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Origin commanded by any members of the Polkadot Fellowship (no Dan grade needed)

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[Fellows] Referendum #46: Encointer v15 Upgrade

Whitelist: #233 Increase MaxMemoryPages to 512MB

[Fellows] Referendum #44: Whitelist for `setNoShowSlots`

[Fellows] Referendum #43 Increasing Nomination Pool Limits & Commission

[Fellows] Referendum #42: System Chain HRMP Channels

[Fellows] Referendum #41: Runtime Upgrade v9430

[Fellows] Referendum #40: Whitelist Increase of Parachain Validators to 300

[Fellows] Referendum #39

Whitelist Call for Kusama 9420 Runtime

Whitelist Call to Increase Parachain Validators

- **Alejandro**: A candidate who has contributed to Polkadot and shared details about his work [here](https://gist.github.com/al3mart/2082d4899f48eb4ee9c7c6d8be352c14).
- **Johan**: An electronic engineer specializing in embedded software development, eager to contribute to Polkadot.
- **Hector**: A Parity employee with 3 years of experience in Polkadot, including work on bridges and system chains.
- **Alex**: A Parity employee who has contributed to the Polkadot SDK, implemented a parachain onboarding script, and answered many questions on StackExchange.
- **All candidates**: Agreed to be part of this initiative and shared their addresses for inclusion in the proposal.

Hispanics' still got talent

Adding and promoting Skalman to rank I

**Piero's Application for Polkadot Fellowship**

- **Name:** Piero
- **Education:** MSc in Computer Science from ETH Zürich
- **Experience:** 
  - Worked with Substrate/Polkadot for two years since joining Encointer in 2021.
  - Has experience with Web2 backend projects and Web3 Dapps on Tezos.
- **Contributions:**
  - Designed and implemented various modules and features for Encointer, including the faucet, democracy module, and participant attestations.
  - Implemented custom RPCs, storage migrations, and integrated try runtime.
- **Non-Rust Contributions:**
  - Built an indexer using SubQuery and an accounting tool for Encointer businesses.
  - Developed an integration for Encointer personhood in KILT.
- **Polkadot Contributions:**
  - Has made pull requests to the Polkadot and Substrate repositories.
- **GitHub:** [https://github.com/pifragile](https://github.com/pifragile)

Add and promote Piero to I Dan

TimedOut

[Candidates] Referendum #33

- Sebastian, Leandro, Facundo, and Pablo are alumni of PBA3.
- Johan is a senior embedded developer from the Virto team.
- Alejandro, Emiliano, Hector, and Alex work at Parity.
- All candidates agreed to be part of the Polkadot Fellowship proposal.
- Their addresses were shared for inclusion in the proposal.

Hispanics' got talent

**Tsvetomir Dimitrov's Application for 1st Dan**

- Tsvetomir Dimitrov has been part of the Parachains core team since February 2022.
- Notable contributions include:
  - Runtime API versioning.
  - Conditional compilation support for `impl_runtime_apis` macro.
  - Optimizations and fixes for the disputes protocol.
- Worked under the guidance of [@eskimor](https://collectives.polkassembly.io/user/eskimor).
- Participated in debugging a Kusama incident.
- Applying for 1st Dan.
- Polkadot address: 1QhVP5qzR2LfXqP77N1JcuwHoY7NH8JVRNFm1hSooE9d4pR.

WHO: Tsvetomir Dimitrov
WHAT: Apply for 1st dan in the Parachains core team
PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Not specified.

Add and promote tdimitrov to I Dan

### Referendum to Add Liam to the Fellowship

- **Purpose**: To add Liam to the fellowship and promote him to Rank 1.
- **Contributions**: Liam has contributed significantly to Polkadot over the past 6 months. His contributions are detailed [here](https://gist.github.com/liamaharon/958ade9bcbd8299c714266fde7225c73).
- **Support**: The proposer is looking forward to seeing Liam progress to higher ranks in the Fellowship.
- **Mistake**: A similar proposal was mistakenly submitted in a higher track (#29). Please vote "Nay" on that one.
- **Action**: Vote on this referendum to decide if Liam should be added to the fellowship and promoted to Rank 1.

WHO: The proposal is made by an anonymous member of the Polkadot community.

WHAT: The proposal is to add Liam to the fellowship and promote him to Rank 1.

PRICE/TIMEFRAME/RESOURCES: Not applicable.

Add and Promote Liam Aharon to Rank 1

Add Liam Aharon To Fellowship

Approve RFC-32

Approval of RFC 8

RFC22 Adopt Encointer Runtime

- Pierre Krieger, also known as tomaka, is a major contributor to Polkadot.
- He created the initial version of `rust-libp2p`, used in Substrate's networking.
- Pierre also wrote the first Substrate networking stack.
- He maintained and prepared the network stack for Polkadot for several years.
- His project, smoldot, is a key light client for Polkadot, crucial for decentralization.
- Pierre wrote a new JSONRPC spec focused on light clients.
- He actively contributes to improving the Polkadot specification.
- His extensive work suggests he should be invited to the Polkadot Fellowship and ranked up to at least Rank V.

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