EOS Vikings Norway - Block Producer Candidacy Announcement

EOS Vikings are a group of Norwegian EOS enthusiasts who are fascinated by the historic attempt to create a global, self-governing and value-based community.

Being funded by the community, we feel that EOS Vikings have an obligation to use all BP revenue to create value for the community, i.e. operate as non-profit.

Our location in Norway not only places us in a stable and safe environment, it also gives us the opportunity to offer sustainable block production through the abundance of renewable energy (hydro power) that is produced locally, within 50 km of our data centre.

Public presence
Website - https://www.eosvikings.no/
Steemit - EOSVikings
Telegram - https://t.me/eos_vikings

ID
BP name - EOS Vikings Norway
Location of headquarters - Holmestrand, Norway - (close to Oslo)
Expected location of servers - Q2 Frankfurt, Germany + Oslo, Norway - Q3 Lefdal Mine + Oslo, Norway
Type of servers - Cloud and bare metal

Current employee list
Anders Oftedal - system administrator
Asgeir Sognefest - software engineer
David Reiersrud - ID / data centre project management
Eilev Halbjørthus - software engineer
Henning Lauritsen - data centre / server specialist
Rainer Traub - strategy / management

See relevant background / qualifications here.

Tech spec
We are using a distributed setup in two, tier 3 data centres in Frankfurt, Germany for our infrastructure. As soon as the Lefdal Mine data centre in Norway is ready in Q3, we will move the productive systems to Norway. (see scaling)

The infrastructure is based on OpenStack Pike Release. The orchestration plane is fully redundant and spread over two tier 3 datacenter, interXion and e-shelter. Each location has high performance Ceph storage locally. The VM´s are custom-sized and can easily be resized for scaling purposes.

The working storage for all nodes will initially be 1TB. All incoming traffic will be balanced by a Layer7 HA Proxy. Internal servers and services will be serviced by a separate HA Proxy using L7 health checking. The services are distributed on minimum two nodes in order to split the traffic, increase stability, interruption free maintenance.

Internet connection: 4 x independent 10 Gbps links, BGP routed.

See more details here

Scaling
Our infrastructure at iNNOVO Cloud is scalable according to demand. However, in order to provide the best platform with regard to scalability, stability, redundancy and sustainability we will install more of our own bare-metal servers at a location close to Oslo, Norway after launch.

In Q3 we will move our cloud infrastructure to Lefdal Mine, Norway. This is a brand new, tier 3 data centre with a CO2-neutral energy supply and an innovative water cooling system. It is also one of the most secure data centres in Europe.

Community benefit
Having found the EOS community only 2 months ago, we did not have the time to organise meetups. However, we did roll up our sleeves and contribute to the programming of the community voter portal together with other BP candidates.

We are also in the process of creating an EOS DevDac. This DAC for developers has the mission to attract good programmer minds to EOS. It will operate economically independent from the EOS block producer. We look forward to make the EOS-model of self-governance work within this framework. The DAC will also serve as a case study to see whether this structure can be a business model that can deliver superior performance and at the same time keep a fair balance between wealth creation and wealth distribution.

Telegram + test net
Telegram - https://t.me/eos_vikings
Test net
https://superhero.eosvikings.no/v1/chain/get_info
https://jungelnett.eosvikings.no/v1/chain/get_info

BP road map
Education
Q4 2018 - sign teaching / presentation agreements with major Norwegian universities
Q1 2019 - expand the Norwegian approach to Scandinavia: Cooperate with EOS Sweden, start EOS Finland and Denmark
Q4 2019 - more than 50 % of Norwegian IT students know about the capabilities of EOS
Q2 2019 - start work on the EOS Viking Academy to provide courses on EOS for students and other people

Information
Q3 2018 - present EOS to businesses and financial institutions in Scandinavia

Research
Q2 2019 - initiate research projects to identify critical factors for dApp-adoption, share that knowledge with the community

Support
Q4 2018 - be a resource for dApp-developers who want to build on EOS

Dividends
Block producers are funded by the community for 2 purposes

• providing high quality block production at a competitive price
• promoting the adoption of EOS through education and information

EOS Vikings therefore have an obligation to use all funds exclusively to create value for the community. This means

• not use any funds for other business or financial interests
• not pay dividends to owners or voters
• run EOS Vikings as a non-profit

All other activities, such as dApp development, will be in separate legal entities that are financially independent from the BP.

Accountability - EOS Vikings will publish yearly financial accounts that

• detail the use of funds and ownership
• are produced by an independent public auditor