With our renewed focus on open source community and contributors, I’d like to put forward one thing that I have been advocating for without much response - let’s actually show our code to open source developers!
Going to web3 conferences is great, but it has one caveat - those people are already contributing to web3. Yes, we might be able to pull them towards our projects, but there is a big chance that they already found a web3 niche they are passionate about for their spare time contribution and/or they are well paid by another company/project (who might be our competitor).
What I believe could be very beneficial to grow our open source visibility is to present our code, architecture, approaches and visions to general open source communities.
For example:
Organize meetups around and attend big open source conferences like Open Source Summit
Attend local meetups - not sure how many Nim meetups will we find (sorry, couldn’t resist), but we have a lot of other code - JS libs for Waku and Codex, Rust, now even C++ and Qt with Logos Core - and many more
we can go to Kuberentes meetups/conferences and explain how we used k8s to scale test our peer-to-peer networks.
we are building a distributed (and decentralized;) storage - there are for sure events about that topic:)
I don’t think Comms alone can get us in front of coders (sorry, I love you, but I have my doubts:) - they can help us amplify our stories, but it is up to us - developers of the Logos stack - to find ways to put ourselves and our code in front of the very people we want to see it - web3 and non-web3 open source developers.
So my proposal to all of you - instead of looking mainly/only at ETH* events, look at general open source events around you and submit something that will allow you to show a piece of Logos stack.
In my opinion, Logos has an amazing property over many other web3 projects - it has not been tainted by any crypto scam or rug - neither the project, nor the founders, nor any contributors (I think?). The general open source community is very conscious of the FUD that “crypto == scam” - I’ve asked if people “feel positively” about blockchain and bitcoin at an open source conference last year and more people felt good about bitcoin than blockchain (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvrjHY9QN8Q).
I am always happy to brainstorm which events and what topics would make sense.
My main message is - do not get stuck in web3 niche, think outside the box for open source contributions:)
100% and FOSS developers are identified as a persona we want to expose Logos to. Hence what you said above should definitely be part of our movement strategy IMO.
Devs, especially open source devs, speak a specific “language” and it should be up to us to do most of the developer outreach, but also educate comms and others how to “pick up” the language.
I generated a doc with ChatGPT for Status L2, based on success of previous projects like Base, and Starknet, so it gave me the idea of brainstorming some of the places / options to onboard more devs into our community, and ended up with a Logos playbook.
