The power of the Optimism Ecosystem Contributions Dashboard is in its ability to surface potentially valuable tasks from all over the Optimism Collective ecosystem. As the Collective becomes increasingly decentralized, it'll be important to create a system that allows anyone to highlight new contribution opportunities that might be valuable.
We created this dashboard as a stepping stone towards a more decentralized system. GitHub isn't ideal for a free-for-all system because its limited filtering capabilities could potentially drown out high-quality projects. We have a top-priority project in works to move this dashboard to a standalone interface that would make entirely permissionless project proposals easy. We expect this interface to be live within the next 1-2 months.
We would still love to surface your project ideas and contribution opportunities within this dashboard. While we wait for the standalone dashboard interface, we'll be using this GitHub issue as the staging ground for new project proposals. If you have an idea of a task that someone could take on to improve the Optimism and Ethereum ecosystems, please feel free to drop that idea here.
The ideal proposal is well-defined, highly detailed, and clearly impactful. A potential contributor should be able to easily understand the proposed task and start work with the resources that you've provided. Contributors should also be able to understand why the project is important and the potential impact that the project might have.
Proposed projects should generally positively impact the Optimism and Ethereum ecosystems, but this is a loose definition. Some projects might clearly benefit the ecosystem as a whole (see 🔴 Ecosystem Project Idea: List of Crypto Legal Public Goods) but projects can also be proposed that help specific efforts within the Optimism ecosystem. For example, an application deployed to OP Mainnet may wish to propose that users review the user experience of their application.
When in doubt, propose! If specific aspects of a proposed project are confusing or may not be perfectly appropriate for this dashboard, someone will help you make modifications.
Please use the following template when proposing a project idea or contribution opportunity. This helps keep proposals uniformly digestible by potential contributors and speeds up the process of turning your proposal into a live task. Please also make sure to include as much detail as possible so that a potential contributor knows exactly what to do with your project.
Include a detailed summary of your proposed project idea or contribution opportunity. The more detail here, the better. A contributor should be able to clearly understand what your project is about and what needs to get done.