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Link to Snapshot: vegayp.eth nomination.
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Preferred Name and/or ENS name: vegayp.eth
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Forum username: vegayp
*** Twitter profile link (optional):** twitter.com/vegaypatino
*** Why do you want to be a Steward of this Working Group?**
Hello there!
I am running for my re-election as a Public Good steward. Why? Because our mission isn’t finished.
This isn’t about me, this is about the Public Goods Working Group and how we can bring more light, awareness, consciousness, partnerships, talent and research towards ENS not only as a protocol, but also a key component for the web3 public goods landscape.
Let me start with what we have accomplished on the past 6 months:
- Launch of one of the biggest grants program for the Ethereum Public Goods Ecosystem: Growth and Large grants. Giving away almost 200k in grants to other key projects such as DappNode but also providing support for less visible communities but as equal as relevant for their work like Ethereum Guatemala or Revoke Cash. It’s healthy to point out that our grants program were community designed: we presented it every week looking for feedback and improvements as well as encouraging the grantees to provide feedback about the experience.
- We created a safe space for other projects to meet and engage with our little corner of the internet, our calls have had presentations from a very diverse and variety of communities who were value aligned with the Public Goods ethos.
- Provide funding for Gitcoin Schelling Point and Web3 Privacy Summit, testing out how events can become a Public Good by providing value to communities who wouldn’t have otherwise access to technical and non technical knowledge of an specific nature.
- I was present at the DAOTokyo, RefiJapan and DeFiJapan presenting our Grants program, as well as pitching the other side of ENS: A Public Good.
- I was invited to the biggest latinoamerican podcast in Spanish about Crypto (ENS como bien publico con Eduardo vega - YouTube) (Spotify): we talk about ENS as a Public Goods and the importance of it, as well as our grants program.
- We kept running monthly small grants program.
- As you may have noticed I talked a lot.
Regarding myself I have an attendance ratio of 95% in calls. And besides a tendency for interrupting my co-stewards while talking I have been very vocal at the forum and at the calls of others WG.
So what’s next?
- Take the grants program to next level and provide results of the first term results with the community, comprehend how we can improve voting and distribution of funds through different mechanisms.
- Amplify the work that other communities like Optimism, Gitcoin, Giveth and Celo are doing and cross share best practices and learnings, so we got a better understanding of the wins and mishaps.
- Bring our Public Goods side to more events and conferences: our protocol needs to be able to showcase its benefit outside the technical and economic point of view but also in the public Good narrative.
- I’d love to bring more underrepresented communities to the table, to our calls and to our ecosystem.
It’s important to make a stop here, and realise that ENS was initially a grantee from the Ethereum Foundation, so our actions are bringing a full circle moment for the ecosystem.
- This is more mid/long term personal of mine but, how can we bring ENS to builders who are building critical infrastructure in the real world? The key would be to position our protocol in public good spaces that have IRL impact to people.
The point is: it’s not only about giving way money, it’s about building communities around it that transfer the value that we are initially seeding. The point is that Public Goods WG shouldn’t be a small voice in our ecosystem, but an amplifier for anyone building for a better ecosystem.
- Any other information you wish to share with Delegates (e.g. potential conflicts or existing engagements):
I work with other Public Goods initiative such as dm3, and if it brings a conflict of interest I’d make sure to abstain myself.