Public Goods Library: Start Here!
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The Public Goods Library (aka “The Library”) is a public goods discussion group hosted by Gitcoin.
If you are interested in participating in the Public Goods Library, you are in the right place! This document provides a brief overview of Gitcoin, public goods, The Library, and how you can get involved.
Feel free to explore around the page and learn more in this space! (Hopefully it’ll be a fun rabbit hole for you!) ✨
⚙️ What is Gitcoin?
Gitcoin is fundamentally focused on building and funding digital public goods. We want to create a society that values creators and replaces corporatized infrastructure with sustainable, open, digital tools and spaces (the metaverse should not be owned by a single company).
Gitcoin is fundamentally focused on building and funding digital public goods. We want to create a society that values creators and replaces corporatized infrastructure with sustainable, open, digital tools and spaces (the metaverse should not be owned by a single company).
Mainly, Gitcoin has focused on achieving this through Gitcoin Grants, a platform that leverages quadratic funding to help communities (like Ethereum) signal what kinds of public goods they care about and in the process get creators sustainable funding to continue their work.
Gitcoin Grants rounds take place on a quarterly cadence, where we try to rally the energy of the community collectively, while the remaining time goes into learning from what went well, what didn’t, and how we can get even more funding to more public goods projects the next time around.
🌱 What are Public Goods?
A public good has two key characteristics: it is non-excludable (costly or impossible for one user to exclude others from using a good) and non-rivalrous (when one person is using a good, it does not prevent others from using it). Together, these characteristics make it difficult for market producers to sell the goods to individual consumers.
We teamed up with Crypto, Culture, and Society DAO to create a starter pack for those who are new to the concept of public goods!
Want even more of a deeper dive and continue the conversation? Join our Public Goods Library community!
📚 What is the Public Goods Library?
The Public Goods Library (aka “The Library”) is a public goods discussion group started by a group of writers interested in exploring ways to create a better positive-sum world.
Every Wednesday at 3pm UCT / 11 am ET, we invite a guest to host a philosophical discussion on the Gitcoin Discord server. Topics are rooted in web3 and public goods, but range from DAOs, community, governance, and everything in between.
One of our main guiding questions is: what are “Public Goods”, and how do we create, fund, and sustain them?
An important part that drives the library forward is our community! We’d love for you to be involved by joining our discussion (join the call, share your insight, present a topic) or joining our more intensive reading club where we’ll read together, annotate, and debate 💌
This is where ideas are challenged and tough questions get asked. So come in and be a part of the space that offers conceptual abstract educational experiences - all through thinking, sharing resources, and meeting like-minded people.
🖥️ Want to Dive Right In? Check Out Our Program and Resources!
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A YouTube playlist of the previous Public Goods Library calls (if you would like to check out the vibe or see what topic we’ve already discussed!)
A list of upcoming Public Goods Library calls with detailed info!
The call happens every Wednesday at 11am ET / 3pm UTC. If there is a blank on that day, that means the speaker is TBD! So if you’re interested in hosting a topic, check out the moderator guide!
Community members and their referred speakers can be our mods of the week, aka host a call on a topic of their choice. This is a guide on how to host a topic with us!
💚 Interested in joining or hosting a session in our discussion group?
We're always on the lookout for public goods advocates 🤩 If you can check off a lot of boxes in the list below, chances are you'd be an awesome fit for us!
You are an advocate of public goods
- Examples: have you written articles, taken part in public goods funding, been involved in non-profits, advocate about it heavily online, etc)
You are active within the Gitcoin community or other impactDAOs
You are interested in promoting Gitcoin’s mission to fund digital public goods
You enjoy reading about public goods, like to brainstorm and discuss with a group of equally passionate people
You have time to commit to the space
- As a member, you can join the weekly public goods discussion call, share articles, insights, ideas, etc, and/or join our intimate reading group!
Bonus Action Items that'll give you brownie points 😉
If you are a big reader and like to share commentary about web3/public goods content worth discussing in the library
Share some of your favorite public goods or web3 writing with us (check out our contact below)
Participate in our reading group where we read together (an initiative we’re thinking about starting!)
🛄 Onboarding
Please reach out to us if you are interested in joining the Library!
We're currently still working on designing a more streamlined process for those interested in joining the discussion group.
If you feel that you are a good fit and would like to participate, please join our Discord and reach out to the Linh, QZ, or Madison in the contact page! We’d love to have you :)
P.S. if you read this in its entirety, DM Linh or Madison and share your background and how you found out about us! 📚Let us bring some fun into the library~
🤖Lead Team