Publish highscore, how much drinks people get for their technical work.
You know, I am sitting at the bar and got this mail with [Gitcoin Governance] Summary.
I followed Gitcoin since 2017 hoping that it will close the problem of feeding open source artists who broke loose from their dumb enterprise jobs to do things that need to be done properly.
I donated to some projects, created projects on my own, played a bit with the passport, delegated my token to some fella, and could not remember who it was to check What my delegate is doing? Advocated Gitcoin Grants to Python Software Foundation to support https://pypi.org (unsuccessfully).
Did I earn anything from contributing to open source projects? Yes. When people hired me from UpWork. I could buy food, buy beer, clothes. Did I earn anything from Gitcoin. Yes, I’ve got some GTC tokens from Gitcoin, which I think I can sell, but… I don’t know. Probably should try it and see how much beer I can get for them, and report here.
I occasionally contribute to GitLab and guys sent my some swag until it became a reputation risk to work with people stuck in leper countries. I contributed to GitLab, because I felt this stuff was valuable for me personally (or because it is MIT licensed project that earns money, which is phenomenal). But working for tokens may be not that exciting. Open Source is “scratching own itches” after all. If my itch is lack of money, there are still a lot of opportunities to sell one’s soul to dozen of all kinds of shady guys. To understand if Gitcoin can really provide alternative, it needs to be compared, in beers.
After 7 years watching I don’t really think any of us outside the crypto craze can get any life support from it. I still consider myself in the scene, but as I grow old, my tolerance to cognitive load lowers. Keeping up with all these innovations is hard, and I don’t see that Gitcoin collection and distribution mechanism target low lifes like me.
No matter how much trillions are printed by US, we won’t get any stable generators out of that, and even if we get them, the first served are the most vocal ones and those who do 95% of work. Do they get enough money and time to spend them? I don’t know. But if they are not good, then the rest of us just don’t have any chances. I have my GitLab/GitHub activity feeds that projects like GrimoireLab were able to parse (until CCPA/cookie/GDPR/whatever-lets-censor-act hit them). This feed could potentially be proposed to some humane (aka save-the-meatbags) AI that could mark some activities, when they are valuable to some organizations, with tokens of these organizations. The organizations that fundraise and seize generators for values that they advocate and promote, the values that I push forward with my activities. And at the end of each day, convert these tokens to beer that I can get at the local bar.
EDIT: Hated reading my own typos. Hope you could enjoy it more.