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

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

Agenda

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  • Welcome ALL :sparkles:
  • Miscellaneous ENS updates of general interest
  • Update on Builder Grants progress!
  • Update on Strategic Grants
  • Update on Africa research repo
  • Open floor for all questions, proposals and other presentations etc.

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Notes

1. Welcome ALL

2. Miscellaneous ENS updates of general interest

  • Working groups spendings report.
    • The reports cover how money from the DAO is spent on things like grants
  • Service provider test vote is live.
  • The official vote starts on the 7th of May (and will be live for 5 days)
  • Currently testing different UIs to make sure everything goes smoothly.

3. Update on Builder Grants progress!

  • Build Guild guys are demoing next week
  • 2 applications from the Magma cohort are in
    • Hopefully will be on a call next week
  • Understanding Builder grants (FAQ).
  • Last year’s builder grants.
  • Just gone through the latest batch of submissions.

4. Update on Strategic Grants

  • The budget has passed
    • Need to do an onchain transfer
    • Coordinating with MegaGov
  • Starting to allocate funds soon
  • More announcements coming soon
  • Talking with different partners

5. Update on Africa research repo

Areas of focus

  • ‘Culture is everything.’
  • Working on formalizing it into a report
  • Vibes, energy, and passion for ENS are amazing.

Web3 Clubs in Africa

  • Thomas and James visited Web3 clubs in Kenya, organizations with university lecturers and ambassadors from teams like StarkNet.
  • These clubs have created hundreds of hours of educational material and offer in-person education.
  • Similar organizations exist in other African countries, such as Web3 Bridge in Nigeria and Code Free Spaces in Uganda.
  • Thomas reached out to the leaders of these organizations, who expressed immediate interest in collaboration.

ENS Ambassadors

  • Having ambassadors in various countries could be a central point of contact for ENS-related discussions.
  • This wouldn’t be a huge cost and could involve educating ambassadors about ENS and supporting the Web3 clubs.
  • The goal is to contribute to developer engagement, promote ENS adoption, and educate people and get them to build with ENS.

ENS Support in Africa

  • Suggestion to have a workshop or a 10-week program to work through what ENS is and what developers can do with it.
  • Hackathons and events often fizzle out, leaving developers without continuous support.
  • ENS is well-positioned to provide ongoing support through its ecosystem, public goods, and forum.

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

DRC update

Co-host Hackathon

  • Invitation to co-host a NounsDAO hackathon with Protocol Labs and NounsDAO.
  • More info here.
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