Hi Jerome,

I'm happy to answer your questions.

My name is Rudy Bouwman.
I'm from The Netherlands and 51 years young.
Married 26 years, and have 2 children: Son 21 and Daughter 18.

I am a Director and shareholder at computer maintenance company, We're performing hardware and software support on multi-vendor IT platforms in Europe.
Because of my interest in Blockchain technology, I got informed about DigiByte. I got in touch with Dereck and some others on twitter and we decided to form a DigiByte Awareness team. I volunteer and contribute my free time to create DigiByte awareness and encourage adoption, just like all other members. No one gets paid for it.
We even pay for some projects ourself without asking the community.
The goal of the team is to speak and teach about DigiByte, to reach out to exchanges and companies and to try to get attention from different media platforms and influencers. In short: create awareness and encourage adoption.

The problem we are facing is funding. Exchanges and media producers are all asking money. Also for other things like the legal opinion we need money. Although people are very generous, it's still not enough and unfortunately we are no 'whales', and money that members are spending from their own pocket is of course limited.
Nevertheless we will not get discouraged by this and keep doing what we're doing. We're very happy that there are people that understand this and support what we are doing, like Daniel Skowronski from DX.Exchange. We got listed without having to pay anything.
Thanks for the attention Jerome.
Best regards,
Rudy