Agenda

• Introductions
• Discuss pain points
• Discuss ideas/plans/etc. for the team
• Discuss recurring events to help build community within our team

Recording

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Notes

• josevelez: not even sure where to start to set up a monorepo
• josevelez: are there open source best practices?
  • Jovi: go over small, bite-sized best practices
    • how to communicate
    • how to propose features
    • would be good as a written format
• with-heart: personal goal for this team is to document open source
  • to solve our own pains and needs
  • to
• shareables: things that make it easy for another project to get started
  • README.md
  • templates/generators
• Narb: part of the problem is getting people to contribute and get involved
  • people are typically focused on their own projects and not contributing to others
  • Jovi: visibility is a big part of it
    • the more changes people use something, the more chances there are they’ll find something they like about it
  • Jovi: another roadblock is ease-of-contribution
    • documentation of project to make it easy for others to get involved
    • get local dev env running, report issues, etc.
  • Narb: hard to define standards
    • how to write tests, etc.
    • how do we ease the barriers to contributing?
  • memoalv: shared link to best practices repo from work
  • Dhaiwat: people want to be able to contribute to projects
• Narb: would be nice to have a running document about how to improve projects, what makes good projects work well, etc.
• josevelez: I make the assumption that anything I put on GitHub is open source, is that true?
  • with-heart: on a technical level it is, but to me open source has a “spirit” to it
• josevelez: should we make fostering the open source spirit part of this?
• enrico: doing some of the open source best practices already but wasn’t aware of them
• with-heart: content in Notion
  • content we produce ourselves
  • links to other guides, resources, etc.
  • overview of tooling, etc.
• josevelez: having templates available increase accessibility (he uses windows so was hard to contribute to web3 at first
• enrico: how can we structure a business model around an open source project?
  • token standard that allows a community to own a project
  • Narb: been thinking about this too
    • GitCoin has bounties where you’re rewarding for contributing to open source projects
    • we could create our own token and give these out as a reward
      • have to keep in mind the legality aspects
  • with-heart: funding is hard for open source
    • came to web3 because felt a similar spirit to open source
    • a lot of open source projects use https://opencollective.com/
      • reliant on sponsors to continue providing funding
  • josevelez: projects should offer some share of their income to contributors