MintKudos Workstream S14 Budget Request

MintKudos provides a platform for people to recognize community contributions in the most delightful way possible. These soulbound recognition tokens, which range from peer-to-peer appreciations and endorsements to formal attestations of contributions, become the foundation for an individual’s decentralized reputation.

This request is to formalize the mintkudos workstream and comes with a budget request for (for product discovery and designs) 6.6k GTC for Season 14 (May-July 2022).

Our motivation stems from unlocking the Contributor Economy, a world where people can fluidly work for communities that they’re mission-aligned with and get paid in ownership by creating the building blocks to contributor identity.

These are the proposed milestones:

6 weeks of product discovery

• 2 week for interview script creation & recruiting user interview participants
• 3 week for conducting interviews and interview synthesis with various Gitcoin initiatives
• 1 for prioritization & roadmap creation + MVP definition

6 weeks to test and iterate on designs

• 2 week for brainstorming, creating low-fidelity designs, and user testing recruitment
• 2 week to user test, synthesize learnings
• 2 week to iterate on designs and compile findings for S15

A vote FOR this budget proposal would enable us to become a formal workstream and to continue building with the Gitcoin community (with an eye towards integration into dPopp).

A vote AGAINST this budget proposal will not stop us form continuing our work, but will eliminate funding from Gitcoin and eliminate the opportunity to be a formal workstream.

You can read the full proposal details here: https://gov.gitcoin.co/t/s14-proposal-decentralize-gitcoin-kudos-budget-request/10442