Jonathan Partlow

Interim CC candidate - Jonathan Partlow

Country of Residence United States

Are you an individual or representing an organisation or a consortium of individuals or organisations? Individual Are you an Intersect member? Yes If you are an Intersect member, are you currently contributing to any working groups or committees? If so which? Not currently

Please summarise your contributions to the Cardano blockchain, ecosystem, and community to date. A long time member of the community and governance followers -Participated in 1st catalyst vote from early 20's -Ideascale assessor currently -Education advocate and with the academia based approach from the Cardano founding entities I am a long time stalwart of the Oroborus protocol and its growing list of partners.. (finally :) -As a outlying Community member that is constantly pushing for due diligence transparency and self research, I maintain minimal to no opinion on situations with the understanding that the end goal is to keep the Blockchain safe and stable for continued growth and expansion. Uncomfortable debates must be made and disagreements will always arise but that is how you streamline the ongoing evolution of the ecosystem and community as a whole & and for the future. I am for Blockchain as I am for Cardano education is the key to opening the eyes of those yet to see.

With regards to the 5 measures of competency, and with regards to your contributions summarised in the previous question, please describe why people should vote for you. 1-4 I respectfully request education / training in the Intersect best practices tooling is an interest. 5.My expertise in community communication is an approach of information and education. I link in members with the current evolutions of the technology and utilize various forms of communication methods to disseminate the information at hand. Occasionally a spoken segment of information passing on various Twitter(X) spaces but my presence is usually known regardless.

Why is decentralized governance important to you? Simple concept that rings true everyday, Transparency & provable verifiable data. To me that means the people own the vote. I do not have to trust whom those ahead of me say I must trust. I can make my own choice or assign it and its not their(dRep) choice that makes or breaks the vote, its fair and I can prove my vote was counted. No one can control the vote.

What perspective would you bring to the committee if successful?

1. Informed of the incumbent dominating projects current processes and teams also some of the audit firms utilized for Smart-contract updates/upgrades. A believer in the Devs on Cardano. I promote all devs and their skill sets because they are valuable. They build.

2. Firm believer in Research to include being a member of -Xerberus and Smart Contract Audit Token communities( Research ) Longstanding member of many Cardano project communities to include -Multiple Defi Communities (Genius, AXO, MUESLI, MELD, DEXHunter, etc.) -Social communities Smartplaces, Cardanospot, Twitter(X), -Gaming -Paima, Shikai(AI), CORNUCOPIAS,CARDASTACKS. -ADALINK and many more, in my simple silence I have educated and received education and with that grown a magnificent network of brilliant friends and unforgettable minds, I bring that same approach to the ICC. Sometimes listening is more powerful than words because you can learn more and learning is paramount, how else do you know what your curating or voting for unless you learn about it.