☎️ Public Goods Working Group – Weekly Meeting: 12pm ET, Tuesdays

Public Goods Meeting, October 31st, 2023

Details

Time: Tuesdays at 12pm ET (4pm UTC)
Google Meet link: meet.google.com/iko-moej-rxc

Stewards: @coltron.eth (ENS | Twitter ), @vegayp (ENS | Twitter ), @simona_pop (ENS | Twitter)

:information_source: Please contact @Coltron.eth, @vegayp or @simona_pop via forum message to have an item added to the agenda.

Agenda

  1. General DAO Updates
  2. Devconnect Events
  3. Small Grants
    • Winners
  4. Large Grants Q4
    • Deadline today for review by Nov 8th
    • Current orojects received under review
    • Selected projects
  5. Open space for additional topics

Minutes

1. Genearl DAO Updates

2. ETHGlobal Istanbul

  • ENS Labs will have a presence
  • @matoken and @mdt, core developers will be present
  • Non-tech personnel to be present for assistance as well.
  • Public Good Working Group plans to sponsor ITBlockchain with a grant and will host @mdt as a speaker
  • Stewards will continue to explore other opportunities as the date approaches, such as a Public Goods panel with further details forthcoming.

3. Small Grants

  • The tenth Public Goods Small Grants Round has concluded with 108 unique voters, a 134.78% increase since the last round
  • Stewards and the community expressed their gratitude for @gregskril on developing the front-end for the grants round
  • Stewards are exploring a retrospective via data storytelling through visualizations
  • Congrats to the top five winners:

4. Large Grants

  • Stewards have fielded five submissions received with one decision finalized.
  • Gashawk has been announced as a grantee; compensation will be based on milestones, maximum of 50k.
  • Daniel Hannum from Gashawk expressed gratitude and will collaborate on milestone presentations.
  • Coltron.eth will publicize grantee details on the forum for transparency.
  • Additional project announcements by November 21st.

5. Open Discussion

  • Stewards discussed postponing an upcoming working group call on November 14th due to Devconnect
  • The community discussed iterating the grants process, considering additional fields that detail prior funding and collaborations as well as displaying grantee profiles on the ensgrants.xyz front-end that display historical activity.