you find a glitch in twitter
we can send it to elon musk
why did he collapse like that
when there was ben speaking
i got a little notification saying
who said connection issues
i i seem to have this effect
i was just talking about that
everything had been going well
and then we all got rugged
sorry everybody got rugged
i'll share the link again
yo i was so into the discussion too
and make electric vehicles
i hope you can figure out
people are more complicated
that was my favorite tweet
i don't think it's a technical problem
i think it's a financial one
i think they're just like
not spending enough money
to like really make it work
impact certificates being
a piece recently uh about
really quickly but i just
impact certificates if you
them on there also if you
have any problems using it
can really you can really
i'm like can you help put
definitely put stuff up in
the in that community hub
similar hubs out there or
other things like that that
linking to or like sharing
who would you like to go next
uh yeah i just uh you know we
are uh entering a new hour so
we have to remind everybody
about our pledge and we have
to thank our guest ben and
colleen and to invite a new
band on stage so thank you so
much ben and colleen to uh
spending an hour with us it was
really nice and uh yeah very
interesting and i remind i
remind everybody that the
center of this marathon is a
everybody to pledge an extra
donation to the gift coin
alpha round so something like
an extra mile so i know that
you all of you have already
donated but we can do more and
specifically trying to support
the small project and bundles so
this is the main reason why we
decided to do this crazy 12
hours marathon so take the pledge
is linked in the in the comment in
the chat uh yeah take the pledge or
you come on stage and also you can
take it uh informally just telling
everybody how much you want to
pledge uh that's it and uh yeah
ben come on stage and jimmy ben is
i'll just give my uh my love to the
other ben my fellow ben dao member
uh and like marathoner upon
marathons uh you know doing yet
another uh marathon space today
uh i uh i'm gonna have to take out
the uh my dogs pretty soon but i'll
try to hover around if there's any
more get coin questions and uh
uh yeah just great to to share this
solar punk guild uh space with all of
you this is great thanks for the time
and uh and for all the great
questions and the interest in
giving to get coin and you know just
making this all success together
y'all are great yes thanks everyone
and thanks so much for supporting the
bundles really appreciate that
hi jimmy hello atlantis hi ben thank
you for that uh my fellow uh ben dao
um how's everybody doing today
i think we are on the last leg of our
marathon so uh hanging in there yes
let's let's smash some likes
yes everyone's awake yes good and now
we have a special guest ben uh another
ben from ben dao uh here to take over
yeah so uh my name is ben burkle um
people might know me better as a milk
money uh i am uh one of the i guess i
don't know if i like to use the word
founder but uh organizing member of
cm guild uh it's a effort that any
community manager can help contribute to
to to grow and organize that effort it's
really focused on bringing community
managers in the refi space together to
uh really focus on upskilling um and
in organizing different events
collaborating uh growing and learning
with one another really um and trying
to uh spread the reach of refi in
general and and you know through
combined efforts grow the the refi
movement and grow grow the refi
uh but yeah is there any questions or
uh yes i have a question and uh well
first of all i have to share some
excuses because i joined the guild but
then i was uh missing in action the last
three months due to too too many
activities including a two months long
expedition to find the solar bank safe
place anyway what you are doing is
amazing and i have to thank you also to
inviting me to the to your give a tone
last friday was amazing and uh we got
rocked uh with ben west same moment
but still it was amazing it was a great
atmosphere a great conversation yeah i
want to ask you uh some suggestions for
uh for the for builders here with us
uh tonight on how to uh i say to enjoy
a two weeks uh gig coin grants how to
stand better the pressure of it and if
you have some advices surely you are an
experienced community manager you know
how much sometimes you can have pressure
on you and uh i i tried many times in the
last week to uh to share the importance
of mental health because i know that
everybody is really working hard and uh
sometimes you go beyond your limits so i
wanted to know a little bit about your
experience and that if you have any
suggestions for um our fellow uh builders
yeah burnout is a real problem um you know
especially for community managers community
managers tend to try to be on call 24 7 as
best they can obviously you got to get some
sleep but um it's really important to
yeah mental health is definitely important i
would say like some of the things that
first come to mind is trying to remember
that you can't control everything and
um you know focus on the areas that are
most important and you know you're gonna
have failures along the way but that's so
you know it's all about how you pick
yourself back up from that failure
um and you know i was watching this video
and it was talking about what what is it
a mistake actually a mistake is not like
failing when you attempt to do something
uh we're all going to fail at some point
along the way and that's just normal right
that's part of the learning process
what a mistake is is that you continue to
try to do the same thing over and over
making that same you know failing in the
same process failing in the same way
um that's where the mistake is uh so it's
really about learning from previous actions
and always growing always uh learning to
adapt where you can um but yeah i would
say one of the things is just know that
you can't control everything um and just
accept that you know at some point failure
is going to be a part of the process
uh don't can't really beat yourself up too
much about that i mean take it for what it
is as a learning opportunity uh the other
thing is make sure you get plenty of rest
sleep is absolutely key um you know uh jimmy
somehow can go 60 plus hours in these
marathon events and with very little sleep
and still keep going i think that's
something that that is well practiced and
maybe not highly advisable in terms of
doing it consistently over and over again
um but yeah i mean sleep is is definitely
important and then reaching out to others
you know when you need help just uh don't
be afraid to reach out to you know your
fellow team members uh when you need that
assistance it's okay to need help uh around
certain items even if you know you said you
would take on a specific item and you know
you're struggling with it or you just can't
find the time to do it you know reach out to
your fellow team member i think those are like
the key key things to keep yourself from
stressing out and burning out uh because
burnout will lead to not just mental stress
and anguish but it can cause some real
physical problems too for for people over a
long enough period of time uh you can
actually become ill uh that's not a good
thing yeah the recovery from a burnout can
can be pretty lengthy uh i've experienced
to where i've burnt myself out and it took
me nearly a week to to really recover and
come back to and in that week's time you
miss out on so much where if i would have
just taken a day or two to just unplug and
really decompress and de-stress uh then i
would have been back in action to go again
for you know however many more months or
whatever but yeah uh knowing when to take a
break and paying attention to those early
signs of burnout um you know making small
mistakes um forgetting about like
different times that you got scheduled for
meetings or something like that they're
like simple like small signs of potential
burnout and obviously you can only be the
only person that's most aware of you know
what those signs are for you personally so
yeah be vigilant and stay aware good
um amazing answer i really learn a lot and
on my side i must say that i need every
day to stay at least one hour in the woods
so going to woodlands nearby my house with
my dog is really makes totally the
difference and uh because i can't really feel
the pressure uh coming down so it's something
like a physical need for me doing that
almost every day and then a long hike once a
week really helped me to uh stay grounded and i
must say that uh this round for me and this
open also another question i have for you uh this
round the alpha round for me was uh um was
amazing because i succeeded in having a much
stronger uh uh balance and uh this was due
mainly to the support group that we build it i
mean the solar band guild even if it's a new
group but we really supported each other uh
checking out checking in uh more than once a
day uh sharing love sharing the map really this
make all the difference i must say because um
being two weeks uh working i'm i should say
around 15 hours a day on a gig con grand is
very hard but if you're alone it's almost
impossible so if you're in a group it's
amazing the this uh being in a group how much
you can leverage your energy so i really uh
advise or suggest everybody to find to build a
support group because this makes all the
difference and my question is about uh
this gig con grand how was your experience i
mean the last two weeks have been for you so if
you want to share a little bit about that
i think i kind of missed a little bit about what
you what was my experience over the last two
weeks for with gig coin yes yes personally you
personal level how did you enjoy the grants how
much pressure you had because i know i mean running
a marathon that you did is also very heavy so i
just want to know a little bit about that
yeah definitely um so get coin time is usually a
pretty busy period for anybody um anybody who's
running like a give-a-thon or a marathon a type
of event depending on how structured you want it
to be um the more structured you have it the more coordination it requires
um so the more intense it can be in terms of
the planning uh and everything that goes into it it can be
you know quite a heavy lift if you keep it too structured i think one of the
things that i learned is that maybe having a slightly less structured
experience moving forward for our give-a-thons would be a good idea
um it allows us to be a little bit more flexible
it it allows it to be a little bit more free-flowing and for like
good conversation to take place instead of feeling the need to
like either cut it off or or whatever it might be right because you got time
slots uh that you're trying to fill and i think
that's one thing that i can take away from
uh my experience especially for this last round
um with the give-a-thon i think it it's really
interesting like having semi-structured versus
being free-flowing finding that right balance is key
um in terms of like pressure i think
this was an interesting round as we
kind of came into the round there was like a little bit of discussion about how
we were going to do it uh so there's a lot of last minute pushes
that took place i think is pretty common i think with most projects there's a
little bit of you know last minute things that take
place um the other thing that i had going on was
jasmine energy which is a organization project that i work for as a community
manager um is going through their campaign to
launch their bridge uh so i was busy doing that as well i
fortunately enough i have uh a good friend who's also on web3 that i work
with uh on that project for their community management
uh alex uh bez some people might know him as a nightly
next tape on twitter really good guy really amazing at what he does
uh he was able to hold down the fort for the most part
and really uh take on where i had to like maybe
take a little leave to focus on the gitcoin stuff
so that was definitely helpful i think all in all though the experience has been
really wonderful it's it's been a great ride it always is every time i learn
new things i learn about new projects i learn more about projects that have been
around already for a while uh i get to meet great people speak with
great people hear from great people that are in the space building you know
like that's the great thing the greatest thing more than
than the donations is uh the networking that you get from
interacting during these uh gitcoin grants it's it's phenomenal the the amount of
knowledge that you gain the the sheer amount of connections that you make in
the space you find you know possible you know
relationships that that align to where you could have unique strategic
partnerships uh that maybe you didn't weren't
aware of before um and then you get to hear all the
amazing things that people are working on so
those are the main takeaways for me and i really found the bundle um aspect of
this gitcoin round to be fascinating and quite a beautiful thing uh there's
something really cool about having that uh together and i think that in
itself as you kind of pointed out uh creates a bit of a support group uh that
maybe otherwise might not be there for like individual projects
uh yeah i i totally agree uh bundles are something that uh was just invented last
month but is uh i think they have a long way to go
so yeah uh jimmy uh irtu do you have any question for you for our guest
uh yeah i uh i mean this this whole space of community
building uh it's it's it's a space that td doesn't have much frameworks
to go about like telling like hey this is the definite way of building community
um so i'm curious to know from ben like is there some learnings that you have
especially in the refi space have you been noticing something different
uh the obvious ones like you know these cross collaborations are interesting
uh but uh are you seeing anything else like uh how do you deal with this whole
uh we face this in uh our efforts where you know uh climate action is still not
a priority for a lot of people so building community uh the rate at which you could
build something is really affected how do you navigate this whole space that what's
the insights that yeah i think it's a really good question um i think for every
community it's a little bit different even though we're all you know within that
refi space and we're all you know focused on impact in some way shape or form
um each community is going to have some unique dynamics to it and and
importantly before any of that is really having some intention behind your
community and what i mean by that is figuring out what kind of culture you
want to set what kind of things you want to you know see either
rewarded or or take place right you know obviously
helping out one another um engage with one another in a positive
way through uh you know different types of
conversation that are actually meaningful and beneficial to both parties
um educating one another these are types of cult you know cultural
things that you want to have implemented how do you support those um you know so
really thinking about how you want your community to look like before you start
to really build out the community is is kind of key uh there's this like
really cool mind web like uh infographic thing that i posted a while back
that kind of highlights like the different areas to really think about
um when you start to go into your community building strategy
uh you know one is the culture the other thing another thing is how do you support
um you know equality and and diverse diversity and and things like that
within your community uh you know you want to you want to provide
a space where it's not just you know a male dominated space or or or you know one
whatever domination of space you want it to support all walks of life this is a
global issue um so it takes a global community to come
together to solve the problem uh so really finding ways to support that
uh and really being thoughtful in that process is is really key
another thing is being very clear about what steps you're willing to take
to drive engagement and grow the community um you know it's really hard during a bear
market to grow a community it's not a simple task and more often than not you
almost have to resort to incentive-based uh tactics and these are these are really
good and these are there's nothing wrong with this uh my only caution is that if you
only have an incentive-based tactic you're gonna wind up with a certain kind of group
of people who are looking to be extractive then once that campaign comes to an end
then they leave the the community and then you're left with you know uh yeah you grew
your numbers but there was no meaningful engagement that came from that right so aligning
that with something else education amas twitter spaces these types of things to help
really drive education and try to convert some people i mean one of the things that i i like
to use lately is being galaxy it allows you to have a great amount of reach into areas that you
normally wouldn't have in the refi space um and then having a lot of education behind that whether
you use like 101.xyz uh which is a learn to earn platform so people can go and take educational
courses about your project and about refi in general while they're there it gives them something
to do while they're there because you got them in the door with that incentive campaign now that
they're there what are they going to do you want to educate them on what you're working on you want
to educate them on refi you want to educate them on what climate impact means and why it's so
important to them um and in really making it personable uh more people are willing to do
something if you make it personable to them if they can have an emotional connection to that thing
you're more likely to drive the behavior that you want
great takeaways yeah i really do resonate with that like the education part
you got to really try uh moving away from this whole uh climate change is complex uh it's got a lot
of scientific terms is thrown around uh how do we distill this break it down uh make people realize
that oh climate change means i'm gonna run out of water i'm gonna run out of food uh this is what
it means um uh it's uh it's uh it's the direction to go and i truly uh i agree with this uh anyone else
who has any of questions for ben i think the space that ben's focusing on is really challenging and
outsides uh probably the single most critical piece in any of our efforts uh any of these refi
projects will only really fly if it has a very strong community backing it uh so i'm happy to open
the stage for more questions uh by uh ben uh i have another follow-on question meanwhile meanwhile
will we wait for the rest of them uh i think yeah marco has something do you want to go
yeah um i was wondering about the story of the of the guild that you built like uh how did yeah come
out yeah so i think i i think what you said was um how did we come about or wanting to create or
establish this guild excuse me so it really started out from this kind of sense of loneliness uh as a
community manager um and feeling like there's got to be a better way to get connected with other
community managers in the space uh and and really feeling like anything that's that's collaborative
in an effort should be maybe not necessarily has to go through a community manager but should almost
be done through community managers it should be community managers that get together and go hey
this would be a good idea let's collaborate and do this um when it comes to anything that's
community based right and so i thought back to my experience of what it was like to be in the cohort
for uh the founder circle the first one uh and it was really unique to anything else that i've
experienced and i found it very very powerful and very very uh i found it to build bonds with uh
fellow builders in a really strong way uh bonds have you know continued on to this day uh and where
we continue to support one another um the members that were a part of the cohort that i was in
and you see that in in other cohorts that have existed you know in the last uh six months or so
so i thought it'd be a great idea to have something similar to that uh for community managers to have
this kind of central hub where initially we we have workshops right where community managers can come
there's there's no cost they just get this education they get they get they get to experience
or have exposure to different community management tools that maybe they weren't aware of
or maybe they were a little bit too daunting to go and try and tackle um like for instance we had
galaxy come in and do a workshop with us we had kudos just recently came in and do a workshop with us
we have jimmy i believe is going to be doing a workshop on community building with us here soon
um we're going to have john ellison come in to talk about behavior uh and how that applies to
community building uh we'll probably have daryl come in to talk about how to really build and support
a culture within a community these are the different things that we're going to have in place
for community managers to come and and take part in to learn from uh people who are really
experienced in the space um or from different project tool you know that are tools for community
management that maybe they otherwise wouldn't really consider or or don't have the time to really
look into uh and this puts it all into a central location for those individuals who are looking to
you know grow their communities in different unique ways and then eventually we want to have a
cohort where you know for six to eight weeks there's these groups of community managers that
come together and really focus on how do we improve how do we grow how do we build bigger better stronger
more educated communities that can go out and then continue to have further reach right because
word of mouth is one of the biggest best marketing tools that there is for for anything really is you
know if i hear about a project from a friend i'm more likely to look into it than if i hear about a
project on like youtube or or see it as an advertisement on you know some website or something
right i'm more likely to take the word of a friend uh versus any other form of marketing i think
so that's really important too and and the end all goal is really to create better community managers
not to say that the community managers are not great already they are uh it's to create better
ones to to to continue to improve upon the skills that we already have to learn about tools that maybe
we don't have the time to really learn about because we're so busy as community managers um you know it's
staying staying up to date on what's taking place is really really important for community management tools
thanks for that ben marco do you have a follow-up
no that was it and it's interesting because actually like uh the story is similar to the
the one of the stop and guilt uh which was we kind of were like feeling lonely and uh like we're not
enjoying that much the fact that everyone is super active during the climate round
of gitcoin other one is shilling and super present spaces and between the different rounds
nothing is happening like people are much less active they're much less supporting on social
media etc so this is actually the story of the solopang guild and it's nice because there are i see
different analogies between these two guilds so yeah thank you for answering yeah i would just like to go
share my experience in this space i think um you know this constant interfacing with the earth-based
soul has been really good for us overall as a project and he has been very uh integral to our online
efforts um so it's it's it's uh it's definitely nice to have these peer networks where you're able to
check in especially during gitcoin you know it was always nice to wake up and like load up your system
and like already he sent in uh discord check-in asking how we're feeling uh i think that the bond's really
important especially in the space that we're working in uh yeah it's it's been really good fun i'm glad to be
in the middle of this kind of really warm community
yeah i'll uh i appreciate that and i would like to ask something to ben because uh uh what you're
doing for community manager is amazing and i really uh i take treasure from your presentation to
try to be uh more active to in your group because i think is much needed in this space
and i was just thinking that probably what is missing is a place where to teach uh builders how to build an
audience because very often we uh we think that the community and or in an audience are the same things
but they are not and uh there are not many places when you can learn how to be effective in creating an
audience for your project that is the first step before uh building a community and sometimes uh people
are confused they think they need a community instead they need an audience uh what do you think about that
then i'm sorry i didn't quite catch all that my phone was cutting out could you repeat that one more time
uh yeah i was saying that uh what you're doing isn't amazing but you are focusing on community
manager i was saying that in my opinion uh uh we need a place or uh some project uh to help builders to
learn how to build an audience because uh very often uh small uh builders or new builders they get
confused between building an audience and building in a community and everybody speaks about a community but
very often uh a small project they need first to focus on building an audience so uh i was just
wanted to know if you find also that there is this confusion between audience and community
and uh what you would uh uh suggest or to a new builder that want to build an audience first
yeah i think in terms of like building an audience you know you got to always think about a couple of
key things one definitely is who who is your target audience who who is this project for um that will help
you kind of decide where to put your focus um you can also then from that moment decide okay where is
your audience most likely to live if it's b2b maybe linkedin is a good way to go about uh tracking down
or or building that audience up right um if it's you know more regen uh defy individuals um you know
twitter discord you know these are the areas the platforms in which to be focusing on then um if
it's web3 builders again twitter discord those are the areas of focus uh it's so it's it's really about
finding out first of all who is your target audience um and then going from there the one
thing that i would say is like the for me the way that i look at audience versus uh community is i think
i think of audiences you're like your core community like who who's first uh gonna be there who you know
the the more i guess the more engaged individuals is the way i kind of look at that that core group of
people within the community that you first started out with and really focus on organic um growth and
that in terms of growing your audience that way um is going to be key
yeah i i agree and there is much to learn and i just want to share uh to bring our experience and uh we
are very new on in this space and uh uh we open our twitter account uh both myself and marco bear
beginning of last year uh i started to uh be active on twitter on april 2022 and uh but uh uh sharing
constantly ideas around our project and a lot of visual really at us to build uh an audience so for now
us about 5 000 people and this was really really important for uh uh our running uh gitcon grants and
so it really helped us to find the first seed money and was really uh crucial for uh building up our
project i see many people many builders also to undervalue the importance of building a twitter account
uh uh at least looking at our experience this was really crucial in our experience so
i always try to help other builders to to do that because i saw how much important was for us and uh yeah
it really changed everything and still uh uh i still use a little bit of my time to uh do a good uh twitter game
um and um i always have a very big return on the time i invest in my twitter feed and uh yeah
and anybody else want to share his experience
we have some updates on the pledge so um hold up for those banners coming out
will be edge closer to 2k will be able to be close we have another one and a half hour left
that that that that's very good let me remind you what the pledge is about and uh i'm sorry for the
people who has been with us for already 10 hours so they listen that probably 20 times but the pledge
is at the very center of our marathon uh is a simple play we ask you to pledge to make some extra
donation to the bitcoin grants and uh specifically targeting a small project uh and bundles and
we think that uh is a good way to celebrate an amazing uh alpha round and two weeks so very hard work
together so we think that the best way to celebrate is to help others and specifically a small project
project so we ask you to pledge maybe one dollar maybe ten dollars maybe a hundred dollars really
depends on your uh uh what you can offer what you want to do and uh but this will really helps a lot
because we are approaching two thousand dollar of pledges so it means that our marathon is bringing
two thousand two thousand more dollars to the to the gitcoin alpha round and these are it's could seem
say small sum of money but it's not because in some of the slow days of the alpha round uh they were raised
around two two thousand dollar of donation and if you consider that all these will be mainly small
donation uh can be a really an important leverage to help a smaller project to have more quadratic
funding and to have more success in the grant so don't feel shy uh take the pledge you can just come
on stage saying i'm pledging this or you can go to the links in the in the in the tweets shared in
the space and you take the pledge there is a tally form there back to you here too
um i'm just curious if jimmy's already fast asleep
poor guy i think a great shout out to him um yeah and ben yeah
sorry just one minute talking about the legend jimmy
i must say that after 10 hours of marathon i can't really believe that he does a 60 hours
marathon i i can't believe that so i'm almost dying on my desk after you know i feel drunk without
having a drop of alcohol it's crazy this is he does 60 hours marathon right 60
no i've been on these spaces he's legit you know it runs through on through and he's constantly
conversing people with people yeah it's amazing what he does um i mean anyway
uh shout out to him and he's fast asleep now i guess so guys we have another um
an hour and a 15 minutes left so what do we do what are we doing in this last one hour
yeah i see many people also in the that are listening to us so if you guys want to come on stage
i want to choose your project shield your project or tell us what you're doing working on like feel
free to request uh by the way i passed by one of the twitter space of susie which you can see that
is between the listeners that was super nice space but yeah it's the last hour
you guys were actually talking before about uh how to build an audience right and i think that one of
the things that you guys did really really well because i've known you since you've been in the
space we kind of came in this space uh relatively at the same time you grew exponentially faster and i
mean the dedication to it is you know obviously to be commended but building that audience as well
you benefited from the fact that you were very laser focused on what you were doing you had a very
clear goal and a very clear idea and i think that that helps a lot i mean one of the things i feel like
that my project struggles with is because it's so broad i can we take any pictures right so it's very
it's very simple it's very easy to do and very easy to get involved with but it's a very broad
target so it's hard for people to wrap their head around somehow because you're not giving them the
these specific directives that you could you're like hey we're earth-based soul we're solar punk nomads
this is what we do that's it and i think that that that's a huge huge advantage and i think a lot of
people that have those kinds of uh specificity in what they're doing really helps build that audience
because people know what they're getting yeah what's up you know uh yeah i just wanted to comment on that
and uh i agree with you being laser focus really helps but i want to share a secret
uh and uh the best way to please
well uh i must say that the first the best way to understand and to refine your message is to spend a
lot of time with your audience so uh being very consistent with your twitter game and i mean not only
tweeting but it means also interacting with your audience and dming having time having chat with
your audience so an exchange of information is not you have not to consider your audience as a passive
element but uh you really need to be open to exchange information so we have it by directional
flows of information this really will help you to understand which part of your project are ready
to be shared and on which part of your project uh your audience is vibrating and how also you can
express the message in the best possible way because uh to give you an example on solarpunk and nomadism
we started to we actually we visualized that project about four years ago during an expedition with
marco beara to document climate change in europe and we started to visualize this lifestyle and because
we are start we are using a land rover diesel land rover for our expedition and off-road vehicle but we started to
dream about uh the cyber truck and so we started from the cyber target and said okay wow we can make the
power with solar panel wow great so imagine a lifestyle like that so when we first uh developed this concept
we call it cyber nomading it was not that effective and uh we use also a different media that was instagram
but when we started to be active in the web3 space we renamed the project solarpunk nomadism because it
really was aligning with the solarpunk vision and we were so aligned with the solarpunk vision and then
the magic started we saw the uh community reacting to our project and we refined the message and the more you
refine it the more your community react to it and so you build that but you need really to be very open
you need to use a lot of your time uh because it takes time to to run a successful twitter account
but it gives you so much because it's like an express uh i don't know i could take a very fast train in
nine months you do what some projects take five years so twitter is important and uh i think it's vital if
you have a web3 project my personal suggestion is right it's good to have a very wide project i can
i mean i mean both myself and marco bear we can spend hours explaining you our wild plans but uh we
take our wild plans for us for the time being and uh we only focus on what we're going to build in the
next year or in the next six months so this is our strategy up to now it's working and uh marco do you
want to add something to that no quite well and uh for me it's a lot about balance balance of how much
you're asking to your audience and how much you're offering to your audience like i see many daos many
different organizations that they just require too much from the audience they just uh like it's a classic
social media or marketing role like you cannot you need to offer content which is something that
you can get in exchange for people being interested in your project or people being interested in your
event or twitter space like i see so many different daos or twitter pages organizations
they just post their links and what they're doing and how we down and how we do things
and that this goal like it's interesting for some of us but not for every one of us and if you just
post that your community will come or become sore and will not follow your most important updates
so for me when you're managing like a community uh this this applies to like daos non-profit profits
like it's a general rule but i think in non-profit it's even more important like you really need to balance
this otherwise your community will not support you that much that much when it's important and an
example is for example uh so upon nomads um of course now we are asking our community for something
which is donations which is support sharing our tweets uh comments likes whatever but it's important that
our community feels um not betrayed like it doesn't feel like we are spamming their twitter
account their home and in order to do that you offer them things that are very interesting things
that have a lot of content which are art which are photos which are to a project that it's real that
it's building the first vehicles like you need to have something exchanged and this balance is very
important and uh my first suggestion to everyone else like to hold it out all different organizations
but even personal profile it's that like you need to have a balance on this otherwise you will not see
many likes and many participations in your activities but you said quite well we don't and yeah it's i think
it's in this field but like many other fields it's a lot about trying and seeing what works and learning
from your experience like it's another handy path you keep learning and learning and learning
uh i just wanted oh sorry i too i just wanted to add that sometimes i feel sorry for my audience
specifically during it can grant because uh sometimes i share like 10 times a day the banner of our
campaign and uh but i must say that uh personally i have a very patient uh audience and uh because i i i i
never lose many followers during a good campaign i can't really tell you that i'm stretching the the
community the the audience to their limits because i'm really not all every day but very often i tweet
something like 30 times a day and that is a lot uh but yeah that's part of the beauty of it can grant
and here too would you like maybe to share a little bit how uh changing the twitter game changing the
views of your company of your project this could be useful maybe yeah in fact i was just gonna speak
about like uh uh uh what the personal changes i have observed in our project as well i think i could
really uh relate to what jerry said uh initially when we thought about what we were trying to do um you
know we could fit any kind of climate project into our thesis and that's really broad and we're still
working on it we're still trying to find our footing exactly uh about the spaces that we are passionate
about we know a few things we're good at we know there are a few things that we see as strong
components of this vision that we want to build uh the journey to that um kind of mapping it out
and a key thing that earth based soul mentioned was finding out what your audience vibrates with
it's uh very important uh getting to know deeply like okay this aspect of what you offer
uh but to the community seems to resonate more maybe that's what we need to build first
and uh yeah it helps to be open um i've been my backgrounds though i'm a mechanical engineer by trade
uh i had a lot of experience in business development and often i've sold products at a lot of value
and i've sold products that really didn't have value and there was a lot of inertia where you're
forcing products down consumers throat and the best way to build is with the community and web 3
unlocks this in very new innovative ways there are so many different plays where think about uber
being frustrating for all of us in some way or the other and we had more of a say because i guess we
all use that service for example similarly like that like these problems that we are trying to solve
they're very personal to people um it affects their personal life so these web 3 rails really do add this
new dynamic to the whole climate action space and these stories are hard to weave and communicate
so we really got to distill it down which i think is still a big journey for us personally
uh we have come a long way uh especially in terms of uh uh being more uh getting a brand style of sorts
of our own over time um but it i think this is a long journey and uh yeah a lot of learnings here
i think i totally uh resonate with whatever good or mentioned uh getting that clear messaging so people
i think it was marco who said you know you don't need to make your audience don't make your audience
work a lot to figure out what you're doing i think that's the biggest takeaway for me in this
thanks guys appreciate that speaking of which we are into the last one hour i think
let's see uh how's the energy how's everyone feeling i think everyone's going to be re-energized
now knowing that it's just 60 minutes more
i think i'm going to miss everyone as well
except for jimmy who is taking a very deserved nap after breaking the world record for planting trees
yeah i'm wondering how the week after he did a 60 hour space
i'm wondering how did it happen like is he sleeping with his phones and headphones on
he just forgot i don't know i'll be proud of him if he's asleep though i hope that's the case
yeah and here too do you have the the last data so how was last hour how is our pledge going can you share it with us
yeah yeah we do actually uh i think uh marco bear has to i check his discord and update it we have a small update we have inched closer to 2k
a lot of that 2k is probably matching as well isn't it i mean i would think that most people
that are donating here are all you know got their passports matching passport everything no
absolutely uh most yes these these 2000 will be matches they arrive to i don't know probably 10 000 or something like that but the most important thing is that if everybody follows our
suggestion that is to target small projects or project that uh received less and bundles this will really help to change a little bit the balance of the of the round
of the round you notice that none of us has shared or shield about our project so we are not here to
promote our project but we are here to support the small one because we think this is so important
but yeah all these amounts will be uh will be matched yeah i i do i have a small request i think i can see
many members of earthis tao and uh um uh also uh vandra these are really interesting projects
who are looking to solve some very interesting space uh but would like for them to come and probably
you know shill their space get these folks we have like 10 10 different people here who all probably
are donating and get going they would like to hear about it um so a gentle invite to you all whenever you feel ready
ready in the next one or do drop in we'd love to hear from you all i think we have moda uh up
hi moda uh welcome to the space uh uh everyone would love to hear from you and these amazing projects you
and soto are part of and yeah i think people need to know about this amazing stuff you guys are doing
um first of all thank you for inviting me to the stage um it's a pleasure to hear from you as
always uh of course i can talk about the projects shortly um i am mora i am working for the project
vanara which is the sister project of earthis um earthis nesberg is a project that works with hemp
the ancient plant that regenerates the soil regenerates the air regenerates the whole ecosystem
by its many benefits uh we are trying to uh make the world remember this ancient plant
uh its uh large benefits and how it presents itself to us without expecting too much
we can easily uh cultivate hemp with very few water uh just within a couple of months and it sequesters so
much co2 so in this way uh we are hopefully planning to incentivize local farmers small farmers um through the
the proof of impact we are creating with hemp farming and the regenerative agriculture practices
uh soto can tell uh very detailed about this part of the project uh what we're doing is basically
we also create products from the different parts of the plants uh unfortunately the flower part is not
legal in turkey so cbd is uh not in used uh in a medical way but uh we are using the other parts
such as the the body uh the stem part um sorry not the stem part uh the fibers um and the seeds
uh seeds are very nutritious parts of the hemp plant uh it can be turned into a powder that can be used
like a protein powder as a supplement or as a replacement to the regular flower or powders
uh and it also has a very nutritious oil that contains lots of fatty acid lots of vitamins minerals uh we
are working on that also uh and in one area we are using the fiber parts to produce textile products uh as
you can guess these textile products are eco-friendly uh regenerating the ecosystem through the usage of hemp fiber
which happens to be the strongest and most durable fiber in the world it had um a very large area of use
since thousands of years like making rope making clothing making bags uh so
uh we are on a mission to carry this tradition um and to produce slow fashion unique handmade products
that are produced without machinery uh and by the hands of anatolian women uh that are economically disadvantaged
uh living uh living in the countryside parts of turkey and uh we also want to regenerate the culture there
because producing what we wear what we use uh by our own hands and with something that came from the soil
that has a huge value and we are trying to revalue this back again uh and in this way regenerate so many
stages of the ecosystem and vanara is within the creative bundle so within this last day i hope you support the creative bundle
alongside with so many beautiful art projects uh some of them are here and thank you again for inviting me to the stage
um and i want to give the mic to soto if he's here
i think while we wait for soto more just curious like you did mention quite a lot of different applications but
is there any particular one that you are really putting a lot of focus and is it like the seeds
where you uh mentioned that it's got uh it's a good replacement for protein powder i've like i've baked using
the flour made of seeds uh that was very interesting but just want to understand what's the focus in terms of the
product that you really think could be the first one that you could introduce to the market
yes sure uh actually we have a brand uh for food products uh which will be focusing on the floor and the oil
first uh that we will be releasing also as a means to have some uh financial income and for the sustainability of
the other parts of the other parts of our projects but our um the real target is to produce hemp parts
which are the core part of the seeds so after we get the seeds um there is another uh process called
de-hauling and after that we can get the core part the inner part of the hemp seed which is called the
hemp hearts um it is very nutritious uh very nutrition dense i should say uh and there is no hemp hearts
production in turkey at all so hopefully we're gonna be first to introduce and produce the hemp hearts
in our food brand called the artist's garden this sounds very interesting uh all the very best and
um we're hoping to hear a lot of more interesting things coming out of artist and vandra
thank you thank you and we are waiting for your support as earth is in this last day in gitcoin as well
all definitely i think uh i've in fact uh we have pledged some funds uh actually specifically for
earthists so uh but maybe hold on maybe we might have some more uh in store for you all so continue
shilling uh is there any questions you have for the group here any particular thing you feel you need
you have you need help with uh we have been here we have earth-based uh projects who have a lot of
experience you know with gitcoin so if you feel like you have questions or you know you would like to
have some insights feel free to ask uh thank you for now i don't have any questions uh personally in this
gitcoin round it was my first um gitcoin round actually as an active member um of these projects
uh in the gr15 i was just newly introduced to the team and i didn't know so much but this process has
taught me a lot has been teaching me a lot and i'm also very happy that i am keeping contact with
you and with most of the projects for most of the members of these projects here as well so big thank you
everyone and this support we have for each other is uh what gives me hope and what gives me the
motivation to go on with all the things i've been doing
yeah it's so so interesting to know about your project mora and uh we are so happy to have you in
the solar punk guild and uh i want uh maybe here too we can share a little bit about solar punk guilt
what do you think absolutely uh i think uh more and more solar punk guild is becoming this continuum uh
to the post gitcoin season usually uh i would say that the guilt kicks into action during uh the gitcoin
off season so i think it's a perfect place for mora uh to be part of you know engage with um
different projects there are a lot of us with different skill sets are willing to help you all
push a project uh we'd like to have the refi movement from turkey really galvanize and it's a huge
cultural hub where the europe and different parts of asia and africa come together so i think it's uh
it's it's it's it's a cultural hub and we would like to green pill it with all our outfits what's a good
yeah and uh i i want to add for uh who doesn't know about our guild it's a new project it was uh
we decided to start the project during uh twitter space in gitcoin grant 15. it was uh one of the
the solopan cafe we did and that specific cafe was a desert we were just the founder who found
themselves but it was not uh by chance because we had the opportunity to have a very um informal
conversation and uh we uh we shared the the the i said the need of a place or a space where to meet
regularly even after gitcoin grants because there is so much to learn about gitcoin grants
and in general about public good funding so we shared this need and we decided to build a group
so we met for uh almost a couple of months a month and a half uh giving shape to the project and then
we started to uh present the project to the public end of november uh with a simple twitter space
that uh we're doing regularly every week and uh yeah on tuesday and uh then we opened the discord and
we started onboarding about two months ago now we are about 35 people and we have another 10 or 15
need that need to be onboarded and yeah our goal is to um to build a support group to learn more about
public good funding and uh to support each other like we did during this gitcoin grant even
sometimes supporting means also just checking uh how are you and uh if you need some uh some some help
maybe you don't know how to do things but somehow someone else in the group did that already small
things but they are so important i mean we found that really made a lot of difference
uh the the project is just at the beginning the group is still very young so we need to
learn more about each other but uh we have amazing people inside there and uh if you are interested to
know more about that and if you are inspired by the solarpunk vision uh just join the guild dm me or
mark on year two and uh we'll set up the onboarding for you uh next meeting will be uh next tuesday and
we'll probably make something like uh a relaxed space about the experience of gitcoin uh half around
so we start from there and then we'll build for next two months before the next uh
gitcoin grant what do you think here too absolutely i think uh the downtime from gitcoin is a very good
time to build and the structure really is perfect for early stage founders over like you have this
whole accountability where you work three months uh and then you get on a small 15 day sprint but i
think it'll be interesting how gitcoin evolves maybe we might have consistent pool of fundraise possible
uh but uh i think uh the guild really is a big support a lot of like-minded folks which is usually
a barrier in terms of time and energy spent to find the right folks i think that's where this whole
aspect of community really shines isn't it having this like-minded folks you already have a level of
establishment we go to the guild we start working on really crazy ideas i think uh like what we have
that's upcoming with the solar punk nomads in south india very excited for it very uh slightly nervous as
well it's a very challenging project to come up with a unique vehicle that could go around india and
spread climate awareness uh i think this is something that even guido and earth-based soul probably isn't
aware me and uh in atlantis we used to call the solar punk nomads as you know uh missionaries they're
like the uh missionaries of uh spreading this gospel of sort being a solar punk and uh it's very interesting
how uh in some ways that's what they're building uh modes of spreading this gospel and then having
safe places where missionaries can check in and you know recharge and then again continue with the
journey it's it's too good to be it's too poetic so i'm all pumped i think it'd be great to have more
founders in this journey by the good we have soto in the house he's also another uh core member of
uh earthis dao i would like him to come on stage and speak uh his vision with earth as the network and
how he thinks uh he could be a pivotal part in this whole regenerative economy
maybe we wait uh uh sorry sorry sorry hello you're talking to me i'm so sorry i was on the uh
computer and i can't talk there wasabi thanks dad thanks jimmy here too hello all it's missing you
and yeah it's gonna be different uh between the rounds after alpha actually and i'm glad to be here
with you and thank you to the cm guild also it's very very important that what you do is spreading
all the new things that has been going on and we've been talking with the community that we were
thinking that like um stone age basically didn't finish because stones were out you know uh technology
and consciousness has changed so now we are in the same kind of era that the fossil fuel will not be
over but the consciousness and the technology is changing so that's why uh the solar pang movement with
vans i'm so jealous that like with marco we want we want the solar pang vans as well
and made with maybe hemp insulated inside it's much lighter you know puts up the water very well
when we mix with some lime so i'm looking forward for the project continuing after the land rover also
so yeah i just want to say hi uh we are working on a on a different project related with hemp also
um we started this uh association and it's really taking much time actually because it's more than 90
people that's uh with the industry leaders so not all of them are aware of this plant actually so
we are preparing them with the information actually so we talked a lot so maybe i don't need to talk
about it here uh again but maybe just to talk shortly the plant has been used for i think 10 000 years
not i think it's uh the written records uh show and one area that we are nearby is mesopotamia
and it's where the tumerians was here with their writing so there are traces that how this plant has been
used actually um basically our journey started with the medicinal part of it because of a healing
community member actually a family member more than community and getting into it um we see that
even though it was used for 10 000 years it's somehow uh gone to obscurity to dark uh for last 100 years
under the name of sometimes green revolution uh in quote of course so i'm thinking that's how this is
important to address the climate situation that we are in because it's scientifically proven that it's
the most uh carbon dioxide per hectare uh absorption compared to any forest or any other commercial crop
so it's really ideal for carbon sink but as mora mentioned our aim is not with the stuck in the
carbon tunnel vision actually so we are aimed at empowering the small family farmers who are making
more than 80 percent of our food and when you see the cradle of civilization everywhere in the history
you basically see the seeds are at the heart of it and uh referencing the hemp hearts of course just kidding
um so thinking that uh the cooperation the coordination that we all do between so many different projects
because we can't all be on the ground on farming with the agriculture and there has to be many many sides
and the main three points we focus now is data the correct network which is community which all the
solar punk guilds all our reef high friends region friends and that's uh i think one of the most important
parts uh part uh with data and of course uh the access to investments yes we all should have been funded
that's why like this is kind of a race but losers are are still winners like we are in the last five i think
out of 50 but we are still happy because all our region friends are winning so it's the it's the same thing
and so we are glad in that part actually so did i just um talk so many different parts is there any
question or any specific subject that um you maybe wonder because as i said like with the cooperation
coordination and the humanity will thrive when there's enough food medicine clothing caravans shelter raw
materials and basically the seeds provide those and uh just as i showed so many times before you know that
hemp seeds can provide all of those it alone by the way yes earth base that hello uh yeah i well so glad
that to be in a space with you again after a few months uh i i i have a question for you and uh we discussed
about that about how environmental conditions are going to change fast and uh yeah we've been also
talking about uh the solar park safe places concept so trying to build places for our community in
areas that will be uh probably less affected by climate change and i wanted to know a bit about your
country and uh specifically the area where you are are you already seeing some effect of climate change or
did you study any prediction i mean uh how things will evolve in the next let's say 20 years in your
country in your area do you can you share that with us um for this season to be specific actually
between the plantation and the harvest uh we've seen this time the most um the temperature difference
between the night and the daytime uh we usually use hemp mulch actually but we didn't have much last
time so we could only cover the uh under the trees and so like they require basically less water uh because
of the evaporation it's um it stops uh but last two years um as you as you remember we were in north the
really northest point of the country and we had the flood that has not been seen last 60 70 years actually
and um it affected us much i think like um maybe 10 15 decars of land was um troubled and um but it
was okay in the end uh after some uh patches but this year it was a less flood but we still had the
flood i mean the uh couple years ago it was really destroyed the houses and stuff like i can maybe share
the link afterwards and looking at the this year now now uh we just had the cold weather only i think
a couple days ago it was still uh shining and hot and all people are saying oh the weather is nice so
great so great you know and i'm like yeah ask us you know like because we need the basically
winter in the winter so i'm really curious about in this year um because we generally plant around
april 20th and depending on the moon condition if it's on new moon or the full moon and we change our
plantation dates basically so this year i i'm expecting it to go for may maybe end of may we
will start planting because it will i think get warmer uh on those arounds uh actually we are that's
we've been building in the beer market actually i love the beer markets on that side actually i mean yes
we become broke but uh you build and with the bull market you go up again so it was great and
uh what we aim is um digital gaia uh augmented collective intelligence to uh get the data from
hemp farmers and uh get the information for the inputs and because like we claim we say that uh we
do regenerative methods but not all other hemp farmers are doing the same so the inputs and the outputs
uh when those are uh data has been got the final result we will have a clear idea of which seeds will
be good for which climate and soil depending on which purpose basically we say so many things but
the farming part is not the same if it's for you're going to be using the seeds for the cosmetics or the
fiber for the fiber for textile and for herd if it's going to be biochar or to a construction
isolation material and they all depend on their nitrogen levels we love mycorrhiza and the fungi is
really amazing it's just like us the network on of the underground so i'm happy that i was introduced to
mycorrhiza meanwhile so yeah hopefully we will have a better scenarios of upcoming climate changes because
we don't have much time as you say if we have something that we don't know it's hard to act right
on but with this new technology with some machine learning and artificial intelligence we have some
uh prototypes of uh what should we use and how should we use so i'm really glad to be in the space actually
working on the ground with an amazing community amazing friends like you so yeah that's my if i was
like i don't know answered your question you guys are based in uh turkey right turkey yes where like
can i tell you uh uh the black sea we were in black sea sinop uh the northeast point when you if you
maybe open google or uh not google but yeah i forgot the other name anyway we we were in the north the
north's point uh but uh last couple months ago we moved to izmir and to the uh eegene parts of the country
the west the far west ah it's the sea yeah uh what yes how do you know you're a traveler to turkey by
bus from milan so i cannot remember the amazing my sister lives in milan but it's just come here it's
more green here that's cool it's me okay i will pass by oh yeah um any other questions or any subjects
just uh go and go down no no go ahead yeah just sort of he's just hanging out here this is the last
half an hour of our 12 hour marathon and uh you know if you have any questions for the rest of the
projects here um yeah just uh free yeah okay so maybe for atlantis here too uh i have a couple
oh yes wake me up please so are we invited to the festival because like i'm looking at the planes and
uh looking at the map it seems amazing absolutely absolutely sort of we would be more than happy to
have all of you here and uh i think uh it's gonna be a perfect place for you uh yeah excited guys who
else is getting on the green pill festival train uh we have urbanica in the house as well uh i think uh
uh finally we have our amazing amazing friends and uh co-partners in solar punk guild uh the amazing
anna and umberto please uh i think we are going to shut up now you guys got to take over this last half now
wow thank you so much irto and guido and everyone else who has been here for 11 and a half hours
it's absolutely incredible i've been switching between accounts unfortunately umberto had a
little bit of a tough family situation so i'm taking over the urbanica presentation
um but yeah i'm extremely grateful for for this incredible job and i am i was just checking every
hour the the pledge and just to see that people pledged so much it's it's very inspiring and amazing
so yeah it's just the magic of gitcoin coming together and yeah and sharing the common purpose
um yeah so urbanica uh is an activism school we evolved from being uh just a podcast to becoming
an immersive activism school uh we are collaborating with david bollier uh one of the greatest authors on
the commons and we are focusing the uh the school on on activism and giving the people all the tools
they need to start their own urban commons so uh we teach them the basics of what are the commons and
what is web3 and what apps they can use how it works uh what is a decentralized mindset and so on so
it's it's a complete a complete journey um and we are very grateful to to have the help and support of
david bollier in this in this journey and besides that we were thinking for for a long time how can we
bring the knowledge that we have and the knowledge that we are building to people in the local communities
so we are about to start in the following month a trip a five-year trip throughout latin america in a
school bus to bring the knowledge of what urbanica is doing and what are the commons and what are we
building because i think we are all the people that are here all the projects that are here we are here
with the same mission and so we just need people to hear our voices and sometimes we can struggle with
that because we are in our own bubble something that opened up our eyes a lot was when we were creating
the first iteration of urbanica we were very lucky to have a local activist in our team and she is a
super super motivated person she's really like she's been a solar punk for her whole life without
needing to to call herself a solar punk you know like she is the definition of a solar punk person
and uh yeah we were creating the course and we had the this idea of making quizzes uh via um uh
via the blockchain so you basically solve a quiz you get an nft you um log in with your uh which
you connect with your wallet and so on and she came to us at the end and says well you know this
looks very cool the problem is that i have an iphone that it's a bit older i don't know like my metamask
doesn't connect and it really pisses me off because i spent like three hours to do this because i want to
to do it but it's just the technology is a barrier for me so we just adapted and we created a whatsapp
bot just because it's what's used by people so sometimes a lesson that we learned is just to be
flexible and even though we might not agree completely with some technologies like whatsapp is
created by meta we don't really agree with the philosophy but it's it's not about being radical it's
about reaching a milestone so yeah this is what we are doing we are very excited about what we are
doing um we also pledged some money to support uh the cause and um yeah we have some um interesting
updates coming from the pledge uh anna so what do you guess how much do you think we have raised take a
quick guess before we post the results i was never good at this year too what do i get if i guess
correctly you owe me a beer uh yeah we will get you all the beers on the house and the green pill festival
all you have to do is get there ah okay okay good good um well let's say i don't know uh 12 000
oh okay okay yeah you're clearly not good at this game
anybody else has a guess 12 000 wow i told you i'm not good she's still in the hangover of what
happened to refi spring we gotta let her you know be yeah i think yes yeah you know yeah
well ask anyone else to give a guess you know like i don't want to get all the beers for myself
who else free beer if you guess the right uh amount before marco posts it marco how much time do we
have before you post it 25 minutes
yeah maybe maybe before that uh meanwhile while i'm posting it i can give you like uh 60 seconds
okay 60 seconds somebody come on look at the last raise and maybe take a small guess let's take a wild guess anybody
i'm down for the few free beers uh one thousand dollars and eighty dollars one thousand and eighty
let's see let's see let's see what the result is i think it's more
wait i always forget how to
pin the the posts ah here it is i think yes we have the final pledge it's not the final one this is the
latest so we have close to that we still have 20 minutes yeah we've got 20 minutes somebody's got
to step up and throw in the three dollars now
well you know okay okay i i pledge three dollars i do i do i do oh i think i should have been smart
and told like another 500 come on guys you know what maybe somebody comes and makes two donations of
five thousand so i can get five thousand so i can get the beers that would be awesome
congratulations it's an amazing result by the way like i'm wow you know
i'm saying three thousands no but we have already posted in water
i mean you can maybe you can make it
yes i see your hand a little bit just before very fast i'm just want to remind everybody that
how these two thousand dollar can really change uh the balance for some project because we are asking
every everybody to please please please with the money you pledge it support small projects support
the bundles don't go for the big project for the rich project uh the project that has been
already successful go for the small one and not only inside the climate round but the other two rounds as
well so let's support the small one and leverage a little bit the quadratic funding and this will make
a lot of difference for a lot of people just i want you to add that sinuye you have the mic yeah
i just planned it for 20 but i'm gonna put like more i'm gonna put a hundred right now any anybody
have any that you want to like shill or like any any anybody wants to gain me a little bit i'm super tired
um so if anybody wants to just throw me a project i'll just start doing transactions right now
yeah i would like to uh vouch for and give a shout out to artist uh and mora and soto i really love
the project it would be nice for you to support them then the space as well
thank you and i want to add one more small thing because you have just said green peeling the turkey
something about green peeling the turkey yeah we're gonna have a very exciting announcements very soon
because we have just started a space uh like a reading club for the green pill book but it's not
only a reading club uh it's mostly like a circle a gathering space uh where we come together and
discuss the important concepts about refi about crypto space and most importantly we are trying to
practice new coordination games by um practicing meditation practicing some uh communication uh exercises
workshops workshops and creating an open space for questions and answers we had just made a test run
and we're gonna make it official very soon and i'm also a part of it so very excited
speaking of green pill uh i think uh it's it's uh we you know like we just recently put out this
thread speaking about the whole green pill and the green pill festival and we i think we came up with
it at like 4 a.m in the night like i don't know if you would call it night or early morning and we
just had kevin okey retweet about it this is going to be huge guys uh we are hoping all of you here in
the space do tune in and come for this so it's going to have a virtual aspect to it but it will be amazing
to meet you all in uh real i think it's uh there's so much of bond here i really like to meet all of you in
in person uh sorry i'm probably a bit hallucinated for the for the 12 hours of marathon did you just
say that woki retweeted your green pill festival yeah yeah we actually put this tweet up right now
it's on the jumbo train or tron or whatever you call it yeah i think yeah everyone atlantis right now
like oh my god look at this look what just happened with one tweet super excited i think
we could go for another few hours you know the marathon
amazing congratulations you are doing a great job and i would like to have kieran on stage where is
kieran kieran don't be shy just come on stage and share a little bit for us
kieran's kids are busy at gitcoin work you know while you're here
there's also carlos i'm inviting people huh carlos hi carlos welcome
just about the last 20 minutes of the 12 hours marathon i want to shoot your project
tell me guys what's happening i've been listening patiently to everyone talk so far
so okay kieran now you're here you have to share the how it's been the last two weeks of your life
oh please uh what now i think we were uh joking around yesterday uh on a call with grido where
i was telling like this past five years of my life i've been training for this very moment
but that was only because like i've i've been used to working night shifts in india
so this time zone for me wasn't uh too hard per se but uh yeah it's been a grind
uh but yeah i think we have uh really uh supported and uh been a community uh these
past two weeks uh to really help each other more than uh just benefiting and uh doing just the good
fight alone so uh i just feel like uh it's such a great opportunity right now that uh we have
this uh community around us that will support all the decisions all the crazy plans that we
come up with also and uh i'm just so proud of all of us like we're doing such good jobs
and we have really put in a really uh great effort this time around and it's showing it's
finally paying off i feel and yeah all all thanks to the solar punk guild for this uh insane marathon
that you guys just hosted kudos to all the speakers i'm sorry i couldn't pitch in the way i
usually pitch in for spaces but then yeah trust me i was there all 12 hours
i i had to rob his spot you know and take it over uh but yeah he's been uh actively uh tweeting and
making these banners in the background and uh i i just really like to thank him uh we have
some really passionate humans behind atlantis um we see ourselves grow through all of you so it's
really really great uh we have uh anna from coco uh dove would you like to come up on stage
hi friends yeah i just wanted to ask you guys um the green pill festival is uh almost happening you
said it was in march right um i just wanted to ask you um if your guys are looking for uh sponsors
um like what's the best way to support you guys i understood that there's gonna be like a um
online part of the event and then on uh on ground so yeah how can we support oh thank you so much for
that uh generous offer uh but the baby that we have designed this is um it's for people who are like
talent and builders and climate there's something relevant for founders as well as investors these
are three buckets that we are trying to answer and everything starts virtually feb 25th and the
last five days the finale that happens in uh this place called gokarna it's five days on ground
where we uh spend the first three days really uh hashing on the workshops and hackathon
so for re5 project founders this is a really great opportunity to come on ground learn natural
science climate tech or even the different web3 rails that is there and whereas if you are someone
who's just passionate about climate whether you're a developer writer artist you will have these hackathons
that you can be part of and in terms of sponsorship we are trying some very different ways to bring
people in like for the music festival uh we have some uh you know like the folks the likes of budweiser
and corona these people are already on board so they'll be like getting us some alcohol on the house
so that's kind of different beverage partners uh in terms of web3 we already have it's an alpha for you
guys we are in very close uh final stages of conversation with silo uh so they'll be someone that will be
coming on board uh sponsoring the event uh but it's just the start we are just waiting for gitcoin to
get over and really start speaking to folks um so uh but anyway uh we are happy to get support from
everybody maybe we will have some offline conversations around this and maybe you can see
what best way you want to whether you want to sponsor a track or you want to sponsor a particular event
event or just the whole uh festival as a whole um we can talk about it i think it'd be amazing to have
all of you actually take part and try to come for this event uh it'd be really amazing all of you
really passionate founders people can feed off your energy and uh investors are going to be there
they're going to lurk around looking for projects that need funding so yeah uh yeah that's that's what i
got to say anna i think we'll probably have did i get drugged yeah a little bit uh yeah i wanted to
well first of all congratulations for the twitter walkie big stuff really uh a good ending of a very
good day and uh i wanted to share since we have uh about 10 minutes before giving the stage
to carlos i wanted to to say that we have the very few last minute to give the pledge so if you have not
pledged yet you can do that and in a matter of 10 minutes before closing the event we will have the
final banner that is the final result of our marathon and then uh since uh it's becoming a
tradition that in an event we propose something else i was just thinking imagine that to next time
during next grants maybe in april if you can do this marathon but uh we can do another one of 12 hours
because we'll be boring we can make one of 24 hours and we can see sunset and sunrise in the different
part of the world so uh we sort of take the uh how you say the torch marco help me the like in in the
olympics you bring the torch and so yeah we'll see the rising of the sun and make a whole turn around
the the hurt and we will stay together as a community and we'll jam for 24 hours what do you think
debate are you just proposing a 24 hour marathon right now exactly
you know now you all know who comes up with the craziest ideas among all of us
now you have the culprit caught red-handed
i think uh in the spirit of this uh amazing space uh we would also like to pledge another hundred dollars
from atlantis as well um so yeah uh we'll be putting it into the bundles and really support them
i think we have jimmy's back
no that was me okay yeah i was just thinking how did how did jimmy just wake up to that message
anyway i didn't uh you said okay i pledged a hundred dollars but it was just a distraction
so what do you think about the 24 hours marathon marco here too anna everybody
you should propose again something like this so here to donate 100 more
i'm gonna respond to this after i get some sleep yeah let's talk about it tomorrow
good good as got bit by the jimmy pill
no i think it's a great idea but maybe it would be interesting to include uh like instead of organizing
like uh just the solar punk guild like involve other organizations and other people and like
make it as a sort of event maybe co-hosted by different groups like i don't know solar punk guild
the community managers guild regions unite whatever but like co-hosted by a group of people then it's doable
yeah this will be amazing and so you have not to be awake for 24 hours yeah yeah let's do something
like like that of course you have to be awake 24 hours you will just have some help to do the
you know to do the whole thing
okay so we think about that and uh we start planning we have a couple of months of planning
consider that this marathon was organized in 10 days so having like 60 days sounds amazing
yeah and uh the last nine minutes with carlos i don't know if you can hear us carlos i think you're a speaker
hey thank you so much thank you nine minutes is way too much for me to take up i just want to say
thank you to everyone i want to give a big shout out to all the spaces organizers all the
gitcoin team if anyone here is is present uh it's been another interesting ride through a grant round
and it's amazing seeing so much camaraderie come up through through the grantees and i'm just really
excited to see what happens next you know i think we get really caught up and i'll speak for myself i get
really caught up in the shilling and creating memes for you know quadratic funding and and all these
things your passport and uh we kind of forget about the the impact that all of us are still working on
while we're doing all of this promoting during the gitcoin grant rounds so i'm excited to to do some
like retroactive posts about what what's been going on with web3beats in the last couple of weeks
because i didn't want that to get um i don't know overshadowed by the amazing memes
so yeah i'm really excited to see what the rest of the projects have have to serve up for for you know
the next few months and see how those funds are being impacted it's something that makes me feel really
good uh afterwards you know knowing that the the amounts you know the small amounts that we're donating
it just gets amplified and allows for all of us to really build and and deliver impact in in our
regions so it's really cool i'm really looking forward to seeing what everyone else has has to
show for for the work and uh you know hopefully we start seeing more projects uh interacting in between
rounds as well and and really making those crossovers and figuring out where where the the synergies are and
how we can add value to each other and uh yeah that's that's all i'm i'm done with shilling because
i'm very close to that tattoo marker that my wife is really unhappy about so i really wanted to see
that tattoo now i mean it's it's only 90 away so it's possible but uh let's let's put some uh yeah i
think tomorrow the entire day we all are going to just chill tattoo for carlos that's it hey so okay
i i i i said i wasn't gonna show but i will throw this out there i would love to start experimenting in
between these rounds with some proposals for grant for the donors to help vote on right so we do a lot
of things where we're just running and gunning and figuring out what we're doing and where we think
the next you know opportunity to create value is but i thought it'd be really interesting and
actually this came i don't know if it was irto or uh i don't i think it was atlantis actually from the
atlantis account that came or it said can we can we design the tattoo from the donors and i said no
you know but i would love for you to help me decide how the funding gets spent so i think that's a great
opportunity for for my project individually for for yeah i think i think we'll put our heads together
and figure out something really wonderful for you to pull off uh in honduras what do you say yeah that
would be amazing i would love for for feedback on how the funds are best spent and i think the people
contributing these funds are the best people to to get that feedback from so yeah i would love i would
love to make that happen thank you all thank you carlos and everyone uh carlos again amazing project
and get going if you haven't supported please go um extremely active on ground champion
carlos did you already choose the design for the tattoo
well the i i was thinking that the gitcoin logo with like just the g kind of looks like a c so i
could say it's like carlos but i also thought i might just do one of the bots you know from the
kudos uh i'm not i'm not really sure what direction that's going to go in i'm 90 90 contributions away
from that so i feel pretty safe but you never know what can happen in a day so we'll have a conversation
about that i want to suggest a qr code of the of your grant
come on so you can keep shielding your project when you're around
yeah that's actually a great idea yeah and carlos never underestimate the power of coordination
so don't go what if what if the tattoo is what if the tattoo just says ask me about quadratic funding
four minutes to the end of this marathon marco do we have a last update or anybody want to make
a very last minute pledge to close our beautiful marathon
uh oh we have a last minute update i can do it wait
kiran's gonna mute all of you soon so let's give him some extra surprise he's already in the works for
the final banner probably need him to have a small surprise to be thrown in come on godo he's already
muted his call he doesn't even know this is happening now
and i i i remind me while we make the last minute calculation i remind everybody that
the center of our crazy marathon 12 hour of marathon was to support a small project and bundles and try to
uh come together to uh come together uh not only celebrating the end of a very uh amazing
get come around that's around but also uh through a pledge uh trying to support uh other projects
small project and bundle in particular so we started pledging this morning and uh we are now now
marco will update us with the last uh pledge and the total uh of the pledges that we will give
uh the our let's say our collective gift to the gitcoin grants space ready three two one here you have it
did that was the right one oh you didn't not yet at least come on it's the last one
well twitter's been a really really uh twitter's been trying to purge our spirits where is it
i can see it two thousand one hundred and seventy seven dollar or die has been west appointed
underbind so great result congratulations to everybody yeah
of everyone great stuff we're glad that we could support all the bundles and the projects that are
upcoming uh with much needed efforts you know to keep them fuel enough for the next gitcoin
i think we have coco and dove in to chip in on something feel free to step in yeah guys i just
wanted to take a minute to thank you um for making this possible like i've been on and off uh these 12
hours and i um yeah i love feeling you guys so close and being able to listen to amazing projects
uh share like our projects are our difficulties and uh seeing that we're all here in the same mission
is is really amazing i um it fills me up with hope and um a lot of intention and yeah like really wanted to
do um a lot of stuff to actually like uh execute our our project so yeah thank you so much for for the
time and for the amazing um vibes that you guys have here again i super fan of the solar punk um
lifestyle um i think that i i was missing that that sense of you know that this is also an opportunity
to have fun and it's also an opportunity to have a vision and uh to involve art and um festivals and
um yeah all this nomadism uh lifestyle um because yeah it can it can get um like sad or dumbest uh
when you see i mean data and all that's happening um so yeah i think you guys have uh really hit the
nail in this one um you know if you see like the the road of the the hero map and um all these theories i
i mean you guys have like all the elements so i'm i'm feeling like very very fortunate to be part of
the community and um hope to like yeah keep supporting as much as we can and yeah thank you again
thank you and um yeah we did it one minute after midnight well can't stop talking but you know
thank you so much everybody was really amazing was uh even better than uh what we imagined when we
proposed the space so it was really good good 12 hours good very good 12 hours of my life and uh yeah
thank you so much yeah thanks for that thanks for those great uh 12 hours guys it was really wonderful
yeah thank you everyone that stayed until the end thank you sino thank you coco mora so many people
ben also came back thank you so much everyone all to susie and um yeah want to continue another hour
like this wasn't mentioned in my jd you know so no no no no no i'm literally i'm literally picking up
the wine bottle as we speak so come on bro it's it's 4 30 a.m isd wow come on i'm not kidding
honestly it's 4 30. you know the best the best things ever of this space is jimmy that is sleeping
but yeah you know you know what we should we should let we should all go out just let the space
continue he wakes up he's the only one in the space no no i i just feel yeah he deserves the right to
be how he is today because he's had a very long uh day and uh yeah
we'll go easy for now yeah guys thank you thank you so much see you for the 24 hours
marathon yep see you never grido bye bye thank you bye bye good night guys everyone have a great day