Web3 communities, like some other group, come in numerous kinds relying on the staff’s focus. For Colin Ogoo, Software program Engineer and Contributor at DevRel, Solana Foundation, making a Web3 group in Sierra Leone had challenges like web penetration, availability of electrical energy, and abilities and so he settled for an “in-person” mannequin. “The area you reside in determines whether or not your group will likely be digital or bodily,” he defined on the Breakpoint event.
Justin, founding father of Dappio.xyz and Solmeet.dev shared that his staff began a group in Taiwan after discovering it troublesome to rent a dev to work on a challenge. Whereas digital communities are thrilling to construct, it’s robust due to the necessity to handle sustained connections amongst members, Kash Dhanda, co-founder of SuperteamDAO.
Mike Fraietta, CEO of EmpireDAO, explained that the impact of COVID-19 made it clear that the necessity for a hybrid staff and group is necessary, and they’re centered on that mannequin.
Scaling communities
As a result of they couldn’t entry textbooks and different sources once they began their group, they needed to create demo movies to indicate devs the way to use Solana, Justin defined. With time, in addition they began making textbooks for Solana to assist faculty devs entry Solana supplies simply whereas being attentive to the tradition of the individuals.
Colin shared that scaling a group like theirs, which is bodily, is just not really difficult, and the primary bottlenecks are capital and the suitable individuals that may handle such communities. The Sierra Leone Solana group additionally centered on constructing tasks that resolve individuals’s issues.
Kash mentioned that their mannequin is to scale from area to area by giving targets and tasks to the group of every area. On the similar time, Mike defined that they like to assist activate communities which might be already current in a number of areas as an alternative of beginning any.
Ought to communities be mono-chain or multi-chain?
Colin and Mike agreed that communities may very well be multichain and never concentrate on one chain. Colin additional explained that although they had been a Solana-focused group, they’d not reject supplies from different chains that might assist members of their group.
Quite the opposite, Kash opined that he prefers a group that’s centered on one chain as a result of it’s simpler to serve the group and resolve issues associated to that chain.
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