{"signature": "0xc8f0f3c59bce66c27539739bf39b34a8c18e4cf0e79f30508272973eb6b31349394369ca4eeb7acdc60ac99d8fe0465783aac80beeedd7883a88111a6cc686fe1b", "application": {"round": "0xaa40e2e5c8df03d792a52b5458959c320f86ca18", "answers": [{"type": "email", "hidden": true, "question": "Email Address", "questionId": 0, "encryptedAnswer": {"ciphertext": "1Nv3y3EOLH6dahoMwSV/H+Sp7Ku/0EeSX5TOF3+4wDWJqN07KoOzAZR+cC7d/gag", "encryptedSymmetricKey": "00516c75c63ca79a78917ba4fc7a7827f86c1fcf42023e0fce3c3dffc620e4aded1a6dcc05e1d940c03f556d9843a0015905a26af60c48af05298c1945cbff6b9982fd9a4a9d3544c0b87915cd5a424ef17e98d257a05fa6540f0cf8e649d8a6c7f589c107443f85bcfd6d1f75f94946ec03111a77dab3e1a492dd5c7dbc81c8000000000000002020ead0b6ce2c1fa2d76139c5b5bc70d4085dd43ab10c3a3f510280feec2daeeed28c750e81c5fac08b5c935bcda13490"}}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Gitcoin Grants, Meta Cartel Grants and ConsenSys", "hidden": false, "question": "Previous project funding sources (VC, grants, token sales, etc)", "questionId": 1}, {"type": "number", "answer": "31000", "hidden": false, "question": "Total prior funding for project in USD", "questionId": 2}, {"type": "number", "answer": "10", "hidden": false, "question": "Total team size", "questionId": 3}, {"type": "number", "answer": "19", "hidden": false, "question": "How old is the project? (Months)", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "address", "hidden": true, "question": "If you participated in past grant rounds using a different project payout wallet address, please share it here:", "questionId": 5, "encryptedAnswer": {"ciphertext": "vGcknkzjbF7/N4cXXi4GadDCeruQjNVB3PKivZMcARrY2Vjl1R0vLT7VLTDu9YEsfRJwZOBBdQ5wVAIr6c+avw==", "encryptedSymmetricKey": "3d0f20b96b227bcb1f36260fcd92f7747ec5684c031485a0db814713dccc62675d020cb5ce1ea3f0a60ab54cd985cb0a54d3e43592eeb437618397f0363708380b64186a3c839010976a6569b335bd0e34789a5c681457576ab3dad6d851e3a20e1bf76b22724805557f8db74e1344fee91c22a0391c99565d7e53d5957f6fc80000000000000020839d17c117d2ee4ef4169302b2ad38a86a89540406289a36a97b001da785968052a20c8cffd870226f4513b68cc63484"}}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "https://twitter.com/mateo_ventures\nhttps://twitter.com/Marcos_Ubatuba\nhttps://twitter.com/addigator71", "hidden": false, "question": "Profiles or socials of other main team members publicly associated with project", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": true, "question": "Have you read and confirmed your grant abides by the Program General Eligibility Policy? https://gitcoin.notion.site/Gitcoin-Grants-Beta-Round-Eligibility-b7fca9fd3c26450b89ded11caaa6497f", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We\u2019re putting the WE in web3! \n\nWgmi DAO is on a mission to onboard community professionals to Ethereum, and coordinate community calls for DeFi, NFT, or DAO protocols. We\u2019re a collective of web3 community managers and leaders that believe the next generation of Ethereum development will take place from inside the community. Our goal is to ensure that we\u2019re educating newcomers on the best practices, tactics and strategies that build out our ecosystem. ", "hidden": true, "question": "How does your project fit into the Community & Education round eligibility criteria? ", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Since summoning in 2021, we have had our ups and downs as does any DAO. We made a lot of progress in 2022, scaling our Discord community to 2,000 members and core contributors to 20 individuals. During this time, we attempted to achieve a lot\u2014 which wasn\u2019t the best strategy. Instead of focusing on a single initiative, we had various work streams that stretched our teams thin. However, we were still able to accomplish a lot\u2014 and figured out our sweet spots!\n\n##Here are some of the milestones we accomplished in 2022: \n\u2022 Hydra ETH Denver 2022\n\u2022 Gitcoin Grants round in 2022 (https://bounties.gitcoin.co/grants/4953/wgmi-putting-the-we-in-web3)\n\u2022 Metapod ETH Denver 2022 Finalist\n\u2022 MCON 2023\n\u2022 Integraci\u00f3n Devcon Bogot\u00e1 2022 \u2014 we onboarded 300+ local Spanish speakers new to Ethereum who are not fluent in English or who cannot afford getting access to the main conference.\n\n##Here are some of the milestones we accomplished in 2023: \n\u2022 CamBUIDL at ETH Denver 2023 \u2014 we worked with core ETH Denver organizers and owned the Community Dev, Biz Dev and Marketing track during CampBUIDL 2023. 400+ newcomers were onboarded to Ethereum and learned how to submit a project to a Hackathon. 80 of them submitted their first project to a Hackathon (BUIDLathon) during ETH Denver.\n\u2022 NotFellows Hacker House DAO Tokyo 2023 w/ ConsenSys x Metacartel\n\nOrganizing IRL events brought us really close to the Ethereum builder community, DAO network states like Meta Cartel, and institutions like ConsenSys. Working to figure out our product-market fit, and community alignment, we began to explore the coordination of Community Calls. We believe this captures our culture, while enabling scalability and feasibility by reducing the need for substantial operational overhead.", "hidden": false, "question": "If you've participated in past grant rounds, please share any new updates or milestones from the prior months", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "What problems are we solving?\nSuccessful projects in the Web3 ecosystem thrive primarily due to their ability to foster a community of engaged members. You can have the most secure protocol, the most amazing new tool, or first-of-its-kind NFT... Still, most efforts are doomed to fail without a community of engaged individuals who develop relationships and a support system for all.\n\nWith this in mind, it should be no surprise that individuals with community-centric skillsets are at a premium. Yet, there aren't nearly enough today. It takes skill, practice, and patience to curate vibes, create feedback loops, provide technical guidance with developer communities, and not to mention, communicating this sentiment to stakeholders. \n\nCommunity Management is a versatile skill. It\u2019s a career path once not taught in schools or made available by companies\u2014 today, it\u2019s one of top 5 roles to hire for when bootstrapping a startup in web3. With this integral workforce, a broad range of scope for \u201ccommunity\u201d, and the impact this non-technical role can have on the ecosystem\u2014 we see a future and a responsibility in leading Community professionals to their careers.\n\nDeveloping, building and managing communities is about doing. To better onboard and educate professionals into the space, we open bounties or projects that incentivize proper community management skills. Wgmi DAO is not a small business that aims to make money off people yearning to be community managers. We\u2019re a collective of community-first leaders that believe in redistributing our learnings, opportunities, and resources to instigate a better future driven by communities rather than a small group of people.\n\nCURRENT STATE\n\nWgmi was initially a pursuit to open sourcing Community professional education to web3 participants. Through this process, we onboarded 2,000 members to Discord, and were able to refer 20+ individuals to Community roles in the web3 space. In all, we developed a nation-state of Community-first individuals that believe in the mission of bringing more community managers to web3\u2014 imagine a community of community managers!! \n\nWe set out to accomplish this through: \nOpen-source resources, standards, strategies, and tools that will support this future workforce;\nCreate boot camps and workshops that help grow the talent pool of the space overall, and;\nBe the leading DAO-as-a-Service for Community development in Web3.\nWe see this work as a public good for Web3 community stewards\n\nTo accomplish our goals, Wgmi has been focused on building out the \u201cCommunity Pro Bootcamp\u201d and the Service DAO. The Bootcamp was modeled as an accelerator program for incoming web3 community managers. This will be a feeder program to major web3 companies that need technical and non-technical community leaders. \n\nThe applicants to the cohort are web 2.0 community professionals exploring web3, web3-curious folks looking for a job in the space, or web3 founders and devs looking to make their project more community-first. We think there is still a lot of promise here, but should be spun up as a subDAO in the future or working group.\n\nThe \u201cservice DAO\u201d consultancy model has been migrated to \u201cWgmi Consulting\u201d. We found that a lot of web3 companies needed Community consulting services such as (1) full stack Community strategy, (2) IRL Ethereum community event management, (3) Chat or Forum setup.\n\nDemand for Community professionals is still HIGH as web3 companies reach out to Wgmi for consulting work and referrals to community managers. The bandwidth to handle the work is out of scope for Wgmi DAO as it should be more focused on evergreen tasks or more repetitive projects that don\u2019t rely on polished delivery, strictly observed SOWs and client management. \n\n\nFUTURE STATE\n\u2022 Onboarding Talent \nWe want to find the best Community professionals in the space. They may have done Community work in web 2.0, but are learning the ropes of Web3. Or, perhaps they\u2019re web3 natives who have existed in the belly of Community but now want to understand the tactical skills to retain sticky communities\n\u2022 Work for the Ecosystem\nThere are some obvious gaps here: (1) Ethereum needs community professionals, and (2) a handful of individuals want to become Community managers, leaders, etc! We believe that through Community Calls for protocols and applications, we can both teach newcomers and support the ecosystem. To find product-market fit, produce ecosystem demand, and foster community\u2014 we\u2019ll first provide pro-bono services to high priority projects in Ethereum. The initial revenue model will be through grant proposals to Wgmi DAO and the various ecosystem grants programs. \nOver time, our goal is to onboard community leaders that have incentives or skin in the game to provide community management, support and stewardship where they receive residual value. As a Wgmi economy begins to develop through tokenized functions, our focus will be contributing to projects where we find value in their native tokens or impact in the ecosystem. We also assume that participants of this network will align to these economic mechanisms as well.\n\u2022 Learn and Earn\nRather than imposing tuition costs on individuals seeking to enter the industry or level up their community skills\u2014 we will function as a public good. Apprentices looking to learn and actively practice how to be a Community professional in web3 will have paths to earn tokenized ownership during their early phases of the program\n\nWhy a Gitcoin Grant?\nWe\u2019re a community-first DAO\u2026obviously\u2026 We\u2019re looking to attain a grant for bootstrapping the next phase of Wgmi. With our focus being around coordinating community calls for Ethereum apps and protocols as a service, we\u2019re also hoping to rally support from some initial projects that want to work with us. Our goal is to contribute to the Ethereum ecosystem, while up-skilling individuals on how to be great community professionals in web3. This funding will help support these newcomers and the ecosystems we support! \n\nWhy should you contribute?\nHelp us bring more community coordination to Ethereum! \nWe\u2019re on a mission to \n1/ bring more community professionals to this space, \n2/ upskill them to be highly qualified community leaders, and \n3/ execute community calls for Ethereum apps or protocols. \n\nTo help us scale, we\u2019re in need of work to assign to our community of community managers, funding to bootstrap operations, and we\u2019re always looking for top Community talent! Over time, we are looking for technical contributors to help us open source our community professionals materials, resources, and content. In addition, our goal this year is to align value between community managers, protocols, and stakeholders by creating a token economy that creates an efficient system where community professionals scale with the demands of the ecosystem. \n\nIf you want to join us on our quest, you can donate as much as you\u2019d like to via this grant.. We won\u2019t stop you from being awesome\u2026 ;) But really, even 1 DAI means the world to us. \n\nAll grants received from this round will be used to fund community managers with proposals to support Ethereum or EVM-compatible protocol and app community calls. If you\u2019re interested in participating in the governance process of these grants, please reach out for details!\n\nOther ways to help us\nDid you contribute? Thank you so much!!!\nDid you not contribute yet? Still thank you for your interest and for reading so far.\nIn either case there are many other ways to help us:\nSpread the word! \nBecome a contributor, here \nHire us! Contact us for inquiries\nJoin our community \nTwitter: https://twitter.com/wgmicommunity\nDiscord: https://discord.gg/h8STHyNr\nForum: https://forum.wgmi.community/\n\nStay in touch and get more info\nRead more in our website: https://www.wgmi.community/", "hidden": false, "question": "Anything else you'd like to share about your project, previous work, or other project affiliations? 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