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The Funded Issue Explorer contains a handful of issues that are ready to be paid out as soon as they are turned around. Check out the developer guide at https://gitcoin.co/help/dev.

The best way to get started is to post a funded issue on a task you need done. Check out the repo maintainers guide at https://gitcoin.co/help/repo.

Gitcoin supports Ether and all ERC20 tokens. If the token you'd like to use is Ethereum based, then Gitcoin supports it.

Gitcoin supports bug, feature, and security funded issues.  Any issue that you need done is a good candidate for a funded issue, provided that:

• It’s open today.
• The repo README clearly enumerates how a new developer should get set up to contribute.
• The task is well defined.
• The end-state of the task is well defined.
• The pricing of the task reflects (market rate * complexity) of the task.
• The issue is on the roadmap, but does not block other work.

To get started with funded issues today, it might be good to start small.  Is there a small bug that needs fixed?  An issue that’s been open for a while that no one is tackling?  An administrative task?

A tip is a tool to send ether or any ethereum token to any github account. The flow for tips looks like this:

> Send (party 1) => receive (party 2)

Funded Issues are a way to fund open source features, bugs, or security bounties. The flow for funded issues looks like this:

> Fund Issue (party 1) => claim funds (party 2) => accept (party 1)

If you have an issues board that needs triaged, read on..

If you would like to recruit engineers to help work on your repo, read on..

If you want to create value, and receive Ether tokens in return, read on..

If you are looking for a quick win, an easy buck, or to promote something, please turn around.

We value communication that is:

• Collaborative
• Intellectual & Intellectually Honest
• Humble
• Empathetic
• Pragmatic
• Stress reducing

Here are some of our values

• Show, don't tell
• Give first
• Be thoughtful & direct
• Be credible
• Challenge the status quo and be willing to be challenged
• Create delightful experiences

We'd love to help! Please email founders@gitcoin.co or join Gitcoin Community Slack.

TLDR: Yes you are. But as OSS devs ourselves, our experience has been that if you want to get the product you work on merged into the upstream, you will need to work with the contributors or owners of that repo. If not, you can always fork a repo and run your own roadmap.

As a general rule, we tend to treat the person who 'started work' first as having precedence over the issue. The parties involved are all welcome to work together to split the bounty or come to some other agreement, but if an agreement is uanble to be made, then the first person to start work will have first shot at the bounty.

Yes, all of Gitcoin's core software systems are open source and available at https://github.com/gitcoinco/. Please see the LICENSE.txt file in each repo for more details.

Gitcoin Core is considering doing a token distribution event (TDI), but at the time is focused first and foremost on providing value in Open Source Software in a lean way.

To find out more about a possible upcoming token distribution event, check out https://gitcoin.co/whitepaper

 

Gitcoin Core LLC is the legal entity that manages the software development of the Gitcoin Network (Gitcoin). The Gitcoin Network is a series of smart contracts that helps Grow Open Source, but enabling developers to easily post and manage funded issues.

The founder is Kevin Owocki, a technologist from the Boulder Colorado tech scene.    Kevin has a BS in Computer Science, 15 years experience in Open Source Software and Technology Startups. He is a volunteer in the Boulder Community for several community organizations, and an avid open source developer. His work has been featured in TechCrunch, CNN, Inc Magazine, The New York Times, BoingBoing, WIRED, Forbes, and TechDigest.

Gitcoin was borne of the community in Boulder Colorado's thriving tech scene. One of the most amazing things about the Boulder community is the #givefirst mantra. The founding team has built their careers off of advice, mentorship, and relationships in the local tech community.  

We are hiring. If you want to join the team, email us.

The mission of Gitcoin is "Grow Open Source".

The best way to stay in touch is to

• Subscribe to the mailing list
• Follow the project on twitter
• Join the slack channel

There are many successful centralized hiring resources available on the web.  Because these platforms were an efficient way to source, select, and manage a global workforce , millions of dollars was processed through these systems every day.

Gitcoin takes the value that flows through these system, and makes it more efficient and fair.  Gitcoin is a distributed network of smart contracts, based upon Ethereum, that aims to solve problems with centralized hiring resources, namely by

• being more open,
• being more fair,
• being more efficient,
• being easier to use.
• leveraging a global workforce,
• cutting out the middlemen,

When Sir Tim Berners-Lee first invented the World Wide Web in the late 1980s to make information sharing on the Internet easier, he did something very important. He specified an open protocol, the Hypertext Transfer Protocol or HTTP, that anyone could use to make information available and to access such information.  

Gitcoin is similarly built on an open protocol of smart contracts.

By specifying a protocol, Tim Berners-Lee opened the way for anyone to build software, so-called web servers and browsers that would be compatible with this protocol.   By specifying an open source protocol for Funding Issues and software development scoping & payment, the Gitcoin Core team hopes to similarly inspire a generation of inventions in 21st century software.

To learn more about blockchain, please checkout this video about web3 or the Github Issues board

You need Metamask in order to use Gitcoin.

Metamask turns google chrome into a Web3 Browser. Web3 is powerful because it lets websites retrieve data from the blockchain, and lets users securely manage identity.

In contrast to web2 where third parties own your data, in web3 you own your data and you are always in control. On web3, your data is secured on the blockchain, which means that no one can ever freeze your assets or censor you.

Download Metamask here today.

To learn more about Metamask, please checkout this video about web3 or the Github Issues board

"Gas" is the name for a special unit used in Ethereum. It measures how much "work" an action or set of actions takes to perform (for example, storing data in a smart contract).

The reason gas is important is that it helps to ensure an appropriate fee is being paid by transactions submitted to the network. By requiring that a transaction pay for each operation it performs (or causes a contract to perform), we ensure that network doesn't become bogged down with performing a lot of intensive work that isn't valuable to anyone.

Gas fees are paid to the maintainers of the Ethereum network, in return for securing all of the Ether and Ethereum-based transactions in the world. Gas fees are not paid to Gitcoin Core directly or indirectly.

To learn more about gas, pleaes checkout the Github Issues board

Here are some of the advantages of Ethereum based applications:

• Lower (or no) fees
• No middlemen
• No third party owns or can sell your data
• No international conversion fees
• Get paid in protocol, utility, or application tokens; not just cash.

To learn more about Ethereum based apps, please checkout this video about web3 or the Github Issues board

We want to nerd out with you a little bit more. Join the Gitcoin Slack Community and let's talk.