Gitcoin username: amsos (@amsos | Gitcoin )
ETH address: 0x58f123BD4261EA25955B362Be57D89F4B6E7110a
Statement of Intention / My Values & Reason for Joining: When I started my journey down the crypto rabbit hole, Gitcoin was one of the places I landed. What drew me in then is what draws me in today. Gitcoin builds more than “just the tech”, it also creates a community of builders who jointly believe in building a better future. Further, by looking at projects fundraising on Gitcoin I was able to build a learning roadmap of all the best concepts and projects in the eth ecosystem. The steward’s program allows me to participate in a community I very much believe in.
On top of that - I want to join the stewards program to work on and contribute to the Governance space of Open Source communities (specifically that of delegated authority, republics/representative democracies, and liberal democracies.) So far, we’ve only experimented with a few limited governance models (direct democracies, benevolent dictators, etc). It’s time to understand how we can leverage more modern concepts and models for crypto governance. When these newer concepts are combined with crypto, we can test what “open source governance” looks like.
What Web3 Qualifications / Skills I Have : I’ve been actively working in the Ethereum space for about three years and have been on a journey of learning. Currently, I’m the founder of Govrn (a decentralized and Open Source Politics startup) and a RadicalxChange Fellow. A few communities I contribute to are Metacartel, Raid Guild, WhalerDAO, DAO Book Club, DAO Rush Week, and Panvala. I also run the Federalist and Anti-Federalist book clubs, as well as the San Francisco Decentralized Governance Meetup Group.
Ultimately, I’m a governance fanatic that spends his weekends learning game theory, political philosophy, politics, and skiing/hiking. My goal is to study and experiment with how to take the advancements in Web3 Governance (specifically Meta-Governance, Public Good Funding, and Progressive Decentralization) and see how we can apply it to governance over local governments.