Gitcoin Quests

A New Hope for OSS Sustainability

Quest link: https://gitcoin.co/quests/141/sustain-web3-a-new-hope-for-oss-sustainability Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG9yWRCn_NM&t=398s

• 96% of internet applications use open source
• 11% - 57% of codebases are open source
• $387 billion market cap (10x of ETH at the time)
• not high-enough pay to do OSS fulltime
• donation buttons on repos to get some support, github funding (centralized)
• Gitcoin experiments:
  • Gitcoin Grants - allocating 1.2m to projects per year (for 2020), eventually called Quadratic Funding
  • DAOs - MolochDAO was the Minimum Viable DAO:
    • forked by many (MetaCartel, MetaVentures, etc)
    • DAO can work like a focussed Gitcoin Grant by raising funds for types of issues
  • Block Rewards Funding - EIP-1789 suggest 10% increase in block rewards which goes to funding developers (at $100m a year)
  • OSCoin, SourceCred - reward contributions to a repository

MetaGame Knowledge Quest

https://gitcoin.co/quests/174/metagame-knowledge-quest

1. In search of commonts that scale
2. On gamification
3. The comiing of MetaGame
4. WTF is MetaGame
5. The Decentralized Factory
6. The Web of Opportunity
7. The way of Web3 founders
8. How to become a founder of MetaGame