Closed chamirag closed 2 years ago
jennymith
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2 years ago Hey Chamirag & Jay, thanks for applying to be Stacks Residents. The Foundation team is currently reviewing your application in more depth and will be getting back to you about next steps soon.
jennymith
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2 years ago Hi @chamirag, just emailed you to schedule an intro call for this week. Looking forward to learning more about your proposal!
chamirag
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2 years ago Hi Jenny,
Thanks so much, I’ve locked in a slot for the 27th US time.
Look forward to meeting and speaking further!
Best,
Chamira
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Hi @chamirag https://github.com/chamirag, just emailed you to schedule an intro call for this week. Looking forward to learning more about your proposal!
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jennymith
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2 years ago Hi @chamirag, thanks again to you and your partner for walking us through your proposal. Thinkrs is definitely an interesting platform with the potential to improve civic engagement in certain communities. However, after much discussion, we have decided not to move forward with your application.
While the mission to improve critical thinking is certainly one that resonates with us, it is also quite a broad initiative that seems orthogonal to the needs of Stacks community members at the moment. Currently, the most pressing issues facing the Stacks community are those concerning building (better developer tools, improvements to network scalability, etc.) and governance (off and on-chain decision-making, reputation building, and rewards distribution). These are the areas we encourage you to look into should you decide to apply again in future.
In the meantime, if there are related projects that you'd be interested in exploring, I recommend looking into the Stacks Grants Program as a way to get started. Although we were not able to work with you as residents this time around, we'd love to help you continue your work on Stacks where possible.
chamirag
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2 years ago Hi Jenny,
Thanks again for yours, Mitchell’s and Brittnays time last week.
And for the detailed feedback. Absolutely will apply for the grants program and keen to build through the STX ecosystem in future.
Chamira
On Fri, 5 Nov 2021 at 3:12 am, Jenny @.***> wrote:
Hi @chamirag https://github.com/chamirag, thanks again to you and your partner for walking us through your proposal. Thinkrs is definitely an interesting platform with the potential to improve civic engagement in certain communities. However, after much discussion, we have decided not to move forward with your application.
While the mission to improve critical thinking is certainly one that resonates with us, it is also quite a broad initiative that seems orthogonal to the needs of Stacks community members at the moment. Currently, the most pressing issues facing the Stacks community are those concerning building (better developer tools, improvements to network scalability, etc.) and governance (off and on-chain decision-making, reputation building, and rewards distribution). These are the areas we encourage you to look into should you decide to apply again in future.
In the meantime, if there are related projects that you'd be interested in exploring, I recommend looking into the Stacks Grants Program https://github.com/stacksgov/Stacks-Grants/issues as a way to get started. Although we were not able to work with you as residents this time around, we'd love to help you continue your work on Stacks where possible.
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What's your name/your team's name?
Chamira Gamage & Jay Patel / Thinkrs: https://www.thinkrs.io/
Best email on which to contact you?
chamiragamage7@gmail.com
Personal Statement [Explain in 150 words or less the kind of work you'd like to do and why you think it could advance the ecosystem.]
We want to contribute to Stacks’s impact in a meaningful way by associating our unique mission to its movement.
Thinkrs helps anyone identify misinformation, polarization and media bias; some of the greatest problems of our time. Through a unique set of tools, our ecosystem seeks to tackle this problem through critical thinking. Within this is a gamified environment, which makes collective knowledge sharing unique. We are also looking to provide non-partisan voting information alongside civic engagement communities in Atlanta.
We feel this mission will be fulfilled in the Stacks community, alongside existing accelerator projects which complement our objectives and enhance people’s sovereignty over their lives. We also believe Thinkrs can assist in building a cultural appreciation of blockchain within the Web 2.0 world, thus acting as a bridge and onboarding project.
We want to bring clarity to content consumers globally, in partnership with Stacks, while building with 'clarity', itself.
End Product [Describe in 150 words or less the what you plan to contribute to the community by the end of your residency, e.g. a whitepaper or a series of developer tools.]
By the end of our residency, we believe we can build an engaged civic community with projects like Citycoins. This would enable a city to engage directly with its constituents on how its BTC stack could be utilised (greater direct democracy!). This model can grow as CityCoin expands to other cities.
We can conduct interviews and collective discussions/forums via our Thinkrs social media tools and could be utilised to promote Stacks projects and more broadly Web 3.0 to mainstream society, engaging locals in a unique, nuanced way that touches on issues relevant to their city.
Lastly we hope to produce a thorough Whitepaper on the impact of Thinkrs on critical thinking around the world, specifically in conjunction with the Stacks ecosystem. This can be a use case for STX Social Impact, shaping a cohesive narrative alongside projects such as Citycoins, Sigle etc.
Roadmap [Break your project down into a simple list of milestones and include the approximate dates by when you plan to complete them.]
Appendix [Attach any supplemental materials such as previous work/accolades, notes, diagrams, preliminary research, or community interactions that could support your application.]