☎ ENS Public Goods – Weekly Meeting: 12pm ET/5pm UTC, Thursday – Term 6

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Details

Time/Day: 5PM UTC (12PM ET)(6PM CET) every Thursday
Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/fyt-qcrb-tth

Agenda

If you would like to add anything, just post as a reply here if you want to present or raise a topic for discussion live during the call.

  • Welcome ALL :sparkles:
  • Miscellaneous ENS updates of general interest
  • ENS x Octant PG Round application form here
  • Urbe join us to chat about a new project
  • SheFi join us to chat about the growth since being a recipient of PG Small Grants
  • DRC funding update
  • Open floor for all questions, proposals and other presentations etc.

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1. Welcome ALL

  • Welcome to your weekly dose of public goodness.

2. Miscellaneous ENS updates of general interest

  • Last week no call because of ETH Denver
  • Great time with ENS and Linea at the event
  • The next event is the hackathon at ETH Taipei
  • After that, it’s ethCC:
  • Nick’s thoughts on the Service Provider Program posted on the forum.

3. ENS x Octant PG Round application form here

  • The application for the ENS Octant Public Goods Grants round on Giveth is live.
  • A catch-up meeting with both teams is scheduled for next week to discuss application progress and key dates.

4. Urbe join us to chat about a new project

  • Urbe is a community based in Rome, recently opened a Web3 Hub in Italy, and runs educational programs and hackathons.
  • Learned a lot during their Urbe campus efforts last year.
  • They improved the format and agenda of educational programs and boot camps.
  • They gathered feedback on tooling and frameworks used during hands-on workshops for teaching solidity and front-end development.
  • New campuses are being planned for the coming year in collaboration with various communities.
  • Locations include Prague, Naples, Warsaw, Catania, Rome, Barcelona, and Buenos Aires during DevConnect.
  • Urbe will be hosting more campuses in Italy, focusing on providing resources in Italian.

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  • Already planning new campuses for this year
  • Results
    • 8 campuses in total (3 in Italy, 5 abroad)
    • 400+ devs engaged
  • Plans to engage with local Ethereum communities
  • Supporting more students
  • All activities are public goods, including recorded lessons and open-source repositories.
  • Full presentation: UrbeCampus - 2025 plans - ENS Call - Google Slides

5. SheFi join us to chat about the growth since being a recipient of PG Small Grants

  • Maggie thanks the ENS for the grant given to SheFi in 2023.
  • The grant made a huge difference and helped with growth.
  • SheFi’s motto is “the frontier is feminine”.
  • SheFi was started in 2019 to empower professional women and non-binary folks to succeed in frontier industries.
  • “Public information doesn’t equal inclusive.”

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SheFi’s Growth and Offerings

  • Goal - get their community hired in Web3
  • 9,000 members in 100 countries and around 40,000 social followers.
  • SheFi summits are career-based and anyone is welcome to join.
  • SheFi offers career support through workshops and building relationships with recruiters.
  • Also, offers live and recorded instruction, hands-on demos, and peer support.

SheFi Curriculum

  • Infrastructure: Blockchains, wallet setup, and scaling networks.
  • DeFi: Stablecoins, lending, DEXes, and staking.
  • Consumer NFTs, governance, and DAOs.
  • The governance course was built out with funding from ENS Public Goods.
  • Web3Social and AI.
  • There are currently over 1130 applications.
  • The MBA for Crypto: 8 weeks long live and recorded sessions + quests etc.
    • Content, community, career.

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Collaboration with Namespace for Subnames

6. DRC funding update

  • The DRC shared their work and plans for the next two years on the previous call.
  • Good Twitter Thread by the ENS DAO account about DRC and Advocacy.
  • A decision was made to fund them with 150k, with access to matching funding of the same amount, totaling 300k.
  • Regular updates on fund spending will be provided.
  • A representative from ENS Labs is expected to attend their summit in April.
  • The funding aims to support their educational work with policymakers.

7. Open floor for all questions, proposals and other presentations etc.

Commons Space

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