I read through DRAFT - RFP: Reboot the Gitcoin Community for the 3.3 Era and my attention went to the question “How do you re-engage former Gitcoin community members… ?” and more specifically, I began to think how I personally could be re-engaged.
Now the question in the proposal phrased it for those “…who left during the 2023–2025 wind-down”. I personally was most active around 2020 to 2021. So, I don’t know much of the history after I stepped away. When I look back at y time at Gitcoin, I would describe it as a time I got to contribute to the infrastructure of something important. Emphasis on contributing to infrastructure, because, I had no ability to fund a grant or a bounty, I had no idea I felt worthy to put up for funding during a grant round, but rather, my interest was in building Gitcoin itself as a coder.
When I had stepped away, my focus had shifted to community building projects and also efforts related to campaigning for the freedom of political prisoners, and even in those, my focus was always towards contributing towards the infrastructrue of those efforts in any way I had capacity to do. When Gitcoin first airdropped GTC, I saw that as an opportunity to fund my hopes and dreams in those areas of community building and political prisoner campaigns, so I sold GTC off to fund my efforts and interests in those areas.
But there is another thinng about Gitcoin when think to my time with it…Coding. I enjoy coding, and Gitcoin had satsified that joy in what I feel to be a well-rounded way.
So, now, I see the draft proposal and I see the question on how to re-engage old community members, and I selfishly think about how I persoanlly want to be re-engaged…I want to contribute to Gitcoin itself, the infrastructure, and I want to code…so I guess I have to ask, in the 3.3 Era, how can I satisfy those two things? Conntributing to the infrastruture and coding that is. Or perhaps I should as, where do Coders fit into the 3.3 Era?