Notary Application: Koda Inc - Emma Russell

[KodaRobotDog]

Notary Application

To apply to be a Fil+ Notary, please review the Notary Overview here and then fill out the following form.

Core Information

• Name: Emma Russell
• Affiliated organization: Koda Inc.
• On-chain address to be notarized: f1wd5jgnhc2gqr35446lrp3lmilkmri26nerb2n4q
• Country of Operation: USA
• Region of Operation: North America
• Use case(s) to be supported: Professional Services (Hosting Reseller, Long-term Backups, Data Warehousing)， Media & Entertainment (Videos, photos, NFTs)
• DataCap requested for allocation (10TiB - 1PiB): 1PiB
• Are you applying on behalf of yourself or an organization?: Organization

Please respond to the questions below in paragraph form, replacing the text saying "Please answer here". Include as much detail as you can in your answer!

Long Term Network Alignment

Time Commitment

Describe the nature and duration of your affiliation with the Filecoin network. Please include relevant GitHub handles, Storage Provider IDs, significant projects or contributions (with links).

My name is Emma Russell, and I am the CEO  of Koda Inc. 
I’ve been actively involved in the Filecoin community for more than one year.  I am the manager for  Koda twitter @KodaRobotDog so I had lots of interaction with IFPS/Filecoin network in the past year.  I personally promote IPFS/Filecoin storage with Maye Musk:
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/71876834/202078893-d2f2b19f-b193-40bb-9f73-36ffd95bb672.png)
As a Filecoin user case, KODA is the world’s first decentralized Robot dog. 
My Github name:  KodaRobotDog 
My Slack handle:   @KodaRobotDog
Koda’s Twitter has an active interaction with IPFS core teams such as Juan, Collin, and Molly. Koda was featured on IPFS website:
https://docs.ipfs.io/concepts/usage-ideas-examples/
Koda participated Slingshot and won prizes in August 2020:
https://github.com/koda9-inc/slingshot/commit/5be630cc5a7e9bc2b7006d267f6a9941a1b15a80
https://github.com/filecoin-project/slingshot/pull/109/files/5be630cc5a7e9bc2b7006d267f6a9941a1b15a80#diff-7cf22450ffac34e30503fba623487997f5f762f65e0f7bae33fc0fad318da2c1
Above is the link for Koda Robot Dog data collecting SlingShot Phase 1 Competition information  and below is our Rewards:
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/71876834/202078922-98cfbc3b-4b22-483a-b151-1d44599caa84.png)
Moreover, Koda Robot Dog had great exposures on main stream media and most of those articles also talked about Koda owners have the option to store on Filecoin. In short, we brought many viewers from AI and robots’ community to Filecoin community:
1. Yahoo! Finance, KODA Pre-Launches World's First Futureproof Social Robot Dog: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/koda-pre-launches-worlds-first-123200698.html 
2. Forbes Walmart Ditches Major Robot Contract: So What Does This Mean For The Industry?:https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomtaulli/2020/11/08/walmart-ditches-major-robot-contract-so-what-does-this-mean-for-the-industry/?sh=7120c25c2b52
3. BBC, This robot dog knows how you're feeling:https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/amp/55816322
4. Towards Data Science, The Future of AI is Decentralized:https://towardsdatascience.com/the-future-of-ai-is-decentralized-848d4931a29a
Social Media Profiles: 
1. Twitter: https://twitter.com/kodarobotdog?lang=en 
2. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kodarobotdog/?hl=en
3. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmi9nzoQw0ZEEJUwyekkJxA
Expected market coverage: 1,000 dogs are expected to be sold worldwide at $50,000 per dog, covering 1,000 high-end families.
Robodog spokesperson Maya Musk's Twitter will regularly call for using Filecoin storage, and we'll promote Filecoin storage on a regular basis for the long term.

At the same time, Koda Inc will launch Koda Drive, which aims at promoting centralized IPFS storage among young people. Maye Musk called on young people around the world to use IPFS/Filecoin Network storage, which greatly promoting the real usage of  storage market based on Filecoin Network.

https://kodarobotdog.medium.com/100-woman-creators-3551e5325e55
Layouts around the robot dog business based on IPFS/Filecoin:
Koda Robot Dog has a decentralized storage market, that is Koda Drive, similiar to Icloud of Apple. We called on young people all over the world to use Koda Drive and greatly promote the storage market based on Filecoin Network.

Stake Exposure

Please cite total token at stake (currently available, locked as collateral, vesting over time) and any substantiating evidence (i.e., addresses on chain with their corresponding FIL amounts).

we have got more than 0.53MM Fil with the miner ID: f082095, f0100033, f095970.

How did you acquire the FIL cited above?

Mining

Industry Reputation

In-protocol Reputation

Please describe (in detail) your activity and tenure as a member of the Filecoin community. Please note (with links where possible) any contributions made to implementations of Filecoin, the spec, documentation, or to substantially help the Filecoin ecosystem grow.

The interaction of IPFS and Koda Robot Dog on Twitter:
（1）Koda Robot Dog liked by IPFSMain.
https://twitter.com/kodarobotdog/status/1364704207773724673?s=21
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/71876834/202078990-6af0dc0d-116a-48f3-9550-3d4ace6b8e9f.png)
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/71876834/202079005-827e4bfc-1f51-4edb-ba7b-5743f095763f.png)
（2）Koda Robot Dog Twitter liked by Juan Benet.
https://twitter.com/kodarobotdog/status/1316523206228865024?s=21
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/71876834/202079024-b34e5723-f82f-49ab-ac72-06abfac02146.png)
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/71876834/202079030-9f1e044d-d529-47b7-b8da-387141f0d0fb.png)
（3）Koda Robot Dog interacted with Jesse, Juan Benet, Molly, Colin, IPFSMain, Filecoin.
 https://twitter.com/kodarobotdog/status/1339726416129052672?s=21
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/71876834/202079045-7bf5dcef-1003-456d-a5e5-5d2160d18ea9.png)
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/71876834/202079053-a89bfb1b-047c-4971-9d49-75c93a594ace.png)
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/71876834/202079061-b950785d-4c45-4e28-ba1f-cbfa8d32ed3f.png)
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/71876834/202079078-8eb0f04f-7e4b-4cae-bac0-4bcd5559c10f.png)
（4）Koda Robot Dog was mentioned by Molly on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/momack28/status/1296514875972231174?s=21
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/71876834/202079093-798f1302-aa59-4a6c-822e-072766e1d38c.png)
（5）Koda Robot Dog was mentioned by IPFSMain on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/ipfs/status/1293186672645947393?s=21
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/71876834/202079114-312a03a1-5416-4870-b486-cbd21cd8d108.png)
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/71876834/202079135-d52798d3-41c4-47bc-9e4f-70cf997e33a5.png)
（6)Koda Robot Dog's article was forwarded by IPFS Pinbot.
https://twitter.com/kodarobotdog/status/1295806231961993218?s=21
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/71876834/202079161-161285db-e421-494a-a205-4cd22b865eb0.png)
（7）Koda Robot Dog was mentioned by IPFSMain on Twitter, which was liked by IPFS.
https://twitter.com/ipfsmain/status/1364342684463230978?s=21 
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/71876834/202079191-8afde024-77c1-457e-b418-f436ce5be3d9.png)
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/71876834/202079203-a0a8a541-1d42-4276-b5ce-7abb3959e1cb.png)
（8）Koda RobotDog is followed by all the core team member of IPFS, and IPFSMain always interact with us.
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/71876834/202079228-de17561a-b6b5-44f0-af9f-596e75064e7c.png)
（9）Koda Robot Dog's article was forwarded  by  many tech bloggers, which mostly liked by IPFS official Twitter. 
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/71876834/202079302-8a3f5a77-3c27-47bc-b6a7-d86b32deae66.png)
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/71876834/202079332-6538f0f7-a73b-4a8c-8b2b-fb576345ea91.png)
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/71876834/202079344-2181b5e8-9148-4ad0-adee-e9ae7dd279bf.png)

In-protocol Security

Please describe your contributions to the security of Filecoin and the duration over which you've made contributions. Please also include any links or references that can substantiate your contributions.

We haven’t made any Bug suggestion.But during the IPFS/Filecoin testing phase, we've been involved, working with miners in a number of countries.

Organizational Reputation

Please describe the nature of your organization, including the country of registration, size of the organization, and time since inception.

Organization: Koda Inc.
Nature:  private company
Registration Country: Delaware, US
Established:May, 2020
Size: over 10 employees

Please share any relevant details to help substantiate information about your organization (website, named officers, links to social media profiles).

Homepage: koda9.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/KodaRobotDog

Please share any relevant external information regarding your organization (e.g. news articles, social media profiles, etc.)

Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Koda Inc. is an innovative robotics company harnessing decentralized computing power's advantages. The company's inaugural product is a quadruped robotic dog named KODA, the world's first decentralized AI robotic dog with the option to store data on IPFS.
KODA has won “Red Dot Award: Product Design 2021,” was featured as "Best of CES 2021" by the Wall Street Journal, and was covered by various major news media platforms, including BBC News, Forbes, etc.
As an IPFS (Filecoin) user case, Koda team presented on Filecoin monthly meetup in August 2020. Koda tweets had active interaction with IPFS core teams such as Juan, Collin, Molly.  Koda Robot Dog had great exposures on main stream media and most of those articles also talked about Koda owners have the option to store on Filecoin. Basically, we brought many viewers from AI and robots community to Filecoin community:
Homepage: koda9.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/KodaRobotDog

Individual Reputation

Please share links to at least 2 of your (personal) social media profiles (or accounts that you are able to use) and the approximate size of your audience (i.e., followers, subscribers) for each one.

Emma : https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmaucsd/, over 10000 followers.
John Suit(the advising CTO of Koda Inc.) : https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-suit-226b35/, over 1000 followers.
He has been actively involved in the Filecoin community for more than one year, and he presented Koda Robot Dog at the Filecoin monthly virtual meet up in August, 2020.

Please share any additional relevant information regarding your presence (e.g. news articles, interviews, podcasts, videos, awards, etc.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Al81DPnhgI&t=6s&ab_channel=IPFSIPFS
Koda Robotdog spokesperson Maye Musk's Twitter:https://twitter.com/mayemusk, more than 272000 followers. She regularly call for using Filecoin storage.

Allocation Plan refer to the Rubric to see how this impacts your Notary score

Concreteness of Allocation Plan

Allocation Strategy

How do you plan on allocating the DataCap requested above? Please describe your allocation strategy with as much specificity as you can. This includes the target amount per client and rate at which you'll allocate DataCap.

By limiting the maximum allocation that customers can apply for the first time, we are able to control the storage usage of customers within a controllable scope.
Target customers: Considering the small storage demand of individual customers, we only support enterprise users who have their own real data at this stage;Give priority to organizations locate in North America.
The DataCap allocation is determined by scoring, and the score results are 1,2,3, and 4, the first maximum allocation of score corresponds to 2.5TiB, 5TiB, 7.5TiB, 10TiB. Allocation can be increased next time according to the actual usage of customers.
Scoring Rule
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/71876834/202079520-5c7c182e-bcfc-48ef-9bf0-803dd131e923.png)
Auditing stage
1. Ensure publicity and transparency of the entire application process
2. Investigate customer background online and offline/conduct online interview
3. Strictly examine the authenticity of the information provided by customers
Distribution stage
Score and determine data cap allocations
Tracking after distribution
1. Make a sampling survey of the data that customers need to store to confirm the reality and validity of the data
2. Conduct irregular investigation on customers' subsequent usage, and adapt reward and punishment mechanisms.

We agree with the concept stated before, and it is the client that verifies, not the data.
While verifying the customer, we will also pay attention to the clients' data sources. And we will adapt the following mechanism into our verification.
We'd like to start with enterprise users who have more data to be stored.
For clients:

Browse their official websites to have a knowledge of the company.
Check the company registration information to ensure that the information submitted is real and true.
Find out about the applicant's reputation in and out of the comunity through questions and surveys.
For data sources:
Ask questions to learn more about the data source, such as the project or product situation, including past, present and plans.
We will classify and score according to clients and data sources.
All applicants will be divided into four categories to determine the maximum amount of data they will receive.
The table(https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kaGvUp41Msgnighh_cvflMpvAvbaAxduu4--PM-4D3Q/edit?usp=sharing) will be the main criteria in evaluating a client and DataCap allocation.
These scoring guides can be used as an assessment tool, which will add consistency.

How do you plan on securing the DataCap to ensure your organization (and its delegated members) are the ones allocating the DataCap?

By using a Ledger Wallet, which is only accessible by only the person in charge. 

Client Due Diligence

How will you vet the clients that are applying for DataCap? What questions will you ask to ensure your trust is placed well and that clients can properly handle the DataCap you intend to allocate to them?

After application for the first time, customers will be randomly checked on their usage and stored data.
If the customer's storage data meets the requirements of reality and validity and the storage demand is greater than Datacap obtained for the first time, the subsequent application can be increased next time according to the actual usage of customers. If the customer's storage data does not meet the requirements or the actual storage demand is less than the first application amount, the customer will be punished and all subsequent requirements will be rejected.

What processes will you employ when granting additional DataCap to a client that has previously been verified? This includes confirming that the client is not improperly using the DataCap they were previously granted, i.e., making deals with a single SP entity.

1. Can you introduce your organization? Where can I find you online? (Github, Twitter, Linkedin handle) 
2. Please give more information about your organization. What are the establishment time, business scope, number of registered users, number of social media followers, and storage usage of your company? e.g. include links to social media/news mentions etc.
4.can you talk more about your history working on IPFS / Filecoin, e.g. notable contributions to the community, type of engagement shown over time, etc

Bookkeeping Plan

Do you plan on conducting all your allocation decisions in public (e.g. Github repo), private (e.g. over email, Telegram, etc), or both?

Yes, all allocation decisions will be guided by the rubric publicly on Github,https://github.com/filecoin-project/filecoin-plus-client-onboarding. So are all communications.
Since all interactions are intended to occur publically, most of the allocation decisions should be self-explanatory.
Any challenges raised regarding allocation decisions should be discussed publicly in the Github repo first.

Where do you plan on keeping a publicly accessible record of all your allocation decisions?

We will conduct our allocation decisions in public, which is very detailed, specific to each scoring criteria, allocation decisions, usage records.
Scoring criteria and allocation decisions:Name, Link, Establishment Time, Number of employee, Business scope, Users Volume, Number of Social Media Followers, Filecoin Participation, Total Data Size (per year), Data Size(to be stored), Onboarding Rate(per month), Miner Decentralization, Use Case Diversity, Score, DataCap Granted, Date.
Usage records: Miner ID, Distribution rate, location, etc.
All allocation decisions will be conducted in the Github repository,https://github.com/filecoin-project/filecoin-plus-client-onboarding.At the same moment, we will record all the allocation decisions and the usage progress of clients, and update per week. We have created a table(https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kaGvUp41Msgnighh_cvflMpvAvbaAxduu4--PM-4D3Q/edit?usp=sharing) to publish them, and everyone can view them.

Service Level Agreement

Engagement in Program

Which level (1-5) of service commitment are you willing to dedicate to participating in the Fil+ program? This includes making DataCap allocations (direct and/or Large Datasets), joining working groups, adding comments on discussion/issues, attendance in governance calls, messages in Slack, etc. For a full list of the service levels and time commitments please review the rubric

L4

Track Record

Past allocation

Have you previously received DataCap to allocate before? If so, please link to any previous applications.

[Please answer here.](https://github.com/filecoin-project/notary-governance/issues/153)

Disclosures

Do you/your organization have any relationship(s) with other existing notaries or their organizations? If yes, please list the names of the Notary individuals or organizations you may be related to.

None

[filecoin-notaries-onboarding-bot]

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[panges2]

Hello @KodaRobotDog,
Thanks for applying to become a Notary in the Fil+ program!

As we score your application, you will need to verify your contact information and affiliated organization. Since you are applying on behalf of an organization, please email [email protected] from your Organizations email account.
*This cannot be from your personal account. You Must include the address of your Organization.

Subject Line: Notary Name, Application Number
Email Body:

1. Your First and Last name
2. Your Organization
3. Your Country of Operation
4. Your Slack handle in filecoinproject.slack.com
5. Link to your GitHub application

This step needs to be completed by 28NOV. Emails received after the 28th run the risk of delaying scoring and may result in your application not being completed. Once we receive verification of your email, we will then send you a token code to verify and link your SLACK account.

Should you have any questions, please post them here in the comments section of your application and tag @Kevin-FF-USA and @panges2

Thank you!

[galen-mcandrew]

Please see attached for initial notary scoring by governance team. Thank you for applying!
754.pdf

[Kevin-FF-USA]

@KodaRobotDog

Thank you for applying to serve as a Notary in support of the Filecoin Plus program. After review of your application and a diligent scoring of your past and potential future contributions to the program, you have been selected to onboard as a Notary in this 4th round of elections.

In the coming days you will receive an onboarding training checklist. It will walk you through the steps to verify your ledger verification in https://plus.fil.org/ as well as outline the best practices and responsibilities for a Notary in the Program.

Next steps

1. By 20 December - Complete the CONTACT AND DISCLOSURES form
   1. https://airtable.com/shrjx52lvefitwdq6
2. By 30 December - Ensure that the Governance meeting time is on your calendar and make scheduling plans which allow you to commit to attending per your SLA level expectations. (L1-L5)

Please reach out to Galen, Kevin-FF, or Philop on Slack if you have any questions.

[KodaRobotDog]

@Kevin-FF-USA Hi Kevin, I've filled out the form apart the Token code, which I did not receive. Can you send me the code again please? Thanks.

[Kevin-FF-USA]

Hi @KodaRobotDog
I see you referenced your token in your disclosure form - you are verified identity. Thank you

[panges2]

Hi @KodaRobotDog, this is a kind reminder to get your ledger verified by Wednesday, Feb 8. To connect and set up your account in the Registry, please follow this short guide.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VCksV4_roLSTmaPqZJ8u643rykC0A7Z53YBDUoIY1xc/edit?usp=sharing
For a longer video walkthrough - see here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HFvRjjplt4NpRz4P67320D2g3Z42ePzj/view

[filecoin-notaries-onboarding-bot]

Thanks for your request!
❗ We have found some problems in the information provided.
We could not find your Filecoin address in the information provided

    Please, take a look at the request and edit the body of the issue providing all the required information.

[KodaRobotDog]

I confirm the Filecoin address in the CORE info is the correct notary address: f1wd5jgnhc2gqr35446lrp3lmilkmri26nerb2n4q
Please check again.Thanks.

[KodaRobotDog]

The problem we are having is that when we click on the address in the top right corner we should be able to switch wallet addresses, but it only shows the first few wallet addresses for the ledger wallet, the notary wallet address is further back and we can't switch. May I know what can I do to solve this problem and get my ledger address verified?

[KodaRobotDog]

@Kevin-FF-USA Hi Kevin, can you please take a look? I dont want to miss the deadline to get this done. Thanks a lot!