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From YouTube: Community Development: Meetups Final Report
Description
David Utrobin walks through the final report for the meetups program from Community Development.
Meetups Program: https://community-development.makerdao.com/en/programs/meetups
A
All
right
cool
welcome
to
the
meetup
grants
final
report
presentation.
My
name
is
david.
I've
been
running
the
meetup
grants
program
for
the
last
couple
of
years
now
and
so
yeah,
let's
dive
into
it.
I
want,
by
the
end
of
this
presentation,
everybody
to
understand
a
few
things:
how
the
program
was
run,
what
the
results
were
of
the
program
and
then
just
generally,
what
some
of
the
insights
were
and
some
of
the
wisdom
that
we
gained.
A
A
A
I
think
one
of
the
really
big,
promising
and
attractive
things
about
this
whole
industry
defy
is
the
fact
that
it
is
a
global
industry
and
and
people
who
don't
have
access
to
similar
traditional
versions
of
these
services
can
have
access
to
them
through
through
defy
and
so
yeah.
This
meetup
program
was
to
to
help
get
exposure
and
get
people
to
actually
do
these
educational
events
around
the
world,
and
we
had
three
objectives
with
this
program.
So,
first
off
we
wanted
to
incentivize
new
organizers.
A
A
That
was
a
priority.
Another
objective
was,
you
know,
having
a
large
number
of
countries
actually
have
events
rather
than
you
know,
just
funding
events
in
like
the
u.s
and
europe
and
kind
of
where
all
the
developer
activity
at
least
is
happening,
but
we
really
wanted
to
extend
this
out
to
as
far
as
possible,
basically
and
the
third
main
objective
that
we
had
was
basic
user
and
contributor
acquisition.
So
the
maker
protocol
has
a
number
of
different
user
types,
dye
users,
vault
users,
and
also
it
relies
on
its
contributors.
A
It's
a
public
protocol
and
and
at
the
time
and
even
now
the
community
is
growing
and
so
being
able
to
acquire
competent,
talented
contributors.
It
was
also
pretty
high
on
our
list
of
objectives
and
so
yeah.
Let's
get
into
a
little
bit
about
the
operations
for
how
the
program
actually
ran.
So
I
I
kind
of
split
it
into
two
buckets,
so
there
were
static
resources
that
were
created
for
the
program
in
addition
to
the
actual
application
process.
A
So
those
static
resources
consisted
of
a
handful
of
guides,
and
this
actually
played
on
that
first
objective
that
I
spoke
to
of
actually
attracting
new
organizers.
So
we
had
a
getting
started
guide.
We
had
an
event
formats
guide,
we
had
a
budget
guide
and
we
had
a
promotion
guide
and
these
four
guides
were
updated.
I
think
a
handful
of
times
also
with
the
help
of
community
contributors,
and
they
really
served
as
the
foundational
guides
for
a
lot
of
the
newer
organizers,
and
then
there
was
the
application
process
itself.
A
So
this
was,
after
the
actual
initial
resources
were
created
and-
and
you
know,
as
as
you
saw,
they
were
static
and
they
sat
there.
The
application
process
was
really
the
engine
that
was
running
the
pro
the
program
for
the
rest
of
the
time
and
the
process
consisted
of
four
basic
steps.
So
there
was
an
issue,
an
initial
application
that
applicants
had
to
fill
out.
A
A
A
So
yeah.
Let's
look
at
the
data
because
we
collected
a
bunch
of
it.
As
I
mentioned,
we
had
an
initial
application
that
all
of
our
grantees
filled
out,
which,
as
you
could
see,
is
about
240
applications.
Only
194
of
those
were
actually
granted
but
yeah
I'll
get
into
that
into
in
the
next
slide.
So
yeah,
let's
look
at
the
data,
so
this
was
our
journey
in
q1
of
2019.
We
had
our
first
meetup
grant
in
february
during
this
time.
A
These
were
when
the
guides
were
being
written
q1
a
year
later
in
2020,
that's
when
covet
hit
and
the
program
needed
to
pivot,
to
support
virtual
meetups,
rather
than
just
physical,
meetups
and
then
yeah
q2
of
2021,
which
is
pretty
much
now.
The
program
is
coming
to
a
close
and
so
yeah
juxtaposed.
On
top
of
this,
on
top
of
this
big
journey,
here's
a
a
chart
of
all
of
our
applications,
the
blue
shaded,
being
you
know,
accepted
and
granted
the
red
being
rejections
and
yeah.
A
As
you
can
see
that
one
big
red,
I
don't
want
to
call
it
a
candle
because
it's
not
technically
a
candle
but
yeah
q1
of
2020
was
really
hard
because
of
covid.
We
had
to
reject
a
lot
of
applications
and
basically
pivot
and
since
then,
we've
we've
gotten
back
to
our
former
glory
in
terms
of
like
just
the
volume
of
of
applications
and
grants
that
we've
been
putting
out.
A
A
A
For
for
this
kind
of
tech,
you
know
in
more
developed
countries.
The
interest
is
not
actually
in
usage,
it's
more
in
like
investing
right
and
seeing
how
big
this
thing
can
grow.
You
know
we
all
have
ways
that
we
could
do
payments
and
send
money
to
each
other
and
even
yeah,
there's
there's.
We
are
a
lot
more
privileged
than
many
of
the
countries
that
were
listed
in
this
program
that
actually
took
advantage
of
this
program,
so
yeah,
let's
move
forward.
A
So
the
other
thing
is
that
tracking
ain't
easy
earlier
on
in
the
presentation,
I
showed
one
of
the
objectives
as
being
our
our
goal
was
to
get
more
user
and
contributor
acquisition
and
look
looking
back
at
the
program.
Yeah
ain't
easy.
Unfortunately,
it's
really
hard
to
know
if,
if
individuals
contributed
beyond
meetups.
A
We
found
six
of
those
organizers
had
actually
contributed
or
done
things
beyond
the
meetups
for
maker,
dao
and
yeah,
just
the
fun
fact,
majority
of
people
it's
really
hard
to
tell
if
they
ended
up
becoming
users,
it's
hard
to
tell
if
their
attendees
became
users
and
it's
near
impossible
to
tell
if,
if
really
any
decent
contributors,
not
actually
that's
the
wrong
way
of
saying
it.
It's
really
hard
to
tell
it's
really
hard
to
track
everything.
I
guess
is
my
main
point
with
the
slide
and
I'm
not
looking
at
the
chats.
A
So,
let's
get
into
some
country
insights.
These
mirrored
the
applicant
insights
also
in
an
interesting
way.
So
read
this
as
yeah.
Basically,
applicants
all
came
from
certain
countries,
so
this
is
just
the
country
view
of
the
data,
so
53,
well,
applicants
from
53
countries
applied
49
of
those
countries
actually
had
events.
Unfortunately,
for
country
applicants
had
their
events
rejected
and
they
never
reapplied.
A
A
A
To
find
out
about
the
program-
and
actually,
you
know,
participate
in
the
program
and
it
turned
out
that
a
lot
of
the
new
organizers
came
as
a
result
of
referrals
and
a
lot
of
the
early
meetups
happened
in
ghana.
You
know
one
of
the
one
of
the
top
organizers
was
actually
a
gentleman
by
the
name
of
sahabia
and
he
is
a
ghana
native
and
he
held,
I
think
something
like
like
10
or
12
meetups
and
from
him.
A
I
think
six
or
seven
different
organizers
were
were
referred,
and
so
we
saw
this
kind
of
network
effect
happen
over
the
life
of
the
program,
and
so
that
is
why
I
think
african
countries
dominated,
and
also
because
of
their
natural
position
to
be
stability
and
what
it
is
yeah.
So
getting
into
some
other
notes.
Not
all
of
the
insights
are
are
derived
from
data.
A
lot
of
it
was
derived
also
from
experience
and
actually
running
the
program
and
going
through
what
we
went
through.
A
A
It
would
be
so
yeah
there
there
there
were
different
ideas
for
how
to
actually
increase
the
likelihood
that
somebody
would
would,
you
know,
submit
a
post
event
form.
Unfortunately,
we
did
not.
We
did
not
do
enough,
but
yeah
hold
on
give
me
one.
Second,
I'm
trying
to
pull
up.
One
note
in
particular
about
this.
A
So,
okay,
yeah-
that
that's
actually
that's
that's
about
it
for
that
next
I
want
to
talk
a
little
bit
just
about
physical
versus
versus
virtual
meetups,
so
physical
meetups
naturally
had
a
lot
higher
quality
to
them.
So
people
who
posted
you
know
who
submitted
those
post
event
forms
you
could
tell
by
the
difference,
just
the
difference
between
the
virtual
and
the
physical.
The
physical
usually
had
a
lot
more
buy-in
from
the
people
that
were
actually
attending.
A
A
Pretty
much
stayed
almost
the
same
for
virtual
meetups,
but
you
know
if
we
knew
what
we
knew
now,
if
you,
if
we
knew
now
what
we
knew,
then
you
know
we
knew
then
what
we
need
now
sorry
a
little
bit
of
a
brain
fuzz.
We
would
definitely
raise
the
bar
a
lot
higher
for
virtual
meetups,
and
so
that's
our
recommendation.
A
As
for
low
quality
versus
high
quality
meetups,
obviously
we
wanted
to
incentivize
and
encourage
people
to
do
the
highest
quality
that
they
can
and
for
the
most
part,
like,
I
would
say,
85
percent
of
meetups
that
we
funded.
You
know
we're
of
sufficient
quality
that
you
know
we
don't
feel
like
our
investment
was
for
nothing.
We
don't
feel
like.
We
just
threw
money
at
the
wind
high
quality
meetups.
We
defined,
as
you
know,
meetups,
where
the
speaker
and
the
crowd
communicated
really
well.
A
A
The
organizer
themselves
should
have
demonstrated
a
good
understanding
of
ethereum
and
maker
dao
and
then,
generally
speaking,
the
audience
should
have
been
a
a
fitting
demographic
right.
If
you
see
a
lot
of
like
little
kids
in
a
classroom
and
you're
talking
about
like
high-level
financial
software,
it's
it's
a
little
bit
of
a
misnomer,
right
and
low
quality.
Meetups.
Were
you
know,
events
where
they
were
being
done
in
poor
english,
rather
than
you
know,
a
higher
quality
native
language
presentation?
A
You
could
tell
that
those
were
like
meetups
that
were
really
trying
to
appease
the
grant,
the
granters
rather
than
the
the
people.
At
the
event,
the
quality
of
the
presentation
being
used
as
low.
There
were
rampant,
like
misunderstandings
about
what
ethereum
was
and
what
maker
now
was
and
then,
generally
speaking,
yeah
audience
mismatch.
So
so
that's
that's
kind
of
how
we
saw
low
and
high
quality.
What
we
did
was
when
post
event
forms
were
actually
submitted.
A
We
graded
those
events
on
a
scale
of
one
to
ten
and
so
of
the
108
events
that
we
graded.
We
found
that
the
majority
of
them
fell
into
like
a
six
or
a
seven,
so
the
total
graded
was
about
108.,
the
average
quality
of
a
meet-up
yeah
6.2
88
events
scored
six
or
above
while
26
events
scored
five
or
below
so
on
the
whole
events
were
a
lot
better
than
they
were
bad,
which
is
really
nice
to
know
and
so
yeah
moving
forward,
creating
lasting
resources.
A
A
We
expected
a
lot
more
of
that
to
happen
than
actually
did
so
of
the
108
post
event
form
submissions,
only
five
posted
their
talks
on
youtube.
You
know
of
those
submissions
about
80,
actually,
you
know
included
their
presentation,
slides
and
only
you
know
two
or
three
of
those
were
original
and
reusable
and
actually
were
added
to
our
example,
slides,
which
was
another
resource
that
we
had
for
new
organizers
that
I
didn't
include
on
my
earlier
slide.
A
Unfortunately,
I
forgot
and
generally
speaking,
I
could
not
identify
any
research
pieces
or
articles
that
came
out
as
a
result
of
any
meetups
that
this
program
funded.
So
in
hindsight,
perhaps
this
objective
would
have
been
more
fruitful
if
we
invested
more
effort
into
working
directly
with
organizers
to
produce
these
resources,
whether
through
additional
incentives
like
you
know,
getting
a
bonus
grant
for
writing
a
paper
or
something
like
that,
or
just
through
just
straight
up
more
attentive
outreach
and
saying
hey
like
we
really
do
want
to
see
a
good
talk.
A
We,
you
know
having
more
of
an
attentive
outreach,
so
these
and
other
ideas
were
never
implemented
both
due
to
a
lack
of
time
and
priority.
There
were
many
maker
dow
talks
presentations
research
pieces
available
online
as
it
is
so
this
wasn't
really
seen
as
a
major
priority,
though,
though,
in
hindsight,
if
a
team
were
investing
more
into
this
kind
of
program,
there's
definitely
ways
to
to
use
it
to
create
lasting,
more
lasting
resources,
and
so,
lastly,
just
to
wrap
up
the
presentation
you
know
I
I
started
off
this
report.
A
Asking
myself
did
we
succeed
and
what
was
our
impact
and
and
it's
important
to
know
that
success
is
not.
You
know
binary,
it's
not
zero
or
one,
it's
very
much
a
scale
of
zero
to
ten,
and
so
could
we
have
done
better
as
a
program?
Absolutely
did
we
succeed
as
the
program?
Absolutely
you
know
what
was
our
impact?
You
know
nine
quarters
and
eighty
two
thousand
die
later.
A
A
This
was
before
the
launch
of
multicollateral
die
at
the
time.
There
were
92
million
science
circulation
and
the
previous
you
know-
and
that
was
the
previous
version
of
dye.
But
since
then
you
know
we're
at
three
and
a
half
billion
die
now
and
all,
and
also
was
five
and
a
half
quarters
so
really
maker.
Dow
is
a
success
unto
itself,
but
as
for
the
program,
here's
some
things.
A
We
gave
those
hundreds
of
people
the
chance
to
teach
and
expose
thousands
of
people
in
their
local
communities
to
technology
that
actually
has
the
potential
to
transform
their
society,
and
although
the
technology
might
not
be
completely
ready
for
the
masses,
cough
ethereum
gas
prices
cough
it's
opening
the
door
for
when
it
will
be.
You
know
all
of
these
comp
communities
are
very,
you
know
very
much
like
our
communities.
A
At
least
I
could
say
the
youth
and
the
and
the
interest
in
technology
and
the
competence
like
you
could
see
that
there's
a
lot
of
hunger
yeah,
there's
a
lot
of
hunger
around
the
world
for
this
kind
of
this
kind
of
tech,
and
so
I
think
that
our
program
definitely
is
opening
the
door
for
when
it's
going
to
be
ready
for
the
masses
so
yeah.
That
is
the
brief
overview
for
the
meetup
grant
program
and
thank
you.
Any
questions
feel
free
to
ask.