Filecoin RetroPGF Round 1 -- Network Upgrade Coordinator

[jennijuju]

Filecoin recently had concluded its first round of RetroPGF program, in which Filecoin Upgrade Coordinators's work was recognized by the badge holders with a reward of 2232 FIL. There is a lot of effort goes into an upgrade across the whole Filecoin community, and network upgrade coordinators, are what I'd like to call cat herders, to help coordinate the work across network teams, key stakeholders(i.e: implementers, FIP governance team, core devs, critical network infrastructures, exchanges, api providers, SPs and etc) and its broader community. The work here includes but not limited to:

• Make sure key stakeholders are aligned with the scope and the timeline of the upgrade;
• Track and support engineering development of the FIPs w/ implementers;
• Make sure sound testing is planned and executed;
• Infrastructure and monitoring setup and deployment;
• Comms with the community, ecosystem key stakeholders like exchanges and so on
  ... & etc

(It is worth noting that network upgrade coordinators work with the FIP governance team closely, however, managing the FIP process is out of the scope. The FIP governance team is responsible for making sure new FIPs follow the FIP process and help make sure that upgrade coordinators are aware of the FIPs that should bring to implementers' attention.)

With that being said, during this round of rPGF review period, @rjan90, @luckyparadise and I have contributed towards the upgrade coordination effort and the rewards will be split equally among these 3 individuals.

@rjan90 and I have decided to donate our portion of the rewards to FilOz team, in which the team (was a part of Protocol Labs under the review period) allows us to denote some of our compensated work hours to this public good work. We, and FilOz hope to continue contributing to this critical network work stream in the future as well!

Just like many other public good works, we could use more help! If you are curious about being a network upgrade cat herder and would like to give it a go, reach out to me (@jennijuju on Filecoin Slack) and we would be thrilled to have you join us!