bottom line; however, no such considerations have ever come to pass for any of our sponsors, and Dash is also free to ask us to remove any sign of sponsorship of the expansion at their discretion, as we are free to remove it at any time, or remove Dash as a payment option, due to the above mentioned reputation damage)
(**The large sign (banner) is 44 inches by 8 feet ; The six medium signs (banners) are 2x2 feet; six flip-board signs for the how-to presentations are 25x36 inches; one 2x2 feet sign for the Dash giveaway and how-to area)
(***Photos and/or video will be presented of the area of construction before major work begins, during the process of construction, and after the completion of construction. Further evidence will be presented, where practical, of the purchase of the concrete and other supplies. Evidence will also be presented of any of the other aspects of the project where practical, especially if requested.)
Schedule
The Work Party is on Friday Mar. 31st – April 2nd. The work will be complete no later than (barring unforeseeable weather delay related to the concrete pour) April 2nd. Weather could delay completion until the next scheduled large Skatopia gathering, due to labor needs for completion, which would put the alternative completion date at July 1st, 2017. This possible delay would not effect any other aspect of this proposal (only the concrete pour and subsequent sponsorship art). Skatopia is incentivized to get the work done while we have all the extra labor at the Work Party, so proscrastination on the project is not an option.
(To be continued in Part 2)
