[Gitcoin] Microgrants

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Next Step Microgrants

About

Filecoin Next Step Microgrants are available to support taking the Next Step after building an initial prototype with Filecoin. They are offered with the understanding that decentralized technologies are a rapidly developing field with many unknowns. Next Step Microgrants seek to match the pace, breadth, and experimental nature of this work.

Intended Audience

These grants are intended for independent developers, small studios, non-profits, activists, researchers... and you!

Award

Next Step Microgrants are awarded in the amount of $5,000, paid in FIL tokens. The entire grant amount be used to support work related to integrating or improving Filecoin, such as developer time, hosting services, relevant hardware, etc.

Program Qualifications

Next Step Microgrants are intended to be easy to apply for, evaluate, and administer. Projects must meet these 5 criteria:

1. You've already built something with Filecoin (or closely related technologies such as IPLD, libp2p, or frameworks or services such as NFT.storage, Textile Powergate, etc.), independently or as part of a course or hackathon.
2. You can provide a clear and straightforward description of the Next Step you plan to take with grant support.
3. You can complete this work within 3 months.
4. You agree to open-source this work, via MIT license for code or CC-BY-SA 3.0 license for content.
5. You agree to complete weekly updates and a grant report upon conclusion, with the results of your microgrant-funded work as well as a description of your experience building on IPFS, including any challenges or shortcomings encountered.

We may also contact you about promoting the resulting work, including coverage on the Filecoin Blog or social media.

Timelines

Grant applications are typically reviewed every 2 weeks.

FAQ

• Q: My project publishes data or files to IPFS, does it qualify?

  • A: Yes

• Q: My project uses OrbitDB, Textile, nft.storage, or other framework or service, not IPFS directly. Does it qualify?

  • A: Yes

• Q: My project saves data to, or retrieves data from the Filecoin network, does it qualify?

  • A: Yes

• Q: Do you pay out in other currencies besides FIL?

  • A: No

• Q: Should I send the payment information and W8/9 forms to you over email?

  • A: No. We will reply to selected grantees with a form to submit that information.

• Q: Which Filecoin wallet should I use?

  • A: Any valid Filecoin address can be used. You can read more about Filecoin wallets in the documentation. We are not responsible for any use of the FIL once the deposit has been made to the wallet address you provided.

• Q: When is the Filecoin payment made, at what price, and will I be notified?

  • A: Protocol Labs processes Filecoin payments twice monthly, and there is a short validation period for transactions. Typically you will not have to wait longer than three weeks once your application has been submitted. The Filecoin price at the end of the prior day is used to determine the amount; however, this may vary based on market conditions. You will receive an email notifying you that your deposit has been made.

• Q: Can someone join the team who was not part of the original hackathon? Or can I switch with someone? Or can only a subset of the original team still participate?

  • A: Yes! All team permutations are ok as long as there is only one submission per original hackathon project.

• Q: What if my "next step" is significantly different from the original project? Can I apply for multiple "next step" grants?

  • A: Next Step Microgrants are intended to build upon prior work. If you're unsure, go ahead and apply, but add a section explaining the situation with links to any prior grant applications or code. We will review on a case-by-case basis. In some cases, we will recommend that you apply for an Open Grant instead.

• Q: I'm not a coding participant; I coordinated or made videos or helped in other ways. Am I eligible?

  • A: YES! In real life, successful products are the result of many roles, skills, backgrounds and disciplines... not just coding. You are an INSTRUMENTAL part of your team, and are eligible to receive the grant as well.

• Q: What if we don't finish the work and run off with the money?

  • A: You will carry the weight of your actions for the rest of your days, and may be reborn in the next life as a hungry ghost.

Support

Support for Next Step Microgrants is contributed by Protocol Labs on a quarterly basis.

For more information on the Filecoin project's overall grant program, including other grant types, check out http://github.com/filecoin-project/devgrants.

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Issue Status: 1. Open 2. Started 3. Submitted 4. Done

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This issue now has a funding of 62.7167 FIL (5027.37 USD @ $80.16/FIL) attached to it as part of the filecoin-project fund.

• If you would like to work on this issue you can 'start work' on the Gitcoin Issue Details page.
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  • $5,361,533.75 more funded OSS Work available on the Gitcoin Issue Explorer

[gitcoinbot]

Issue Status: 1. Open 2. Started 3. Submitted 4. Done

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Work has been started.

These users each claimed they can complete the work by 8 months, 2 weeks ago. Please review their action plans below:

1) robweb3 has started work.

Part of what you earn from working on gitcoin or other decentralized working platforms will be put in a pool that will then be redistributed to its contributors that are in need of money (after contributing for a period ). This will offer a financial safety net for its participants. All their work history, invested funds, how much and when they can pull out money if they aren't working . 2) gawainb has started work.

A gamified blockchain platform for independent creators, fans, and brands to collaborate directly and earn DeFi incentives. 3) ervindimitri has started work.

I pretend to develop a decentralized podcast application, where artists can store their podcasts and monetize 4) rezahsnz has started work.

The idea is to offer novelists a platform where they could write flash fictions where the proof of the authorship/ownership is backed by onchain signatures. This would pave the way for transparent processes of art creation. So the scheme is to provide an environment for novelists to write flash fictions(up to 99 words) and then publish them on chain with the help of NFTs. The content of the fictions(aka metadata) along with the associated materials is hosted by IPFS. By publishing, we refer to the act of minting NFTs and having them transfered to the wallet of the authors. Once a fiction is published, the author is free to trade her token in various marketplaces. 5) nya-elimuai has started work.

The elimu.ai Community DAO (http://elimu.ai) is a non-profit organization which develops open source educational software for disadvantaged children who lack access to quality basic education.

Part of our work consists of storing and distributing multimedia content like audio recordings, videos, ePUBs, images, etc. We use educational content that is licensed under a Creative Commons (CC) license.

As a step towards Web3 and decentralization, we want to make the switch to IPFS for storing this content.

Work plan:

• [ ] Sep: Implement support for a Content Identifier (CID)
• [ ] Oct: Add CID to existing multimedia files in the database
• [ ] Oct: Upload to IPFS when a multimedia file is added by a contributor
• [ ] Oct: Add CID to REST API for Android apps to know how to download it
• [ ] Nov: Phase out the original centralized content storage 6) sepandhaghighi has started work.

Samila is a user-friendly and easy-to-use generative art generator library written in Python, Samila let's you create arts based on many thousand points. The position of every single point is calculated by a formula, which has random parameters. Because of the random numbers, every image looks different. Samila is integrated with NFT.Storage and has this option to upload generated arts directly.

Our plan for the future :

1. Create a client/web app for Samila
2. Create bots for Samila (Telegram, Twitter, and ...)
3. Improve generation method by using AI
4. Add more wizard modes
5. Fix bugs 7) dev-blockchain has started work.

Project based on filecoin 8) lopeselio has started work.

An insurance DAO for the people by the people. 9) mansoorop has started work.

It combines IPFS and ERC-721 token standard to allow users to actually own the ebooks that they've paid for. New tokens representing eBooks are minted at the time of initial purchase from the author, and the ownership of that particular ebook shifts as the token changes hands. Users can buy a new book from the author, buy a used book from other readers, and rent books from other readers as well. 10) lucasespinosa28 has started work.

project store random NFT in IPFS using file coin three-party fleek

Learn more on the Gitcoin Issue Details page.

[lucasespinosa28]

I have a problem submitting into [Gitcoin] Microgrants, the address is valid

[nya-elimu]

@vvkio The "Submit Work" form does not work:

Should we reach out to Gitcoin and ask them to look into the bug?