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

🏛️ Public Goods
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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
  • Strategic Grants update
  • Urbe Campus ETHPrague presentation
  • Open floor for all questions, proposals and other presentations etc.

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1. Welcome all

2. Miscellaneous ENS updates of general interest

3. Strategic Grants update

  • Strategic Grants is a fairly new initiative
  • Focus on partnerships with important projects that need larger grants
    • The first one was DRC (waiting on the draft from them to share)
  • New Announcement: Funding Remix and Fabric with $50k each!
    • Putting together a post about the details.
    • They also have a matching funding pool from other sources.

4. Urbe Campus ETHPrague presentation

  • Full presentation
  • Urbe campus organizes activities like campuses, hubs, hackathons, and pop-up cities.
  • In 2024, they hosted six campuses
  • Working to improve future campuses by encouraging students, engaging builders, and providing support.
  • With the ENS Large grant, Urbe hosted 3 campuses (Warsaw, ETHRome, Devcon) in 2024.
  • Next campus will be for 4 days during ETHPrague.
  • Partnered with ETHGlobal, ETHPrague, BuidlGuidl, and will host hackathons and give $2k in bounties for participants.
  • @mely.eth, @Premm.eth, and @cap will be at ETHPrague and will explore how to work on something together.
    • Potential hiring opportunities for Urbe campus participants
    • The most notable impact is the partnership with BuidlGuidl

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

Feedback on Builder Grants rejection

  • The applicant didn’t find the rejection feedback explanation
  • Wasn’t able to find criteria (and suggests adding it to the website)
  • Explanation for rejection was that other projects were better suited for the ecosystem grant (more ENS-focused)

Grants funding thesis

  • The Public Goods Working Group is focusing on interconnected projects with existing support.
  • Strategic grants are allocated to established projects that are well-connected within the ecosystem.
  • Builder Grants website: https://builder.ensgrants.xyz/
  • ENS Public Goods BuidlGuidl Repo: GitHub - BuidlGuidl/ens-pg

Strategic grants and docs

  • Strategic grants are important to document (their meaning and purpose)
  • Documentation will include insights from teams on how funds will be used.
  • Focus on ensuring funds are well-spent and impactful.
  • More writing and sharing will be done this term :fire:

Group’s Conclusion

  • We came to the conclusion that @simona_pop is a mastermind behind everything, and there are no coincidences in life.
  • Proof: DAOs and Biomimicry by simona pop | Devcon Bogotá
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