🤠 — Who am I?
I've been a hardcore end-user of Web1 and Web2. I remember the days of Napster and ICQ. I had a Geocities account before Yahoo ruined it. I can do basic front-end web development with the use of HTML/CSS. I'm trying to learn/re-learn JS properly to tackle things outside of basic functions and hopefully progress into other languages.
I live in California. I am going back to school to study Business Administration. I am the founder of a fledging 501(c)(3) project. In my spare time, I rock climb, mountain bike, and read about all things defi/web3.
I support other communities that I am involved by contributing to organizations such as the Access Fund, Grassroots Wildland Firefighters, and the
Wildland Firefighter Foundation
Fun Fact: I've lived at sea for 248 days
✍ — How I Will Contribute.
Building Community Tools
I will continue to help with the ENS Learn Docs and Mission Statement. I believe that the current Learn Docs project and helping to create repositories of information are especially important. A large portion of the Discord and Forum activity consists of questions from users. If we can make ENS easier to understand, it will lead to faster adoption and will prevent common misconceptions and costly mistakes that can hurt perception.
How to build community education
Possible contributor roles created: Many opportunities for content creation across different mediums. Likely front/back-end dev of bounty program unless we plug into existing frameworks.
Finding Solutions to Promote Involvement
Bounty System
The ENS DAO is for everyone. It governs much more than a naming protocol; it is also an active community with its own culture and sub-communities. I will encourage community involvement by supporting the creation of a bounty system that allows members to receive payment for their contributions. This needs fleshing out and being agreed on DAO-wide to be effective, but I envision this working similarly to Gitcoin's bounty program. This will provide incentive contributors to provide meaningful work with clearly-defined rewards. Adhering to the Web3 and decentralized ethos, everyone should be able to assume an active part in the development of ENS.
POAPs
I also want to initiate a POAP pilot program for the working groups. This POAP will help prove meaningful involvement in the ENS DAO. I want them to have meaning and for recipients to feel proud of them. They will be available to claim at the end of each working group term to prevent farming and ensure equitable distribution. Recipients will have to meet minimum, to-be-agreed-upon requirements, and the Working Group stewards will need to verify that the recipient is human. Creating a reward and recognition structure is a low-cost way that the DAO can show that it values its contributors. In the future, this POAP can be used to help members campaign for positions within the DAO and have other benefits if desired.
Possible contributor roles created: Graphic Design of POAPS and POAP Roadmap.
Championing a Steward
If elected as a Working Group Steward, I will champion or promote the next community member to take my seat at the end of my term. The goal is to use my platform to encourage an individual (or individuals) who have been helping the DAO but who are less known and have less voting power to garner support.
The ENS DAO shouldn't be for the most opinionate contributor or those holding the largest bags. With this, I also want to emphasize choosing someone from a non-traditional role outside of tech, community, or country that does not have equitable representation in the Web3 space.
Scheduled Communtiy Calls
I want to create a scheduled community-oriented call via Twitter Spaces or Discord. I want to create a platform that keeps everyone up to date on events, developments, and projects within the ENS DAO. I also want people to have a platform to voice their opinions on different topics. These meetings will not be centered around one time zone. This will create opportunities for contributors to host or co-host these meetings and take an active role in the ENS Community Working Group.
Possible contributor roles created: Community call host and co-host positions.
