🌍 GG23 Community Round

1️⃣ About This Round

🔹 Round Operator: Cabin (with funding support from Kevin Owocki)

🔹 Total Grant Pool: $10,000

🔹 Purpose: This is a retroactive funding round for open-source, hyper-local software projects that serve neighborhood communities as public goods. By providing small targeted grants, we empower community leaders, organizers, and problem solvers to create impactful tools for their neighborhoods.

🔹 Impact Goals: We aim to catalyze software solutions that might not otherwise get built, prioritizing projects that deliver measurable benefits to local communities. Using retroactive grants, we will assess impact based on software adoption, code contributions, and real-world improvements in problem areas, creating a sustainable feedback loop for future funding.

🔹 Why Now? The cost of building software is plummeting due to AI-driven tools, allowing small teams or individuals to create meaningful projects without needing large-scale investment. Traditional VC models overlook these solutions, so this round fills the gap by funding projects that prioritize people over profits.

2️⃣ Who We’re Funding

✅ Eligibility Requirements:

• Projects should demonstrate value as a local public good or community tool.
• Projects should be fully open-source with an OSI-approved license, ensuring anyone can freely use, modify, and contribute to the codebase.
• Projects should have an active development track record (evidenced by recent GitHub commits).
• Strong preference will be given to projects that are live in the wild, with an active local user base.

3️⃣ Funding Mechanism

We’re using a retroactive direct grants approach funded by Cabin and Kevin Owocki to reward retroactive efforts from community members building open-source software.

4️⃣ How to Apply & Donate

💰 Application Process: