Questions for the Polkadot Community

[batman]

So what is your take on these questions?

One question I’d add to the top is “Why are we even doing this anyway?”

@shawntabrizi

One part of this is realizing that not everyone values Web3, and we might be very early for many. Unfortunately this is true for the majority of first world nations. But there are many places where there are problems we can solve for them TODAY.

Like you mentioned above, not everyone would find a fit with the values that we’re working with, but the values themselves should perhaps be the first thing to make clear.

Where do you strongly agree?
Strongly agree with results based funding.

Where do you strongly disagree?
I don’t strongly disagree with anything mentioned, but I do think that it would be valuable for us as an ecosystem to simplify our answers to these questions to the point where an 11 y/o can understand it.

Web3, blockspace, etc. are all loaded terms which aren’t used in everyday conversation (or even in the lingo of most devs for that matter).

What are the actions we should take given these answers?

Simplify our answers and developer/user experience and education.

What would be your answers to these questions?

What are we?

We are nerds who like freedom without authority or anarchy.

What is our product?

I think we have 2:

1. OpenGov: A transparently governed jurisdiction in the cyberspace - where rules are decided by stakeholders not by whoever controls physical violence.

2. Polkadot: A privacy-first, permissionless, cloud compute platform where you can host your applications without the fear of being censored, even under adversarial conditions.

Where are we heading?

Same as what Shawn wrote. I like to think of it as “Backend for the metaverse”.

Where do we want to allocate funds?

Instead of listing categories for allocation, I’ll list desired outcomes that we should allocate towards with categories listed under them:

1. Reduce friction for building stuff on polkadot
   • developer tools and templates
   • developer education (docs with code examples for common use cases, tutorials, in person hackathons and initiatives like pba)
   • an ecosystem todolist like the one mentioned in Basti’s post below

Searching: Curator for a List of Ecosystem Tasks

Hey, I’m writing this as a member of the ecosystem, a member of the Fellowship and not as a member of Parity. The reason for this post is that we need a list of ecosystem tasks. A list of items that the ecosystem wants to have done that will ultimately improve the ecosystem. We already have multiple sources for these tasks, like the Wish for Change track, builders requesting certain features, bounties already having a list of tasks, surveys in the ecosystem bringing up things to improve etc. S…

2. Better UIs for everything - no one likes ugly, period.
   • especially needed for governance and I believe that the community’s stance with only supporting existing players in this specific category has become extremely unhealthy

@shawntabrizi

The Polkadot developer community has always been good at producing high quality code, but not so good at educating others to be high quality coders producing high quality UIs

I think the spends on brand awareness would only make sense AFTER we’ve achieved a developer and user experience that is at least at par if not better than what Ethereum and Solana currently offer.

In the meantime, I think education and advocacy are good places to allocate funds to.