Invitation of Community Developers

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Invitation of Community Developers

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1. Introduction

NULS is a public blockchain project, dedicated to creating a truly open-source, self-innovative blockchain platform driven by our community. NULS wants to lower the barrier for enterprises/individuals to use the base-level blockchain technology.

NULS technical community is organized by a group of developers who are passionate and enthusiastic about NULS. The technical community will work closely with the NULS core dev team to design and build the underlying NULS architecture and applications. By implementing the modular design, multi-chain mechanism, cross-chain consensus and other mechanisms, enterprises/individuals can customize their own blockchains with very simple configuration.

In the community, we adhere to the following vision:

Equal: Members from both the technical community and the core dev team are equal and they shall work together.
Synergetic: The technical community and the dev team jointly develop the base-level technology to build the NULS ecosystem.
Sharing:
- Technical achievements of NULS are shared with the community;
- Development bonuses of NULS are shared with the community;
- The influence and brand of NULS are shared with the community;
- Technical innovation of NULS is shared with the whole industry;
- All the industrial standards set by NULS are shared with the whole industry.
Fair: Reward for each developer is based on his/her contribution.
Innovative: A strong technical community is the guarantee for the innovation in the blockchain field.

2. Are you the one?

NULS technical community is open for all developers.
If you are expecting the revolution driven by the blockchain technology and you’d like to create a brave new world with us:

Please join the NULS dev Telegram group:
https://t.me/joinchat/HK7hw0uqJGC31heVAHKFyQ

Notice: We are not seeking for out-sourcing services. If you see anything here which can be improved, it can just be your playground!

3. What are we offering?

The NULS team will give reward for each developer who contributes to NULS. The amount of reward depends on the contribution.
Currently, if you prove yourself to be a competent developer and join the core group of technical community - CCC (Code Craft Council), we will create a node in the NULS main-net for you and stake 200,000 NULS tokens to help get consensus reward. 50% of the reward (Currently around 1,500 NULS tokens per month) will be used to support the developers and the remaining 50% will go back into the community fund pool.
Note: The parameter of 50% is the initial setting, the subsequent adjustments are decided by the community, and we will announce the changes in the community as well.

4. Our plan

Make it easy to build a blockchain!

First, we would like to build a module repository which covers 80% of underlying technology of blockchain. By increasing the number of modules in the module repository, we will lower the barriers to get into the blockchain world. The cost for enterprises to build blockchains will be much lower, and the chains will be user friendly. We believe that in this way blockchain technology can be more integrated into our daily life.
The NULS team and technical community are currently building a new architecture: NULS 2.0 that will allow NULS modules to run independently, with low-coupling modules interacting with standard defined interfaces. Developers will no longer be limited to the programming language used by the blockchain system itself, and will only need to follow the NULS module standard to develop their own functional modules by using their preferred programming language, which will surely remove the threshold to develop more basic and business modules in the NULS module repository.

Second, based on the module repository, NULS will launch its core product: Chain Factory. For developers who are familiar with the parameters of the blockchain they want to build, such as the consensus mechanism, block size and block generation time, they can build their own blockchains with only 4 steps and just a few minutes. Even if they don’t know the details about the base-level blockchain technology, this will greatly shorten the amount of time spent on blockchain development, estimated between 6 and 12 months.
For all the works above, we would never get done without the active involvement of the technical community. If you have any suggestions, you can always address them in our technical community. As always, we love to see new perspectives.

Currently, there are more than 200 NULS technical community members across the world. We welcome more developers to join us. You will work directly with core dev team to develop the NULS base-level archicture and more!

5. Current situation of the technical community

A. From the very beginning, we believe that NULS belongs to the whole community, and the long-term development of NULS can't be achieved without the creativity of the community. In the past year, we were glad to witness how community developers volunteered to contribute to the NULS ecosystem. Josh from the United Kingdom developed our official website (nuls.io). Moshe from France developed blockchain browsers (nuls.world/) and web wallet (nuls.world/wallet) for NULS. Berzeck from Bolivia is working on the base-level development of NULS currently.
B. Despite this, we still have lots of work to be finished. We will continue to update a to-do list under this post, which will include the design, development, and improvement of NULS. All developers can choose accordingly, based on their abilities and interests.

6. How to join us

For the convenience of communication, you should join the Telegram group of our technical community (mentioned above), and firstly read through the pinned message in the group.
Talk to our community developer Moshe. Briefly introduce your experience, background, etc.
Community developers will discuss about some technical issues with you and get a brief understanding about what you want to do, which will determine what you could work on in the future.

We also strongly recommend you to learn more about NULS through these links below:
- Official website: https://nuls.io/
- Code: https://github.com/nuls-io/nuls
- Dev documents: https://dev.nuls.io/docs/
- Community forum: https://nuls.community
You are going to choose an interesting and competent task. At that time, we will ask you to join one of the development group due to your subject and work with other developers. We strongly recommend that you download WeChat as a communication tool:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tencent.mm&hl=zh
In the group, group leader or guider will provide necessary documentations to help new developers to get started quickly. At the same time, we hope that developers will maintain effective communication with each other in order to work efficiently. After about a month of work, the group leader or guider will recommend developers who are stable, efficient and have high quality output to join CCC, also apply to have a consensus node in the NULS main-net.
The application will be evaluated by the technical community and the core team. If the application is approved, we will create a consensus node for you as reward. It is been created by core team now, later it will be done by NULS Council.
Once the node been created, CCC will make an announcement in community to show new member and node information.

7. Refer to task list

https://nuls.community/d/9-invitation-of-community-developers/4 (Continuously updated)

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Sweet

arviepank

nice

reaper

Welcome to the NULS community to create a great blockchain project together！

Tasks List V1.7_20181017:
1.CORE DEVELOPMENT
1.1 Improve the design
A. Improvement of POC consensus mechanism,
- Improve the formula to get more accurate quality of consensus nodes.
B. Improved NVM performance,
- Increased operation speed, reduced storage visits and data storage.

1.2 Improve the features
A. Improve the mechanism of downloading block,
- Download blocks rapidly and stably without generating excessive traffic
B. Improve threads management,
- Analyze all threads, optimize thread models and individual businesses
C. Improve RPC Interface,
- Rationality, integrity of the interface, rationality of the return value of the parameters, etc.
D. Improve the storage module(Performance and Atomicity).
- Direction: saving space, storage efficiency optimization, query efficiency optimization, etc
1.3 New features
A. Design plan and implementation of asset retrieval when private key is lost,
- Design plan and implementation
B. General ledger interface and protocol design plan,
- Interface design and protocol design of ledger which supports account balance model and UTXO model
C. Set document storage catalogue in wallet,
- Function design plan and implementation
D. Compile operational smart contract according to source code,
- Function design plan and implementation

1.4 Standards of development
A. Improve the document,
B. Unit test,
C. Improve the comment of code.

1.5 Develop templates of smart contract
github：https://github.com/nuls-io/contracts.git.
The content of the contract could be decided by yourself or discussed and determined in the community. Which contracts are urgently needed will be discussed in the community.

1.6 Fix bugs
Fix undealt issues in github.

1.7 Test
Find bugs on the testnet and submit to nuls.community.

2.SIDE-LINE RANGE OF PRODUCTS
2.1 Api-server
github：https://github.com/nuls-io/API-server.git
Api-server is provided by a encapsulated cloud api, browser and web light wallet implement based on api-server.
A. Performance optimization solution,
B. Fix bugs.

2.2 Explorer
github：https://github.com/nuls-io/nuls-explorer.git
A. Node list and explorer page,
- Inquiry and display of consensus nodes
B. Punishment record page,
- Inquiry and display according to nodes or addresses
C. Inquiry and display of delegation list page,
D. Statistics and analysis page: consensus rewards statistics, yellow card statistics, delegate statistics, transaction distribution statistics, and node operation status statistics among others,
E. Tools,
- Consensus node analyzer, consensus annualization calculator
F. Fix bugs.

2.3 Light Web wallet
github：https://github.com/nuls-io/nuls-web-wallet.git
A, Function optimization solution,
B. UI optimization solution,
C. Fix bugs.

2.4 Upgrade official website
github:https://github.com/nuls-io/website.git
A. Join to develop,
B. Function expanding, interface optimization
C. Fix bugs.

2.5 Light APP wallet
A. Light APP wallet design,
B. Android NULS wallet,
C. IOS NULS wallet.

3.CROSS-CHAIN
So far (2018-Oct-12), the cross-chain is still under designing and planning. After that, a preview version will be implemented to test whether the performance meets our requirements. After the test, the development will start. If anyone who wants to participate, you could contact the core team at any stage.
A. Kernel module ( service governance, launcher ),
B. Account module,
C. Network module,
D. Ledger module ( account model, UTXO model ),
E. Consensus module,
F. Block management module,
G. Transaction verification module,
H. Event bus module,
I. Muti-chain management module,
J. Protocol upgrade module ( function ),
K. Community governance module ( application ),
L. Smart contract module.

4.PROPOSAL
Problems found by community developers or optimizable features.

ZaneNodeAmazing

Perfect will use this to find more developers thank you

jingyi2811

Hi, I am blockchain developer. Also, I have been a Java developer for the past 12 years.

MechJosh0

jingyi2811 Hello, you can PM me on Telegram at @MechJosh0 where we can discuss things further.

JohnChangUK

Blockchain developer here working with Java. I'll be happy to help!

MechJosh0

JohnChangUK Please PM me on Telegram at @MechJosh0

Jeet007

Sounds good. i just started with blockchain and hyperledger. build small applications related to healthcare. i will happy to help and learn.

Emerson

Jeet007 Nice to see you here. You can build healthcare app on NULS. For how to start, you can give your questions on NULS Dev Community telegram group.

andremillet

Jeet007 could you tell me more about your healthcare applications?

davidbolet

Interesting project! I will take a look, always willing to learn

Emerson

davidbolet You can learn more from dev.nuls.io

mir-nawaz

Hello, Seems interesting. I am a blockchain developer and would love to participate.

Emerson

mir-nawaz Welcome! And if you're a java developer, please contact me.

viknesh-nm

That's really interesting. I will look into it and ready to engage to your project.

Emerson

viknesh-nm Welcome to join us. If you're ready for that, you can pm @MechJosh0

Polaris

Hello Everyone.
Just interesting project.
It will be privilege working with you.
I am a blockchain developer and network engineer.

Emerson

Polaris Thank you for your commend. You can start with reading code of ours on github：https://github.com/nuls-io/

sc0Vu

Hi, That's interesting. I am a blockchain engineer and would love to participate.

James

sc0Vu Hello, thank you for your notice. You could also join in telegram group of developers
https://t.me/joinchat/FXu4SUuqJGDrNDr0XugXmw or search @nulsio in telegram, it is more convenient for communication.
If you're interested with the code part: https://github.com/nuls-io/nuls
I believe dev.nuls.io will help you to understand it better.
Feel free to ask us in the telegram or leave your question here.