Idea that came out of Ethereum Denver meetup last night:

It'd be interesting to assign a mentor/mentee relationship to a bounty. Basically, if developer decides to make a go to a bounty, they can ask another project member with more experience to mentor them on details where they'd add value, in exchange for some amount of the final payout.

https://twitter.com/KamesCG/status/947687358496952322

especially if tasks have subtasks

test building a product for hourly (time/materials) contract relationships

a daily coding challenge module or email that allows folks to stay engaged and learn solidity over time

do we need 'tracks'? ie solidity track, Ethereum basics track, etc..

per @jasonrhaas

It’s definitely a barrier to entry. It would be cool if there was a way to add a ” gas credit” to a contract. So basically you claim a gitcoin bounty, gas is loaned to you to get started, and then the gas is deducted once you get paid.

more ideas here:

https://twitter.com/owocki/status/943465549740179456

requirements

0. allow user to create a very small resolution wallpaper without paying.
1. for full res wallpapers, charge 0.005 ETH per wallpaper generated. this should only work on the mainnet (not testnet or testrpc)
2. payments should go to 0x4331B095bC38Dc3bCE0A269682b5eBAefa252929
3. upload and wallpaper generation should occur when payment is made.

might be worth throwing up a simple shopify site to sell schwag

gitcoin.co/schwag

logging
graphs of events
segmentation

#5

need to make it have a cool unfurl for social media reasons

people can stake some ETH to put up a job post... and it only gets paid out if the JD is filled

Like http://rubykoans.com/ but for solidity.

Earn ropsten ETH for completing code koans.

https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/

from the consensys slack, posted with permission

Free idea. I think I've talked about this 10 times before. I would do this myself if I wasn't doing other things.

LinkedIn is terrible because it's free to try and connect with me, and because it's free there's no reason you wouldn't try. Very low signal! Very high noise!

To connect with me, you should have to make a deposit of some amount I set. 10 Dai, say. If I accept the connection, you get the deposit back. If I reject it, I keep your money.

That's it. That's all you have to do. Just LinkedIn, but with that. LinkedIn is terrible.

cloudfront?
downsize images when in thumbnail view.
pagination?

Requirements

• npm-installable (or can be loaded in a browser)
• feed a web3 instance in
• it outputs a prediction table similar to https://ethgasstation.info/predictionTable.php , but in json

1. ask users to certify that they own copyright. wallpapers before uploading.
2. proivde DMCA takedown email address. "for abuse inquiries, please email [email protected]"

I am looking for help with my Ethereum Wallet Handling guide.

The work is essentially administrative, just copying and organizing already written sections into a GitBook. You will receive full accreditation and may become a bit of an expert on handling Ethereum wallets.

I can offer 1-2 ETH for project completion. Please contact me via email: nick . dodson @ consensys [DOT] net

ability to automatically accept abounty when a certain set of test pass

https://twitter.com/djphillyg96/status/954871046020194307

idea

• 2d dataviz of pending ethereum transactions
• the higher the txs are in the space, the most gas prices they are paying
• the further to the right they are... they longer they have been unconfirmed... they will continue across the sky across the users browser.
• if you hover over a tx, you can see it's hash and a link to it on etherscan
• transactions that came from my coinbase will be highlighted as a different color

kind of like clouds floating in the sky:
https://www.shutterstock.com/video/clip-16719202-stock-footage-old-retro-video-game-arcade-clouds-moving-on-a-blue-sky.html

A service that lets you lookup your public #ethereum address and see which scam/phish it was victim to, something like HIBP. Also including “bios” on known phishing/scams as well as resources to read for best practices to keep you safe. Maybe some quizzical games for education.

https://twitter.com/dustycakes/status/943680447669665792

smart contract that can hold ETH until a certain time in the future. then it can be spent

requirements

• take the code from https://github.com/gitcoinco/skunkworks/pulls
• deploy it to a server i'll provide you

how to claim

1. claim the issue on gitcoin
2. message me on slack or leave a comment here.
3. i will spin up an ubuntu EC2 instance and give you credentials
4. you login, deploy the code in a manner that's suitable for production (ex: using gunicorn or equivilent, instead of ./manage.py runserver, using postgres instead of sqllite, etc)
5. i payout bounty

Requirements

• Python script that uses PIL
• input is a png, jpg, or gif image
• output is an image that has an ethereum logo on it (see below samples)

Submissions

• Please submit the python script is a PR back to this repo.
• Please include some sample before/after images.

basic transaction

1. funder sends ETH
2. smart contract allows fundee to withdraw X ETH per (day|week|month)
3. funder can revoke ETH at any time if they're not happy with how their staked $$$ is being used

v2: RFF

Request for funding
-- users can submit requests for funding for their projects

you input an ethereum address, and it spits back the token balances (for all tokens that it knows about) for that address

just had an interesting convo with a community member for gitcoin.

basically her vision for gitcoin’s toolset was that a funder could a sprint of development work.. then all the tickets get prioritized and estimated… and then bountied in a batch

which i think is interesting an aggressive because its taking the traditional sprint cycle and making it into a DAO

pasting some notes below:

	when a sprint is planned, the sprint is funded then all the bounties are placed on github
	estimates flow into the funding of each bounty
	that type of integration would be useful eventually
	
	theyre using asana
		they added a custom field for bounties so far
	
	not talking about her business.  talking about the DAO[
	
	discoverability: integration with our website... we can show the issues... and then it sends the user to github or gitcoin
	
	shooting for this quarter to build this
	sometime this month building the community```

https://twitter.com/owocki/status/946133046352257024

this webpage would be a one link refutation of articles like this

what it needs

• crowdsourced repository of live dapps
• information about how much tx volume each of them are driving.
• nice frontend to view the information by

note that stateofthedapps.com already exists... but doesnt have good information about growth / tx volume. what i'm envisioning is more of a appannie.com, but for dapps

so anyone can host a DEX

More filters

1. that look like this: https://twitter.com/rabbyte/status/944676368641433600
2. colors like this https://ih0.redbubble.net/image.435222523.7417/flat,750x1000,075,t.jpg

i really would like to launch some sort of educational tool … not sure what it looks like, but incentivizing kids and young adults to contribute to OSS from very young

Requirements

Upload

1. Take the winning design from #4
2. and the code from #3
3. create a website that can accept image uploads, validate them, and then spit out the resultant 'eth wallpaper' image.
4. after image is uploaded, it should be displayed to the user with an option to tweet it.

Gallery

1. any generated ethwallpaper image should go into the gallery.
2. two dynamic pieces of functionality should exist on each gallery image. 'like' and 'report'
3. any offensive images can/should be removed, if an image has more 'report's than 'likes' it should be hidden from the gallery

Other Reqquirements

I'd prefer python/django be used for this, but it's up to the submitter at the end of the day. Choose the right tool for the job.

Bounty

1. To claim this bounty, please comment below and claim it on gitcoin.co
2. Please do not start work until you've claimed the bounty.

background

third party recruiters add little value to the ecosystem, and are ripe for disintermediation. see my body of writing on the subject at https://owocki.com/tag/recruit-engineers/

i think the future is one wherein individuals recruit for their own projects, with the help of software.

i would like to provide a tool for repo owners to write cold emails that aren't so off-putting. keeping in mind that as repo maintainers, we have to recruit talent for our projects, it is important to provide tools that guide a user into forming meaningful connections with recruitees.

proposal

i would like to build a tool that creates good cold outreach emails.

by syncing the linkedin profile of a user when they first land on the tool, we could get information about the senders place of employment, skills, schooling, living location.

from there, we provide an interface wherein one could paste the linkedin profile of a candidate one wants to reach out to..

and receive a MOSTLY custom recruitment email to send to the other party.

Design is done!

Please see the design referenced on
#20 (comment)

Bounty: Code this up!

Coded pages

0. ladning page
1. 'connect with linkedin' page
2. paste candidate profile url page
3. generated email page

Functionality

• oauth's with linkedin.
• can pull candiate profiles
• can generate custom introduction messgaes based upon candidate name, location, schools, interests, projects, coding languages.
• here is a sample message https://gist.github.com/owocki/5dd9d6c70dde446bccd79da2e70635a9
• some more sample messages https://owocki.com/recruit-a-list-engineers-what-a-cold-recruitment-message-should-look-like/

Technical considerations

• python django app pls :)
• stores LinkedInUser row in the database.
• stores the profile URL of anyone they retrieve in the database.
• copy: i will change the copy after it's all coded up
• please implement the 'send this email', and 'randomize message', and copy buttons. you can remove the 'reset' and 'save for later' buttons.

What

1. Enable the upload mechanism to accept up to 10 images at once in batch.
2. Size of ethereum logo field Title, author email, tags, will apply to all images in batch
3. Copy updates: Upload Wallpaper => Upload Wallpapers
4. Add a subheader below "Upload Wallpaper" that says "Upload up to 10 images. Each image must be jpg, png, gif format, and less than X MB" where X is the max size the script can handle.
5. Kill the 'author' and 'tags' field on the upload page.
6. Rename Title to be 'Description', and have whatever the user inputs as description on the frontend populate into the 'title', 'author', and 'tags' field on the backend.
7. Add a subheader under 'Description' that reads 'Used for search functionality on ethwallpaper.co'.

1:1 interviews with community members to learn about them and their career needs. high touch service; during which we solicit their 1) skillsets, 2) seniority level 3) career growth direction and become the “matchmaker” guys for when someone has an idea and wants a team behind it.. or we just feed them ideas like a web3 incubator or accelerator. there is a market for matching teams together… i KNOW it.

we also drop hints about upcoming events and how we want to evolve people who contributed early.

triple purpose:

1. get super buy in early to the community from an extrinsic motivation part of things
2. toy with copying the business models of the top web2 accelerators (techstars, yc) or… recruitment firms
3. our face time with community members == higher NPS, engagement with the brands

like google helpouts before it collapsed, build a product that allows people to find on demand code mentorship to build a side project or join their team.. or otehrwise get 1;1 help

what

this thread is to solicit ideas for how open source software can be sustained at Scale.

to participate

leave a github comment on this thread with your idea.

criteria

at the end of the day, the criteria for this bounty will be managed by the crowd. to me, a good idea

1. is backed by fully-baked ideas about incentivization mechanics
2. is testable via a small MVP, but also has potential to scale if that MVP is successful.
3. can leverage blockchain in some way.
4. allows OSS projects with an audience/users to sustain themselves.

payout mechanics

after the bounty expires, i will send around a poll allowing people to vote on which ideas are most promising.

i will payout 70% of the bounty to the number 1 submission, 20% to the 2nd one, and 10% to the third one.

meta question: how do you take a junior engineer (or someone who wants to learn software), and bend the learning curve to set them on a path to be a senior engineer?

the only silver bullets i’ve seen have been

1. a lot of gumption on behalf of the indivudal to learn (maybe call this intellectual curiousity and drive)
2. mentorship

http://consensys.github.io/animated-plexus/

• Fix the proportions to better match the actual logo.
• Make less glitchy when new dots are created.
• Use brand colors.

It would be awesome if we could create an app that could privately store sensitive data (such as passwords, logins, credit card info, etc) using Ethereum and create a browser extension that provides access to that data.

This idea was discussed here back in 2015: https://forum.ethereum.org/discussion/2375/block-chain-app-solution-alternative-of-lastpass-1password

what

An important part of the Ethereum Ecosystem

ETHAvatar - a gravatar-like app, but instead of attaching images to emails, it attaches avatars to ETHereum addresses.

what, technically

• create a basic webapp that, when a form is submitted, uploads an image avatar to IPFS.
• webapp should then attach your ETHavatar to your web3.eth.coinbase in a smart contract which you build and deploy to rinkeby, and then, once tested, to mainnet
• smart contract should store an IPFS hash of a metadata blob with metadata like title, image width, image height, etc...
• smart contract should have a 'getter' so the user can get the image IPFS hash and the IPFS metadata hash
• if a 2nd image is uploaded, it will overwrite the first image
• if the get is called on an image that does not exist, return an IPFS hash which contains an identicon

design

do not worry about the frontend design. once you have built an app that works functionally, we will apply a design to it.

bounty

code this application up, open source the code (both the webapp and the smart contract), and deploy it to heroku (or similar) so it can be tested without having to deploy it.

if you wouldnt mind delivering code samples for posting an ETHavatar and GETing an ethavatar, thatd be great too. wed like to display these on the landing page of the site

how do we coordinate our research so each us don't have to be separately opening 1000 pages each to research all the ICOs in the space?

here needs an easy way to get an ICO TLDR

• basically a table that has a name of hte project
• what its meant to do in 5 words or less
• who the team is
• maybe a rating of the viability of the team, idea
• market size
  etc

When I was a junior dev, I received mentorship from smoeone who became a lifelong friend to me.

As being a software developer is the path to a middle class life for millions worldwide, I think we bare a responsibility to "pay it forward" and to help mentor each other.

This thread is a placeholder for a product tentatively called 'sponsor a student'.. which will match junior developers to people who can help their careers, and allow folks to donate their time (or ETH) to said junior devs.

1. Move ethwallpaper app to a ethwallpaper/ folder within skunkworks repo. Main readme should just be an index of all projects in the repo (currently, just ethwallpaper)
2. capture (and validate) the email address of user uploadeding. send them a plaintext email when their upload is done with the subject "You upload is complete" with body "View your ETHWallpaper here: [link]".
3. some method to manage the scale of the server. even though things have been massively optimized (Thanks @stojce !), we will need some way to queue the image generation if server is already processing an image
4. search should be case insensitive
5. google analytics (owocki to provide code)
6. the script should add a watermark to the image that says ethwallpaper.co on it
7. ethwallpaper.co should be https (and should autorenew)
8. favicon should be ethereum logo https://cdn.worldvectorlogo.com/logos/ethereum-1.svg
9. indivudal ethwallpaper links ( e.g. http://ethwallpaper.co/preview/709ca16f-cdcb-4b8e-bede-9544f8ba011d ) should unfurl with the image associated with them in the preview. right now, the main image unfurls whenever you share a link to the site.
10. "with <3 from gitcoin community" should link to gitcoin.co

background

third party recruiters add little value to the ecosystem, and are ripe for disintermediation. see my body of writing on the subject at https://owocki.com/tag/recruit-engineers/

i think the future is one wherein individuals recruit for their own projects, with the help of software.

i would like to provide a tool for repo owners to write cold emails that aren't so off-putting. keeping in mind that as repo maintainers, we have to recruit talent for our projects, it is important to provide tools that guide a user into forming meaningful connections with recruitees.

proposal

i would like to build a tool that creates good cold outreach emails.

by syncing the linkedin profile of a user when they first land on the tool, we could get information about the senders place of employment, skills, schooling, living location.

from there, we provide an interface wherein one could paste the linkedin profile of a candidate one wants to reach out to..

and receive a MOSTLY custom recruitment email to send to the other party.

nice to haves

• ability to 'randomize' and generate a new recruitment email
• ability to provide some copy about the opportunity you're hunting for, which can be inserted into the - generated emails, as say, the 2nd or 3rd paragraph.
• color coded UI element that denotes how custom the generated email is
  (red == we couldnt find anything in common, generated a totally form email)
  (yellow == we added a few bits of custom info)
  (green == you have a lot in common with candidate.. lots of custom info added)
• expected percentage response rate per customization level:

Bounty

I'd love to see mockups of a brand identity for this project, and also of a very simple mockups of the following pages:

1. 'connect with linkedin'
2. paste candidate profile url
3. generated email

take the graph at https://twitter.com/owocki/status/948679913883680768 and mock it up as a react component.

graph should take information from https://github.com/ethgasstation/gasstation-express-oracle (and only information from this service) to build the graph

suggestions

1. switch the axises
2. and maybe do a log scale for time

deliver this as a react component

supports gdax and any eth wallet
tells you your long term / short term cap gains

What

THIS BOUNTY IS FOR DESIGN WORK. A BOUNTY MAY COME LATER FOR CODING THE SITE

Take #3 and make it into a one page website

• hosted at Ethwallpaper.com (or similar)

Above the fold

• user can upload an image
• backend validates that it's an image, and runs #3 on it
• outputs the new ethwallpaper for the user

Below the fold

• there is a gallery of recent images, ranked by popularity
• users can tweet about their favorite image (or the site in general)
• somewhere in the footer it says "with <3 from the colorado community

Customer Development

basic

it's just an index of all dapp tutorials out there

advanced

marketplace where people who want to learn to build dapps can be connected with people who want dapps built

i think one of the most heartbreaking things out there is the debtors prison that exists for millions of lower class americans

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debtors%27_prison
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/opinion/sessions-says-to-courts-go-ahead-jail-people-because-theyre-poor.html

side 1 of the market

it basically goes like this.. you have a medical emergency or need your car repaired -- you go into $10k or $20k of debt at an insane interest rate.. like 25%..

and you can.. never.. get... out..

side 2 of the market

then there's these crypto people... who have made tons of $$$ off of bitcoin and ethereum price rises. these people are doing things like

1. HODLing for the long term
2. paying off their student loans / mortgaes

idea

what if we connected these two sides of the market.. basically allowing crypto people to 'rescue' people from their debtors prison by

1. just wiping the debt clean (for charity)
2. making a loan at a reasonable interest rate.

basic functionality of the dapp

1. side 1 of the market submits an application with pictures, their story, etc
2. there is some sort of review functionality to do fact checks, prevent abuse.
3. side 2 of the market can stake their crypto to help pay side 1's loans.
4. the dapp distributes funds to side 1.