Overview

Why Thailand?

Benefits

Intern Compensation

Project Manager and Director roles

Legal representation

Accountant/Assistant

Senior Marketing Manager

2x Junior Marketing Researcher

Event Planner / Organizer

Event Assistant

UI/UX Designer

Website Developper

Trademarking Dash in Thailand

Phase 1 (2 Months):

Phase 2 (3 Months):

Phase 1 & 2 Budget:

Deliverables:



Phase 3 Budget

Deliverables:

455 Dash for Phase 1-2 (﻿$ 286,595 @ 630$ per Dash)

5 Dash for the proposal cost.

Here is the link to the pre-proposal discussion : https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/dash-internships-representation-office-thailand.21813/



Summary : There are 2 parts to this proposal : an internship program for graduate students and a dash representation office for Thailand. The proposal has been well thought out and is being run in phases. At the height of this proposal, 19 people will be hired or interned from it with 8 of those being in computer science. At this time we are asking for the first 5 months to ramp up the project.[UPDATE] Quantum Explorer has made a video for us explaining this project, here it is :Due to the huge burden of work fulfilled by each Core team member, secondary tasks such as testnet tools, visualization helpers, stability testers, network attack tools, and focused blockchain research are set aside.The idea is to hire approximatelyon a 6 months internship program from around the world based on their qualifications to work on these tasks and to offer a support role to core team developers. Academic achievement and blockchain enthusiasm will be the main criteria for selection of individuals.We would offer them a competitive intern package including a work visa and a flexible schedule, with travel expenses paid and compensation based on origin country/level of education. In exchange we would ask them to undertake projects of a more academic nature than we are used to. Things that would take a core team member maybe 6 months to come up with a benign answer. For example, at what message load would masternodes start failing, most likely it’s very high and we just don’t need to worry about it, but it’s a great project for interns. Even more, hopefully this will start a partnership between universities and Dash core as well. While we have some academics that have started being interested in Dash, we could do better.Well foremost, because it’s doable. There are few countries in the world where immigration laws would allow this to be easy for most countries of the world. Business and living costs are pretty affordable, and it's also a dream place for interns to have their internship.Thailand also has an strategic location and serves as a gateway into South East Asia, which is home to the largest growing economic market in the modern world.The best and most reliable interns could apply for a position in Dash Core at the end of their internship. They would already be formed and would enter our team much better prepared than current hires who need time to be onboarded.Interns will be compensated based on their level of studies and value they bring to Dash. Minimum compensation will be set at 10$/hour and will increase per year of university studies past 3. So someone who has completed 4 years of university will get 12$ per hour. A doctoral candidate who is in year 8 would get 18$ per hour.We can estimate an average cost of 2500$/intern/month.Arnaud Beaudat will undertake the project manager role in this endeavor. His tasks will include contacting universities and promotion of this program, identifying work items suited for the interns, managing time schedules, and dealing with local regulations.Angela Zhang is also coming into the project as Director. Coming from one of the most prestigious Chinese Universities and having run HR divisions in medium and large size Chinese corporations, she already has a strong relationship with top Chinese universities which will be a great benefit to this project. Her tasks will include contacting universities and doing the promotion of this program, but she will also in charge of office's daily operation also supervise the marketing team. On top of this she will work with our legal representation to help cryptocurrency (and Dash in particular) in Thailand.We have been in contact with Harvey Law Group. They were the only law firm in Thailand that we found that knew about cryptocurrency and we found that they were best suited for our needs.In order to open the internship program, we need a legal structure that can accomodate us. Harvey law group explained to us that Thai immigration would frown upon and possibly deny so many foreign students if we didn’t hire a few Thai nationals, and while we will consider thai nationals as normal interns the reality is that Thailand is way behind in the blockchain space and it would be doubtful to find quality computer science interns.To remedy this problem we propose also creating a Thailand Office with the purpose of promoting Dash first in Thailand and then expanding to surrounding countries such as Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Burma. In Malaysia for example a proposal passed to promote DASH, and now in the past 90 days Malaysia has by far the most downloads on Mobile ; 13 times the downloads of thailand and twice that of australia.This really is a double win for us, at would solve 2 problems with 1 solution.Roles in representative office:From Harvey Law Group : “Thailand is not party to any international conventions or treaties providing reciprocal enforcement with regard to trademarks. Only by registering locally can a trademark owner be assured of his rights over the trademark within the Kingdom of Thailand.”Costs here are about 2000$ per trademark, let’s start by trademarking Dash in both english and Thai, and then maybe trademark Instant Send and Digital Cash later.The project will now go in 3 phases for the next- Start of Creation of Legal Entity in Thailand.- Angela and Arnaud will contact universities and try to get top quality applicants.- Creation of Legal Entity in Thailand.- Trademarking Dash in the Kingdom of Thailand.- 4 Interns will start 3-6 month internships.Total Cost for Phase 1 & 2 :- Dash trademarked in Thailand.- Creation of Legal Entity with BOI structure to allow future endeavors.- Relationships created with universities.- Explanation of internship projects, both those that started, and those for phase 2.- Initial work provided by interns.- Increase of testnet size by 20 Masternodes for 1 year. (We are requesting the prefunding to increase this to 100, but will only be able to deliver this once the legal entity is set up.)- Those 4 interns will be allowed into Thailand (if they aren't already in Thailand) and will be joined by 4 more.- Writing of research papers.- Creation of Dash Thailand Marketing Department as detailed above.- Work on getting businesses to accept Dash and promoting Dash in thailand.- Finished work provided by interns.- 6-8 reviewed blockchain research papers.- Increase in Dash usage in Thailand verifiable by mobile download data.- Business partnerships.- Strong presence in Thailand.- Increase of testnet size by 80 more Masternodes for 1 year.Total Cost for Phase 3 :Total: 460 Dash.Because of Thai law, the office will need to acquire sufficient initial funding to prove to the Thai government that we have funds. This means that at its start a certain amount will have to be initially deposited into the Thai bank account from overseas before we can start hiring people. Even though phase 1-2 costs far less than phase 3, we put some of the required capital of phase 3 into phase 2 for this purposeThis proposal is being made at a price of 630$/Dash and will be made for phase 1-2 only which will last 5 months. At that point we will make another proposal for phase 3. We decomposed this proposal in such a way that all funds from phase 1-2 (if the Dash price goes up) will automatically just be used for phase 3. No extra money will go in the pockets of either Angela or Arnaud, with Quantum Explorer having an eye on all finances. ﻿Because of volatility and possible unforeseen future events we have included a 10% margin in our calculations.Every month we will submit a monthly expenditures report to the community.Thank you for reading this proposal. We appreciate your support if you liked it.