Feedback from Superchain Demo Day
24:28 Jrocki shares feedback
One of the things that I think is most beneficial is just that whenever you come in, you're learning about what other people are building on the superchain and what their skills are, and then you're talking about what you're doing on the superchain and what your skills are. So that kind of community building, I think, is super important where somebody can come in and say, "I have this skill set and I have this idea, but I'm looking for maybe a developer or a different skill set." And you can start networking with those people and see if they want to help you out with your idea. So I think that value is something super valuable.
Respect Game Feedback
48:49 Jesse gives feedback on his experience as a first-time attendee saying that the 5 minute timer is good as it helps people to keep it concise and it's nice to hear from everybody else on what they're doing in the Optimism community. He mentions that most of the things that he's involved with in Optimism sprouted from many conversations and chats with the Optimism community, so he thinks that this is super important.
I'm just reflecting. I think the five-minute timer is good. It helps everybody keep it very concise. You can only take in so much information at one time, but it's nice to hear from everybody else about what they're doing in the Optimism community. One of the reasons why I started the podcast just like two or three years ago when I got into Optimism was to talk to the community. It was like an open Twitter Spaces where anybody from the community could come and talk about what they were doing or ask questions about the projects that we may have been interviewing. Most of the stuff that I've gotten involved in with Optimism, like being a delegate or being on the grants council or making tutorial videos, came from chats with the Optimism community in those Twitter Spaces. So I think this is super important.
Jrocki introduces himself and shares contributions
7:41 Jrocki shares contributions, working on grants council, sponsored idioms, and voted on mission requests. Created Super Fest video tutorial. Completed demo day for three projects. Building and ranking mission requests.
Contributions
The past week or so my contributions to Optimism have been the Grants Council. I sponsored a couple Mission requests from the community from Dan and some others. As part of the Grants Council work, we ranked all of these Mission requests so that we could give it to the Token House to vote on. So just some Grants Council work. Then actually yesterday I just created my first Superfest video tutorial for AeroDrome. Hopefully, I'll have some time in between Grants Council and other stuff to make some more videos. They're kind of step-by-step tutorials for how to participate and take advantage of the rewards during Superfest. Earlier today I hosted Demo Day where we had three projects come on in kind of early stages and present what they were building. Then I guess the last thing that I do is I'm also a delegate, so I just voted on the mission intent one, two, and three. Intent one was decentralization, progress towards decentralization. Intent two A and B was grow developers on the superchain. So just voting and ranking which missions we think as delegates are important enough or add enough value to the collective to pass. The mission requests that pass and meet quorum, everybody in the community will be able to apply to those Mission requests to get funding for whatever project they're doing. All right, and that's it. I think I kept it under a few minutes.
Introduction
I joined the Optimism Community not actually working for the foundation, but just kind of creating content, doing a podcast, kind of a layer two podcast covering mostly Optimism stuff. Then I did a bunch of tutorial videos for Optimism quests and just was involved in the ecosystem in general as I was working in web 2. Then a year and I don't know, like 15 months ago I joined the Optimism Foundation, and then about two months ago I left the Optimism Foundation to take a little vacation and also start participating in the DAO. So now I can participate as a delegate and then also be a part of the Grants Council as well. As an Optimism Foundation employee or an Optimism employee previously, those employees aren't allowed to participate in governance. Okay, that's it.
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30:48 Jrocki comments he can appreciate the amount of effort that Dan put into writing all the mission requests.
So I can really appreciate the amount of effort that you put into writing all of those Mission requests. I've written Mission requests before and it just takes an incredible amount of effort and brainpower. I appreciate you putting that forth and I respect it. I know it takes a lot of effort to put something that good together. Well, thank you very much Jesse. I appreciate that very much and I really appreciate you reading them too. It seems like you read it quite carefully and thoughtfully.
Optimism Town Hall Feedback
1:14:28 Jrocki praises Dan’s knowledge, his writings, and reaching out. This is how to affect change in the Collective
I was just going to give credit where credit is due. You have an incredible amount of knowledge in your head just about Optimism and governance, and it is incredibly complex. As you said, it changes every season, so props for that. I also wanted to say that what you're doing with actually coming into governance and understanding the system, then writing these Mission requests and putting them forward, and reaching out to other delegates to support them is exactly how you affect change in the ecosystem that you're in. If you want to see something get funded, I think the way to do it is what you and this whole group are doing: actually going in and engaging, learning about the government system, how grants work, figuring out what the collective needs, writing Mission proposals for that, and then going out and reaching out and getting them sponsored.