Authors: @wolovim
Previous ideation: Idea: D_D Hackathon Funnel
Summary
A Hackathon Support Team can help members succeed at hackathons by helping them form teams, get moving quickly with starter kits, present well with slide deck templates, and other forms of support.
Motivation
Helping members succeed in hackathons should be part of the core of the D_D experience: itās a social/networking event, you learn new skills, build resume-worthy open source projects (i.e., public goods), and interact with hiring organizations.
The social element of hackathons is a crucial component to the motivation here. Weāre a social DAO lacking in social opportunities. Building stuff with new or old friends can be a memorable and meaningful social experience.
Mission, values and goals alignment
As a refresher:
D_D Mission:
- Developer DAO exists to accelerate the education and impact of a new wave of web3 builders.
D_D Goals:
- Onboard, Educate & Support Web3 Developers
- Foster & Build Web3 Tools & Public Goods
Hackathons offer the perfect vehicle for D_Dās mission and goals: building small, stretch-goal projects with a team can be a massively impactful way to learn new skills quickly. Generally speaking, the output of hackathons are open source (public good) codebases.
The material output of the Hackathon Support team will itself be a public good: resources for getting started quickly, presenting well, and so on.
Brand usage
- A D_D org github repo will contain a list of resources and tips.
- If template slide decks or other assets are provided, they may include D_D logos/branding.
- If teams we support want to give D_D a shout-out in some form, thatās up to them.
Scope of work
To start, this will be a very lean operation. Iām hoping to prove the concept and get more people excited over time. Would love to find myself in a position to need to ask for budget expansion after a month or two.
MVP:
- Open up a github repo and start to collect project starter kits, hackathon tips, and other resources that help people be successful.
- Offer bounties to designers for template slide decks and other assets that may be useful for presenting hackathon projects.
- Maintain a hackathon schedule.
- For each hackathon, open up social spaces (e.g., Discord threads/channels) for preparing for or forming teams. (Potential to demo Eden Protocol for this purpose, too.)
Financial implications
MVP:
- Initiative lead (3 hours/wk): ongoing maintenance of resources repo, hackathon calendar, Discord spaces. Creation and execution of bounties.
- Bounty pool (??? $CODE): creation of design assets, relevant written/audio/video guides, one-off help.
Team
MVP:
@wolovim: Initiative Lead
Success Metrics & KPIs
MVP ideas:
- confirm
X
teams with at least one D_D member have joined hackathons per month or per prioritized event -
X%
of teams make it all the way to presenting their projects to judges
Next Steps
The MVP features listed in Scope of Work
. Possible expansion into the Discord server to have its own category focused on this initiative. Today there exists one forum channel recently created: #join-hackathons
. Seems worthwhile to include at least one more read only channel with some context and links to the resources outlined in this proposal (e.g., repo, calendar).
Post-MVP ideas:
- get connected with relevant mentors in the DAO at time of need (see: mentorship program)
- build and maintain our own hackathon starter kits within the DAO
- skills training (possibly via D_D Academy) leading up to hackathons
- presentation training or dry run feedback opportunities prior to project submission
- maintain a project idea board or otherwise help generate project ideas
- send qualified hackers to IRL events via a travel budget