In this episode of Share What You’re Making Chair & Bacon have a chat with Derrick Coleman, who is the community steward at Ethereum Denver as well as a regular contributor on Raid Guild, where his journey in Web3 began.

From there he would make the bridge to his current role, taking care of the health of the community. An appropriate role for him considering it has been precisely the sense of community what has kept him in Web3. “The reason I'm in the space is because there are these communities of people that care for each other and look out for each other because of some shared values or goals. I'm not here for the libertarian not-your-keys-not-your-coin-get-off-my-property vibes. I'm here for the let's make an internet co-op so we can work together and have less extractive value systems sucking out whatever value we create for the sake of the shareholders”.

With that in mind and a strong purpose on education, he’s been aligned with ETH Denver Ethos to buidl, to create the world we live in and shaping its tools and foundations; this is what excites him about bringing together the people and the technology in a cooperative of people that are incentivized to see each other succeed.

“I care first and foremost about the buidling. The only thing you can do with Bitcoin is hold it, so maxis turned that into a meme; you can Hodl aka not sell, but over on Ethereum, which has a smart contract layer, it gets more interesting because you can build code on top of the machine, so instead of Hodl we Buidl interesting projects using that technology, so our entire ecosystem of buidlers buidling their projects is the key thing and the part I'm excited about”.

Some of the topics:

• How he was onboarded to Web3

• How he got into Raid guild and Sporkdao and ETH Denver

• His role on ETH Denver team

• Camp Buidl 

• His take on onboarding

• Code along with Derreck videos

• Lens merch stolen?

• ETH Denver reach

• Some lessons learned and ETH Denver 2024

• Path to ETH Denver 2024 with Infinity Keys

• Buffycorn Ventures

• Projects that started at ETH Denver

Resources:

• Derrek’s Twitter 

• Derrek’s Lens

• Raid Guild Twitter

• Raid Wild Web

• Code along with Derrek

• ETH Denver Twitter

• ETH Denver Web

• ETH Denver Youtube Channel

• SporkDAO Twitter

• SporkDAO Web

• Spork DAO Discord

• Infinity Keys Web

• Welook Web3 Social Platform