Now presenting the summary for the second week of this Lisbon Hackathon.
Sorry for the delay I was busy with the restructure of the Lisbon City Node.
There were 3 collectives presented and 2 ideas developed during that week.
Projects and Ideas:
1. CAN – Community Association Network
In almost every country on a legal status basis one of the biggest types of organizations is Associations. They usually run non-profit and have their own niche, that being art, social, culture, communities, music, sports or even country’s foreign gatherings abroad.
So, with this we had the idea to create an open-source Community Association Network dApp that specializes in delivering this experience and facilitating communication between these Associations and collectives within themselves. Creating funds, markets, services and giving sustainability and progress with the tools each one of these legal institutions have.
This idea was firstly developed by me @TRosario , @StevenR and @parisinocencio , afterwards spoken briefly to a few others associations in the Lisbon Area that we have connections too. This was on ideation stages a few months ago, and we already had a few documentations prepared, but now with the possibilities of integration with blockchain technologies it grows in perspective and reach.
Click here for a draft diagram about the idea for the project.
Hack ideas being developed:
- Creation of a dApp Dashboard with a connected NEAR Wallet for each Association
- Create a Framework so new features can be introduced and built upon the Network using the NEAR Ecosystem. The Dapp could and should have functions like association bar, memberships, services, crowdfunding, event ticketing, bounties, stores, etc. Giving each association a lot of tools to work with.
- Use other Open-Source alternatives that currently are being developed or are already developed.
- Social Token creation for liquidity incentive, governance and reward system.
- Sustainability ideas using Blockchain Technology and NEAR Ecosystem
- Staking, Liquidity Pools and other Defi implementations.
- Legality and law implications of this Network
Next steps: More ideation, planning, team creation and project roadmap, making proposals on GOV forum to begin this project, searching for alternatives in the already created and Open-Source dApps.
2. DINNEAR – Meal Card Network of Restaurants and Food Services
Food being a primary need in our everyday lives, creating a food service network of restaurants that accept payments with NEAR would work wonders for a real Use Case. There are a lot of companies that give part of their food payments for employees in Meal Cards.
Connecting this idea to Staking could improve these types of payments, and even develop a social food service. If you had the ability in each month to receive a certain part of your payment from a company or project in NEAR or DINNEAR tokens already. DINNEAR being staked tokenized NEAR. DINNEAR could be burned when used at a food service or you would receive the staking rewards for holding the DINNEAR. Also, the staking network fees would be used for project sustainability and to create a food social service of like a soup kitchen for people in need.
Next steps: Still a draft idea, more ideation, planning, legality and Blockchain technologic know how is need to start to build this project.
3. Garden Collective – Irish creative collective now based in Portugal.
They already made their introduction in the Lisbon City Node, so I leave you to read it, leaving you with better idea about the project.
Next steps: Meetings will be made to try and connect with their project and onboard them with technologies that NEAR Protocol as to offer and blockchain technology.
Hack ideas being developed:
- Ticketing for their events using newest tool Mintbase called Redeemer
- Artistic Material created as NFT’s, ranging from Music, Artwork, Podcasts, Visual and Design Material
- List of the services introduced into the already existing tools or the creation of new tools using NEAR and blockchain technology
- Curating events with NEAR Ecosystem integration within the Lisbon Area
- Use of Bounties to implement task management and widening the network using NEAR and use of Blockchain Technology
4. Almáfia – Youth Skaters Collective
A collective created in Almada for the community of the skaters in the city, with the purpose of creating a platform help to spread their skaters work and attitude. Running nonprofit, they create skating spots around the city and use filming, photography and media content has one their strengths. They currently have, with a few podcasts’ episodes created and more in the making. They work a lot with the youth in specific giving knowledge and showing that DIY attitude can thrive in this world. They have created clothing and custom t-shirts as a way trying to connect with the outside community and showing their community designs. They try to get the knowledge broaden about the history and political stance of what a public space is, they address this issue constantly and tend to have very strong opinion about it. Since it’s a really youth project, usually kids are easily connected with technology, gaming, visual media and art.
This project is really community drive and decentralized since there isn’t any structure control over it. It is really cool in an investigation perspective how could Blockchain technology or just technology be used to empower these types of collectives. They correlated a lot in digital creation and use but from a totally physical attitude and culture perspective.
Facebook / Instagram / Youtube
Hack ideas being developed:
- Use and presentation of the NEAR Wallet, Sputnik DAO and GOV Forum to collective members.
- Artistic Material created as NFT’s, ranging from Music, Artwork, Podcasts, Visual and Design Material
- Photography and Filming Services
- Creating workshops, sponsorships and onboarding sessions for the youth to be involved in the technology and its use case in Skate culture
- Curating events with NEAR Ecosystem integration within the Lisbon/Almada Area
- Use of Bounties to implement task management and widening the network using NEAR and use of Blockchain Technology
- Investigation on how Community related technologies and how to apply them to their own collectives
Next steps: Maintaining contact and introduce to the NEAR Ecosystem in the next meetings, Presentation on the Forum, try and achieve ways to connect this really physical project with the technology and giving tools of sustainability since it’s a totally non-profit project for the youth and culture.
5. Trafka – Record Label, Music Studio, Events Producer
Trafka is a Music/Studio collective from Lisbon, that deals with different perspectives of more underground soundscapes and genres. Consistently trying to show more darker sounds and moods, it runs parties with their own collective DJs, Live Acts, Bands, Visuals and specific community. They encompass a strong visual identity and what to grow in that sense.
They currently have a music studio project that is constantly growing and recording more artists. Currently located at Arroz Estúdios. They have been collecting material and studio equipment to deliver the best professional use that any artist may need.
Hack ideas being developed:
- Use and presentation of the NEAR Wallet, Sputnik DAO and GOV Forum to collective members.
- Studio Services payments and managed with NEAR also besides Fiat.
- Artistic Material created as NFT’s, ranging from Music, Artwork, Podcasts, Visual and Design Material
- Events management, ticketing and contracts run with the NEAR Protocol
- Curating events with NEAR Ecosystem integration within the Lisbon Area
- Use of Bounties to implement task management and widening the network using NEAR and use of Blockchain Technology
Next steps: Maintaining contact and introduce to the NEAR Ecosystem in the next meetings, Presentation on the Forum.
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This is a summary information from what I have gathered from meetings with the collectives and ideas hacked. Please contribute to these ideas and ways of getting us forward with our community.
I asked the collectives to deliver in the following weeks more information about their projects, and have and try and introduce them to the Lisbon City Node governance forum category.
I will make another post on this thread for the rest of the reporting information needed.