Routing your request to work with GitcoinDAO 🔀

[owocki]

From time to time, people slide into my DMs asking if they can do some work with GitcoinDAO.

These requests vary in nature, sometimes people want to sponsor a matching round. Sometimes people want Gitcoin to join a twitter spaces. Sometimes they are partnership requests.

But in almost all cases, I cannot field the requests because I’ve disaffiliated from DAO leadership.

So I am creating this gov post to help route these requests. My goal for this post is to (1) get these requests out of my DMs + get them to where DAO members can see them (2) route them to who can actually help.

Here is an easy 3 step process to route your request:

1. Verify that this request matches the essential intents of Gitcion

Everything at Gitcoin revolves around this purpose (100 year vision) and essential intents (12-18 months vision).

From this post:

@Jodi_GitcoinDAO

The Purpose of Gitcoin
To empower communities to fund their shared needs.

The Essential Intents of Gitcoin

1. Protocol Adoption
   • Build a widely adopted, modular Grants protocol that creates a flourishing ecosystem of funding mechanisms.
   • Build a widely adopted, modular Pluralism Passport protocol that creates a flourishing ecosystem of network effects around Decentralized Society.
2. Financial Sustainability
   • Have a comprehensive, diversified strategy for financial stability of the DAO in order to effectively achieve our mission.
3. DAO Organization
   • Create and promote clear and engaging rituals, communication channels, and messaging that build emergent shared context among GitcoinDAO’s contributors, stewards, and supporters.
4. Grants Program Success
   • Enable a successful grants protocol launch by dogfooding it internally and supporting ecosystems in adopting it.
   • Continue to support the Ethereum ecosystem and public goods in web3 and beyond through Gitcoin-led rounds.

If your inquiry does not match this purpose/essential intent it is not likely to be actioned.

2. Contact someone at GitcoinDAO that can help

For DAO Operations, please contact @krisis @Jodi @Kyle
For Fraud Defense/Grant Approvals/Data Science, please contact @DisruptionJoe @tigress
For Partnerships or grants round sponsorships please contact @ceresstation @benwest @vgk
For Grant operations please contact @annika @J9leger
For marketing, please contact @CoachJonathan
For public speaking inquiries, please email speakers@gitcoin.co
For Gitcoin Foundation matters please contact @kyle
For integrations in Gitcoin passport please contact @erich or @brent
For product inquiries please contact @lthrift @kevin.olsen @GTChase
To create a grant application please submit it on the product directly at http://gitcoin.co/grants by clicking ‘Create Grant’. This post covers how to make your grant successful.
For support please go to https://support.gitcoin.co/ or email support@gitcoin.co.
For general inquiries, or if you’re not sure who to contact, please comment on this post and ask.

(Note for members of GitcoinDAO, if i missed the mark in this “routing table” feel free to edit the post directly to fix)

3. Engage in the DAO

If you engage in the governance forum https://gov.gitcoin.co or the discord https://gitcoin.co/discord that is a great way to get to know Gitcoin. The DAO also hosts weekly calls which you can find on the calendar at https://gitcoindao.com/ Requests from engaged community members are usually prioritized over “drive by BD” engagements.