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# Creators Council 
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### The Creators Council is a group of active Lbry creators that helps the foundation make decisions and offers support to creators. The council has been granted 100k LBC granted by the Foundation to support a new creator every week through its Creator of the Week program. The council is also in charge of validating verified creators on the Foundation Discord server.

#### The Creators Council is formed by 8 people so far and they are:
- @Letsfly | @Racecationtv| @racecation
- @vlad
- @TheGamingDragon
- @Marusame
- @Sarah | lbry://@SarahCorriher 
- @TechDunk
- @Kamots
- @lbry://@AlexandreMarcotte777

#### How to get in the council ? 
1. Must be a verified creator on the LBRY Foundation Discord server
2. Must be nominated by a member of the creators council
3. Must be approved by the majority of the creators council
3. Must be active on the Lbry Foundation Discord ( participating in important discussions )

#### How to get expelled from the council ?
1. Inactivity in Lbry discord for 2 weeks without notification
2. Failure to participate in 2 consecutive Creator of the Week nomination cycles without notice
3. Voted out by the majority of the council

#### Creator of the week
 
-Requisites : 

  1) 2 weeks Active in Lbry
  2) Minimum of 7 original uploads and at least 1 LbryExclusive
  3) Less than 1k followers

-Rules:
 
  1) Members can't nominate themselves
  2) Once nominating a winner, a council member cannot nominate another creator until all other council members have nominated someone

-Nomination Period: Friday-Wednesday 
-Voting Period: Through Thursday

  2) Nomination process:
 
- The creators council nominates two creators and votes on them.

#### Support Budget (100k LBC) 

1) How is it used : 

- 1 week support for the creator of the week

# Advisors Council 
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### The Advisors Council is a group of active LBRY community members that help the Foundation decide the direction of the LBRY Community as a whole. This includes things like projects (such as The Tavern) and general design and flow of communication activities (Such as the Podcast and JAM Sessions).

#### How to become a member of the Advisors Council?
1. Must be an Advisors first ( see below )
2. Nominated by Advisors Council and simple majority passing vote of the Council.
3. Active in LBRY Discord ( participating in important discussions )

#### How to get expelled from the council?
1. Inactivity in LBRY discord for 2 Months without notification. A comment will be made in the #Advisors-council chat, and contact will be attempted before this occurs.
2. Voted out by 2/3rds majority of the Council.
3. Not voting on more than 2 initiatives without notification.

## Rules/Guidelines to be followed by both Advisors and the Advisors Council
1. Changes to this document requires a 2/3rds approval by the Council
2. Members of the Advisors Council are granted permissions to use the @Warship bot. Use of this bot are to moderate the chats of spam/scammers and extreme cases of abuse if a Moderator isn't around. This is a privilege and should be treated as such. Abusing this access could result in the entire Council losing these permissions and/or removal of the member the Council pending a discussion in #Advisors-council by the remaining members. 
3. Members of The Council must strictly adhere to the rules of the Foundation Discord and set an example of best behavior in the non-Council channels. Council private channel can be used to respectfully debate and vent.
4. Voting decisions of the Advisors Council finish and are final after 100% of the members vote instead of waiting on the standard timeout.
5. When in doubt, remember this golden phrase: "Be excellent to each other" -LavRadis 2017
6. The council shall consist of a minimum number of 7 members and a maximum number of 15 members.
7. Discussion on issues should generally happen in the #advisors channel, this includes issues to be decided by the council to allow for more input before bringing an issue to a vote.
8. Votes for the Council shall be held in #advisors-voting. Options to vote would also include an abstain option, this should be used in place of no vote to allow for accountability.

#### Advisors Requirements

< Requisites > 
  1. Has been involved in at least 2 discussions about governance in #foundation-gov
  2. Has attended at least 2 Foundation JAM Sessions
  3. Has either been involved with the LBRY platform and/or the LBRY Discord for a combined period of at least 1 year (This is the only requirement which can be overridden by a 2/3rds majority vote of the existing council based on contributions of nominated individual)

< Nomination process >
  1. A community member that meets the above requirements may be nominated by the Advisors Council
  2. If no special circumstances are present, no vote is required aside from a second to the above nomination

< Removal process >
  1. The Advisors Council can remove any Advisors with a simple majority passing vote of the Council.