Gamification
Buidlers Guild — Epics DAO
The Buidlers Guild digital card game
Every card in the Alpha collection is original artwork, celebrating the people and stories behind open-source software.
The collection spans three series of 104 cards each, and the three cards shown here are one from each series.
Buidlers Guild Card Game — Alpha
Sovereign of the Seas, Angel's Grace, and Flame Blade, from the Alpha card collection.
Three Jobs
Epics Whitepaper
Open source is short of three things
The Epics whitepaper names three shortages: development resources, funding, and awareness. The guild answers with three jobs, one for each.
A member takes the job that matches what they can offer.
01
Dev
The shortage: development resources.
Devs work on real GitHub issues and bug fixes in open-source projects supported by Epics DAO. Every solved issue directly improves the software.
02
Supporter
The shortage: funding.
Supporters keep the work funded through donations, grants, and sponsorships to open-source projects. Steady backing means developers can focus on the software with peace of mind.
03
Advocate
The shortage: awareness.
Advocates spread the word about the shortages open source faces and about how the guild approaches them. Growing awareness brings new developers, supporters, and users in.
Two of the three jobs involve no code at all.
Why It Matters
Synopsys · European Commission
Why open-source software needs support
Industry audits find open-source components in nearly every codebase, and most audited codebases carry at least one known open-source vulnerability. A third figure estimates what that code contributed to the EU economy in a single year.
97%
Dependence
of audited codebases contain open-source components.
Synopsys OSSRA 2022
84%
Strain
of audited codebases carry at least one known open-source vulnerability.
Synopsys OSSRA 2023
€65–95B
Contribution
estimated economic contribution of open source to the EU economy in 2018.
European Commission study, 2021
Taken together, the figures describe software that is widely used, under strain, and economically valuable. The guild supports it through the three jobs described above.
Community
Epics DAO — GitHub
The guild works in the open
Repositories and day-to-day discussion are public by default, so newcomers can see what the guild is building and where help is needed.
The projects the guild supports, and the work members do on them, are public on GitHub: issues, commits, and releases.
Epics DAO community operations are run by ELSOUL LABO.
Also operated by ELSOUL LABO: Validators DAO
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