Episode 50: Gitcoin, Quadratic Funding, and how Crypto can sustain Open Source

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Panelists Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer
Guest Kevin Owocki Gitcoin (https://gitcoin.co/) Show Notes Hello
and welcome to Sustain! Today, we have special guest, Kevin Owocki,
founder of Gitcoin. We find out what Gitcoin does and what’s
changed with it in the past couple of years. Some other topics we
discuss are Quadratic Funding (QF), a hot new thing called DeFi,
Ethereum, Blockchain, and Downtown Stimulus in Boulder, CO.
Download this episode now to find out this and much more!
[00:01:27] Kevin tells us what Gitcoin does, what he’s doing there,
and what’s changed in the past couple of years. [00:03:43] The hot
new thing is “DeFi.” Kevin explains what this is. Richard wonders
if there’s any way to make some sort of mutual funds out of all the
different dollars, out of all the different major currencies that
you can actually stabilize and cross them. [00:05:54] Richard
wonders if the currencies have shifted in this stable currency
market and has that affected DAI and Gitcoin in any way, and has
Kevin seen less percentages going out because the current downturn
in the global economy at all. [00:07:44] Eric brings us economic
struggle and he wants to know Kevin’s perspective on blockchain and
if they’ve stepped up. Does this whole process make people think
that we need to have more control over the structure of our
economy? [00:12:44] Kevin answers a question about maintainer’s
views on providing quality or quantity on contributions. We also
find out how much money has flown through Gitcoin’s platform.
[00:15:39] Eric asks Kevin, since there is a lot of money pumping
through Gitcoin’s platform and the intention is to sustain open
source, is that focusing on blockchain projects now and does he see
this type of technology or this idea moving into more of a global
landscape with all sorts of projects? Downtown Stimulus in Boulder,
CO is also mentioned. [00:19:52] Kevin explains what QF is. We also
find out how QF can be gamed. [00:32:41] If you are a maintainer,
and you want to get involved in Quadratic Funding, find out here
how to get involved. [00:34:50] Kevin tells us how people can go
about from nothing to doing stuff with Quadratic Funding, using
Ethereum, using Gitcoin, or learning about DAI, if they don’t know
anything right now. [00:36:12] Kevin tells us where we can find
more about him online. Spotlight [00:37:34] Justin’s spotlight is
inspired by Dave Gandy, Episode 41, a weight loss app called NOOM.
[00:38:11] Eric’s spotlight is Kevin’s magnificent mane and the
shampoo he uses. [00:39:10] Richard’s spotlight is Awesome Remote
Job-a repo run by Lukasz Madon. [00:39:57] Kevin’s spotlight is
Ethereum. Quotes [00:13:23] “One of the things she said was, even
when contributors are coming to these repos is that they’re not
providing quality contributions. And if they do, then they’re like
drive by contributions and they don’t come back and they don’t
promote to maintainers.” [00:23:37] “If you push the power out to
the edges and you let your community decide what to find, not only
does that push the decision out to the edges, the Ethereum
Foundation gets to measure which projects their community cares
about. The community co-funds the projects along with them and they
can fund a thousand projects per quarter or ten thousand projects
per quarter instead of just 10-20. [00:41:25] “And so, I’m really
excited about what Ethereum is doing and I want an Ether-binge. You
should check it out!” Links Kevin Owocki Website
(https://owocki.com/) Kevin Owocki Twitter
(https://twitter.com/owocki) Kevin Owocki Gitcoin
(https://gitcoin.co/owocki) Gitcoin (https://gitcoin.co/) Funding
Open Source With Gitcoin-Devchat.tv
()https://devchat.tv/sustain-our-software/sos-014-funding-open-source-with-gitcoin/
Downtown Stimulus (https://downtownstimulus.com/) Gitcoinco
Quadratic Funding-GitHub
(https://github.com/gitcoinco/quadratic-funding) DeFi
(https://blog.coinbase.com/a-beginners-guide-to-decentralized-finance-defi-574c68ff43c4)
Ethereum (https://ethereum.org/en/) Awesome Remote Job-Lukasz Madon
(https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job) Sustain
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Kevin Owocki.