# Community Squad Weekly Update: 23 FEB 21 **URL:** \ **Category:** Community DAO\ **Tags:** weekly-updates\ **Created:** [February 22, 2021, 6:52am UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/community-squad-weekly-update-23-feb-21/714 "2021-02-22T06:52:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![3UN1C3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/8dc957/32.png) [@3UN1C3](https://gov.near.org/u/3UN1C3)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 6:52am UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/community-squad-weekly-update-23-feb-21/714/1 "2021-02-22T06:52:54Z")
🔥 Community Squad Update Thread - @shreyas \* @jlwaugh \* @nima Priorities (Update every Monday) Progress and blockers (Update every Thursday) ![Screenshot 2021-02-24 at 12.28.21 AM](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/gov_near/original/1X/95571baf2ce554265d478f4a25521d703c95212b.png) **Highlights** **Cyberpunk Guild** @nima **NEAR Hong Kong** NEAR Hong Kong has been activated! The team is taking an initiative to build a resource centre that brings together updates and information related to NEAR. Check out [the NEAR Portal website](https://nearportal.com/en) and submit your content request [here](https://binatir.typeform.com/to/g9aOwOOl). **🏗 Community Squad’s Effort Last Week:** - Ecosystem partnership efforts - Guild activation and onboarding (Cypherpunk and HK Guild and more) - Guild point system and reward calculation - Sputnik DAO activation result presentation - Clubhouse NEAR chatroom about DAO interoperability and v2 of Sputnik DAO - TL;DR of this is that we should always be running hackathons 🧮 **Boring Metrics** Global community update: Discord total members: 9218 → 9217 (-1) Telegram total members: 8436→ 8483 (+47) Active guild: 32 ![Screenshot 2021-02-23 at 11.30.07 PM](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/gov_near/original/1X/1c0a0b40692ac9104b47141c0d4db3c4724d4619.png) ![Screenshot 2021-02-23 at 11.30.01 PM](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/gov_near/original/1X/494d79f8d6b7de1a8cf427a0fcf322369dc89ec5.png) ---
**Author:** ![3UN1C3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/8dc957/32.png) [@3UN1C3](https://gov.near.org/u/3UN1C3)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 10:13am UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/community-squad-weekly-update-23-feb-21/714/2 "2021-02-23T10:13:44Z")
> [@Community Squad Weekly Update: 16 FEB 21](http://gov.near.org/t/community-squad-weekly-update-16-feb-21/658/3): > > Priorities this week: HK Guild onboarding and meeting (nearpotal website is up, under review and optimization) NEAR India meeting with Jiten (discussed about community events in India) Guild rewards and points system with @shreyas (finished calculation and will follow up with guilds in the coming week) 4NTS bi-weekly (done) Community forum flow chart and reorganization Catch up with Awen on Commond Fund (meeting in the coming week) Follow up on Paras CNY event (done) NEAR wallet feedback Prios this week: - Guild point system and review with guild leads - Guild reward calculation - Guild monthly report arrangement - Asia team sync - Forum reorganization - Telegram price channel planning - HK guild activation ---
**Author:** ![nima](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/gov.near.org/nima/32/10_2.png) [@nima](https://gov.near.org/u/nima)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 12:53pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/community-squad-weekly-update-23-feb-21/714/3 "2021-02-23T12:53:43Z")
Yo Yo Yo NEARverse ✌ - Helping Cypherpunk Guild get approval and start their journey as our first mega guild (they’re going for 100K $NEAR seed funding 🚀) ✅ - Ecosystem partnership efforts with TokenAngels, MintGate, Abridged, KeyKo … ✅ ✅ ✅ - FoFs preso and plans for NFC ✅ ✅ ✅ - CC reorg and restructuring ✅ (gathered feedback and working on reorg) - Hiring stuff … (one ☝ closed and another one sending the offer today 😉 ) ✅ - Follow up on OWL after program lead is confirmed (not done - dep on hiring TPM)❎ - OpenWeb.Community movement (conf, hackathon, platform, …) ✅ - Potential collab with Dystopia Labs for the online conf part ✅ - Setting the vision and plan for the whole movement around Open Web Community ✅ - Community Squad weekly sync (Guilds relaunch and hackathon in Apr as main themes) ✅ - Continuing partnership convos with SeedClub ✅ ✅ ✅ - If timing is right … helping with AngelDAO Venture Grants proposal (postponed and proposed to organise a group pitch event) ❎ ---
**Author:** ![jlwaugh](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/gov.near.org/jlwaugh/32/42_2.png) [@jlwaugh](https://gov.near.org/u/jlwaugh)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 2:01pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/community-squad-weekly-update-23-feb-21/714/4 "2021-02-23T14:01:21Z")
### Progress from last week: > [@Community Squad Weekly Update: 16 FEB 21](http://gov.near.org/t/community-squad-weekly-update-16-feb-21/658/5): > > Progress from last week: ETHDenver 2021 is in the books!!! created [guide for launching Sputnik DAOs](http://gov.near.org/t/launching-sputnik-daos/451/3) discussed potential changes to Community Fund reviewed [Rainbow Bridge upgradability and governance plan](http://gov.near.org/t/bridge-upgradability-and-governance-plan/633) organizing DevRel Guild, a.k.a. Open Sourcery introduced [SourceCred instance](https://metaguild.github.io/scoreboard/#/explorer) analyzing NEAR forum participation Priorities for this week: publish recap of ETHDenver Sputnik DAO and promote via social media coordinate with DevRel team and launch Open Sourcery DAO collaborate on ideas to deve… - presented results of Sputnik DAO activation during ETHDenver Retrospective - wrote a blurb for a blog post about Sputnik DAO “crashed into a metaverse” campaign - decided to wait for v2 before launching Open Sourcery DAO(s) - met with Dorian to share my perspective on what DevRel team needs to know - scheduled weekly meetings with leaders of marketing team - answered questions re: Open Reforestation Project on NEAR - hosted an event on Clubhouse about DAO interoperability and v2 of Sputnik DAO ### Priorities for this week: - prepare to meet with Berry Pickers and DevRel team on Friday to discuss [Open Sourcery](https://github.com/near/devrel/issues/31) - collaborate on the planning document for Guildathon (working title) - coordinate analytics guild project with Tiffany ~ weekly reports and summaries - communicate with NF marketing team and OWC to explore ideas of Open Web Labs - ZKV Privacy Roundtable ---
**Author:** ![shreyas](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/gov.near.org/shreyas/32/12_2.png) [@shreyas](https://gov.near.org/u/shreyas)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 2:05pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/community-squad-weekly-update-23-feb-21/714/5 "2021-02-23T14:05:23Z")
Progress from last week: > [@Community Squad Weekly Update: 16 FEB 21](http://gov.near.org/t/community-squad-weekly-update-16-feb-21/658/2): > > Progress from last week: Guild onboarding+transition [Ongoing] Guild strategy and sprint planning [Ongoing] Tech talk with NEAR PH and Paras: [https://youtu.be/GLPvY3aAnY4](https://youtu.be/GLPvY3aAnY4) NEAR Au sync and blockchain Sydney planning[done] What can i do for near project sync with @MostafaLotfy [Making really good progress. Aiming for soft release next week] ETH Denver [Done and dusted] Review Educational initiatives for India [Sent to council for approval] Hiring [Ongoing] Priorities this week: Guild onboa… - Guild onboarding+transition-ongoing - Guild strategy and sprint- ongoing - Hiring & review- ongoing - Techstars- Done - NEAR PH meeting- Done - NEAR Turkey core team meeting-Done - What can I do for NEAR sprint-Not done! Need moaar time. - Guild rewards and points system with Eunice- Done - 4NTS bi-weekly- Done - Usability guild meeting- done This week: - Hiring - Reprioritizing everything! Thanks to Eisenhower! - Community council meeting and review - Community hackathon with Sherif - What are guilds video - Sync with Cameron about guilds - Pre-hackathon plan- sputnik v2 - Plan out guild relaunch activities - Community Fellows and RFG with Mally/Laura - We are open - process management and transparency stuff ---
**Author:** ![nima](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/gov.near.org/nima/32/10_2.png) [@nima](https://gov.near.org/u/nima)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 8:31pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/community-squad-weekly-update-23-feb-21/714/6 "2021-02-23T20:31:27Z")
TL;DR of this is that we should always be running hackathons 😉 ? haha ---
**Author:** ![chloe](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/gov.near.org/chloe/32/533_2.png) [@chloe](https://gov.near.org/u/chloe)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 12:46pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/community-squad-weekly-update-23-feb-21/714/7 "2021-02-27T12:46:00Z")
Hello everyone, Chloe here. Just giving a public forum hello and update that I’ve joined the community squad “this week”. Looking forward to taking on more tasks as I get more involved supporting the NEAR community ecosystem.