concept & ops: create ftc funding model with hypercerts

[holkexyz]

What is it?

How do we apply hypercerts to Funding the Commons?

• creating a sponsorship billboard
• how do we use it at ftc paris?
• do we have retrospective funding?

[holkexyz]

needs to be split into multiple issues

[holkexyz]

Goal: Establish impact sponsorship as a use case for events like funding the commons

Task 1: Building a sponsorship billboard. It consists of the organizational hypercert and the speaker hypercerts, ie it is a collection of multiple hypercerts. Similar to:

• showing sponsors first: https://observablehq.com/d/e326455ced1378e1
• showing hypercerts of the collection first: https://observablehq.com/d/c857fa5c110524ee
  The user can switch between these two via a button

Task 2: Creating the organizational hypercert: One hypercert that represents the organization incl. logistics, venue, etc.: It will be distributed among the sponsors, incl. Network Goods and Protocol Labs (incl. sponsoring via salaries). Minted by fundingthecommons.eth

Task 3: Creating pre-filled links for every speaker to mint a hypercert for their talks. It should include title and description, the FTC logo and a banner. If we send out the links after the speakers presented the banner can be a picture of them on stage. It would be cool to send it out directly after the speakers talk and we add it live to the billboard. We can suggest that the speaker distributes part of the hypercert to the sponsors (tbd how strong we want to frame the recommendation). It would be cool to create a live experience with hypercerts.

Open questions

1. Do we want to enable some sort of retrospective sponsorship? Users could buy more of the organizational hypercert
2. Do we want to enable crowdfunding the next FtC events via impact sponsorships?
3. Should participants also be able to mint a hypercert and add it to the billboard? Generally I believe that their contribution to a successful event can be represented by a hypercert, but we are getting close to people's ideas on POAPs. That's why I currently tend to focus on speakers and organization only.

If we align on these tasks, we can split them into separate issues.

[holkexyz]

from David: add beyond conferences: funds that will be distributed by FtC to hackathon and residency participants that build awesome things, so that they can keep building

[bitbeckers]

@holkeb can we assign this to the Istanbul milestone (because we'll go live then) or view this as done since the PoC has been demo-ed?

[holkexyz]

ftc milestone: yes