Public Goods Meeting, August 1, 2024
Details
Time: Thursdays at 1pm ET (6pm UTC)
Google Meet link: meet.google.com/iko-moej-rxc
Stewards: @simona_pop (ENS | X), @vegayp (ENS | X), @coltron.eth (ENS | X)
If you would like to add anything, just post as a reply on the forum. If you want to present or raise a topic for discussion ask live during the call.
Agenda
- Welcome
- Miscellaneous ENS updates of general interest
- Onboarding and training LATAM project presentation
- Borderless Africa presentation
- Scaffold ETH & Speedrun Ethereum presentation
- Large Grants Q3 2024 updates
- Open floor
22 Participants in meeting
1. Welcome
2. Miscellaneous ENS updates of general interest
- Linea first L2 to release official, verifiable subnames
- ENS Lands on Linea: An Industry-First | ENS Blog
- Implementation spurred on by writings from Vitalik
- https://names.linea.build/
- Makoto from Labs going to ETH Tokyo
3. Onboarding and training LATAM project presentation
Caio Mattos presenting
- Oboarding and training LatAm developers
- Team: Engineers, programmers, designers, and artists with over 4 years educating developers
- Problem: Cultural education and lack of content in Portuguese
- Solution: 3-week online training program, partner with companies looking to hire
- KPI Goals: 1000 participants, 75% of enrollees attend live session
- Simona: Enjoyed Focus on Impact as opposed to just the event
- Bootcamp Optimism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yModQgXgCdI&list=PLovMzG1Il2A14mmkz_VzbWx14QzoOa64S&ab_channel=NearX
- Bootcamp about Soroban, tokenization and Rust: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxGUWEGKgZ8&list=PLovMzG1Il2A2MzubGxPtw6LKc_pvUuUT3&ab_channel=NearX
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nearxschool
- LinkedIn: Nearx Innovation School | LinkedIn
- In person Training: ITA - Google Drive
- Metrics about the platform: Plataforma - Google Drive
4. Borderless Africa presentation
Yoseph Ayele presenting
- Have hosted core devs, Vitalik, L2s in getting to know and bridge Africa and Ethereum
- Working with best and smartest developers to create coordination point between African builders and ETH
- Africans struggle to get visas to countries where big ETH conferences are hosted
- As a result, working to bring to ETH building to Africa
- Global group of mentors that have hosted a variety of workshops
- Proposal: Support 2 cohorts of African Founder residency intiatives
- Report to learn more about proposal: https://docsend.com/view/xsv95qjp9phvk7jv
- Socials: x.com, Warpcast
5. Scaffold ETH & Speedrun Ethereum presentation
Austin Griffith presenting
- Education: Speedrun Ethereum, complete quests to learn how to build on Ethereum
- Tooling: Scaffold ETH, to use while learning and building in Ethereum
- https://scaffoldeth.io/
- ENS built in natively to Scaffold ETH
- Lots more projects and initiatives, not involved in the grant:
- Grants: Cohort Streams; single stream that goes to a lot of people
- BuidlGuidl: Teaching program, everyone gets an ENS name
6. Large Grants Q3 2024 12 grantee announcement (delayed to just after this call)
- Stewards will review scores after call and make announcements
- 56 applications; this round hardest to judge
- Can see aggregated scores in Questbook once changed over to accepted status
- Will also post on forum
7. Open Floor
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Notes by @don.nie