SIP Residency

[Hero-Gamer]

What's your name/your team's name?
Team Name: Rock 'n Roll
Discord: @ herogamer0001
Twitter: @herogamer21btc
Calendly: https://calendly.com/herogamer

Best email on which to contact you?
Email: herogamerthesht572@gmail.com

Personal Statement
As Stacks blockchain grows, more and more stakeholders are involved and impacted. In order for the continuation of growth and making protocol improvements (via SIP = Stacks Improvement Proposal) in a good faith, fair, just and sustainable manner that preserves the ethos of decentralization, inclusive discussion and collective decision-making are critical.

During the residency, I would like to work on facilitating and encouraging more contributions to the core Stacks blockchain from the wider community. By supporting SIP authors, helping them to take their proposals from an idea to a fully-scoped SIP and corresponding implementation.

With my passion for community bottom up voice, decentralization, Stacks and Bitcoin, I believe I will be able to facilitate the scaling of the SIP process with the right ethos and value.

End Product

• Facilitated a number of fully-scoped and well-formed SIPs
• Community funneling process for proposals that will be formalized as a governance SIP
• Streamline the SIP process
• Building a strong team of contributors such as SIP Editors, CABs, etc
• Metrics/KPIs to track the health of SIP process participation
• Documentation and educational content about SIP
• Adding improvements to SIP activation procedure

Roadmap
Q3 2022: Major focuses will be accessibility & scaling, which would include projects like

• Creating SIP-focused threads/spaces on the forum for community members to discuss SIP ideas
  Hosting weekly SIP community calls to facilitate a safe and friendly space for community members to brainstorm, share, and rally support around SIP ideas
• Recruiting 1–2 SIP editors to help with staying up to date on SIP activity and encouraging/identifying new SIP ideas
  Work with the Foundation team to fill out CABs + start developing standardized operating procedures to help CABs review SIPs more easily and consistently
• Start recruiting technical mentors and steering committee members
• Ongoing updating + organizing of SIP documentation; developing punchier/more accessible content that helps explain SIPs and the SIP process

Q4 2022: Major focuses will be continued scaling & formalizing SIP-related decision-making processes, which would include projects like

• Working with the Foundation team and others in the community on tools/solutions for facilitating SIP voting, e.g. Mike & Marvin’s EcosystemDAO
• Community awareness campaigns designed to increase voter turnout

Q1 Q2 2023 to be updated

Appendix

• Active contributor to Stacks Advocates program’s development (Reference: @HaroldDavis3)
• Active Stacks discord server Community Manager (Reference: @sleepiJoe @ shannon @GinaAbrams @kyranjamie)
• ALEX Defi Community Manager (Reference: @ChienteH)
• Co-founder of Stacks Due Diligence, a community-led non-profit neutral education/discussion hub (Server link: https://discord.gg/DMwBAX6E9a)
• Regular Hiro github contributor such as on areas around Nonce (Fresh wallet (Nonce 0) with nonce gaps, incorrect nonce suggestion leather-io/extension#2395), Wallet (Remove old NFT counts (which user does not own anymore) off the Balance display + thumbnails? leather-io/extension#2369) and Explorer (Word wrap for code lines (to increase visibility of hidden codes of any malicious exploit) stx-labs/explorer#699) (Reference: https://github.com/Hero-Gamer)
• Regular attendance of the Foundation’s Governance Working Group
• Regular attendance of weekly Blockchain Engineering meeting
• Deep in the weeds in the Stacks sub-communities with good relationships already established

Thank you kindly! Feel free to leave any feedback/comments, hope yall support my candidacy!

[shannon]

I'm not familiar with this project but you may want to escape the @ mentions in your post here as I don't think they were necessarily meant for GitHub users (I was pinged due to the inclusion of my GitHub username)

[whoabuddy]

@Hero-Gamer this is great news! Excited to see you getting more involved and enjoyed the presentation today.

To the point of shannon above - the @ mentions on GitHub are not the same as Discord, which makes it fun when trying to find and include everyone.

If you want to put the Discord user names in a GitHub issue, you can escape them with back ticks (top-left of the keyboard usually, to the left of #1: ``

Anything you put between the back ticks is then shown as code, which won't tag people like @whoabuddy unless you meant to. 🙂

[GinaAbrams]

Awesome to see! Think it would be helpful to add resources to revamping the SIP process. +1 to @Hero-Gamer being a super active Stacks community member and great potential candidate for this. 🚀

[unclemantis]

@unclemantis vouches for @Hero-Gamer.

[mijoco-btc]

Plus One for me too - looking forward to working with @Hero-Gamer !

[joberding]

Plus 100 for me! I have enjoyed working with @Hero-Gamer in the Advocates community. He is a thoughtful, well-spoken, creative, collaborative contributor!

[ChienteH]

@Hero-Gamer is perfect for this role. He can explain technical subjects to the community in a easy-to-understand language, with consistency and passion. Stacks is lucky to have @Hero-Gamer taking on this challenge.

[MarvinJanssen]

+1 😁

[HaroldDavis3]

This is beautiful to see come together @Hero-Gamer +1 of course :)

[hozzjss]

+1 absolutey vouch for Hero he's been a great help and a value aligned community member

[314159265359879]

I would love to see Hero in this role I definitely see him delivering on the goals of this residency.

[cargocultscience]

I too can also vouch for Hero Gamer. Over the last 6 months or more I have interacted with him many times while giving support to STX users both generally and on specific projects. Additionally he has proactively raised issues with both Foundation and Hiro to aid in technological progression of the ecosystem. I view this grant as an expansion and continuation of those efforts.

[dartman10]

+1

[sleepiJoe]

Nothing would change for me, I already see him everywhere anyways 😉
"The hero that we need" +1

[GAD2511]

SIP Resident:

1. @Hero-Gamer
2. @Hero-Gamer
3. @Hero-Gamer

HeroGamer is a kind of Community base person who knows how to listen, help, organize Community ideas, and is serious and well organized with his thoughts. Very active, he deserves to take the lead for SIP residency