OF 22: Retro Funding Optimism Fractal

How can Optimism Fractal help you earn Retro Funding? We measure each other’s impact in the Collective, then help public goods creators to profit by growing Optimism and contributing to Optimism Fractal 🧑🏽‍🌾 📏 🔴

Date: April 4th, 2024

Show Notes

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Introducing the Respect Game

Timestamps

0:00 Welcome to Optimism Fractal’s 22nd event

0:48 Dan gives presentation providing an overview of Optimism Fractal, a community dedicated to fostering collaboration and supporting public goods in the Optimism ecosystem

1:29 Dan explains the respect game, mentions the Optimism Fractal Notion page, which contains resources and information about the group's ongoing projects and tasks. He invites attendees to the Eden Fractal community event, another group working on similar processes and coordination tools. Gives details on planning session that follows respect game

8:44 Rosmari shares her work on promoting the Optimism Fractal event, creating promotional materials, editing videos, joining Optimystics call, discussing strategy for RetroPGF promotions, and organizing Notion databases

13:20 Gabriel discusses his research into Robert's Rules of Order and how they could apply to the Optimism Fractal meetings

18:13 Vlad provides an update on the development of the next iteration of the fractal app used for the Respect game, with a focus on improving the user experience and potentially incorporating decentralized elements

21:54 Will shares screen and gives updates on the Kingfishers Media website, including work on the core supporters, events, and learning center environments, as well as progress on a Builders Grant application. Certified learner, eas attestations, selected as gitcoin retro citizen. Gives additional details

28:24 Zeugher shares screen and discusses his work on content creation and shows Farcaster and X, including organizing Twitter Spaces in Portuguese to discuss topics related to public goods and open source, as well as exploring the Farcaster ecosystem and analyzing the dynamics between degens and regens communities. He shares about a trend on the success of memecoin communities and their token model, and how to apply similar principles of impact and optimism to the growing Degen movement on Ethereum

34:45 Dan shares screen and presents an update on work supporting the development of the Practical app, including providing feedback on wireframes, organizing features, and exploring UX designs for a "Respect" game. He coordinating with Vlad and other developers, as well as working on an article to help people earn retro funding from the Optimism Collective

40:51 Will shares info on his broadcast, shares link to recordings

43:43 The group talks about ENS, optimism fractal integration

45:20 The group begins the voting process

Level 6-Vlad, level 5-Will, level 4- Dan, level 3-Rosmari, level 2-Gabriel, level 1- Zeugher

47:58 The group briefly discusses potential issues with the Respect game app's user experience, and the host offers to look into addressing the feedback

55:10 Dan ends the respect game and begins the upcoming planning session, mentioning the Retro funding opportunities that Optimism Fractal can help with

56:20 Dan shares presentation on planning session, provides an overview of the different Retro funding categories that are coming up, including Onchain Builders, OP Stack, Governance, and Dev Tooling

58:09 Dan discusses how Optimism Fractal can help people earn Retro funding by promoting their work, providing opportunities for collaboration and community engagement, and contributing to Optimism Fractal itself

58:57 Will gives his understanding on next cycle of retroPGF funding which launches in May

59:22 Dan replies to Will, shares screen to blog post shared by optimism foundation. First round is on chain builders, gives details. Shares other retro funding focuses. OP stack, governance, Dev tooling. Gives details. mentions possibilities of optimism fractal contributors retro funding applications.

56:26 Dan shares his screen of ways to possibly gain funding. gives examples and details. Mentions all open projects that optimism fractal has on Notions page. Earn funding by helping Optimism

1:07:00 The group continues the discussion on RetroFunding opportunities and Optimism Fractal's role in supporting the community

1:09:55 Dan shares screen from previous retro funding, optimism fractal held retro pitches after respect games to help promote those trying to help optimism

1:12:13 Will states that optimism fractal is a third of his core working groups. Hopes to be more of an active contributor of this working group

1:13:44 Dan and Will discuss the similarities and differences between Notion and Charmverse, and the potential for integrating the respect mechanism into Charmverse

1:15:57 Dan responds to Will on respect token question, it’s a non-transferable soulbound NFT. Dan summarizes the key points of the discussion and thanks everyone for their participation

1:20:14 Go Optimism Fractal

Feedback

Bricia Guzman (Brichis)

1:12:13 Will states that optimism fractal is a third of his core working groups. Hopes to be more of an active contributor of this working group

Retro Funding Resources

You can read the full announcement post about Retro Funding and find more details about this pioneering public goods funding mechanism in this article.