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Ty vermouth and I do Communications and
ux research for remix which many of you
may know is one of the first tools a
developer encounters on their journey
into web 3 in the ethereum ecosystem
we are very strongly open source and
with at least 67 contributors to the
code base to date so we're very uh
fortunate in that and we're here today
to officially launch a program we've
designed and built in order to stay
engaged with that growing open source
community
called remix Rewards
essentially remix rewards is a
collection of nft badges that
characterize our users and our
contributors support Floyd is an
upgradable contract on optimism
where the upgrade ability allows each
reward holder to Mint an additional
reward for any other user of their
choice
essentially remix rewards is a oh yeah
we've already done that at the beginning
of this year we set out on our roadmap
one of the important goals was to
consider who exactly are our users or
how do we know exactly what they're
doing out there
the initial answer was obviously no we
didn't know at all so we started by
using some design thinking principles
and tried coming up with the user
persona which we quickly realized was
kind of a futile exercise
when we tried to match that method up
with what we were hearing from users on
our support channels particularly
Twitter
those channels displayed a much wider
array of different people in different
countries with different workflows and
remix so to connect more directly with
them
we started
doing monthly ask remix anything calls
and then started inviting our users to
beta test new release is a remix
we also began interviewing users willing
to talk about their specific workflows
and some of the use cases they were
working on
we'd also started tracking analytics on
the site and then putting all of this
together we were getting the idea that
our users were a much more diverse group
than what we thought we had a handle on
originally
we also realized lots of those users
were excited about feature improvements
excited about developing new plugins for
new networks and we were now engaging
with them in a more genuine dialogue
about these issues
this year's roadmap also included dog
fooding of the IDE by our team as a way
to better understand user pain points UI
and workflow issues
so following some success with the team
at East Denver developing an nft song
playlist and minting dap for public
radio beyond our team lead over there
started building this program Rewards
program again dog food and remix
customizing an ERC 721 contract to allow
minting of an additional nft from a
non-transferable nft we decided to make
these rewards non-transferable both as a
way to kind of have a soul-bound
credential for community members and to
identify each other as engaged members
it also as a way to kind of stay away
from any kind of Market in trading them
for money the nft kind of craze
for the look and feel
we engaged the graphic artist who had
designed our Remy hedgehog logo over
there on the left
she came up with these old-fashioned
Lo-Fi framed
uh card designs you see here
they came to represent our kind of user
archetypes
that one on the right is a Dev connector
that was our first nft badge that came
out at devconnect in April
so in simplest terms this is all about
our desire to create a more genuine
two-way engagement among the team
contributors Champions and users of
remix of all skill levels
so one of the big ways we're doing that
is that this this feature in the
contract contract allows one additional
remixer badge to be minted to any wallet
of a remix rewards holder and then that
additional minted remixer also becomes
non-transferable
the remixer is never a new it is already
already
spinning contracts
our hope that this is a way to build
more interest in new users to keep it
leveling up their engagement by making
contributions to the code base
for beta testing or championing or
teaching tool set to others
it's a club where everyone is invited
and everyone is welcome
the payload on each of these nfts is
tagged to a remixed version of beta
tested that has been tested for a
specific PR that a contributor has
authored and merged into the code base
so if in the future we can see a way to
integrating these payloads with GitHub
or LinkedIn or another third-party cert
platform we are ready to do that
here's the DAP that was that was built
by one of our team members Joseph isang
for display of Rewards
again customizing for our own needs we
we did consider using quixotic
just kind of becoming the Open Sea for
optimism as an app for display and
minting but at least for now our own
build of this dap gives us that better
idea of user engagement and uh them that
open source mindset
here's the DAP for minting of remixer
badges
in this case maybe you'd contributed
five PR's over time and it beta tested
14 versions of remix
you'd have the ability to Mint a total
of 19 additional remixer badges
mostly though if this experiment has
enough uptake from our community we'll
be ready to use these badges
as another way to measure engagement and
possibly allow kind of token based
proportional voting on improvements or
major changes to the remix tool set
essentially that's the story we might as
well say we're officially launching this
program right now so check it out if you
get a chance there's the URL up there
the DAP is also linked from our project
website and obviously we're looking for
as much feedback and uh engagement as
possible on this so hit any of us up
after uh here or on Twitter or getter or
Discord they're all up there and lastly
as always hope everyone's having fun
with whatever they're building out there
thank you