Hi everyone!
This post introduces a fun virtual + physical event NEAR is producing for #GUIDL Week before ETHDenver, February 11-17. Essentially, we hope to activate guilds and other ecosystem participants through Community DAO experiments, involving 500+ NEAR in rewards!
We would love for you to get involved through one metaverse or another! And meet us “IRL” at our physical NEAR Lounge venue, the Jonas Building (see image below) near the Sports Castle, where Schelling Point and the hackathon will take place Thursday to Sunday (February 17-20).
Thanks to the kind folks at ETHDenver for this opportunity to help bring their VIP Lounge to life!
Notice that red wall + windows across the way? More on that creative space in a bit…
First things first!
Purpose | Vision | Mission | Strategy | Goals | Metrics
Evolutionary Purpose
To develop understanding of guild participation together as a community of ecosystems. What does it mean to be part of the NEARverse? How might you explore all the collaborative games that we are co-creating?
Vision
Multiple guild representatives in a Council voting on ideas for prizes, while running polls with our growing Community group, to inform creative processes and collective daocision making.
Mission
Empower guilds to connect and collaborate with ETHDenver hackers and other kinds of creators. This flexible structure might be useful in coordinating our many different opportunities.
Strategy
Our guiding question is why Guilds? For this pre-hackathon warmup event, I think we should focus on ideas related to creativity, governance, and community development. Maybe it can be an opportunity to explore ideas for the hackathon? This would facilitate team building and cross-pollination of web3 ecosystems.
Goals
Evolve a Community DAO governance with various ecosystem participants / guilds.
Metrics
- new participants on Astro / MoonNoobs
- members in our Community group
- responsible Guild leaders take over Council group
- active DAOs in a new “Guilds DAO” group of Ecosystem DAO?
About Community DAOs
How To Participate
5-Step Guide for Creators and Guilds
Expand the section below each step to find out more 
Step 1: Get / Give NEAR Account(s)
CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS
To get a NEAR account, you may create one using NEAR Wallet.
Note: you will have to fund your NEAR wallet in order to get a contract-based account. Learn more about storage staking here.
An easier, free way - if you have at least 0.05 ETH on MetaMask - would be to use this nifty tool provided by the Paras.id team!
Plus, we will be helping anyone get onboarded in a specific NEARverse group on Telegram and the ETHDenver Discord.
Let us know if you need any help! We can send you a link from NearDrop.io
Searching for apps to try?
Join the party on Telegram:
Step 2: Propose Guild-a-thon Rewards
CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS
Funding Pathways
- Transfer Proposal to a NEAR Account / DAO
- Bounty Proposal for a Community DAO Prize
EXPECTATIONS
<50 NEAR for each bounty proposal
This guild-a-thon empowers communities to share opportunities to reward contributions in the context of their projects and goals. Everyone is welcome to submit any kind of proposal.
WALKTHROUGH
Guilds are welcome to propose payouts into their own accounts / DAOs.
DO NOT request more than 50 NEAR. Thank you!
Be sure to click the drop-down menu in the proposal interface to select “Propose to Create Bounty” or any other choice from the list.
EXAMPLES
- produce a video that documents NEAR Lounge + Creative Space
- launch experimental DAOs for the Guild-a-thon activities
- musical performance(s) / art installations
Submit here: https://app.astrodao.com/dao/community.sputnik-dao.near/tasks/bounties
Step 3: Follow / Join Community DAO
CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS
Giving Voice To Values!
https://app.astrodao.com/dao/community.sputnik-dao.near
Nominate Any NEAR Account for Various Groups
Description + Link
Please give any helpful context.
Select Group
You are welcome to choose Community or Council.
Target: Account ID
Belonging to a potential new member.
Gas Fees + Bond / Deposit
Reference: 0.1 TGas is about 0.00001 NEAR, and the 0.1 NEAR bond is returned to any successful proposers.
Additional Context:
Step 4: Collaborate with NEAR Guilds
CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS
Discover Opportunities
https://near.org/start-a-guild
Something for Everyone
Review prizes available on the Community DAO bounties page and explore opportunities for all kinds of creators 
GitHub - near/ecosystem: Community-sourced and curated data for the NEAR Ecosystem.
Communities
Badges
Education
Grants
ETHDenver Bounties TBA
MetaBuild!
Submit projects by 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z
Creative Space
To support ETHDenver MakerSpace this year, our community will create a room in the NEAR Lounge, which will transform into part of the Bufficorn BUIDL Brigade VIP Lounge that weekend, February 17-20.
This open space will feature creative projects involved with our Guild-a-thon. Why do you create? Who is going to be there? What will we make?
Step 5: Vote on Proposals Together daomocracy
CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS
Guild-a-thon Council Participation
To get a vote in the Council of this Community DAO, you will need to make a “New Member” proposal to that group, shown here: https://app.astrodao.com/dao/community.sputnik-dao.near/groups/Council
Everyone is welcome participate in the daoscussions happening on the NEAR governance forum and elsewhere in the NEARverse…
Timeline
Q&A @ Guild Office Hours
2022-01-28T05:00:00Z
NEAR Demo Day
2022-02-04T05:00:00Z
5+ Prize Proposals Approved
2022-02-07T05:00:00Z
Guild-a-thon Begins
2022-02-11T05:00:00Z
DAOmocracy Event
2022-02-17T05:00:00Z
General | Polls | Bounties
Useful Resources for Hackers:
Community DAO Governance System
Our established purpose is coordination. How might other Community DAOs, Guilds, and various entities coordinate about ways to achieve much better governance?
Groups
We are using an experimental Astro DAO, inviting participants to join our inclusive Community Group. Also, representatives of any guilds may consider participating as a Council member to help with deciding our prizes and winners.
Each group has the same voting policy (for now): majority rule, so new group members increase the number of votes required for that group to approve any proposal.
Having removed all NF employees besides myself, I emphasize a need to understand legal risks and mitigate any problems. Currently, I’m serving the role of “metacouncil” as the only member of this EngiNEARs group. This account can approve any proposal with a single vote, and this arrangement facilitates onboarding. However, Community DAO could easily change its membership and other configurations with metagovernance…
Audaomation would be useful in this regard ~ as a bounty for this hackathon, let’s build an automated proposal review and completion process using CronCat based on DAO configuration. We could even fund research into ways to unlock the potential of Astro by introducing unique capabilities with general purpose DAO services.
Keep in mind, these particular DAO membership structures and role-based voting policies are flexible. That means we can experiment with many different approaches to learn what works.
Participatory Action Research
Open discussion about governance:
REMEMBER
Any funding by NEAR Foundation above 1000 CHF (Swiss Francs) equivalent needs to be subject to full invoicing & KYC requirements. Therefore, I think we should keep individual prize amounts below ~50 NEAR.
Bounty proposals on Astro enable multiple claims per prize, so we might do simple task-based incentives, rather than just having a few prizes available for guild projects and contributors.
Let’s Guild!
When daos it happen?
Now is always time 
#GUIDL
Stay tuned for updates on events planned for the NEAR Lounge:
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday ~ February 15-17
Please don’t hesitate to reply with any ideas or questions!
Your feedback is much appreciated 
Thanks 
