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H.E.R.DAO X GOOD DOLLAR : Tips to apply for GoodBuilders Grants, $81k
Recorded: April 1, 2025 Duration: 0:59:10Space Recording
Short Summary
The discussion centers around the GoodDollar Builders Program, which offers grants to support diverse Web3 projects, including those focused on social impact and education. The program aligns with Gitcoin Grants rounds and emphasizes the integration of the GoodDollar token. Strategic partnerships, such as with Celo, enhance the program's reach and impact.
Full Transcription
Thank you. Thank you. I'm sorry. Since I've gotten older, I've realized we all care about things that don't really matter
We're just told it does
But now we're all trying to keep our heads above the water
But what if we don't wanna? We all just need to live more and love more
When we're not here anymore
It all comes down to who we were
And what we stood for
Not what we had
And not where we lived
So when we're told it does
Maybe then we'll see
We don't just have to keep our heads above the water
Not if we don't wanna
If there's something you wanna do, just do it
Don't let your head stop your heart from moving
If there's someone you wanna talk to, talk to
Who knows who we'd be if we just live more and love more.
We all just need to live more and love more.
So have your kids, tell them you love them, have some heart, make sure it's open open Take that risk, cause time gets stolen
Maybe speak, listen, listen more
Life's too short, you only have one
It might sound cliche, but your life can start
When you choose it to, when you choose it to
Cause if there's something you wanna do, just do it
Don't let your hands go, go on from moving
If there's someone you wanna talk to, talk to
Who knows who we'd be if we just live more and love more?
Who knows who we'd be if we just live more and love more?
Who knows who we'd be if we just live more and love more?
Who knows who we'd be if we just live more and love more? Hello everyone. Good evening. Can you hear me? Good evening, everybody. I can see a lot of noticeable faces already. Hi, Tracy. Hello, Bernard. Welcome to Haddow AMA session
with the Good Dollar team. Hello, Monica. Hi, Sunny. Thank you for joining us. Thank you
so much. Hello, Lawrence. We're happy to have you here and we just love a few
more people to join us hi mimi good evening it's evening here but good morning good afternoon good
evening wherever you are in the world you can drop a comment sharing with us you know where you are
in any part of the world you're in like we want to meet you want this to be conversational
like we want to meet you, we want this to be conversational,
and we want this to be fun.
So share with us where you're coming from
or where you're joining from.
And we'll just play a little bit, one more,
like one minute of music before we start the program proper.
Thank you for joining us.
We'll begin very soon. will begin passion The smell of your perfume
I thought I was immune
Looking around this room
Can't help but see the traces of you
This moment is surreal
I can't put into words how I feel
Twin, where have you been?
Nobody knows me like you do
Nobody gon' love me like you.
You can't even deny it every time I try it.
When I look in my eyes, you know I'm lying.
Lying, body, body, skin, skin.
I'm never gonna lie to you.
I'm never gonna lie to you.
I'm lying to you again.
You were made for me. Just for me again You were made for me
Just for me
You were made for me
Only for me
You were made for me
Oh yeah
You were made for me
It ain't everyday
I get in my feelings this way
I knew it was rare
Cause before you I never did care
Don't know what I would do
If I had to go wrong without you
Me, twin If I had to go wrong without you Between
Where have you been?
Nobody knows me like you do
Nobody gon' love me
Nobody like you can't even deny it
Every time I try it
When I look in my eyes, you know I'm lying.
Lying, body to body, skin to skin.
I'm never gonna lie to this again.
You were made for me.
Just for me.
You were made for me.
Only for me.
You were made for me Made for me
Made for me
Made for me
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Just for me just for me
okay i love this song so much thank you so much d, our DJ Gigi. Thank you so much for giving
us this beautiful music. So we're about to begin. Thanks everyone for being here. It's
lovely to have you here. My name is Uzoma Onokogo and I'm the partnership lead for Hard
Dow. And Hard Dow is a women and non-binary focus and web3 development DAO that is focused on helping
women get more into the space, get into web3 and creating like a space in web3 that represents us.
So we are all about you know inclusivity and diversity in Web3. And one of the ways that we support builders in Web3
is also by helping them, connecting them with supports,
grants, partnerships that facilitate what they are building.
And that's why we're excited about what the Good Dollar team is doing.
It's almost like it is made for the builders like the song we're listening
to so i'm just going to give a summary of it and then i'm going to introduce lawrence who's going
to take it up from there so that he's going to give us a more in-depth detail about the good
dollar quadratic funding round for the Builders Program,
which is designed to empower builders who are enhancing or utilizing the G-token
and driving world impact in the ecosystem.
It supports developers and builders and contributors who want to build and bring a fresh perspective into the GoodDollar
ecosystem. And we're going to be talking with Lawrence today, who is the developer relations
of GoodDollar. And he'll be sharing with us more information about the Builders program,
the application process, and tips on how to make sure you're applying right
and doing the right thing.
Welcome, Lawrence.
We are so excited to have you here.
It's good to have you here.
Thanks for having me.
Okay.
I hope you're having a good time and you're enjoying our music and everything.
Oh, yes, definitely.
Yes, yes.
I love music.
I was vibing, so that's good.
I was dancing.
I was really dancing to the music.
Thank you, Gigi, for the advice that you're giving us.
So let's talk about the Good Dollar Builders program, right?
And you know what it's all about
and what the aim of this funding round is.
Sure, what format do you want to follow?
You ask me the questions and I explain things.
explain things you want me to introduce the program yes sure so I ask I share
You want me to introduce the program?
some questions and then you introduce it and we'll be going covering it step by
step through the questions that way okay sounds good so the introduction of the program is that this year, GoodDollar protocol is offering an ecosystem fund where we try to attract builders to help us build out the protocol further by hopefully finding builders with good ideas to build apps and bring utility and value to the good dollar ecosystem community
hopefully with real impact for real world use cases and whatever we can do to
help builders in that process well that's what grant round is for
Thank you for sharing that.
So who is eligible for this grant?
You know, is it just developers or anyone who is working in the Web3 space?
Right.
So we define builders as anyone that can be part of the process to eventually produce
a production dApp.
So building process of a dApp, there is not only a developer,
there's also product managers, designers, marketeers.
So anyone that fits that narrative, basically we define as builders.
And it could even be someone, but a builder is also someone maybe you have a local community
where you have an ID for or that you can make work happen on the ground somewhere is a builder too
and then you can open up then you can use our funding process and our builders program to maybe
find builders to help you realize your idea so the
builders the builders definition is quite is quite broad for us yeah that's
a good thing about three how it incorporates everybody to anyone can be
a builder and I know one of the first things people are asking is do I have to
be a developer to be a builder but you really need it seen behind you right or can an
individual apply for this grant as well they can and and we hope the the hope is that we will create
a builders community where we can connect the right people with the right ideas so maybe you
have an idea but you're not a developer we hope to attract developers so that we can, some developers are good in developing, but they don't have IDs of their own. So yeah,
we hope to build this environment where everybody comes together and builds out IDs.
Okay, that makes a lot of sense. So Lawrence, please tell us more about the application process for this grant.
Is it a typical process we have for grants in the Web3 space where there's a period for applying,
and after applying is a list of projects are selected, and after being selected,
the grants round is broken down into milestones, which you have to complete for you to access the round.
Is that how it works?
And what's the length of time for it?
So the way that it works is we align this year
with the Gitcoin Grants round,
that will happen three times a year.
We will facilitate the development phase first.
After the development phase, there will be a grants round where you can apply for it.
I don't know if people are familiar with applying for a Gitcoin grant.
You just go to a form,
you fill in the details of your project,
your ID, the milestones you want to hit.
And afterwards, a donation round opens for two weeks.
So the idea of our application process is we do
some filtering on what type of projects we would like to see,
even though we accept a lot of project ideas,
we don't define a specific branch that we are looking for.
But after your application is approved,
you will show up on a big board with other projects.
And the idea is that you start to try and engage people,
our community or communities that you already know of,
donate to the project.
And based on matching funding through quadratic funding,
which Gitcoin always uses,
you will get funded both the donations,
plus out of a matching pool fund, you will get extra donations,
and that will be the funding for this round.
There's no milestones.
It will not be cleared based on your proving work.
You will... We fund the idea of your project,
and we expect you to build it out.
So after the donation round of
two weeks is done within a week the funds will be clear to you um we see we do see the program as a
continuous continuous program throughout the year so maybe the first round you will not get a lot
of funding yet because your id is maybe not as developed as it as or
production ready but then you will have three months of development until the
next round and if you then show improvement you obviously are eligible
for more funding and rewards was that clear yes quite clearly if I want to
repeat everything you see just make sure that clear on Yes, quite clear. If I want to repeat everything you say, just to make sure we're clear on it.
The funding round lasts up to a year and it's broken down into three parts according to
the Gitcoin funding round that has been applied.
There's a David Luqme phase, then there's a grant round, and then there's a donation
round.
Am I correct?
Yes. Okay, thank you very much. then there's a grant round and then there's a donation round. Am I correct?
Yes.
Okay, thank you very much.
Hello, everyone.
Welcome.
If you're joining us newly,
we are talking about the Good Dollar Builders Grant Program
that is available for builders, developers,
and anyone who is contributing to any project in the Web3 space.
And we are talking to Laura Swainin, who is going to be sharing with us what the grant is all about and the tips to make the application stand out.
So I'm really very interested in knowing more about the types of applications you're looking for, the types of applications GoodDollar is looking for.
And I think that a lot of people in our community is also interested in knowing that because
we want to know if the GoodDollar is more focused on social impact projects or
nonprofits or non-for-profits or community community just what kind of projects have you seen
or do you typically does your organization typically fund so well there
is no comparison material because we have not done this setup before on paper set up before. On paper, Good Dollar is a public goods protocol. So likely is the assumption that
especially our community will be more engaged and interested in projects that are aligned with
providing public goods and services, bringing financial tools and services to low-income countries.
But the funding itself for our program, we are quite open.
And even if you have a fun meme coin ID or you have a game that you can develop,
the end result what we want to see is a developed app
that integrates the good dollar token or the good dollar identity in a meaningful way
and that is as broad as you can think of it
that's so broad it could be anything it could be it could be anything yes yes so so but what i did
start with is i do assume that the community and people that are interested in learning about good
dollar or already know about good dollar they work obviously in the regenerative finance space
um so those projects i would assume tend to get more fraction and you have a higher chance of
getting funding and donations through the donation route but it could be that there's someone with a really fun game and maybe they know how
to engage the community in the right way and they get the interest.
We don't know.
What we want to see is utility so that people can use their good dollar token and we don't
make judgment on what type of ideas people bring to the table.
So you want to see utility of the good dollar token and
then traction in the community right is that like a criteria as well for the product to be in use
well yeah the criteria is basically yeah use good dollar token and and identity in a meaningful way
token and identity in a meaningful way.
That is the criteria.
We do offer next to the regular grants rounds.
There are different ways to get additional funding.
For example, if you have an ID and after you build it,
you successfully engaged the community,
a good dollar whitelisted user to use your DAB,
we have engagement rewards.
Based on users engaging with your dev,
your dev can receive additional rewards.
So a good successful app,
it's a good successful app and you are engaging users.
Yeah, those tend to, we believe to succeed.
But again, this is the first time we try it.
So it is a learning process for everyone. those tend to we believe to succeed but again this is the first time we try it so
it is a learning process for everyone
all right i i appreciate the openness about that part um
there's one other thing that would like to know what's typically like the amount of projects that are coming in and the amount of projects that you know that get funded just so people
um so people who are applying have an idea of that you know the chances of them getting
giving the grants because it can really get um it's just a good thing to know.
Right, yeah, so that is a difficult question to answer because we have not
run this type of rounds before. We also don't know what type of projects will
eventually get the interest of people that are donating in the GitCon grant.
of people that are donating in the Gitcoin grant.
So far there are 14 applications that are in the process of being approved.
But yeah, we also don't know...
Did that answer your question?
Yes, we did lose you for a bit.
I don't know if I'm the only one.
Yes.
The part where you were saying so far you have 13 applications
and I'm looking at
it now. Did you say something
after that?
No, no, no.
We have 14 applications
in process of being approved
but that
we are also
really interested in seeing what type of projects the community really would like to see build out.
Okay. I'm looking at the kind of...
Maybe good to point out is that next to... so there is every round a matching pool fund. So based on your donations that you get, you will get extra rewards based on the matching pool amount of money that is available.
We also have selected mentors that bring various expertises to the table.
They have additional funds to send to the project that they really like to see build.
So again, everything is open for everyone. have additional funds to send to the project they really like to see build.
So again, everything is open for everyone.
For example, I can give an example of an application which is not directly a public goods or non-for-profit organization, but it is a movie meter that similar to IMDB,
where you just host videos and you can and you can upvote
with good dollar tokens your the videos that you like it's sort of like a rotten
tomatoes IMDB movie rating site yeah right yeah yes yes yes yes so basically
so just an example of hey there are even those type of novel IDs that
are brought to the table.
Okay, that's good.
It's good that we could really tweak things and clear around things that we...
What is like the grant application process?
If you share a little bit with us, what the grant application process is. Is this something that can be completed in, you know, 30 minutes?
Is there some kind of things we need to get before or to do
or register for before we can apply for the grant?
You can directly apply for the grant,
but what is good to prepare before that is there will be a set of, I think, 10 questions.
And that is basically around the project that you want to build, a detailed description, how you will integrate good dollar, what type of impact you want to reach.
of impact you want to want to reach. Also we want to see people have an execution plan on the ID.
So not only an ID on paper but also thought through how they want to build it so that we can see hey
they actually thought it through and they know how to build it. There is a question
There is a question in regards to the theme that you are going to build it with.
So either you already have a theme, you could also say, hey, I just am a single developer
and or builder and I will be looking for a theme after I get the funding for the ID.
Again, this is a simple form to fill in with just a couple of detailed
questions so that we can understand hey someone has not only an id but is able to execute on the id
given the funding and maybe guidance in building teams and bringing the right people with the right expertise together, obviously.
Okay, I'm looking at the application process, and it's really not that,
it doesn't seem that difficult.
You have to get on Builder.gitcoin.co
and create a project there.
But then there are a couple of things
they talked about, eligibility you know technical integration so do we have to be you
know register or the good dollar ecosystem or to have a good dollar identity or something like that
um no for the application we don't have those requirements we we do I think there is a website URL required for your project ID I do believe we do ask for socials
which you can verify but there is no criteria to be a good dollar whitelisted
user for the application.
user for the application
Okay.
All you have to do is your idea should be able to integrate
the good dollar token, right?
And that's all.
Right, yeah, or the good dollar identity.
So basically, there's options, right?
You can choose to integrate the good dollar identity
so that you can make sure that a user is unique
in the depths that you will build, which people can think of for themselves what use cases
they can do around that. And the other one is integrating the good dollar token in a
meaningful way.
What stage can our idea be if I have like, say, something that i just thought of or basically something i haven't
even worked on can i sorry you do fall away a little bit okay can you hear me now yeah i can Yeah, I can. Yeah, it's back. Okay, thank you. I was saying, at what stage should an ID be?
What level of ID is too early for any to apply for this grant?
The phase that the ID should be in is that it should be thought through.
So you should be able to explain what the project is, how you want to build it.
For example, you have researched what type of technologies you maybe need or what type
of engagement you need, or maybe there's a real-world use case you have
and you have to do work on the ground.
We need to be able to see from the application,
okay, this builder, this team has started through
and sometimes maybe they need some guidance or mentoring,
but they are able to execute on the ID that they have.
So for that, you need to be able to maybe define, hey, we can estimate that this part of the ID will take a month or two months to build.
This part of the ID will take three months to build.
Maybe it takes only two weeks.
So we do need an ID with an execution plan.
When it comes to milestones, maybe you think about, hey, if I get funding, how will I use the funding?
Will it be used for marketing?
Will it be used to get a developer?
Will it be used to get designer?
Or, yeah, depends on the ID, obviously.
So if you just had an ID that someone, if someone, if someone, if someone just got an ID
under the shower head, that might not be the ID yet to apply with, right?
Yes. Okay. Because you need to take your time to think through it. Like sort of like have like some kind of strategic plan for it.
Yes.
That makes a lot of sense.
What are like some common mistakes?
And this is what we are talking about right now.
You know, some common mistakes that, you know,
builders might make that would not,
like reduce your chances of getting the grant?
Like, I don't know if you have reviewed some applications, but what are some things that you see that would make it reduce your chances
of getting funding for the good dollar grants?
Either we are unable to verify that someone is able to execute on it.
That's one.
Two, we have seen applications that were maybe too, they were not too detailed enough and
they were all over the place.
So there was like a bigger scope of work, but all the parts of an ID were not really
connected to each other, there
was not really focus, and then the project was so large and seeing that only a team of
one or two applied with it, that made for us think, yeah, this is so big and there was
really no way for us to say, okay, this is doable for them, basically.
So unfocused, maybe missing some details.
I think what works best is having one problem you try to solve
and build an idea around that, right?
Yes, that makes a lot of sense.
Let's say as a DAO community,
we are focused on education and we are focused on training people in Web3.
Let's say we believe that it's possible for us to train some devs,
organize six most training classes where people will be endpoints
whenever they finish like
an exercise or a quiz.
Is this an example of a project that could pass through this?
That's my first question.
Yes, yes.
There's actually already one example up for someone doing an education program in Sierra
Leone and basically they want to learn
they want to teach educate people in Sierra Leone into Web3 and they use good dollar token for
rewards for people following the courses so yeah that is a valid valid ID okay so Okay.
So, we'd really love to know if, hello, can you hear me?
Yes, I think you fell away for a second, but yes.
Yes, sorry I fell away. So at any point in time, is it possible for Good Dollar to withdraw their
support for a project? Because it seems to me like the project is going to be like a year-long
project and the support is still going to be
ongoing even after the birth has been given so once the fund once the funds are given
they are given we don't have control over what happens next
so there really is there any other supports yeah obviously so we're trying to build now the whole the whole builders community and we are already planning new mentors for the new round
that is coming so we now have applications open for the current round that is the only round where
we will accept ids on paper obviously with an execution plan. From round two onwards, we expect to develop dApps.
So this first round is basically, hey, if you have an ID,
you can get some initial funding.
And then the next three months, people
can try to build it out towards a showable dApp, which
they can then apply for within round two, which
should happen in June-ish.
And the time in between, what we plan is we will have a group of mentors
available with different expertise where people can go to for support,
guidance. We will try to plan workshops.
We are working hard on updating all of our documentation too.
So, yeah, and any guidance people need, we try to figure out
a way how to help them.
This is lovely because I was just thinking about being a non-developer, right?
Being a product manager myself, right?
And I still need to understand the Selo ecosystem, you know, understand how to incorporate token,
you know, still need a little bit of guidance around tokenomics and all of that, but basically
writing smart contracts using CELO. I think that's one part of it that, you know, a lot of people
need mentorship and support and just basically technical expertise on.
leadership and supporting just basically technical expertise on.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and we do understand that, that we will likely attract builders, no matter
what their expertise is from all kinds of levels.
So we try to build the environment where people can also learn and grow through the friends
program.
But it's also good that for this first round, people with just and simply ideas can apply
for it.
I think it's a great initiative.
And then in the next three months, at least there should be a development by then in three
months time, and then they can apply for the second round in June, right?
Yes, yes. by then in three months time and then they can apply for the second round in June right yes yes so builders you heard it it this is an opportunity this is a great opportunity
if you have a project you're working on it doesn't have to be off the ground yet if you just
gathered it your team together or if you're still working on creating like a business plan for reads you can apply for
the good dollar builders program i'm thinking we could open the floor for someone anyone who has
questions do you want to say something or do you have any questions you might want to ask laurence
you can share and we'll make you a speaker or you can just simply drop like your question in the
comment below or identify or you know
to be a speaker and we'll make you a speaker for you to talk right um so can we can anyone
apply for more than once is there like a rule there can we apply for more than one time?
Yes, we fund projects, not people.
So if you have three IDs, but we do make an assessment on reasonable execution.
So obviously we if someone is by themselves and they propose 10 IDs
So obviously, if someone is by themselves
and they propose 10 IDs,
It is really hard to imagine one one builder by themselves losing 10 deaths in three months
Right so there should be a reasonable but but people can apply and there's no there's no yeah, there's no limit to that
Is there any initiative focused on like female led project and you give a preference to that. Okay. Is there any initiative focused on like
female led projects? Are you giving preference to that? I
mean, it's definitely okay if you're not, but
what? Sorry, I missed the first part.
Are you giving preference to female led project or
applications?
In the end, we don't... So from our mentors, I can imagine maybe some of them have that as preference,
but in the end, the matching pool funds, we don't really control where the funds go to.
It is really about people themselves
able to engage the community to interest them to donate to their project.
And from the mentors we have, I think from the mentors this round we had I think 10.
There was Lena from Cello, for example.
I know that she has been involved in her DAO before.
Yes.
So there are people that, and I think it's, well, personally, I think it's good to have
diversity.
But yeah, so on paper there's no clear preference.
I mean, we believe that anyone can build anything.
Yeah. Okay. I think I understand it now. I have a clear perspective on how the funding works. It's like crowdfunding, both for projects, than for community. Yes. And the funds that we make free is in addition to, hey, the community likes these type of projects.
They will be based on quadratic funding, so that is a mathematical formula.
They will match additional funding on top of that.
But we don't control that.
That is done by math, and that is by, hey, engaging community, how many donations do you get?
by a engaging community, how many donations do you get?
And you will get extra funding.
And you will get extra funding.
Okay.
So some of your projects,
if your project gets traction in the community,
if you're able to engage the community
based on the amount of people that you engage,
the quadratic funding would calculate
the amount of funding you get mathematically.
Am I right?
Yes.
Okay. That sounds very fair that sound equitable like there's no bias towards it sounds very fair yeah i would like to think so
okay yeah um i think i've asked like a lot of i've asked almost all the questions i think I've asked like a lot of, I've asked almost all the questions.
I think you've given us a lot of clarity on the project, how to do the application, what
it entails.
Is there any form of, I think we could go to maybe a couple of the projects that have
been, you know been joined. So the amount of projects that have been in the community.
My question is, is there a first stage to it where the projects are first selected to be on the
platform? Because I am seeing 13 projects currently there now.
Is there like a process where projects are first selected and after that,
then they are funded?
And my second question is, are all projects that are selected funded?
I would try to, I'm going to ask after this one to repeat the first question.
Second question is, no, not all projects after they get approved get necessarily funded.
Because we really will, it is really a community engagement.
And like you said, the word crowd crowdfunding it really depends on where people
want to donate to and what they want to see built okay i'm just going to look and find out if anyone
has any other question that they want to ask please share with us if you have any other questions but i think we are we are done here
i'm from hardout nigeria hardout kenya is there any kind of question you want to ask is there
like some kind of grants you would like to seek for your community or any ongoing project you
you want to have because we have a lot of projects lined up in hardout currently you know we want to fund our
educational projects we want to fund like travel for some developers who would want to have
international hackathons so those are some of the they think that i'm wondering if would be
I'm wondering if would be great enough to be part of.
I think someone is.
OK, yes.
So Trina, do you have any question?
Do you want to say anything?
Would you like to contribute or share?
Sonny, would you like to say something?
Tracy, Mimi, Hadou, Mexico, Hadou, Nigeria, Hadou, Kenya, is there anything you would love to contribute to
this place? Do you have any questions for Lawrence? I think someone is raising up their hand and
I think you can speak. Blessing, would that be you? would you like to say something hello blessing can you hear me
i don't think two questions are requesting for mike but um before i accept or let me just go straight to accept that i have a question okay so
hi laurence thank you so much for the insightful section okay um i want to ask so i noticed that
good dollar is kind of partnering with cello guys so must the project be built on cello yeah that's like question i have
must it be something that will be deployed on cello chain or it can just be on any plane but
it must be yeah so that's my question thanks for the question uh yeah so good dollar currently is
existing with contract token contracts on
cello, fuse, blockchain
and the ethereum mainnet
those three are the ones that you are
likely able to build on top of
I would think cello makes the most
sense because it is where
our reserve is also
where most of our activity is and it is cheap to
transact on i mean i would not want to build my own dev on ethereum mainnet because of the gas
prices so expensive so yeah for so far cello is the main chain where likely the focus is
though if someone is really capable and able to say,
hey, I can deploy a good dollar on other chains,
brilliant idea to apply for.
We would love to see that.
Does that answer your question?
Yes.
Thank you so much.
Sure.
I have a question.
I think, what would you say is the best way to get the community to rally around your
your Gitcoin submission?
How, like, how would you, like, what is the advice you would give to any builder or any project that is intending
to find favor within the community as the Gitcoin round goes on?
That is a good question where I maybe not have the answer for.
I am not a marketeer myself.
From my personal experience I would say the ideas speak for themselves, come with a good
idea and the community will engage with them in an organic way. But I would say that maybe engaging and integrating yourself within
the community helps so get active on discourse where we have a forum where
also our DAO is and our governance proposals are you can join any of the
social channels we have on telegram there's a discord builders channel um and you can also engage with
our with our team and if if we think the project is good we have our own ways of also we have a
news feed in the wallet and good app um but yeah that is um there there are various ways um get
yourself known into the community, I would say.
But also today, I don't really know yet where the donations will come from.
I don't know if the donations will only come from our own community.
If there are outsiders that are interested in good dollars.
Yeah.
But there's a question.
And I will, and after this space, I will try to maybe get...
It's good.
I will start thinking about it.
Maybe we could use a format to help people
market their IDs into the community.
Yeah, exactly.
Because sometimes it may be difficult
to know who to talk to.
And also maybe in forums like Discord or Telegram,
sometimes people may not receive your dm in good faith you
know but um yeah i think i think you've also given some good contribution and i'm sure
we've picked it to a thing or two thanks so much thank you
we have someone with another question right listen who was the second person who has a question?
While the person is coming up,
he just gave me another question.
Okay, hi Tracy.
I think Tracy wants to speak.
Tracy, can you unmute yourself?
I was gonna ask a question,
but I think it's already been asked.
I was just going to ask a question, but I think it's already been asked. I was just going to ask what community necessarily validates what you're working on.
Is it the Discord groups where we validate which projects most people are interested in?
We don't know yet. We don't know yet what the best channel is for getting engagement or validation for the
project.
I do think that the most active members are in the main Goodall or Telegram channel.
Okay.
Yeah, that is the biggest community and there is where the most users are.
So I would think there.
And from there, there is a moderator's team active, which is really engaged within the
community.
They know a lot of people within the community.
So getting yourself visible in the main channel will also likely get you in contact with the admins there.
So, yeah, Telegram main Good Dollar channel.
Thank you for sharing or asking those questions.
And is the community, the Good Dollar community, is it expansive?
So, it's something that we can also be part of, right? And does it mean that we, even after applying, we can
also vote on or even contribute to other projects? Is that possible?
Can you repeat the question? Sorry. I was asking, is it possible for the builders and the project owners to also be part of the GoodDollar community and also, you know, vote or donate to this project?
The Gitcoin grants round is open to anyone.
So all you have to have is, I don't know, any, I think it's currently running on Cello.
I should know this.
Maybe you can donate from other chains too.
I believe you can only donate from Cello.
I have to verify this.
I can do after the space.
But anyone with funds that they can donate to projects that they really would like to see built.
Okay. Thank you. projects that they really would like to see built.
Okay, thank you. And there's a very interesting document that has almost everything you need to know about the Good Builders program. It's on Notion. I'm going to drop it just below this session it has everything you need to know the mentors the link to the groups
the frequently asked questions about the program you know some examples of ideas that have been
funded the builders and projects a whole lot even categories of projects that you can choose from
right and please can you remind us again how long
how long this particular round is open for?
So yeah, that is unfortunate.
This round was, we expected a different timeline.
That's the context, but the current round is actually open
for donations as we speak, I think, or maybe later today.
You can still apply with ID still the 7th of April so that is next week Monday but
donations already start open so if people are interested and have IDs it is
best to get the ID as fast as possible into the application process so that we
can approve it you get on the board that people can start accepting donations
and so it means that they are already project that are getting the niche
donation well let me let me check for not saying things that are not true
so it means we have to start putting in our application as fast and as soon as possible.
Yes, as soon as possible would be the preference.
Because the ground is...
Yeah, it will be later today.
I'm now unable to translate it to a workable time zone.
Wait, how can I see that okay uh ah so uh application close in five days donate uh donations start in 18 hours okay in 18 hours but the application
you can still send applications for the next five days, till the 7th of April.
Okay.
Okay.
So, fastest fingers.
If you're able to finish your project, apply in 18 hours, then you don't have any disadvantage.
You get to start getting funding or you know donations immediately as soon as you can
so please join the telegram group join the discord channel you know and you can also get
more insights from our community if you're part of the hardout community thank you so much
Lawrence I really enjoyed the session is there any other thing that we want to talk about before we let Lawrence go? Is there any other questions anyone might have? Hi, Rai. Hello, Mimi, Trina, Sun. I think I've not heard from you. You can still contribute. you can still ask the questions I'm going to share the link to
the good builders program so that you can apply as soon as possible but we'll be sharing it on
hardouts with our page so you get all your information from hardout on twitter um we'll
share that we'll share the notion there's a final thing that I would like to share.
So people should not feel rushed.
Obviously, there's now an opportunity to get some funding for an ID that you maybe want to build.
There will be more rounds following later in the year, so you can take your time.
The next rounds, we do expect do expect developed apps so that is a
thing to consider for specifically developers if people want to get some experience in contributing
to open source projects we also have a partner program with the scout game so basically we run our own depths we have a wallet we have
good app where you can swap your tokens and state for governance we have good collective that is
community pool funding i cannot explain that right now in detail anyway we have different depths in
production and through the scout game we have opened up our repositories on github
so if you sign up for the scout game i can share the links later with with you so you can share it with the community um but basically through the scouts game you go into github you see different
issues in our list they are labeled scout game and a difficulty on them, working on them and we accept your full request on GitHub
will get you rewards for the issues that you attack.
For people that just want to contribute to something and want to get a little bit of
bounty rewards, that is a different avenue to, well, I think it's a good learning experience
yes it might be a great way to just start your your development journey or your project management journey by just contributing to some ongoing projects already before building yours maybe
the next round yes i totally agree with you
Yes, I totally agree with you.
Thank you so much for being here with us.
I really appreciate it.
And we'll be compiling all the necessary links and resources.
We'll get them from Lawrence and we'll share them on hardout Twitter page.
Thanks so much for everyone who joined the space.
You can always listen to it again because it's been recorded and we wish you
the best of luck as you apply for the good builders program cheers thanks for having me have a good
evening all good evening have a fantastic Tuesday bye bye bye Thank you.
