There were a number of insights that are inspiring a new BPC project 🔥
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The tl;dr
- FOSS projects and contributors have difficulty match making
- We interviewed both sides to this hypothesis ⬆️
- We worked to find the “special sauce”
- Next step is to create an MVP for Bitcoin FOSS + contributor match making
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The problem?
In our experience, we’ve found that #Bitcoin ers want to contribute to the ecosystem, but don’t know how.
And FOSS projects need help, but often don’t know where to find high quality contributors.
https://nostr.build/i/c1b5eda714906a404cecf9fc1eb7ea2fbecfbb9dac951fbf6907132af9e6568b.jfif
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We set out to learn what both sides are looking for.
For FOSS projects, they typically want someone to commit 2-6 hours a week to contributing.
And, the main areas which needed assistance are marketing, translations, and project & product management.
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When interviewing members of our community, we saw that most people wanted to commit 5 hours a week. Roughly an hour a day before, or after, their day job.
Most members came from a project management background, but some product-focused and marketing professionals were interviewed as well.
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Likely the biggest insight when interviewing community members was their motivation to contribute.
We saw an even split between three categories (value alignment, impact, and career), and people also had multiple reasons for wanting to contribute.
https://nostr.build/i/26bd11564efd13165672959b52662b08d79dc897f316aa5020713dde3f7c3e8b.jfif
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During this interview process, we struck up some connections between the Bitcoin Product Community members and #Bitcoin FOSS projects.
- @npub1vh5nvfd8yt3j3neq5zj2vw4h0n3jvtvfjgje6hp9cp7yv8kguarqnsan97 - PM
- @npub17tyke9lkgxd98ruyeul6wt3pj3s9uxzgp9hxu5tsenjmweue6sqq4y3mgl - PM
- BDK - Marketing
- BDK - PM
- Hello Bitcoin - PM
- Hello Bitcoin - Educator
- Accessibility - PM
- Bitcoin Optech - Maintainer
- Two other connections by being part of BPC
We’re super stoked to see more people getting an opportunity to contribute to the broader ecosystem 🙏
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Our next step is to build out an MVP that connects builders to open-source projects in the #Bitcoin ecosystem.
We’ll be building out a FOSS opportunity board in our GitHub repo, where projects can post what areas they need support with.
Follow the repo for updates: https://github.com/Bitcoin-Product-Community
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We’re excited to get this out to the community 🙌
And if you’re interested in contributing to #Bitcoin, but don’t know where to start…
Hop into our discord, meet the community and get involved: https://discord.com/invite/Ff8cAAQN8H