Summary
Gitcoin will run and promote an exclusive “Open Web Community Hackathon” involving their platform and relevant projects, bringing together developers, designers, entrepreneurs, and researchers to learn and build on NEAR!
More info can be shared upon request.
Team
NEAR point of contact: @jlwaugh
About Gitcoin
Community for developers to collaborate and monetize their skills while working on various open-source projects through bounties and grants.
Past Events
- Gitcoin Grants Round 8 Hackathon
- Hack the Rainbow
- Protect Privacy Hackathon
- Hello World! By Polkadot
- SeedClub Hacks
Statistics From Last Year
- 48 Events
- 136 Sponsors
- 8000+ New Hackers
- 3500+ Submissions
Scope of Work
Gitcoin will plan and run the “Open Web Community Hackathon” to raise brand awareness and explore new opportunities. Specifically, Gitcoin would:
Partner to Educate and Influence the Gitcoin Community
- Bring Gitcoin’s 90k+ blockchain devs into the NEAR community
- Crowdsource new features and applications of your technology
- Raise NEAR’s profile in the blockchain industry
- Engage with developers and recruit top talent
- Evangelize “Open Web” through authentic, decentralized collaboration
Full Service Operational Benefits
- Dedicated support from the Gitcoin team to assist with hackathon spec formation, prize posting, dev onboarding, and payouts, organized via DAO ecosystem
- Customized event page with sponsor logos, links, and resources
- Personalized marketing campaigns tailored to your needs
- Growth of NEAR community channels (Discord, Telegram, Discourse)
- Gitcoin hosted and streamed education workshops / webinars
- Dedicated promotion to 90k+ in Gitcoin newsletter and 8k+ past hackers
- First email 3 weeks before (around March 25)
- Second email week before (around April 8)
- Third email Monday, April 12
- Tweets and other social media content!
- Custom blog posts, Gitcoin Quests, and kudos NFT tokens
- Organize team building sessions in early April
Potential ROI for NEAR Ecosystem:
The main goal of this hackathon is to build self-sustainable communities around creative projects on NEAR. We are considering how participants could earn rewards by launching Sputnik DAO councils to solve real problems for creators / developers. I believe this effort will grow the number of apps on testnet and help us connect with web3 developers. Furthermore, it can lead to progress in terms of integrating NEAR and Gitcoin.
We intend to build on the momentum of Open Web Collective Demo Day (April 12-14) and the Open Web Community Summit (April 16). This hackathon will run Saturday, April 17, until Sunday, May 9. Participants would learn about existing applications in our ecosystem, including Paras, Mintbase, Flux, Sputnik DAO, MintGate, Berry Club, NEAR.fm, Collab.Land, Nearfolio, etc. Also, they might build their own platforms!
Specifically, our vision of success:
- 500+ registered participants
- 100+ Sputnik DAOs created
- 50+ devs building on testnet
- 10+ councils reviewing proposals
- 2-3 new apps on mainnet
Amount: $15,000
- Yes
- No
- Abstain
0 voters
- Yes
- No
- Abstain
0 voters
Voting and quorum* thresholds:
<$2K - 1X Yes - no min quorum
$2-10K - 2X Yes - no min quorum
$10-30K - 3X Yes - min quorum 4 of 7 - 4X members should vote in either direction
Above $30K requires Erik or Illia’s additional approval (Head of NF/Chairman of NFC)
Above $100K requires NEAR Foundation Council approval*quorum defined as lowest number of member votes needed for the decision to be valid