At the end of November 2023, I was asked to participate in a Learning Together Session organized by Dream DAO about the topic of "Funding Public Goods with Public Nouns". A sizable group turned up early on a Saturday to participate!
Dream DAO's Learning Together Sessions are a great way for people to learn about new topics in the space and I was excited to introduce Public Nouns to many for the first time.
Below are the pages I presented along with some additional commentary to help frame the conversation.
Let's get started!
Started with a light overview of what Public Goods are and why they are important!
In 2021, there was very interesting, sizable movement happening around Nouns DAO attracting the interest of many.
The numbers were big...
A few of us got together and discussed what it would mean to put a few interesting pieces together...
bleep...blop...bloop...
And getting even more brainpower together to push things forward...
A crew at DAO Palace 2022 played around with and iterated on some working ideas...
Gathering observations...
Tweaking mechanisms...
Playing with art...
Gathering relevant parties...
Refining the "memes" and sharpening the art of the founding organizations of:
MetaCartel spicy chilis...
Gitcoin bot heads...
Panvala Stampees...
Radicle seedlings...
Moloch DAO heads...
Optimism OPossums...
and CLRfund bubble heads...
and putting the tech magic all together...
et voila...
Public Nouns was launched!
Listing some of the experiments in the Public Goods space that Public Nouns DAO has supported...
Expansion of the Public Nouns community...
a 4-month long art exhibit all about Public Goods in the Colorado state capital building...
an initiative to make Ethereum green...
on the ground web3 education...
feeding the homeless...
supporting Ethereum core development with Protocol Guild...
DAO-focused open source tooling...
DAO Palace 2023 and DAOESCO stewarding cultural heritage sites...
educating Raid Guild's next cohort and others...
a web3 hacker space in Vancouver...
a hyperlocal community information application...
supporting and contributing to Giveth's launch of Quadratic Funding...
public scaling infrastructure to reduce gas fees...
web3 educational content via storytelling...
and supporting CLRfund's first ever Dominant Assurance Contract ("DAC") experiment...
DAOs need to get much better at evaluation and Public Nouns to trying out news ways to make this better...
The next few pages can help give you a feel for how special the Public Nouns community is...
Where...
Who...
What...
Projects...
and more...
Public Nouns have been showcased and talked about in a variety of places across the web3 and public goods space...
Green Pill podcast...
GM Podcast...
Devcon Bogota...
Devconnect Istanbul...
and more!
We are currently at...
Public Nouns DAO has a treasury to put to work funding experiments in the Public Goods space!
Public Nouns has a goal to raise some additional funds that can go towards expanding the operations and awareness of Public Nouns via mechanisms like Giveth...
and Gitcoin...
Thanks!
You can learn more at https://publicnouns.wtf
