This is the official Github for Minority Programmers Association's DAO on Harmony
The proposal is live at https://talk.harmony.one/t/minority-programmers-dao show <3 and support in the comments section
- Minority Programmers X Harmony (https://doc.clickup.com/d/h/4e6q4-1940/f67494134f17a47/4e6q4-1120)
- Proposal (https://doc.clickup.com/d/h/4e6q4-1940/f67494134f17a47/4e6q4-1140)
- Our Values / Mandates (https://doc.clickup.com/d/h/4e6q4-1940/f67494134f17a47/4e6q4-1240)
- Deliverables & Metrics (https://doc.clickup.com/d/h/4e6q4-1940/f67494134f17a47/4e6q4-1180)
- Grant Milestone Checklist (https://doc.clickup.com/d/h/4e6q4-1940/f67494134f17a47/4e6q4-1320)
- Key Performance Indicators (https://doc.clickup.com/d/h/4e6q4-1940/f67494134f17a47/4e6q4-1380)
- What We've Accomplished (https://doc.clickup.com/d/h/4e6q4-1940/f67494134f17a47/4e6q4-1200)
- Path to Sustainability (https://doc.clickup.com/d/h/4e6q4-1940/f67494134f17a47/4e6q4-1360)
- Topics To Explore (https://doc.clickup.com/d/h/4e6q4-1940/f67494134f17a47/4e6q4-1160)
- Minority World Metaverse (https://doc.clickup.com/d/h/4e6q4-1940/f67494134f17a47/4e6q4-1583)
- Ideas For dApps (https://doc.clickup.com/d/h/4e6q4-1940/f67494134f17a47/4e6q4-1260)
- Financials (https://doc.clickup.com/d/h/4e6q4-1940/f67494134f17a47/4e6q4-1340)
- The Governors (https://doc.clickup.com/d/h/4e6q4-1940/f67494134f17a47/4e6q4-1220)
- Funding Proposal (https://doc.clickup.com/d/h/4e6q4-1940/f67494134f17a47/4e6q4-1300)
- Revenue Models (https://doc.clickup.com/d/h/4e6q4-1940/f67494134f17a47/4e6q4-1487)
- Resources (https://doc.clickup.com/d/h/4e6q4-1940/f67494134f17a47/4e6q4-1443)
- Join (https://doc.clickup.com/d/h/4e6q4-1940/f67494134f17a47/4e6q4-1280)
- Proposal (https://doc.clickup.com/d/h/4e6q4-1940/f67494134f17a47/4e6q4-1140)
Minority Programmers Association is an existing international developer network building socially impactful projects and spreading STEM education to marginalized communities.
Formed in 2019 with the goal of
- Creating a more inclusive space for learning software engineering
- Onboarding, supporting, and training into the tech industry and Web3 space
- Building socially impactful products
From this need of empowering marginalized communities, we turned to Web3 and decentralized technology as the core infrastructure for all of our endeavors.
For more information check out https://linktr.ee/MinorityProgrammers
- Harmony has shown they are a blockchain that supports social impact and change, with an emphasis on helping marginalized communities
- Organizations we want to collaborate with are already DAOs on Harmony; Ex; H.E.R. DAO and Africa DAO
- The Harmony team's energy is fun and inviting, we loved meeting them at EthDenver!
- Provides real support and guidance for governors to build a scalable and decentralized DAO, as well as support communities like Community DAO
- EVM compatibility of Harmony, enables us to take existing Solidity based applications we have built, and even existing open-source code, and easily port over to the Harmony ecosystem
- The founders of Minority Programmers started becoming Degens together doing DeFi on Harmony over a year ago.
- People have asked us for proposal help and DAO consulting for their organizations, we see this as perfect opportunity to onboard to the Harmony ecosystem, but it is only fitting we go through the formal process first.
- We want $ONE while it's at a discount
This documentation is published on https://www.programmers.one/
Minority Programmers DAO
Diversity + Builder DAO
Minority Programmers Association is an international developer network building socially impactful projects and spreading STEM education to marginalized communities.
From this need of empowering marginalized communities, we turned to Web3 and decentralized technology as the core infrastructure for all of our endeavors.
For the full proposal go here https://www.programmers.one/
At Minority Programmers Association we have a multi-faceted approach to improving the blockchain ecosystem.
Our main focuses are
- increasing diversity and inclusivity in the Web3 and STEM industry
- addressing the shortage of software engineers through the training and recruiting of developers
- developing decentralized applications that benefits the lives of everyday people
For more information on Our Values / Mandates (https://doc.clickup.com/d/h/4e6q4-1940/f67494134f17a47/4e6q4-1240)
[Check -What We've Accomplished (https://doc.clickup.com/d/h/4e6q4-1940/f67494134f17a47/4e6q4-1200) Section for details on how we have been tackling this]
At this stage, we are a functioning international organization with hundreds of members in every continent of the world and a dozen active staff/advisors, all supported by a functioning DAO on Polygon. We are building out Genadrop as an artist creative tool. allowing artists to create and mint generative NFT collections without code through an integrated multichain marketplace. We have also been building out a Career Development dApp, to work in tangent with our DAO so that any minority looking to get a career in STEM has access to local communities, courses, mentors, projects, jobs, and startup investment. Additionally this month, we are set to launch Minority Drop as an initial liquidity event for our DAO and access token to the Genadrop alpha platform. We have provided many OG workshops in the Web3 space, and have onboarded dozens of people across the world to Web3 development through our hackathons and education programs. Our goal at MPA is to be the most diverse developer network in the blockchain industry, pushing out code, culture, and community.
MPA is looking for funding throughout the Harmony DAO Grants program to support governors as we transition into a DAO, recruit + train engineers through a project-based approach to learning, and support marketing for existing products and services.
Path to Sustainability (https://doc.clickup.com/d/h/4e6q4-1940/f67494134f17a47/4e6q4-1360)
Detailed Funding Outline Here Funding Proposal (https://doc.clickup.com/d/h/4e6q4-1940/f67494134f17a47/4e6q4-1300)
The Governors (https://doc.clickup.com/d/h/4e6q4-1940/f67494134f17a47/4e6q4-1220)
Deliverables & Metrics (https://doc.clickup.com/d/h/4e6q4-1940/f67494134f17a47/4e6q4-1180)
Key Performance Indicators (https://doc.clickup.com/d/h/4e6q4-1940/f67494134f17a47/4e6q4-1380)
Resources (https://doc.clickup.com/d/h/4e6q4-1940/f67494134f17a47/4e6q4-1443)
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The Minority Programmers is building an ecosystem new and diverse talent can be onboarded into a more inclusive internet.
- Innovation: open source everything, conversations in the public while we build out the Web3 technology
- Diversity and Inclusion: seek to foster as diverse a membership as possible and support everyone to contribute
- Community Building: Build a self-governed community that is active, constructive and contributing to the betterment of the world.
- Mass Adoption: Onboard every person, every sector, and all technologies to decentralized infrastructure
Minority Programmers to be the go-to inclusive community for onboarding developers across all of the software engineering industry.
Building relevant and scalable dapps on the Harmony blockchain that both improve the community with additional users and liquidity, and that are ultimately profitable.
Onboard the best talent in the Web3 space to fulfill the industry's talent gap, first being a pipeline for Harmony-funded projects.
A critical part of repeatedly delivering on projects is building effective teams. Our project-based (POGIL) approach to learning, uses Agile scrum methodology, to create a tight-knit group of colleagues that can be held accountable for large scale projects
Through IRL events, mentorships, hands-on support, hacker houses, online spaces, etc, we are building a community that both cares about the world and each other. We are creating a safe space for innovation that is inclusive, diverse, chain-agnostic, and is beyond the reach of Web3. Minority Programmers has consistently brought newcomers into the STEM industry building both family and careers
Whether it is working on projects as founders, providing consultancy work, or placing DAO members in job opportunities, we are focused on building a long-lasting career for those coming into the industry, that they are passionate about,
Building socially impactful solutions. Tech that makes an impact for people across the world, rather than just building tech for tech's sake.
Lack of diversity, poor inclusion, biased recruitment practices, and lack of appropriate mentorship has continued to afflict the minority community from pursuing STEM as a career choice. This has primarily urged us to come together to provide marginalized communities access to opportunities through events, incubation, education, and capital. We at the Minority Programmers Association banded together after we saw a collection of problems in the workforce, society, and business.
Scientific knowledge is not innate. Diverse perspective and logic is necessary for progression in any field. However, race, gender, socioeconomic disparities continue to distort the growth of technology. Despite the efforts taken to strive for diversity, STEM remains to be one of the least diverse fields. Although the STEM field has the potential to elevate minority populations to financial security, as of 2015, almost half of scientists & engineers in the STEM field were white males.
It is estimated that people of color will constitute a majority of the American population in 2050. Not educating people of color in technical fields, would in turn disproportionately offset innovation for Americans in the future, thus leading to a halt in economic growth. As of 2016, women employed in scientific research and development were less than a third (29.3%) across the world. Women are grossly underrepresented in the STEM field with just 27% of total STEM workers in the USA. Also, women who hold bachelor's degrees in STEM fields are as low as 36% although overall women graduates are higher in number than men. As of 2015 National Center for Education Statistics, women of color accounted for a low percentage in STEM fields (2.9% of Black women, 3.6% of Latinax, and 4.8% of Asian women). At this rate, it might take 76 years to achieve equitable representation of Latinx and Black Engineers in US workforce states Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce.
Incidentally, LGBTQ people have pioneered many scientific advances, but face challenges in STEM that hinder scientific progress and waste human talent. Due to lack of data from NSF, as they don’t include SO/GI measures, researchers do not have basic demographic data to test LGBTQ disparities in STEM 4.
Ranging from a variety of reasons it boils down to the fact of feeling like an outsider and not receiving acceptance that scares away high potential talent. Also, the fear of dealing with a male-dominated workforce has also contributed to this unequal participation5.
While the STEM industry is spending millions to increase hiring in diverse talent, they are seeing a pipeline problem where much of this STEM talent isn’t currently diverse. Even though organizations declare their diversity in hiring and promoting, they have still fallen short in achieving it.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for STEM occupation
Minority Group |
General U.S. Population |
Occupied in STEM jobs |
|---|---|---|
Black/African American |
13.4% |
9.1% |
Hispanic/Latino |
8.4% |
18.5% |
Women |
25.2% |
50.8% |
The table above shows the data of minority groups from 2020, contrasting the general population in the U.S. and their proportion in occupying mathematical and computer jobs. It is a well-known fact that the tech field has lacked diversity8 with 80% of software engineers being white men in the U.S. Although the demand for professionals has been steady or even increased (1.2% higher from 2019 to 2020), even through the pandemic, many organizations have held back from hiring.
Diversity research by Harvard Business shows that even larger and more prestigious firms that are committed to diversity inclusion are companies that still have hidden bias in their hiring strategies. According to their study, most firms believe in prestigious internships (Goldman Sachs, Mckinsey, and Google) over a standard internship. This increases socioeconomic bias. Adding to this, women and minority groups generally receive lesser credit for such internships. 90% of recruiters from such firms boast about diversity, but their resume rating results show that minority and women candidates were always rated lower than white men even with equal GPA.
A Yale University study shows that, even with a training course, both male and female scientists preferred to hire men over women9. Also, they considered them more skilled and also offered them $4000 more in salary annually. In a prominent 2004 study of racial bias, it was tested how a name could make a difference in hiring by sending out 5000 identical resumes under different names. It was found that white-sounding names received 50% more job interviews than others.
Google’s organizational commitment towards diversity in hiring eventually did not reinforce their motive. Despite the fact that they pledged to increase black representation in their senior hierarchy and increase their leadership representation of minority groups by 30% by 2030, only 3.7% of their current workforce is black and 6% are Latino.
Having a user group where developers meet and discuss their challenges, build skills and also come up with new solutions to solve problems is essential. Such community meetings allow programmers to usually arrive with parallel solutions especially when they have coder’s block, or even skilled individuals to come out of restricted thinking.
While it is common for mentees to seek mentors with similar background experience and background, it is observed that minority students often seek mentors of the same race/ethnicity and also find their information to be more helpful. A survey conducted by Strada-Gallup in 2018 indicated that only 47% of surveyed minority students preferred their professor to be their mentor. Most of the others, due to stigma consciousness, preferred mentors of the same race, ethnicity and gender.
A lack of support creates a very frustrating environment for programmers. This is only emphasized by increased social isolation. Many people who code often know the feeling of stopping in their tracks because of pure frustration and lack of immediate resources for what could very well be a minor bug. Additionally, many programmers describe themselves as introverts, and coincidentally Computer Scientists also appears on lists of good jobs for introverts. While international students provide a unique perspective to problem-solving, American students often perceive them as a threat to the American economy, culture, and education. Additionally, teachers who don’t empathize with these linguistic barriers, question competency and at times criticizing their accents further alienating students. This alienation directly translates to weaker performance. While diversity has increased amongst student populations, university faculty and staff remain predominantly caucasian, often adding an additional barrier. The point isn’t that people should only learn from people who look like them, in fact, all the evidence we’ve provided goes against this. Rather, that the sense of community currently offered isn’t in line with the diversity requirement and talent development top tech companies are looking for.
While there is a lack of STEM in developing nations, we at the Minority Programmers view this as an opportunity to fast track these countries into the IT sector. As ⅓ of those in the STEM workforce do not have a college degree, there is an opportunity to bypass the building of resource-intensive infrastructure like brick and mortar generational institutions and disseminate knowledge, mentorships, and experience to those in poverty-stricken communities. This is important as part of the cost associated with education is beyond the physical expense of tuition, room, and board, but the opportunity cost of supporting a family who will potentially lose their immediate income earner as well. The ability to educate families while keeping them close-knit also has the opportunity to combat child labor which affects over 150 million children globally. Pursuing such programs is necessary for fulfilling the future STEM workforce in both Asia and Africa and to prepare students for tech entrepreneurship in the United States. This is key as technological advancement is a substantial indicator of economic growth. Even UNESCO has declared a girl’s access to STEM education as a human right, further emphasizing the impact STEM education has in addressing systemic inequalities in developing countries. While it seems more difficult to achieve in developing nations, in actuality in the past 15 years technological advancement has been growing at a higher rate for developing nations than their developed counterparts.
Socioeconomic status continues to be the strongest reason for people to not pursue STEM education around the world. Individuals don’t have access to financial services due to lack of financial inclusion. As of 2017, around 1.7 billion people worldwide don't have access to a bank account. Students from such poor areas lack access to good resources. Profound example to this disparity would be Latin America, where the education gap is mirrored by the income gap between rich and poor. 50% of Brazillians, Mexicans and Columbians don’t possess the basic ability to solve a simple math equation, while only 1% high income students perform up to the standards of their international peers. In the USA, low income students can’t afford 95% of the colleges due to their financial status.
It costs around $65,000 and $80,000 to get a degree in most STEM fields, while computer science degrees cost $40,000 on an average. More than 56% of college students, due to the pandemic, fear that they can no longer afford college tuition. Nearly 7% of them have already dropped out to pursue full time employment or look for alternative education options. 40% of parents have tapped out their children’s college fund to cover their day to day expenses due to economic fallout.
According to Pew Research in 2017 in the USA, 40% of non STEM workers were interested in pursuing a STEM career at some point in their lives, however, 27% of them stated the cost of education and time required as the most common reason to not choose a STEM career primarily. Council of Graduate Schools have stated that 82.2% of enrollment management professionals have noted that lack of financial support is the main concern since the pandemic started.
Even with similar enrollment rates, 1/3rd of minority students drop out of STEM degrees, which is nearly twice as much as the white population that dropout of college. Changing majors, and dropping out of college completely are seen as a common trend with minority groups - black (40%) and Latino (37%) students switch majors before earning a degree, while 26% of black STEM students and 20% of Latino STEM students drop out of college. Although they possess strong interest in the STEM field, a large population of these black and Latino youth come from low-income families and don’t have adequate academic resources that support them through to completion. Given the fact that they don’t drop out of other competitive fields such as business majors, it raises speculation for a sense of belonging, feeling excluded, discriminated against or even the anticipation of such feelings. Similarly, a study conducted by American Educational Research Journal cited gender discrimination to be the predictive attribute when women choose their majors.
Talent shortage is a growing challenge in this digital world. Around 72.8% of employers have reported that they face difficulty in finding skilled candidates, and 45% of employers find it difficult to find employees with necessary talent.
Job opportunities in the STEM field are expected to grow over two times in the next decade. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics have predicted over 8% increase in employment for occupation in the STEM field by 2029. Among these, three occupations are expected to experience a rapid growth rate of 15% or above in the next decade- Information security analysts (31.2%), Software developers, and Computer and information research scientists.
Growth in Software Developers
Out of all the STEM occupations, software development is one of the fastest-growing industries in terms of demand. It comprises 64% of total outsourced or off-shored IT functions worldwide. Averagely, the software development phase typically takes up to 63% of the total budget in new software creation. As of 2015, the USA had around 4.2 million software engineers. Its market is projected to grow at a CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 4% annually. As per U.S. Labor Statistics, employment growth of software development is expected to increase by 21% by 2028, likely to exceed 27.7 million by 2023. Although in 2020 the job vacancies dropped by 8% due to the pandemic, while senior roles suffered the most shrinking by 11%, as per the survey conducted by SWZD, 80% of organizations anticipate the IT budget to grow or stay steady over the next 12 months.
One of the biggest challenges that the tech industry faces is the skills gap. Entry-level software developers don't possess skills that are marketable to employers. This stems from the fact that schools aren't at par with the industry requirement. KPMG survey shows that tech skills shortage is higher than what it was in 2008. Almost 80% of companies are in the process of digital transformation, which increases the demand for new technical skills. However, only 1/5th of the professional population is up to date with their job-required skills. While 9.22 million people were unemployed in the US in April 2021, there is an estimated 3.5 million jobs that will be needed to be filled by 2025. Not only is this a huge potential to transition underutilized talent into the STEM industry, but individuals are recognizing this labor shortage with over 20% of people in the US reporting to have improved their programming skills since the pandemic.
Covid Has Hurdled Talent Pipeline For Recruiters
Pandemic has reshaped the talent acquisition trends. Companies adopted virtual recruiting, remote candidates, considering internal talent pools, and also focused on diversity, and inclusion.
Regardless of how the pandemic may have affected the hiring, students continue to expect personalized proactive outreach from employers. They look for support and connection with employers through their universities. According to survey data published by job search platform Handshake, 69% of students expect their university career center to help them in interactions and communication with employers. Also, 52.2% of students raised concerns about effectively communicating virtually with recruiters.
With lesser in face interactions, no careers fairs, recruiters have to turn to remote recruiting options that need to expand geographically. Also, they would need to find new sourcing channels and find ways to engage candidate experience virtually, while still maintaining efficiency and fairness.
It can cost up to $50,000 for a company to recruit and train a new employee. This cost includes the hiring agency fee, the loss of productivity during the talent search period, the hiring package provided to the recruited talent, and training them. It could take up to twice the annual salary of an employee to replace them. This cost is much higher when the hired talent is a replacement for an existing specialist. Losing even a few high performers can affect the company’s revenue to a large extent.
Cost and time factor has influenced recruiters to hire internal candidates. Internal hiring has increased by 20% since COVID as per LinkedIn data. Companies are expecting to increase their budget for learning and development to increase, focussing on reskilling or engaging contingent internal talent.
As per 2020 The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were 1.4 million computer science-related job vacancies with only 400,000 computer science graduates to fill them. It is estimated by The American Immigration Council that 20% to 25% of STEM employees in the U.S. are immigrant workers, which is aggravating the talent supply crisis due to the shrinking of the immigrating population. Korn Ferry states that, If the U.S. does not address this talent deficit issue soon enough, it can result in $162 billion in unrealized output worth to the economy by 2030.
Software development growth is expected to grow 22% by 2029. The demand for blockchain engineers has increased by 517% year after year. With that being said, the U.S. Software market is facing a talent shortage of over 472,000 workers. Global talent shortage has been predicted to go as high as 85.2 million workers, which could lead to a risk of losing $8.4 trillion in revenue due to lack of skilled workers. On the same note, The Economist states that opening the border for talent can increase the global GDP to as high as $78 trillion.
According to the SEC, minorities only make up 10.7% of entrepreneurs seeking capital and also have a low investment yield rate. Additionally, 77% of founders in VC-backed businesses are white, only 5.3% of angel investors are minorities. Moreover, while women-founded companies generate more revenue (and women making a majority of the population), they only constitute 25.9% of entrepreneurs seeking capital (2018) with a lower investment yield rate than minorities. Additionally 71% of VC firms don’t even have 1 female partner. Since the onset of the pandemic, women, african, lantinx, and Asian-owned businesses have all been on the decline as well. Women and minorities have far less access to capital and resources than their white male counterparts.
Gaining an edge, or an insider advantage is core to the fundamental strategy to the nature of venture capital firms. The earlier a VC Partner is able to spot a potential “unicorn” (a private company valued at or over $1 billion).
5.6% of U.S. VC firms are led by women, while only 4.9% of VC partners in the U.S. are women. Such studies show that adequate women representation mirrors trusting women's leadership. McKinsey survey states that Global GDP can increase upto $28 trillion globally if gender equality was achieved. United Nations study shows that the Asia-Pacific region (like China and USA), are losing upto $42 billion in GDP annually due to not fully engaging women’s participation in their economy.
Minority Tech founders are being overlooked
Minority founders remain as untapped potential in the technology field. As reported in a recent study by RateMyInvester and DiversityVC, 77.1% of founders are generally white, no matter their gender or their education. Asians were found to be the second highest with 17.7% of VC funding. Black founders who have venture capital support are less than 1%. 1.8% of Latino founders are funded while Middle-Easterners stood at 2.8%. Moreover, Black and Latino founders have found difficulty in securing VC funding in the last 7 years receiving just 2.4% VC investments. By 2020, this figure just saw a rise of 0.2%.
Angel and seed deal decline - It is reported that women comprise 29.5% of angel investors and 11% of VC , while minorities take up only 5.3% of angel investors. A 2019 Kauffman Foundation study stated that women, while pitching the same business content as men, were less likely to secure funding. Also, while men were usually questioned about growth-related gains, women were questioned about non-losses.
The Venture Capital investment landscape has declined since the pandemic hit. In 2020, there was a 44% decrease in deals made in the seed to Series B stages. Startups are facing a crisis with early-stage funding decreasing, as investors are on edge due to pandemic crises and economic uncertainty. In addition to that, the absence of in-person meetings with investors, an important deciding factor for early-stage investing further delays the process. For new ventures, usually, initial capital is raised through seed-stage funding, however, this has decreased by 22% since early 2020. This might directly end up in loss of talent as skilled employees may end up getting laid off due to macroeconomic reasons. Indirectly larger organizations will also be affected as such startups that are usually acquired (as R&D) for product diversification, or market penetration will be lost. Alternatively, larger firms have also taken advantage of this compressed valuations to acquire companies at a cheaper price. (unsure if to write about corp minority investments as large tech firms have moved towards it)
On the other hand, COVID has only exacerbated the difficulty of finding viable startups for venture capital backing. A month into the pandemic, First Republic Bank, found after surveying hundreds of Silicon valley firms, that ⅓ of VCs refused to make investments without meeting the founders face to face, resulting in fewer overall investments.
Within the first 3 months of receiving a Harmony DAO grant, the Minority Programmers will accomplish the following deliverables (Q1-Q2 2022)
- Onboard 300 Users to Harmony Wallets, working with Metamask and other wallet providers to improve overall user experience
- Have 500+ Members Join Snapshot DAO https://snapshot.org/#/minorityprogrammers.eth
- Onboard existing dApps into Harmony ecosystem across the network
- Onboard Harmony DAO’s into Ethereum Enterprise Alliance Education Working Group, developing Web3 onboarding industry standards
- Bring Minority Venture Capital to Layer 2 Solution (Polygon Mainnet)
- Build Genadrop on Harmony (no code generative art minter)
- Participate in 3 Hackathons (1 Hackathon Each Month) with the development team from minority Programmers
- Bring dResumes (decentralized Resumes to Harmony) - Minting Resumes as NFTs
- Redesign MPA dApp to dark theme
- Integrate dApp cross-chain (Polygon, Harmony, Casper, etc..)
- Launching of HRC-20 Governance token on Harmony (w vesting) {Contracts Done}
- Configure Minority Programmers Snapshot with Harmony and then Harmony governance token when ready
- Begin to make efforts to get African developers into safer and stable work environments
- Submit 7 Proposals in the Web3 space
- Launch Minority Drop https://minoritynft.com/ as initial liquidity event for Minority Programmers DAO
- Create H.E.R. x Minority NFT Drop and give to H.E..R. DAO to support the onboarding of women developers into space https://www.minoritynft.com/her
- Launch generative drop on Harmony
- Grow discord to 5,000+ members https://discord.gg/4vdtmQqz6d
- Make 3 Media appearances mentioning the benefits of Harmony
- Host Weekly Twitter Spaces on Minority Programmers Twitter
- Grow LinkedIn to 3,000+ Followers
- Grow Twitter to 2,000+ Followers
- Grow YouTube to 1,000 Subscribers
- Publish 3 Harmony focused articles
- Create a public repository for Harmony knowledge on ClickUp and Github
- Host 5 Harmony centric workshops
- Bring 10 Interns through internship programs from people in developing nations and teaming up with boot camps that tailor to veterans like LEARN Academy
- Vibrant #harmony channel on discord with continuous resources along with open harmony resources channel
- Strategic partnerships with 3 other organizations and Harmony backed DAOs like H.E.R. DAO to pilot a blockchain developer cohort program
- 3 Video tutorials (and respective documentation) for onboarding into Harmony
- Sponsor 20 Minority Programmers for Eth Conference (Ex; EthRio)
- Secure spot in Wynwood, Miami for Regular IRL Web3 Events
- Throw BTC 2022 Event in Miami
- Host IRL Minority Programmers Hacker House
- Get 1 million in volume through NFT sales through Genadrop
- Onboard 100 Artists into the NFT space using tools like Genadrop
- Post 3 Hackathon Bounties
- Build dApplance (learning app + talent sourcing) section of Minority Programmers Career development dApp
- Launch another IRL Hacker House (Minority Incubator) with Wellness first in mind
- Grow Minority Venture Capital to $250,000+ AUM
- Onboard 1,000 users onto Harmony wallets
- Build out a cohort of Harmony dApps from the Minority Programmers cohort
- Onboard 5 DAOs onto Harmony
- Grow membership on Snapshot to be top 50 DAOs
- Start building DeFi yield tool
- Another 10 interns through an internship program
- Fundraising dinner for Minority Think Tank
- Launch an anon legendary degen project
- Decentraland Plot 🌀 Minority World 🌎 a subsidized community in the metaverse for marginalized communities
- Bring job board live into dApp https://minorityprogrammers.org/careers
- Hiring first staff democratically through DAOs
- Onboard Harmony Educators into Ethereum Enterprise Alliance Educational Training Working Group to create industry-wide standards for Web3 onboarding
- Onboard 5,000 users onto Harmony wallets
- Onboard 10 DAOs onto Harmony
- 20 interns onboarded through an internship program
- MVP for DeFi yield tool
- Launch Web3Mafia, a coalition of "made" individuals in the industry
- Throw AR/VR Immersive Event in Miami
- Build Minority IDO Launchpad https://minorityprogrammers.org/incubator
- Begin to build for Decentralized Consultancy
*Q3-Q4 Under Developed In Detail due to changing conditions in the Web3 space, at this point functioning governance should be in place driving these decisions.
To be decided via governance process
- Setup validator on HarmonyStake.com
- Setup Security DAO within MPA
- Launch Minority Incubator & Accelerator
- MPA Africa House
The following are ways we can keep track of metrics that help us quantify the success of our deliverables & mandates, and help fine-tune specific acceptance criteria.
- Monthly revenue from NFT mint sales
- Monthly revenue from Genadrop marketplace tax
- Monthly revenue from client projects
- Number of developers recruited a month
- Total clicks for advertisements
- Amount of sponsorships for hackathons and events
- Monthly revenue made from onramping
- Monthly revenue from offramping
- Monthly revenue made from advertisements
- Number of users signed up for subscription-based models
- Number of startups through incubator
- Number of active members
- Percentage of women in the organization
- Number of projects completed by members
- Number of hackathon submissions by MPA members
- Number of monthly GitHub pushed to Minority Programmers repositories
- Number of interns who graduated from the program
- The percentage success rate for the internship program
- Total volume for NFT sales X Mint Percentage
- Number of NFT collections launched
- Volume by blockchain
- Number of views on OpenSea
- Number of NFTs minted through MinorityProgrammers.eth
- The floor price for each NFT collection
- The monthly volume for each NFT collection
- AUM Overtime
- Number of depositors
- Number of assets holding
- Number of trades over time
- Number of delegated traders
- Monthly carry for the fund manager
- Number of Users Signed Up
- Number of monhtly visits
- Visits by area
- Number of Courses
- Number of User Signed Up For Course
- Number of Users Completed Courses
- Average numbers of courses taken by active users
- Number of users no longer active
- Number of users minted resumes
- Number of startups on Incubator
- Number of jobs posted
- Number of total applicants for jobs
- Number of event attendees
- The average duration of events
- Monthly revenue from events
- Monthly gross ticket sales and profits
- Number of online users on average
- Number of members on discord
- Number of verified members on discord
- Number of members left on discord
- Ranking on Mee6 bots
- Number of new channels
- Most active channels
- Number of followers on LinkedIn
- Number of events
- Number of event attendees for specific events
- Number of DAO members
- Number of new monthly DAO members
- Number of proposals
- The average number of votes per proposal
- The average duration of a proposal
- Number of subscribers
- New subscribers a month
- Monthly views
- Number of new videos a month
- Number of comments a month
- Most viewed video this month
- Number of new twitter followers a month
- Number of people unfollowed account monthly
- Average engagement rate
- Top 5 tweets by engagemenet
- The average amount of impressions
- Number of new facebook followers a month
- Average post engagement rate
- Number of new monthly followers
- Frequency of instagram stories and reels
- Time posts have the best egagement
As required by the grant requirements, here is a working checklist to help us hold ourselves accountable that we will be updating as tasks are completed
- with the help of an Ambassador DAO member, ensure 9 governors recruited voted in and published on Harmony's forum
- all members set up as 5-of-9 Gnosis Safe signers on a wallet and able to operate on a governance platform such as Aragon, DAOhaus or Coordinape
- Defined or refined the 3 DAO mandates ✅
- Established, or transitioned from incumbents
- Email addresses shared and calendars setup as team on Calendly
- Discord with roles, public/private channels, with MEE6 or Wick anti-spam bots ✅
- Twitter handles setup with teams delegated to governors via Tweetdec
- identified a Harmony forum category to situate all discussions or established own Medium blog ✅
- established a GitHub repo or Notion page to document DAO mandates, record meeting minutes and a Kanban board for action items especially from monthly retrospectives. 💡 At this stage the DAO is now up and running.
- https://github.com/MinorityProgrammers/harmony-dao and a clickup
- About Minority Programmers DAO
- DAO Mandates
- DAO Elections (Hiring)
- 3 Month election Period for Governor Postions
- DAO Payroll
- Monthly Payouts
- Salary
- have held at least 3 publicly accessible meetings with agendas with established RACI, executing on the DAO mandates; all present or absent attendees must provide updates and participate in decision-makings,
- publishing minutes on all channels (Harmony forum or Medium, Twitter, Telegram, and Discord) with an Ambassador DAO member stand witness over initial 3 meetings
- completed at least 3 successful governance proposals released for public votes, each with a minimum two-week voting period, each reaching at least 33% quorum of ONE token holders or their respective HRC20 token holders. 💡 At this stage, the DAO focuses on growth and engagement of the community.
- carried out a third monthly retrospective session, measuring and recording the performance of how the DAO mandates executions took place, what worked, what didn't, documenting and creating an action plan for each lesson, recorded as a GitHub issue or Notion page, publishing them on all channels (Harmony forum or Medium, Twitter, Telegram and Discord),
- launched marketing campaign for the next round of incoming governors, solicited at least 9 governors to post their candidacy on the Harmony forum, scheduled DAO elections and prepared a binder for incoming governors to onboard quickly. 💡 At this stage, the nears DAO completion of its tasks and readies to transition to new governors.
Minority Programmers Association has been actively building and educating in the Web3 space for over a year now, being funded for hackathons and projects by notable tech companies and Web3 protocols in the space.
- Awarded $300K in outstanding milestone-based grant funding from Algorand Foundation, Celo Community Fund, DevXDAO, and Near Foundation for dApp building
- Built out Genadrop with Minters on Multiple Blockchain
- Created a grassroots Decentralized Hedge fund Minority Venture Capital with over $60,000 in AUM
- Hosted 6 Hackathons (Covid, BlackLivesMatter, Election, ClimateHacks, DeFiSummer, & DeFiWinter) with sponsors like RippleX, Stellar Development Foundation, Enzyme.Finance, Idle.Finance. Tokamak.Network, CGI, and Accenture
- Over 70 interns graduated From from, we were the first to mint internship certificates and hired 10+ people from the program
- Joined the Ethereum Enterprise Alliance starting Educational Working Group
- Officially Filed Minority Think Tank as 501c3
- Won Eth Atlanta hackathon and became Baseline Core Devs
- Anonymously launched many NFT projects on both Solana + Ethereum, and meme coins with influencer backing
- Built multiple NFT marketplaces for clients
- Created DAO on Snapshot (65 People Onboarded), Aragon, and NEAR DAO
- Building on Minority Programmers dApp with NFT certificates and NFT resumes
- Conducted a plethora of Web3 & tech workshops with representatives Ripple, Stacks, Enzyme, Idle.Finance, KPMG, AWS, Blockchain Education Network, Runtime Verification, Questbook, Stellar, Dapplist, DevXDAO, the Blockchain School, Women in Blockchain, NEM, Echelon Digital, RealtyDAO, Leidos on topics like Tokenomics, DAO Design, Diversity & Blockchain, NFTs just to name a few!
- Started BluntDAO by accident, the massive Web3 onboarding movement via “Proof of Sesh, with 4+ NFT drops and AR integration
- Covered in local news and national Bangladeshi news: MPA in the Media
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zeu4CUfZnps&t=3s
| Platform | Metrics(as of 2/24/2022) | Link | Strategy + Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,103 followers | https://linkedin.com/company/minority-programmers/ | Professional posts, official announcements, events | |
| Discord | 847 Humans | https://discord.gg/4vdtmQqz6d | Daily communication, community members join here as first call to action, blockchain and code specific channels for public, internal projects and daily scrums |
| Snapshot DAO | 65 Members | https://snapshot.org/#/minorityprogrammers.eth | Where proposals are put on DAO |
| YouTube | 714 subscribers | https://youtube.com/c/minorityprogrammers | Tutorials, workshops, and mini-series |
| 925 Followers | https://twitter.com/minorityprogram | Most active social media channel, announcements, engagement with Web3 twitter world | |
| Medium | 6 articles published | https://medium.com/minority-programmers | Official articles published here |
| 298 people like this | https://www.facebook.com/MinorityProgrammers | Official announcements | |
| Github | 100+ Members | https://github.com/MinorityProgrammers/ | Code published here, official ReadMe.md(s) |
| 252 Followers | https://www.instagram.com/minorityprogrammers/ | Official pictures and announcements posted here, direct engagement with community members | |
| OpenSea | 5 Collections | https://opensea.io/MinorityProgrammers | NFT drops, internship certificates, hackathon prizes |
Our main motivation for creating a DAO
- A central dashboard for newcomers to look at and understand what is happening to the organization as a whole
- Move funds away from the custody of the Minority Programmers administrators and into the people
- Delegate funds (payouts, grant money, investment) in a programmatic way with a clear audit trail and no single point of failure (especially with Multi-sig wallet)
- Making an official name in the Web3 space. We are already building all our applications with some form of Web3 infrastructure, coming up with in-house applications, consulting, doing NFT drops, organizing Web3 hackathons, all day everyday. Transitioning to complete DAO lets the world know we are officially a Web3 organization.
- Serving as an on-chain resume for the work and reputation of members
- Streamline into reputation-based system to incentivize users to be later integrated into career development dApp
- Providing early use case for Web3 organization transitioning to Web3, then transitioning to a DAO
- Support from mentors in the space through formal organizations (Harmony, Snapshot, Aragon)
- Streamline talent sourcing, hiring, onboarding, in a decentralized manner rather than the traditional recruiter model
Just like any network, the inital ecosystem starts out relatively centralized and moves toward a path to decentralization.
We have outlined the following steps to making Minority Programmers increasingly decentralized.
- Lower initial barrier to entry to governance voting by making governance token 1 USDC and then doing dollar giveaways providing customer support onboarding each user
- Hiring Staff Across the World, need more exposure in Latin America, Asia, and Europe
- Creating MPA Chapters, Continental, National, Regional, Statewide, Citywide, and Schoolwide to create a group of leaders in each respective zone and pave the way for sub-DAOs. (Chapter Dashboard and Map in the works for the dApp)
- Utilization of gasless governance systems in Discord like Aragon Witnet, allowing voting of proposals through emojis
- Cross-chain approach to dApp building to avoid groupthink
- Putting those from other organizations in key positions at MPA, like H.E.R. DAO as a governor role
- Institute NFT reputation badges for DAO contributions that give access to elevated roles and exclusive perks
- Using a diverse set of recruitment funnels
- Translating documents and localizing dApps in order to be accessible to ESL users (incentivizing through reputation in DAO)
- Providing scholarships through the DAO
- Hook up treasury into DAO
- Providing low-cost and free educational materials and programs
- Teaming up with H.E.R. DAO on connectivity projects to onboard those onto DAO that normally would not have access to the internet let alone Web3.
- People are having a hard time understanding everything we are doing
- Changing markets in Web3 are causing us to pivot rapidly
- Many unicorn-like ideas get lost in the backlog because our developer pool is tied up, need or a dedicated rapid R&D department dedicated to Web3
- Payroll is tedious and involves token allocation
From participating in DAOs, to being involved in international grassroots organizing, we are well aware of the pitfalls of DAOs.
- It is hard to keep DAO members informed
- Not enough people in a DAO vote in DAO, low participation
- Cultural misalignment due to stakeholder conflicting views
- Lack of legal precedence and unclear legal jurisdiction for international DAOs
- Human and business decisions can be complex are hard to code within current frameworks
Here are some critical things we are considering when looking at DAOs. As a cross-chain Web3 community, we are urging that we build this DAO tooling so we can pave the way for onboarding all communities into some form of DAO infrastructure.
We receive grant allocations and payments across multiple chains, and there is no DAO tool that has fund delegation across multiple chains.
Often DAOs today are forums with bad UI. Rather DAOs need to have tailored communication and notification systems that keep members engaged and informed.
Rather than simply being impacted by the decisions that are made by a DAO, individuals need to be incentivized to continue to contribute towards DAOs because they are gaining "reputation" within a system that translates into tangible benefits. This reputation needs to be linked to someone's DID/wallet
Aside from reputation, DAOs need to be gamified, not only feel knowledged of the processes of a DAO but are fully immersed in the internal ecosystem that makes each DAO unique.
Just like in normal businesses, different roles have access to different decision processes. DAO's need to represent the elevated privileges and open up decisions to these roles.
Although DAO's are commonly used as an audit trail, with complete organizational transparency; for many enterprise-grade organizations; there are decisions that members would want to vote on democratically, but not show on-chain due to the sensitive nature of the information. There is a need for DAO infrastructure that maintains privacy, so enterprise-level businesses can maintain corporate confidentiality and competitive advantage.
Since DAOs often are international and don't see any borders, there is little legal precedence. When there is legal precedence, let's say in the case of Wyoming's recognition of DAO's under the LLC status, there is little compliance infrastructure that is encompassed on the application level. Additionally, many dApps lack compliance infrastructure for NFTs and tokenization, assets that are often held a delegated by DAO's. It is also unclear if DAO members take liability associated with their organization. This has real implications, as DAO's find themselves needed to get fiat to handle IRL expenses, hence needing formalized legal structures.
Often DAOs either have a multi-sig wallet that is controlled by "governors" or the equivalent centralized body that first piloted the DAO or funds are tied directly to the votes of DAO token holders. However, a multi-sig wallet only requests approval for transactions from a minimum number of wallets associated with the multi-sig wallet, There needs to be complex tooling that allows amendments and comments to multisig transactions.
Now many DAOs are even getting into relationships with talent like developers and needed to do the vetting process through the DAO as well as payroll. There also poses the risk of revealing sensistive informantion about the talent, and legal implications of hiring employee and contractors.
The following are topics and categories we want to explore or are already working on
- No code Minting solutions
- Generative Drops
- Cross-Chain NFTs
- Generative Art
- Music NFTs
- Supply Chain Logistics
- Digitization of Assets
- B2B Onboarding
- IRL Integration Into Metaverse
- NFC Chips and Wallets Embedded Into Products
- AR + VR Integration
- Inclusive Spaces
- IRL + Experience Based
- Yield Aggregation; Cross Chain DeFi
- dHedge tooling
- Lending, Staking, and Collateralization
- Decentralized Resumes
- eLearning App + NFT Credentialing
- IDO Launchpad
- Decentralized Consulting / Freelancing
- Job Board
- Mentorship
- eLearning w/ NFT Credentialing
- Decentralized Consulting / Freelancing
- Mentorships
- Job Board
- Cross Chain DAO Tooling
- DAO Mergers and Acquisitions
- DAOs and SubDAO Infrastructure
- Private Enterprise Tooling
- Reputations Based Roles
- Validator Setup
- On-Chain Oracles
- Web3 Wallets
Building an equitable metaverse for all: Minority World
We were recently looking at metaverse land to start a community for minorities to educate each other on Web3 and to really just have a safe space for interdisciplinary expression. Now, searching for land in the Web3 metaverse on Decentraland from price low to high we can see that the cheapest parcel is 4,970 MANA (currently $2.95 as of 1/17/2022) = $14,661.50. And this is in a far out property, equivalent to the hood or middle of nowhere in the metaverse. To afford a space in the “metropolitan” of Decentraland it can cost at least $25,000
We’ve been meeting with a lot of other leaders in the space that represent under-represented communities and we think it's messed up that a parcel in Decentraland is more than some property in the real world, and ETH gas fees are more than filing fees. We see this as modern class-ism and especially further marginalizing communities who do not have access to becoming early adopters in Web3 and digital financial capital. Forcing future metaverse users to be consumers to the Web3 elitist class. Considering we’ve been planning to use our future NFT drop as access tokens for communities in the metaverse, we need to start buying land now before the digital housing market moons 🌑🚀. Together, we can crowdfund this article, share ownership, and create a decentralized neighborhood meant for the people who need Web3 the most and a space to express culture, art, technology, and education.
We are asking for 20 ETH in order to
- ⛰️ Buy a parcel accounting for a price increase
- 🏫 Hire Instructors to Teach Web3
- 🖼️ Pay for 3D Designers and Developers to build out plot
- 🤝Sponsoring other communities into Minority World
- ⛽ Gas fees (Ex; Swapping to Mana, Airdropping Tokens)
For those who fund this endeavor more than $1,000 get exclusive access to the MinorityWorld land.
FUNDS NEEDED FOR METAVERSE………………………………………………………20 ETH
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Please fill out the form today to apply to be in the Minority World metaverse and share with communities that you want to see join the movement for Web3 adoption!
https://forms.gle/TkFzyy9uStHBrJFP9
We are big on project based learning, so here are some ideas for dApps that we would love to see others build out!
- Mirror XYZ on Harmony
- Mintcord - Mint NFTs without leaving discord
- DAOggregate
- DAOfind - DAO Aggregator
- Party Listen - split music into tracking NFTs and only being able to listen once all NFT holders approve a Listen Party
- AsylumDAO
- Tokenizing each member of a DAO and then making a index token based on relative contribution to represent overall price and governance of DAO
In this section of the proposal we cover
- The Governors (https://doc.clickup.com/d/h/4e6q4-1940/f67494134f17a47/4e6q4-1220)- our governors their experience, salary and time commitments
- Funding Proposal (https://doc.clickup.com/d/h/4e6q4-1940/f67494134f17a47/4e6q4-1300)- our itemized budget for 6 months
- Revenue Models (https://doc.clickup.com/d/h/4e6q4-1940/f67494134f17a47/4e6q4-1487)- our revenue models and how we plan on becoming profitable
The following Governors for the most part are already existing exec, advisors, and staff at the Minority Programmers Association and have been so for around a year. These governor roles would indicate a formalized salary raise. Additionally, many of these governor positions are for people actively in Africa, as we believe we should put the communities in the most need in positions of power, and that competitive wages should be a priority when bringing those from marginalized communities into the Web3 space.
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Shot
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Roles & Responsibilities: Business Development, Project Management, Community Management, Proposal Writing, Solutions Architecting, People-Operations
Weekly Hours: 30 (in reality 60)
Background: President, Founder of Minority Programmers Association, Founder of Genadrop (Algorand, Celo, NEAR Funded NFT Tooling and Marketplace), Co-Founder of BluntDAO, BS in Computer Science, minor Computer Information Systems, former Computer Science Teaching Assistant & Tutor, Former President of Virginia DanceSafe, Former National Volunteer Coordinator for MACCPAC, CGE Entrepreneurial Cohort, Lead Organizer; Covid, Black Lives Matter, Election, Climate, DefiSummer, & DefiWinter Hackathon. Ethereum Enterprise Alliance Partner, Former Chapter Lead at the Blockchain Education Network
https://www.linkedin.com/in/shotshot/ https://github.com/codingshot
https://minorityprogrammers.org/
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Shadman Hossain
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Roles & Responsibilities: Solutions Architecting, Backend & Smart Contract Development, Partnerships & Deal Flow
Weekly Hours: 5
Background: Senior Consultant - Blockchain at CGI, Former Blockchain Engineer at Leidos, Chief Innovation Officer at Minority Programmers Association, Successful repeated NFT dropper (anon), BS in Applied Information Technology minor in Entrepreneurship
CTO, Koinstreet, DeFI Developer, Founder of Blockchain at Mason, Former Instructor STEM exCel, https://www.linkedin.com/in/shadman-hossain/
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Argenis de La Rosa
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Roles & Responsibilities: Developer Relations, IOS Development, Videographer
Weekly Hours: 20
Background: DevRel at Minority Programmers, iOS Developer, Crypto Trader, Freelance Videographer, Co-Founder of BluntDAO
https://github.com/ArgenisDLR](https://github.com/ArgenisDLR)
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Popoola Boluwatife
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Roles & Responsibilities: Lead Back End Developer, Solidity, Python, Typescript
Weekly Hours: 15 (in reality 40)
Background: Blockchain Engineer, Minority Programmers Association
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Kirsten Pomales
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Roles & Responsibilities: Business Development, Sponsorship Acquisition, Startups
Weekly Hours: 2-10 Hours A Week
Background: Blockchain Advisor @ Minority Programmers Association, Chief Operations Officers & Co-Founder of Facings, Managing Director of Coalitions Consulting, Kernel Block III Fellow, Former Vice Chair IEEE P2145 Working Group on Blockchain Governance Standards, Former Business Development Officer at Pollr.io, Former Consultant, Grasstops Partnerships, Former Chief Operations Officer at SponPay, Former Field Director at Americans for Prosperity
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Tracy Onallee
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Roles & Responsibilities: Events, H.E.R. DAO Partnership, Diversity
Weekly Hours: 2-5 hours a week
Background: Founder, Black Tech Task Force / Founder, Controlr / Founder, SonR / Data Research Fellow, South West Creative Technology Network / Mozilla Creative Media Award Winner / Radical xChange Fellow / Mercury Music Prize Winner
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Dani Spence
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Roles & Responsibilities: Product Design
Weekly Hours: 2-5 Hours A Week
Background: Co-founder of korii DAO and member of HER DAO and Plant Dudes DAO. Former Digital Product Designer @ AHIMAhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/daniellelaspence/
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Emmanuel Ezeka
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Roles & Responsibilities: Front End Development
Weekly Hours: 10 (in reality 40)
Background: Software Engineering X Front End + Web3, Minority Programmers Association, Lead Developer of Genadrop (NFT tooling and marketplace). Contributor for Joern web app. Former Intern at Minority Programmers Association. mentor & founder of learningSpace (a community aimed to guide newbies in tech into building a strong career). NFT drop developer OND in Electronic engineering, and awaiting a BSC in computer science
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Roshaan Khan
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Roles & Responsibilities: Product/Strategy,, Ecosystem Growth, NFT Strategy, BizDev & Strategic Partnerships
Weekly Hours: 5
Background: Product Manager - Collectibles for NEM Group, Board Member, Minority Think Tank, Former Technical Product Manager - Blockchain @ BlockOne, Advisor for Sazmining Inc, Co-Founder of Koinstreet, Former Project Coordinator for Government Blockchain Association, Former Technical Analyst for FinTech4Good, VCU major in Informations Systems
https://www.linkedin.com/in/roshaan-khan/
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Governors shall be reelected every 3 months with a monthly payroll. Every payroll should be given as a Harmony Forum update with the TX of the transactions outlined.
The intent of this DAO is to execute the matters of Minority Programmers in a faster manner than Web2.
With these efforts being time-sensitive, it is imperative that all DAO governors and ambassadors perform their duties and contribute in a fair and equitable manner.
Should the panel of governors feel a fellow governor or ambassador is not contributing equally, a discussion will be had in a group session. If that governor or ambassador continues to fall behind in quality contributions, a vote will be taken to remove and replace said, governor or ambassador. The vote will be done in a private chat with all governors present, and require at least a 60% vote in favor of removal. Votes and documentation can be made available to the public if requested.
Bonus System
Based on substantial evidence of over-achievement and testimony from other DAO members, governors can receive bonuses. Bonuses must be written as a forum on Minority Programmers DAO on Snapshot
Minority Programmers is requesting $275,000 for 6 months of governor salary, application development, and in-real-life events. We are already operating as a business with these roles existing, funding by harmony will allow for the guaranteed salary of pivotal roles for scaled application development
| MONTHLY | 6 months | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| ITEM | COST ($) | COST ($) | BUDGET JUSTIFICATION |
| Governors | 30,000 | 180,000 | Based on 9 governors committing a total 100 hours = 400 hours a month * 75. Includes staffing |
| Hackathons | 35,000 | 2 pop up hacker houses | |
| Meetups | 12,000 | 6 x Meetups (3 x 50 person and 2 x 20 person, 1 x virtual) (mostly in Miami) | |
| Conference | 8,000 | Travel and Accommodation * | |
| Marketing | 30,000 | Professional PR, Adverts, Giveaways, Events, promotion on NFT Drops | |
| Legal and Accounting | 10,000 | Legal services, consulting, immigration and accounting. | |
| TOTAL | 275,000 |
$275,000 for 6 months, $1 million over 2 years for continued onboarding, diversity, and dApp building initiatives
Despite being a decentralized organization centered around onboarding marginalized communities into the space, we still need to continue to be profitable in order to sustainably scale. Fortunately, there are so many ways to get paid.
With the launch of $MINORITY token, as the value of the token goes up, then the overall value of the development, marketing, and treasury allocations also increases.
For startups coming through our incubator program, we will take a % allocation of total token supply.
For dApps we are taking a marketplace or market maker tax. For ex; on Genadrop we take a 10% minting fees for collections minted through our platform, a number we will toggle as the market warrants it in the space.
A model we are using right now. Appealing to blockchain foundations and Web3 protocols ecosystem growth allocations to fund the delivery of new projects ideas, unlocking based on fulfilling milestones on outlined criteria.
For specific NFT drops the Minority Programmers consults, developers, or markets for we take a percentage of mint sales, royalties, and upfront capital.
For projects that we do for clients, we take fiat and token payments upfront and the rest on completion. For Web3 projects, often a portion allocated for the development of the token supply is also given to minority programmers.
For exclusive services, like access to IRL events or advanced education, we will be using subscription-based payment both fiat and smart contract-based as another revenue stream.
For Minority Venture Capital, the fund manager takes a 20% carry based on profits from each monthly crystallization period.
After our products scale, using traditional equity agreements or SAFT agreements for token equity, we can sell a stake of our products to get additional funding.
Through the creation of educational content through companies like Metamask, or Figment's Builder DAO, we can get paid for creating the educational content we were already going to create.
For hackathons and events, we get funded to facilitate this event and conduct marketing and different level of sponsorship tiers. For ex; DeFiSummer gold package = $5,000 Sponsorship.
For effectively recruiting, vetting, and placing talent in corporate jobs, we get cash incentivizes and a percentage based on the overall salary for that recruit (negotiated with partner company)
A traditionally less profitable model, but something we can use even in a Web3 way with services like Adex, we gain revenue from click-through impressions on our websites and dApps.
Using 3rd party integrations; For ex; Moonpay, we gain a fee for integrating onnramping and offramping solutions into our existing dApps, both channeling an additional revenue stream, and improving the user flow for our product experiences.
For referring users to corporate affiliate links. For example; the Coinbase affiliate program, we can passively generate income through referral links.
Sometimes our devs and staff miss learning and hitting the trenches, so we compete in hackathons and complete bounties, and win prizes. Not very profitable at all, but leads to projects that get grants and then eventual VC funding, as well as training for our budding developers and a filter for our talent sourcing model.
- Minority Programmers Whitepaper https://www.minorityprogrammers.com/whitepaper
- Full proposal https://programmers.one/
- LinkTree https://linktr.ee/minorityprogrammers
- Website http://minorityprogrammers.org/
- Genadrop https://www.genadrop.com/
- Twitter https://twitter.com/minorityprogram
- LinkedIn https://linkedin.com/company/minority-programmers/
- Discord https://discord.gg/4vdtmQqz6d
- Snapshot DAO https://snapshot.org/#/minorityprogrammers.eth
- OpenSea https://opensea.io/MinorityProgrammers
- YouTube https://youtube.com/c/minorityprogrammers
- Github https://github.com/MinorityProgrammers/
- Instagram https://www.instagram.com/minorityprogrammers/
- Setup A Partnership Meeting https://www.minorityprogrammers.com/partner
- Medium https://medium.com/minority-programmers
- MinorityNFT Drop https://www.minoritynft.com/
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The only thing cooler than working for one DAO is working for all the DAOs. But to do that you need to figure out what all DAOs need. That sounded tricky to us, too.
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MultiSig Vault Creation
- Parcel.money multisig safe creator (generates smart contract that represents sae), can set teams and trigger automated payments
- Gnosis Safe -multisig wallets; creating contracts that represents safes on Ethereum
DAO Search Tools:
- DeepDAO - People, content, and ecosystems Water wave DAO listing, financial, social and governance data visualization Bar chart
- DAOHq - DAO marketplace.
- DAO Jones - A place to keep track of the best and newest DAO’s on the internet.
- DAOFind - quick tool built by the Minority Programmers to aggregate DAOs across chain
- DAO Social Club Weekly conversations with leaders and builders in the DAO-scape. Tuesdays & Thursdays at 8pm EST / 5pm PT on Twitter Spaces Sparkles
Decentralized Hedge Funds Tools:
- Enzyme Finance - decentralized Hedge fund solution, protocol for transparent asset management. Polygon amnet launching in a few weeks.
DAO Design:
Here at the Minority Programmers, we cannot simply rely on Harmony's subsidization of governor salaries and DAO initiatives as our only means of initial liquidity for the DAO.
We have been consistently doing NFT drops as individuals and consultants for clients, but it's time we did our OWN SERIES OF NFT DROPS under the Minority Programmers banner, leading to the Bitcoin Conference 2022, arguably the biggest crypto conference in the world.
For more information on the Minority NFT Drop go to
Your $DROP NFT gets you voting power on the Minority Programmers DAO & Treasury, where you can decide how to deploy capital & resources to build a more inclusive internet.
- Get access to GenaDrop creator tool, to publish your nft collections with no code on Polygon
- Get access to IRL creative events in The Spot Wynwood
- Get access to builders in the space to create ecosystems around your projects
- Exclusive access to regular quality Web3 education
- Join the ecosystem of other engineers (from both H.E.R. DAO & MPA) and creatives
- Access to exclusive IRL DEV events
- Turn your ideas into Web3 startups
- ✅Miami Hack Week at Shrimp Society
- ✅Announce Official NFT Drop
- ✅ETH Denver with H.E.R. DAO
- ✅Preview of NFT Art (H.E.R. x Minority & Minority Drop
- ✅Start of Polygon & NEAR DAO
- ✅End of DeFiWinter Hackathon Challenge
- ✅EZFaces 1st Mural In Wynwood
- ⌛DollarDAO; onboarding people onto the DAO
- ⌛GenaDrop Alpha Release
- Daily Twitter Space on Minority Programmers
- Officially Announce Partnership with Shrimp Society
- Officially Announce Partnership with H.E.R. DAO
- Announce BTC 2022 Events
- H.E.R. DAO Event
- Educational Workshops
- Shitcoin
- Official Partnership with the Spot Wynwood Announced
- Submit Harmony DAO Application
- Polygon Mint for MinorityDrop NFTs
- Free Mint on ETH for H.E.R. x Minority Drop
- Discord NFT Integration
- Configure DAO with all collections As Voting Token
- Minority NFT Access Based Party
- Voting on MPA DAO connected to Treasury Live
- Official Staff Hiring Proposal
- Algorand, NEAR, CELO backed Generative Mints
- Dev + Creator Event in Miami =~ March
- Setup Automated Payouts for Treasury
- Decentraland Plot - Minority World, a subsidized community in the metaverse for marginalized communities
The Spot Wynwood
H.E.R. DAO
The Shrimp Society
BluntDAO
Lucky for you, there are many ways you can get involved with the Minority Programmers Association!