What's next for Giveth?

If we have a Grant from Unicef, we should put it towards building 2.0 IMO, Max S. seems to be more interested in carrying the flag than Rafa right now, tho i hope both will help :-D

What everyone is up to and what their plans are for the next weeks/months (check-in round)

I am doing quite many things atm. Apart from being a very available dad - which basically is a full-time gig in itself, I dedicate the current time to small coding projects, so I get better at it. From an operational perspective, I keep an eye on our deployments and check the status of our servers regularly. I got more into DApp meeting on Mondays which, unfortunately, is still horribly timed for me.

- I went to ETHBerlin to represent Giveth and found many potential collaborators and opportunities.

- I am talking with humanitytoken who want to realize their closed economy project on Ethereum now and are highly interested in collaborating with Giveth as always.

- Spent two weeks in Liminal Village at a hackalong, developing concepts (many of which require something like non-whitelist Giveth).

- Built interspace.chat at hackalong - which is a fun way of using Jitsi - basically a "room selector" to reduce friction for remote collaboration.

- Somebody also piped a commercial film project my way when I needed it (end of September), so I am glad that was paying the bills.

I would love to know what's next in store for Giveth because our mission is not finished and would like to stay on. Staying engaged is kinda hard in the unsure situation at the moment and I am missing the drive and collaborative mood that we always had in the community.

Future of the Giveth DApp

We had a great talk with the DApp developers about this one. I am inclined to a different pespective than the outcome of the talk, which is to invest more resources (that we don't have) in backend and care about a new version of the DApp after building that backend - especially the API and database middleware seems to scream for a new design. In the end, I see Giveth becoming a modular thing that is more integrated into the rest of the Ethereum ecosystem, i.e. as a plugin for Aragon or ethereum.world.

Our biggest problem is that we, as an organization, historically had a hard time actually running the DApp. Be it readyness in onboarding of new campaigns (friction with whitelist, problems with campaigns), the whole T&C of using it (not being an entity that would protect individuals from liability, laying low), bugs in the current version and more.

I offered my help in attacking project management for some parts of the redesign and I am currently working on a plan to propose to the DAC. Would be great to get feedback, see who wants to fill a role and see who could fill an unfilled role.

Future of Giveth Communications (Medium, Riot, Twitter)

As long as there is nothing truly exciting coming out of Giveth itself, the outward facing parts don't have to be too active, as long as they stay not quiet for weeks. I wish our community chats were in a more healthy state - have a more active userbase, but that will likely change once we get out of hiatus and engage more designers and developers again.

I would love for Comms to get into the discussion surrounding Giveth2, because it seems like now we want stuff like a pitch-deck and seeing the first external contributions there I yearn for the consistency in message that seems to be in peril.

Open Milestones payment

We should be very clear how we deal with reg-rewards, or any rewards for that matter. This has to be clear for everyone(!) affected.

Current status of the Commons Stack & next steps

I do work for the Commons Stack, but largely stepped back from active engagement, because the project is mainly focused on attracting funding at the moment and has less need for deployment and development.

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