AIP-211: Funding for Public Goods (ETHDenver Hackathon)

Great question SSP! Appreciate your attention as always 🫶🏻

Repurposing ETH SF Materials:

Yes, the banner & tablecloth from ETH SF have been designed specifically so they can be reused across events, and will be brought to ETHDenver. We do need to order an additional horizontal banner though as the one from ETH SF was given out as a souvenir to the first place winning team for ApeCoin’s prompts :rofl:

However, the token chip swag we ordered for ETH SF has been given out, so we will need to design & finalize new swag to distribute at ETHDenver- excited to hear your ideas on this! Also, many of the other sponsors at ETH SF had flyers or booklets, stickers, and other such promotional materials that I’d like for us to prepare this time around as well.

Finally, I was inspired by this display from Nouns DAO (people were lining up for the photo op at ETH SF):

Would be super cool to have something similar this time for ApeCoin, we can DIY some cardboard Ape heads for people to hold up in front of their faces to achieve this effect IRL (and ofc add ApeCoins too… we could have Punks, Meebits, Doggos, the whole family :monkey:):
https://twitter.com/veratheape/status/1598785039789359104?s=46&t=H136aSqkGWAn5op_v-sYag

Update on ETH SF Sponsorship:

There have been some very interesting (and surprising) benefits to our sponsorship of ETHGlobal SF! Overall, there seems to have been three categories of people drawn to the ecosystem directly because of the hackathon. As expected, we have the hackers who built for ApeCoin’s prompts and their ensuing projects- but I didn’t predict that the relationships I kept up with people whom I met at ETH SF over the next couple months would lead into ongoing AIP proposals as well, or that multiple people would join the forums and make introduction posts on Discourse as a direct result of our presence & tabling at the hackathon. Going to dive into all three types here:

These tweets highlighting our first place prize winning hacker team, our very own @jackie, have been featured by the official ApeCoin account:
https://twitter.com/maariabajwa/status/1609316599642861568?s=20&t=UKSa0vkRsAmr09B09BMqwg
https://twitter.com/halina_eth/status/1589744097166004224?s=20&t=2noW4PuxWY_c_64r3ertVw

You can read up on the technical details about the winning families’ two-player co-op NFT game here:
https://twitter.com/JackieLeeETH/status/1589661685698396160

This project alone has spawned @AnotherWorldDAO, an open-world multiplayer 3D game integrated with NFTs- here’s their most recent demo video:
https://twitter.com/anotherworlddao/status/1609762205284827138?s=20&t=t6gY4l4tU6US9E3H9FQOoQ

Attending ETH SF has also indirectly enticed builders to come to our ecosystem! While @sibil wasn’t a hacker during ETH SF, we met at the event and connected over empowering women in blockchain & web 3. This has since resulted in her submitting AIP-167 to empower female mentorship in web 3 with $APE:

Also, new members like @jos3 have created their Discourse account and submitted posts such as these after being introduced to the DAO through the hackathon:

Finally, @maariab has the full spreadsheet of 30+ teams & builders who competed for ApeCoin-specific bounties at ETH SF- I’ll update this post once it’s available!

Thanks and looking forward to working together on this! Go IRL events :tada:
-Halina.eth :cherry_blossom:

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