Idea Marketplace
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Idea Marketplace

The idea marketplace is a place to articulate, debate & eventually form consensus around different visions of what Gitcoin's endgame is.

Different proposals will serve the discussion.

  1. Anyone can submit a proposal, and in doing so will stimulate disussion about strategy, roadmap, or vision.
  2. The accepted proposals have been ratified by governance, and thereby have legitimacy to actually be followed.

How does a proposal become an accepted proposal?

The accepted proposals will have gone through the CSDO decision process (opens in a new tab) which is listed on the CSDO notion page (opens in a new tab).

Building for a plurality of proposals

Ideally there will be a rich ecosystem of divergent proposals that will build upon one another, exchange ideas, and then converge towards a consensus.

Perhaps if we are super committed to evolving our strategy together, then multiple proposals will start to merge as people share ideas with each other.


---------------------------------------------------- proposal A
              \
               \ idea exchange
                \
---------------------------------------------------- proposal B

through this process, it will be useful to illuminate where there is profound disagreement in the path forward.


---------------------------------------------------- proposal A
              x
               x disagreement
                x
---------------------------------------------------- proposal B

As consensus emerges, the "Accepted Proposals" resource will grow.

                                    proposal A1
                                   /         \
    proposal A -> discussion & debate           \
  /                                            \ CSDO approves merge back to consensus proposal
 /                                              \
---------------------------------------------------- accepted proposal

but sometimes a proposal will be created that does not get a reaction or get merged into the consensus proposal.

    proposal B -> discussion & debate -> no merge
  /                                          
 /                                       
---------------------------------------------------- accepted proposal

How do you engage in the marketplace of ideas?

  1. Read
  2. Discuss - Use Github Issues, gov.gitcoin.co, twitter, or any other medium you'd like, to debate.
  3. Propose - You can propose your own strategic thinking, either by forking this repo (opens in a new tab) or in any format you choose. To make a proposal, submit it via pull request to the proposals page (opens in a new tab) of this repo.
  4. Repeat until success.