Web: Request for Adding Fund Branding to Gitcoin Pages and Gitcoinbot Messages

[mkosowsk]

User Story

As a funder in the space (Ethereum Foundation, Ethereum Community Fund, ETHPrize, etc.)
I want to have my branding on Gitcoin issues that I fund for different projects in the space
so that Gitcoin users know where funds are being allocated from

Why Is this Needed

Right now it's unclear where funds are being allocated from in the space on the Gitcoin platform, this issue addresses that 😀

Solution

Definitely open to discussion (@owocki @vs77bb @PixelantDesign @thelostone-mc) but I think branding could be added in the following three areas and not disrupt the flow of the page:

1. On the Explorer Page:

1. On the Gitcoin Issues Detail Page

1. On the Gitcoinbot message for the issue:

0 and 1 may disrupt the flow so I defer to your team's Design expertise here, but I think adding the message to the Gitcoinbot is a low cost with a high payoff 👍 The "ECF Web 3.0 Infrastructure Fund" would be a link to an article that we're cooking up at the moment :)

From the ECF: @christopherlema @cassandrashi @hughlang

Thoughts from the Gitcoin team? Thoughts from the ECF team?

Definition of Done

Needs to be hashed out still :)

[owocki]

@mkosowsk

this is really good feedback! i think we can pull something together;

two questions:

• is there an ECF brand guide and/or any ECF visual assets we can leverage here?
• whats our timeline for this?

[PixelantDesign]

This is an interesting idea @mkosowsk . Could you share an EPS of the logo so that we can experiment?

[mkosowsk]

@owocki and @PixelantDesign great to hear! I am poking ECF now to get their perspective :)

[mkosowsk]

Timeline would be a couple weeks as this is when funds will start being deployed via the ECF Web 3.0 Infrastructure Fund but is relatively flexible imo, it's not mission critical this branding is live right at the start as long as it's done in a reasonable timeframe 👍

From ECF's side, they would like the Gitcoin logo in a transparent background and would blend something together like what's shown here.

Could you please point me to the latest and greatest Gitcoin logo on a transparent background?

[owocki]

yes! https://gitcoin.co/presskit

[mkosowsk]

Thanks, passing along

[cassandrashi]

Agreed with @mkosowsk that solution 0 and 1 would disrupt the flow of users and cause confusion. The logo on the issue explorer and issue detailed page view probably should remain as it is, displaying the project's logo.

My vote goes to solution 2.

In addition, I would kindly ask the issue requester for the future web3 + ECF fund supported issues to insert a blurb about ECF in the issue description. Assuming it would be @mkosowsk?

[PixelantDesign]

I think solution 2 makes sense as well.

[mkosowsk]

@cassandrashi my current understanding is that the repo maintainer of each different repo would have to put the ECF blurb in as is for different issues. This introduced a bit of friction, think it would be best to have some type of option on the Details page to include this blurb as an Issue Funder? 🤔

[vs77bb]

I like the idea of starting with Solution 2 and then moving back into a potential Solution 1 down the road 👍

[owocki]

@mkosowsk how long do we have until the funding goes live?

@PixelantDesign @thelostone-mc @SaptakS this wasn't part of August priorities.. is it easy to knock out? if so, might be worth spending 45 minutes on soon. if not, we should bounty it

[mkosowsk]

@mkosowsk how long do we have until the funding goes live?

@cassandrashi could you you please speak to this?

[PixelantDesign]

@thelostone-mc @SaptakS could we add in option 2 (updating Gitcoin Bot text)?

[christopherlema]

@mkosowsk how long do we have until the funding goes live?
@cassandrashi could you you please speak to this?

@mkosowsk Hopefully by the end of this week (next week at the latest). Maker has already started to disburse funds to the other grantees, but we are still waiting on the KYC check.

[owocki]

@SaptakS is on it!

[mkosowsk]

Great! We're in good hands :)

[owocki]

@mkosowsk were almost done with solution 2 and will ship that soon, are you still interested in solution 1?

cc @SaptakS

[mkosowsk]

Great!

I'd defer to @cassandrashi @christopherlema @hughlang on Solution 1, I'd personally prefer it but it's up to them :)

Perhaps it might be interesting to do a quick mock-up to try to see how it would look? 🤔

[mkosowsk]

@owocki how do I go about implementing solution #2 when funding an issue for the ECF?

Wasn't immediately obvious to me (for instance, when funding https://github.com/ethereum-ts/TypeChain/issues/94)

Thanks!