We have been inspired by Electric Capital's ecosystem index, and we think that a decentralized open source group could help drastically scale the data capture and crowd-source this exercise. We also believe that using an NFT incentive like GitPOAP will help encourage more people to include their open source contributions.
This data is being aggregated by major corporations like Messari, Nansen, TheTie, TokenTerminal and many others. Given it is effectively a measure of open source contribution and the methods of collection could wildly vary, we want to help create a source of truth for the growth in the industry that is made available at no fee to the community creating the value.
We think that adhering to Web3 and Open Standards as demonstrated by Electric Capital is true to the ethos that supports Web3 and Blockchain contributors.
We want to request that Electric Capital work with this Open Ecosystems Collective to kick off forming an open source collective to help bring this type of data to the community with rewards provided by GitPOAP.
Steps to accomplish these goals.
- Setup a meeting with Electric and invite their key contributors to join our collective and invite others.
- Setup meetings with major foundations like Ethereum, Uniswap, Algorand, Optimism, Avalanche and request others to engage.
- Find delegates from all of these organizations to help be Lieutenants and leverage Linus Torvald's approach to vetting PRs for validity and correctness
- Setup a regular recurring method of incorporating this data asynchronously and synchronously
This will be a simple easy to understand project for now leveraging the TOML files proposed by Electric Capital
- User Experience
- We will focus on contributor ease and leverage Pull Requests and Approvals by Lieutenants from each organization
- Infrastructure and Engineering
- For now we have none but in the future we could discuss some scheduled jobs that help re-verify that all links have validity and access.
- We could also automate the creation and assignment of issues where we determine there are lacks of categorization in the links.
- All of this will be regularly rewarded for top contributors with GitPOAPs for helping organize this data.
For now this costs nothing but time, and it's a complete experiment. We are looking forward to building and experimenting with the community to see how we can scale this type of initiative.
We are looking for stakeholders and contact info for the following. Chances are if you are receiving this proposal, you are someone we want to work with!
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| Algorand | |||
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| Binance | |||
| Polkadot | |||
| Cardano | |||
| Solana | |||
| Tron | |||
| EOS | |||
| Cosmos | |||
| Tezos | |||
| Avalanche | |||
| Blockstack | |||
| Celo | |||
| Flow | |||
| Near | |||
| Internet Computer |