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In these contents, we explained how the Gitcoin platform can be used and what \"Quadratic Funding\" is, the way Gitcoin provides funding.  We all agree that decentralized governance is more fair than traditional government.  The quadratic payment systems mentioned by Vitalik are gaining popularity as the \"most fair systems\" and are used in real governance. Our goal in writing the \"Quadratic Funding\" article was to explain how Gitcoin, a decentralized finance platform, pioneered Quadratic payment systems, which have also gained popularity in traditional finance.  We thought it would be helpful for our community to be informed of it, therefore we wrote an article about quadratic funding.\n\nOther content we published as Citizens is our YouTube tutorials that teach how to utilize Gitcoin.  The reason we made videos about Gitcoin, was that the Turkish community lacked information about Gitcoin.  In these videos, we explained in detail all of the platform's features and touched on Gitcoin\u2019s mission and what it can achieve. Major accounts in Turkish communities on Twitter shared our video as a \"tutorial to Gitcoin usage.\"\n\n\nLastly, let's talk about the Twitter flood about Gitcoin that we prepared.  This flood is important for us since it includes both our in-club activities and Gitcoin's contributions to us.  We participated in numerous activities, won hackathons, supported each other, traveled, and had fun during our growth.  Gitcoin grants have had an important impact on the development of our club in achieving these goals.\n\n\nIn general, the content we created for Gitcoin looked like this. We will continue to follow Gitcoin's achievements and create content about them.\n", "hidden": true, "question": "Describe the work you did as  a Gitcoin Citizen ", "questionId": 2}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Our YouTube videos:\nhttps://youtu.be/VpSEsdeopHc \nhttps://youtu.be/seBtBAivpTc\n\nMedium Article:\nhttps://blog.itublockchain.com/quadratic-funding-ve-gitcoin-platformu-a7ce052e8e92\n\nOur Tweets about Gitcoin and grants\nhttps://twitter.com/itublockchain/status/1466417722196213775?s=46&t=vfxWgd0XjlnlaekGI1zouw\nhttps://twitter.com/itublockchain/status/1468295970072973319?s=46&t=vfxWgd0XjlnlaekGI1zouw\nhttps://twitter.com/itublockchain/status/1357429222449557506?s=46&t=vfxWgd0XjlnlaekGI1zouw\nhttps://twitter.com/itublockchain/status/1567528468434362368?s=46&t=vfxWgd0XjlnlaekGI1zouw\nhttps://twitter.com/itublockchain/status/1616054926634881030?s=46&t=vfxWgd0XjlnlaekGI1zouw\nhttps://twitter.com/itublockchain/status/1653333820110782464?s=46&t=vfxWgd0XjlnlaekGI1zouw\nhttps://twitter.com/itublockchain/status/1616419621372035072?s=46&t=vfxWgd0XjlnlaekGI1zouw\nOur Gitcoin Thread\nhttps://twitter.com/itublockchain/status/1617957446944976897?s=46&t=vfxWgd0XjlnlaekGI1zouw", "hidden": true, "question": "Provide all links to the work, or examples of the work ", "questionId": 3}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We all acknowledge the importance of social media accounts like Twitter and Medium in spreading content and influencing people.  That is why we are very active on social media.  We have approximately 21,000 Twitter followers. As our Medium articles and YouTube videos are published, we share them with our Twitter followers in aim of increasing our engagement rate. Our Medium article on Quadratic Funding received 184 claps with more than 1000 views. The videos we made about how to use Gitcoin and uploaded on the ITU Blockchain YouTube channel were viewed about 3500 times. Besides that, we can say that we were one of the first communities in Turkey to accept donations via Gitcoin. Posting the grants in which we participated on social media, motivated us to collect support as well as to urge other communities and projects in the Turkish blockchain ecosystem to use Gitcoin to raise funds. We started the change from the club; as club members, we have all used Gitcoin at least once and have encouraged others to use it well.  We believe that our content contributes to Gitcoin and introduces Gitcoin to Turkish communities.", "hidden": true, "question": "Describe how this work positively benefited or impacted Gitcoin. Please support with metrics if possible. (ex: number of views, forks, uses, etc.)", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "No", "hidden": true, "question": "Have you already, or will you be compensated for this work (outside of this round)?", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": true, "question": "Is this project / effort more than two weeks old?", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We are a blockchain club, founded in 2018, and received the first Gitcoin donation in early 2021. Gitcoin donations from people who want to support us have made a major contribution to our growth. Our club, which was founded before the recognition of blockchain in Turkey, struggled to grow in the early days due to both member and funding issues. We were a young, blockchain-believer community founded at a university with little resources and knowledge. Gitcoin made our growing process easier. We started participating actively in blockchain events throughout the world and developing projects, thanks to the financial help we obtained from the grants. As we became more knowledgeable,our club started growing, and our drive to build increased. We decided to explain blockchain to everyone and began creating content. As a club that has accepted a supportive and developing vision, such as Gitcoin, we believe in the contribution of communities to blockchain, and we are proud to be a source of inspiration for many current blockchain communities. We strongly believe in the future of blockchain and its real-world integration, and we consider it our mission to make it happen. We think that funding new projects and communities through Gitcoin adds a lot to the growing process, so we create and build content for Gitcoin as Gitcoin citizens. We hope that donations made through Gitcoin will continue to help us grow, and we thank Gitcoin for making it happen for communities like us.", "hidden": true, "question": "Is there anything else you would like to share which will help us evaluate your grant submission?", "questionId": 7}], "project": {"id": "1:0x03506eD3f57892C85DB20C36846e9c808aFe9ef4:70", "title": "ITU Blockchain", "logoImg": "bafybeidsdbrgzvxiql5shhsbv6czjegimiulltoowyg4kwafd7zsvmuuly", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreigoormaey4bv6klmqx5g23dvmwgyilhwaephkgq5leotct7i6iqga", "protocol": "1"}, "website": "https://itublockchain.com", "bannerImg": "bafybeiflxewjwbpbtutbozfas6bct46mrrcmtwyy3hqyuhy6jww2xdjobm", "createdAt": 1673128565798, "userGithub": "ismailemin", "credentials": {"github": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..voR5BJtZxyQ8D2G3nBwm_VaCgdFcnqybUNAjAXfS8V-WqvyClgpv65W549tkRV50p7it_xPi5venSgLRc4yxCA", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2023-04-15T15:25:26.381Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2023-04-15T15:25:26.381Z", "expirationDate": "2023-07-14T15:25:26.381Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0xBEC643BD5b7F5e9190617CA4187ef0455950C51C", "hash": "v0.0.0:a6pLE/VjeW5TQ7y9wxnimrUqNx+3fCo42vbmwDilMAw=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextGithubOrg#itublockchain#50054523"}}, "twitter": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..3eEgT_6phFCDCif2d6cdXinmkGxfjkGfMniirVr5ajIzECKniiQlD5ZAdcG0BEGgkH5HlJriJT4yokFhQ45PAQ", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2023-04-15T15:25:06.118Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2023-04-15T15:25:06.118Z", "expirationDate": "2023-07-14T15:25:06.118Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0xBEC643BD5b7F5e9190617CA4187ef0455950C51C", "hash": "v0.0.0:A76Lefp2oHM/zQrwqhNaS/SriRl6u5g98A0PKALMW/U=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextTwitter#ITUblockchain"}}}, "description": "ITU (Istanbul Technical University) Blockchain is the first university blockchain society in Turkey. We are organizing blockchain events and courses for everyone. We have many students who are ready to improve themselves in this technology.\n\n-Double Finalist in Scaling Ethereum 2023-\n\nWe've been selected as finalist with two projects in Scaling Ethereum 2023 hackathon which is organized by ETH Global. Opclave and Polynote teams are our two hackathon teams out of five. We participated in the hackathon with 25 hackers in total. It was the first hackathon experience for 18 of them.\n\nOur Free Solidity Course is Supported by Ethereum Foundation!!!\n\nWe've been published a free Solidity Course (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLby2HXktGwN4Cof_6a8YwlMrboX8-hs73) on our Youtube channel. The total duration of the course is approximately 20+ hours. The voiceover of the course was made in Turkish. As we continue to expand our Solidity course, we would like to announce that this education is supported by the Ethereum Foundation from now on.\n\n--2022-2023 Academic Year Update--\n\nAs with every year, many new members joined us this year. We reserved our first semester in the academic calendar for trainings and meeting with our community. So far, we have held 6 face-to-face trainings, 3 workshops, and 3 meetings between members. In other words, we have done activities in 12 weeks of the 14-week period. We consider it appropriate to share a few images from our events below.\n\n--Devcon VI Bogota--\n\nWe participated in the long-awaited Devcon Bogota as ITU Blockchain. We even had the chance to open Impact Booth at Devcon. All visitors were told about the blockchain community in Turkey and ITU Blockchain. Also, one of our former chairmans, Ulas Erdogan, took part in one of the Devcon panels as a speaker. We also had the chance to talk with Vitalik about the Ethereum community in Istanbul and gift him a t-shirt.\n\n--ETH Berlin & DappCon & DuneCon--\n\nWe attended ETH Berlin with 12 people from our club. We also attended DappCon and DuneCon, which took place as part of the Berlin Blockchain Week, and followed the talks. Our hackathon team placed second in the Open Track category.\n\n--ETH Mexico--\n\nOne of our members participated in ETH Mexico. He and his team became one of 12 finalists. Success continues with ITU Blockchain.\n\n\n\n--ETH Barcelona--\n\nOur teammates took part in ETH Barcelona both as volunteers and as participants. Our volunteer friends have gained a lot of experience on how to organize an event on a global scale. They shared their experiences with us. With these experiences, we will make future events in Turkey better.\n\n--Cryptist Istanbul Meetup--\n\nWe organized and participated in Cryptist Istanbul, the first zero knowledge-focused community event in Turkey. We took part as a team in the event attended by very important speakers and we found various networking opportunities.\n\n--ETH Prague Hackathon--\n\nWe participated in the Ethereum Prague Hackathon with our project on sustainability. We had the chance to meet and communicate with expert developers in the ecosystem.\n\n--Avalanche Barcelona Summit | Hackathon--\n\nAs ITU Blockchain, we came back as the team that received the most rewards from Avalanche Barcelona Hackathon. We returned to Istanbul with 2 different rewards in total.\n\nLayerZero Best Usecase Reward\n\nCoinbase Best Team Reward\n\n--Avalanche Hacks Istanbul--\n\nWe've completed Hackathon at 2nd place. It was an event where we gained a lot of experience and knowledge.\n\nTwitter: https://twitter.com/itublockchain\nInstagram: https://instagram.com/itublockchain\nLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/itublockchain\nYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@ITUBlockchain/", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "itublockchain", "projectTwitter": "ITUblockchain"}, "recipient": "0xBEC643BD5b7F5e9190617CA4187ef0455950C51C"}}