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(VC, grants by foundation, token sales, etc) ", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "number", "answer": "4", "hidden": false, "question": "Total team size", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "number", "answer": "23", "hidden": false, "question": "How old (in Months) is the project? ", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "eth:0x21D031B51FDC54dbAc4500041C3e0579eB8fFBdB", "hidden": true, "question": "If you participated in past grant rounds using a different project payout wallet address, please share it here:", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Project Lead - HarryThePlantBoi\nhttps://twitter.com/PLANT__BOI\nwww.linkedin.com/in/harry-fancy-195832202/\n\nDeveloper (Backend) - Matthew Watman\nwww.linkedin.com/in/matthewwatman/\n\nProduct Partner (Frontend development) - Matt Bachle\nhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/mattbachle/\n\nCreative Director & Branding Lead - Domingo Beta\nwww.linkedin.com/in/domingo-beta-9474216/", "hidden": true, "question": "Profiles or socials of other main team members publicly associated with the project: ", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "dropdown", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": true, "question": "Have you read and confirmed your grant abides by the Program General Eligibility Policy? https://gitcoin.notion.site/GG18-Eligibility-cb4a5754c56043d4b3ed34eddbac261c?pvs=4", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "In a time of environmental uncertainty, PlantGang aims to immortalise rare moments of biodiversity within its scientific 3D models whilst helping conserve IRL ecosystems through community funded research and conservation projects.\n\nWe strive to create a new era for open academic research not limited by economical or geographic backgrounds, while supporting environmental climates through regenerative economics powered by collectible 3D-model sales.\n\nThe project tackles climate problems by...\n-Preserving rare and endangered global specimens within 3D models. Crucially, this decentralized preservation and 'future proofing' of natural specimens and scientific data occurs on a decentralised storage network (IPFS).\n-Creating a tradition of hyper-local conservation & research by funding local scanners with revenue from open collectible 3D model sales. Importantly for the environment, funding is driven back to communities who understand their local environments and want to protect and live harmoniously with them.\n-Beyond this, a percentage of sale revenue is collected in a treasury for conservation projects which are selected via community voting. This funding will directly go to projects that are helping reduce GHGs.\n-Finally, at the basic level we use digital assets to inspire engagement with nature IRL, pushing climate awareness and understanding.", "hidden": false, "question": "Please explain how your project meets the round-specific eligibility criteria. ", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "PlantGang was previously in the DeSci Round. \n\nSince then we've been building out the worlds first Virtual Herbarium platform with a team of 5 talented developers across the USA and Australia. \n\nThis has built out the infrastructure to support people globally to join our mission to capture and preserve nature in a decentralised manner. It allows users to create profiles, upload models and data, process videos into 3D models and collect and view specimens.\n\nWe've also been preparing to launch multiple competitions and bounties in September when the site launches. These will drive talent towards scanning vitally important pieces of nature and supporting the immortalization of these rare assets. With all uploaded models being available to view at the PG Virtual Herbarium site, this will make rare parts of nature accessible to all. Likewise, the bounties given to scanners will engage people in the capture of particularly rare and precious plant specimens across the world. With specimen NFT sales, this will allow users to support digital and IRL conservation.", "hidden": false, "question": "What previous Gitcoin grant rounds has this project been a part of? Please share any new updates or milestones from the prior months.", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We measure the impact by achieving a few goals in the coming years:\n-Immortalise 1000+ of the world's rarest and most endangered plant specimens digitally forevever. \n-Raise $5,000+ for conservation projects through our open collectible sales of scanned 3D models by 2025.\n-Recruit and mobilise 1000+ members across the globe towards scientific specimen collection by 2025.\n-Partner with prolific botanical research institutes to expand the PlantGang community by end of 2024.\n-See PlantGang community models used in scientific lectures and research papers by end of 2024.", "hidden": false, "question": "How do you measure the impact of your project? Please provide examples and/or standard metrics. This might be used in future impact reports ", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We were very proud to have ran our Pilot at La Selva, the flagship research station for the worlds leading tropical biology research institute (OTS) in Costa Rica. Through collaborations like this we can empower local conservation efforts and engagement with nature. ", "hidden": false, "question": "Anything else you'd like to share about your project, previous work, or other project affiliations? Anything you'd like to add that may help in determining project eligibility?", "questionId": 13}, {"type": "dropdown", "hidden": true, "question": "Would you like to opt-in to future messages from Gitcoin for updates, information, and/or interviews? 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Funds from NFT collectible sales are transferred transparently on chain to both scanners and community selected conservation projects, helping to create a virtuous cycle where our scientific collections support and incentivize the community making these valuable captures.\n\nThis aims to create a new era for open academic research not limited by social, economical or geographic backgrounds while supporting local researchers and environmental habitats through regenerative economics powered by 3D-model NFT sales.\n\nCrucially, whilst this directly supports local researchers, we\u2019re also protecting the planet and ensuring we\u2019re recording nature in our fight against climate change and biodiversity loss.\n\n## Why capture nature with scientific 3D plant specimens?\n\nCurrently, scientific plant specimens are 2D pressings stored physically in herbariums, restricting access to specimens for both scientists and general enthusiasts outside of that location. And whilst the digitalisation of these scientific collections is underway globally, they still ultimately remain in their 2D form.\n\nConversely, PlantGang\u2019s community driven 3D scans improve upon traditional physical 2D dead plant specimens with additional details of morphology and colouration, capturing the plant as it would be in its natural environment. Additionally, since each specimen is collected with associated scientific metadata from its geolocation and collection date to phenology and associated species, all importantly stored on chain, giving each specimen an immutable scientific context grounding them in reality for use in research and education.\n\n## The Future We Envision\n\nWe hope to support a vision for a world where people can view and explore rare and inspiring digital specimens from across the globe, collected and uploaded by academic researchers, 3D-modellers and citizen scientists, whilst helping preserve IRL ecosystems and species through community funded research and conservation.\n\nIn these environmentally challenging times, we face a pivotal moment. Our rich living ecosystems are threatened and suffering; we must find ways to proactively reduce climate change and live harmoniously with nature, documenting the world around us and utilising the digital to preserve the physical in an safe, environmentally-friendly and untamperable format.\n\nThis effort is underpinned by the world-wide activation of citizen scientists and established researchers alike, brought together by a shared aim to support scientific research, education and conservation.\n\n## Our Impact\n\n*We break barriers:*\n-In specimen collection, powering a 2D \u2192 3D digital revolution\n-In scientific engagement, driving science at all levels, available for all, from citizens to academics\n-We remove location and economic obstacles to education\n\n*We Immortalise:*\n-Decentralized preservation and future proofing of natural specimens and scientific data on chain\n-Recording \u2018moments in time\u2019 in nature in vivid detail, allowing people to connect with this fleeting moment even after it has been and gone.\n\n*We Empower:*\n-Create a tradition of hyper-local conservation & research funding, giving power back to communities who understand their local environments and want to protect and live harmoniously with them\n-Community driven NFT creation and sales provide a self-funding mechanism that bypasses the need for institutional intermediaries, offering collectors ownership of real-world assets on chain whilst driving positive impact.\n\n## Meet the team\n\nProject Lead - **HarryThePlantBoi**\n\nBiochemistry graduate, plant obsessor and adventurer. Research lead on PlantGang's Expedition #1, Co-steward at DreamDAO, Ethereum Foundation Scholar 22\nwww.linkedin.com/in/harry-fancy-195832202/\n\nDeveloper (Backend) - **Matthew Watman**\n\nFull-stack developer with experience in the non-profit sector, now focusing on ReFi and public goods app development in the Ethereum ecosystem. Work includes projects for Solidity Guild, Ambire Wallet DAO and Cabin DAO.\nwww.linkedin.com/in/matthewwatman/\n\nProduct Partner (Frontend development) - **Matt Bachle**\n\nCEO of Grade, a serial founder and product manager with delivery of successful digital work for clients like Audi, Qantas, Foxtel, Nestle, PayPal, LG, PlayStation UK, Toyota, Virgin Mobile, and Unilever. https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattbachle/\n\nCreative Director & Branding Lead - **Domingo Beta**\n\nCreative Director at JUMP, co-founder of Veleta Studiolab, art direction at RADAR. Guiding brands that want to expand their visual universe into new realms since 2011.\nwww.linkedin.com/in/domingo-beta-9474216/\n\nSince our foundation we\u2019ve had many skilled advisors involved with the project, with core roles in projects including RADAR, Protein and the BBC:\n\nCommunity - **FANCY**\nwww.linkedin.com/in/fancy-y-b06477132/\n\n3D modelling - **Steve Flanagan**\nwww.linkedin.com/in/immersive-e/", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectTwitter": "PLANTGANGxyz"}, "recipient": "0x5475264b90bbA81CD8d159cE98f438E647684a5e"}}