Organic self-governing developer community is vital for a blockchain ecosystem. But as every blockchain rushed into throwing events and distributing grants we did not realize that we are on the bleeding edge of inventing self-governing organic financially-responsible communities. At best we learned to copy the classic OSS communities while slapping the grants program on top of it. But that frequently led to dysfunctions like slow grants process, indiscriminate funding distribution, siloed projects, to name a few.
At NEAR DevGov DAO we leveraged the fact that NEAR tech is extremely low-barrier so that engineers can engage with tinkering quicker and form huddles with discussions. We repurposed Rust tech review processes for funding distribution and have a model for facilitating brainstorming and ideation in the community. Come to our talk and learn about other things we did.
Max Zavershynskyi
VP of Engineering, Open Source
NEAR Developer Governance
Max is the first employee at NEAR Protocol, who joined the co-founders Illia and Alex 5 years ago. He has been leading most of the engineering and product teams for some time as part of the Pagoda (NEAR Inc) company. Today he is spearheading bootstrapping organic decentralized developer communities and handing over the control over the NEAR open source development to them. Before NEAR he worked at Google and got PhD in CS in Switzerland.
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