# <center>  Minnow Support Project Community Leaders // Updated Operations and Services </center>


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# <center> MSP Operations and services </center>
MSP Operations and Services are subsets of the overall governance  of the Minnow Support Project.  Each Operation or Service will be managed by one or more Moderators or in the event of a vacancy on an Operation or Service Leaderhsip team a well known and trusted community member shall be allowed to serve as a leader (t!rep level 20+).

Each Operation and Service Leadership Team should consist of Moderators/community leaders and a team of community members.  The leader will report into the weekly meeting.

Once established the team should create a problem statement, vision statement, mission statement, and guidelines for how the team will meet and operate.



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# <center>  MSP Operations </center>

### PALnet Oversight 

PALnet is the Discord home of the Minnow Support Project.  It currently has just shy of 5,000 active members, 400+ people sitting in channel most of the time, 40+ sub channels and hundreds of active text chatters and voice conversationalists.  It takes a team of people to moderate the channels, help new channels form and make sure that we're registering and onboarding new members successfully.

While all moderators and witnesses are at least in part responsible for making sure that PALnet is working smoothly and people feel good and view it as a safe fun community some Moderators choose to help shape how it should run by serving as leaders on the PALnet Oversight Committee.

**Core Duties**
-Channel Moderation
-Channel Development
-Channel Engagement 
-Registration
-Discord Role management 

***PALnet Oversight Leaders:*** 
@crimsonclad, @juliakponsford, @discordiant, @r0nd0n


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### Community Curation  

This is powered by all the moderators and a handful of selected curators from the community.  MSP uses a program called MSP3k to allow community members to manually upvote from the @msp-curation account and resteem posts from @minnowsupport.  

***Community Curation Leaders:*** 
@isaria, @juliakponsford

***Community Curation Team:***
@isaria, @juliakponsford, @sunravelme, @carpedimus, @creativesoul, @scaredycatguide, @ma1neevent, @rougebot, @jfolkmann, @jrswab, @clayboyn, @gmuxx, @kubbyelizabeth**


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### Finance 
Make recommendations to Board on investments,general guidelines for funds use, appropriate publicly accessible money making ventures 

***Finance Leaders:***
@followbtcnews, @swelker101


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### Human Resources 

The HR department serves to write posts, share posts, create contests and bounties, to help with recruitiment to Steemit (and MSP specificially) as well as improve communication and public relations.  Affairs are broken up between the two major charter objectives: bringing new users to the platform and training and retaining minnows on the platform.
-Steemit- Contests/Bounties, Recruitment, Public 
Relations
-External- onboarding new Steemians from irl/steemit to msp.

***HR Leaders:*** 
@kubbyelizabeth, @ma1neEvent


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### Product Department  

Programs that enable us to do our job better, faster, cheaper, and impact more people positive fall within the Product Development.  These new products may well create who new services that helps the MSP community support the Steemit community even better.

***Product Leaders:*** 
@followbtcnews, @crimsonclad


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### Information Technology 
IT exists to support all other services and operations through technological support and automation help.

***IT Leaders:*** 
@ausbitbank, @r0nd0n


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### Development
The Minnow Support Project is a community.  The community is enriched when donors contribute to the project, community Witnesses are supported, and the coffers are full.  Members of the Development operation assist bringing in and retaining delegations and witness votes to support the mission.

***Development Leaders:*** 
@aggroed



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# <center> MSP Services </center>

### MSP-Waves 

We have our own radio station!  you can listen in at http://mspwaves.com/listen.  We have rights to stream 18M songs.  We have 20+ DJs and shows across many nights of the week and we have a backfill bot that plays music or recorded video shows. 

***MSPwaves Station Leaders:*** 
@r0nd0n and @globocop

***MSP Operations Team:*** 
@meno, @ma1neEvent, @kubbyelizabeth, @uniwhisp, @crimsonclad, @mckenziegary, @kodax, @soundwavesphoton, @jesse2you, @pechichemena   



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### Make a Minnow  

The Minnow Support Project runs a bimonthly contest to award a minimum of 5k SP to an upstanding community member.
Account: @msp-makeaminnow

***MAM Organizers:*** 
@juliakponsford, @clayboyn





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### Sheriff's Department 

There is often abuse on Steemit and sometimes abuse within PALnet (The Discord home of the Minnow Support Project). The Sheriff is authorized to act on behalf of the community, to de-escalate as they deem necessary, and deal with breaches of the Peace and/or Community Standards. Deputies are authorized to work with the Sheriff to help prevent abuse of the programs run by the community using the tools available on Discord.

***Sheriff's Department Leader:*** 
@discordiant











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### The Peace Academy 

This initiative is designed to help people learn how to demonstrate peace as frequently as possible.  It is not a rehabilitation service at this time, but designed to help Steemit and MSP community members learn to interact peacefully with one another and what that looks like when executed well. 

***Peace Academy Leaders:*** 
@aggroed, @isaria



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### Minnow University

Minnow University is an initiative to help new Steemit users understand the concepts and basics of Steemit and other STEEM blockchain platforms. Our goal is to educate minnows on how to grow their accounts without resorting to spam or practices that may stunt their ability to flourish on the platform. 

***Minnow University Leaders:*** 
@aggroed, @swelker101, @isaria, @torico

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### MSP-Music and Art
An initiative to help creative Steemians by manually curating original, creative work.

***MSP-Music and Art Leader:*** 
@isaria




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### MSP-lambo

Still in development. An initiative to help kickstart various projects in MSP with possible financial help.

***MSP-lambo Leaders:*** 
@clayboyn, @swelker101






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### Writing Assistance
The central medium of Steemit is writing.  It's essential to growth on the platform to learn to write better articles.

***Writing Assistance Leader:*** 
@gmuxx


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### Steemit Community Development 

Use MSP programs to help build microcommunities around community bots and Discord Channels/Servers.

***Community Development Leaders:*** 
@aggroed, @swelker101, @isaria



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### MSP Library
It's important to spread knowledge and have a central repository for knowledge.  The highest priority is Steemit Development.  The library is collecting articles to help grow the development knowledge and community. 
***Library Leader:***
@aggroed