Builders of the DAO (coming soon™)
The Why:
After moonshot reorganized it was evident that we had a strong band of our community that we were not engaging with in a meaningful way. At the same time, builderband was taking polls to determine what the community wanted to focus on. After listening to both communities it became clear that they both wanted much of the same thing; to learn, teach, grow and build!
At the moment, this battery of talent discusses and convenes across multiple fronts. There are three builder communities within GitcoinDAO, all having many overlapping tasks, efforts and missions. There is not enough paid work for expert levels, let alone beginners. We need to be better at retaining and engaging one of our most important assets, the “Golden Geese,” as Austin Griffith calls them.
The How
The Moonshot collective intends to transform the community surrounding them with that of the builder band (winners of gitcoin hackathons) to become the builder community’s home in GitcoinDAO.
We plan to skill up this group by delivering highly technical workshops and curated content from our partners to make Gitcoin’s builder community a unique movement within web3. In doing so, we are forming one of the industry’s most highly skilled talent pools. This evolution is not only for GitcoinDAO but also for this world’s builders more generally. Some might call it a public good?
Soon we plan to make slight changes to both the Moonshot Collective Discord channels and Builderband’s to streamline communications and permissions. We plan to archive the builderband, builders-general, and the ops channels associated with that community. We will add similar channels to MC, including a builders support channel. Current and previous hackathon winners will be given the option to opt-in and we will be creating a new role specific for them.
One of the most pressing concerns is that we want to ensure that the transition is smooth on both sides of this move. We realize that the product arm of moonshot is something different than the heart of this community! So instead of always telling you what moonshot product is building, let’s flip the script and provide you with the opportunities you want!
Success Metrics:
The key results we are chasing from this collaboration:
- Create many dedicated intermediate and advanced workshops with partners
- Increased bounty completion rate, especially rollover bounties
- Community engagement in events and social content
- Increased reoccurring hackathon participation
- Internal talent pipeline of web3 builders for the DAO
- Increased economic opportunities for our builder community
The vision is to become the place to be for builders in the wider DAO community. Not just devs, truly cross-functional skilling up! We have various partners and a community that is more than willing to deliver this content.
git skills, git frens, git coins!