Community Squad Weekly Update: 31 May 2021

[Grace]

Hello NEARverse!

We are happy to report on our #weekly-updates progress, blockers and the general outlook for this week. This is the second week into our Community sprint #4 and our team have some exciting activities to share…
@shreyas @starpause @mecsbecs @jcatnear @jlwaugh @chloe

[Grace]

Special week ALERT! it is #MiamiBitcoin Conf and our Miami NFT Lounge Event is sooo ready to rock! Join a bunch of our NEAR Collective members and be ready to emerge yourself into the NEAR NFTverse, lots of surprises await! Get your ticket here: https://nftlounge.eventbrite.com/

It is the last week of our Open Web Creators and Community hackathon, the hack continues and participants will be presenting their creation at the end of the week. We had the chance to sneak peek some projects and my mind was blown away.

This week:

• The launch of the Entrepreneurs Plug Program
• Interviews 1 on 1 with Hackathon Participants
• Budget Review
• Final candidates interviews for open community positions
• Invited candidates (that applied for positions and were not short-listed) to join our Community Contributors Program. There is a place for everyone here!

[mecsbecs]

Last Week:

1. Creatives DAO

• Joined introductory calls with Arroz Studios & Unsigned NFT/Minting Music
• Edited and re-edited the Creatives DAO budget, guide, and other introductory materials ([Guide] Creatives DAO Working Definitions & [Guide] How to apply for funding from the Creatives DAO) with @chloe
• Worked with @bianca to envision the visual assets for the Creatives DAO visual identity - once complete will share proudly and widely to officially launch the Creatives DAO!
• Gave feedback to and supported creative-focused proposals on the Forum for the Hackathon & attended Hackathon events

2. Continued the Guilds Audit and Introductions to Guild Leaders

• Joined the 4NTS and NEAR team sync call
• Attended the Copper CRM software training and continued to lay the groundwork for the team’s transition of organizing Guild-centered communications on this new platform
• Ran a Guilds Q&A session with Michael (4NTS), Sofia (Open Web Sandbox), and MarCom team members
• Began work on the Guilds Playbook draft

3. Discord Channels Retirement Plan - assisted @jlwaugh with the communication and activation of this phase of the Discord Reorganization

This Week:

• Share, celebrate, and solicit community feedback on the Creatives DAO launch with @chloe
• Community OS work session with @starpause @Grace and others
• Coordinate with and support @Grace to introduce the invited candidates to the Community Contributors Program
• Complete and deliver for team feedback a draft of the Guilds Playbook (with support from @shreyas and @jcpacion) by Wednesday/Thursday
• schedule those one-on-one conversations I was unable to last week!
• attend the remainder of the Hackathon events & support the new and in-progress proposals as they appear. Closing day is Sunday and anyone can still participate!

[jlwaugh]

Governance Update

Last week, our Community Squad DAO welcomed new members:

JC Pacion and Rebecca Hallquist!

New Proposals

We have 2 new proposals to consider this week:

Sandbox DAO Requests 8400 NEAR

Following the request for 4000 NEAR to cover their May budget, the Open Web Sandbox DAO has requested an additional 8400 NEAR for community development:

[Approved] Sandbox Request for Community Development

This is a request for 8,400 NEAR for community development activities through the Open Web Sandbox that is developing rapidly.

Vote Here: https://www.sputnik.fund/#/dao/communitysquad.sputnikdao.near/proposals/29

Creatives DAO Requests 4500 NEAR for May 2021

For creative projects in progress and to be started by NEAR Creative Guild/DAO Leaders.

[Budget] Creatives DAO Budget - June 2021

The Creatives SputnikDAO is requesting 4500 NEAR from the Community-squad SputnikDAO for the proposals that need to be paid out: Proposal(s) from Guilds: [APPROVED] Createbase Guild Budget - June 2021 - 300 NEAR [APPROVED ]NEAR integration and promotion through Arroz Estúdios bounties - 100 NEAR [APPROVED] Minting Music Industry Influencer Event: Nashville, TN - #3 by mecsbecs - (will be) 2000 NEAR Proposals from External Projects: Collab.land: [APPROVED] Collab.Land's Documentation f…

Vote Here: https://www.sputnik.fund/#/dao/communitysquad.sputnikdao.near/proposals/30

[jlwaugh]

Key results from last week:

• supported hackers!
• shared feedback on UI / UX design for v2 Sputnik DAOs
• connected with new Grants Program Manager
• drafted new Community Fund wiki and proposal template
• implemented “Discord Channels Retirement Plan”
• coordinated panel discussion about Sputnik DAOs
• researched Deep Work skill system and how it can be applied for NEAR community
• published forum post about “Streamlined Rewards for Guild Contributors”
• hosted “Complexity + Governance” workshop with Dan Friedman
• published Open Web Hackathon Update with a list of Gov Challenge project proposals
• launched Ceramic + NEAR: Sputnik DAO Bounty

NEAR + Ceramic: Sputnik DAO Bounty

NEAR + Ceramic: Sputnik DAO Bounty [image] We are so excited to partner with Ceramic Network! Developers building on NEAR Protocol have powerful ways to manage user identities and dynamic off-chain data in their applications. Ceramic, the decentralized network for data stream processing, now supports NEAR wallets! Ceramic Network provides advanced database-like features such as mutability, version control, access control, and programmable logic. Also, it is the foundation for IDX, the first…

Plans for this week:

• finalize updated Community Fund wiki + proposal template
• integrate Deep Work skill system with OWS Discord
• develop general contributor playbook
• conclude Open Web Governance Challenge
• explore Community OS components
• continue discussion about NEARpunk DAO
• reimagine onboarding flows to engage project coordinators

[chloe]

Last week:

• Great video demo workshop with @VideoDon & @doriannear: Open Web Creators & Communities Hackathon - Video Demo Workshop - YouTube - thanks again for the support guys!
• Creatives - NEAR Forum category now includes a revamped: About the Creatives category section (and Creatives section has been cleaned up in general/tags added)

This week:

• Hosted SputnikDAO Panel Monday: Sputnik DAO Panel - YouTube
• Meeting about NEAR Lisboa with Mintbase & Gnosis Tuesday
• Working with @mecsbecs to support Minting Music DAO as they onboard into the NEAR community
• Meeting with @amgando & @yassine again this week Thursday to dig deeper into indexer stuff on NEAR (and other topics)
• Working with @crasskitty to get support for: Full Github Submission Workshop - Createbase on Friday
• Working with @starpause so get closing ceremonies for the hackathon set up for the 6th.

[Grace]

@jlwaugh Thanks for posting this week’s ‘ready to vote proposals’ here, this makes it so much easier!!

[shreyas]

Last week:

• India accelerator
• Guild onboarding+interview
• NEAR Japan meetup & partnerships with FV
• Community+ Edu Sync and action items
• 1-1s
• Deep dive with Rebecca+JC about Guilds Playbook
• Sandbox team meeting and process
• Hand off sprint Miro sprint work.
• Nodes weekly with Grace and Chloe

This week:

• India accelerator
• Guild onboarding + Process Revamp
• Japan community meetup plan with FV
• 1-1
• Onboarding contributors from recruitment pipeline
• Guilds Playbook
• Edu content creator Rust dev onboarding
• Hiring
• Special projects

[starpause]

Last Week

• #CreatorsandCommunities Hackathon
  • NFT drops
  • Form/Sputnik proposal review
  • Presented hackathon at Consensus VR Social Space
• SputnikDAO
  • Added Analytics tags to reskin site
  • Fixes and features to improve UX

This Week

• #CreatorsandCommunities Hackathon
  • DAO panel with Illya, Chloe, MP, denysk
  • NFT drops
  • Form/Sputnik proposal review
  • June 6th run of show
• SputnikDAO
  • Include blog on landing page
  • Review UX Interviews/Feedback
  • v2 smart contract barebones UI soft launch
• CommunityOS
  • Features & functionality matrix for platforms
  • 1sheet collateral
• Bitcon Miami
  • NFT Drop (pixelord)
  • NFT Auction (weiwei)
• OKR <> Metrics mapping

[jcatnear]

Last week:
Turn all those conversations into action items!

Updates on Top Priorities:

• Telegram Master Sheet Completed
• Discord Metrics Identified, next step strategy!
• Aligned PH Guild and provided insights for their project in the next 3 months
• Content database being created for past Guild/Community content posted within the forum
• Got access to Typeform, Survey Drafted, waiting for the Greenlight

This Week:

• Work with @JMaenen for the Social Media / Community Plan - How can we help with maximizing and distributing the content?
• Start identifying potential content for the community channel and work on requests
• Sync with @mecsbecs and @shreyas for Guild Playbook OS
• Working with @3UN1C3 to get Telegram Moderators up and running
• Meet with @jlwaugh again for community mods to be incorporated in the Individual Contributors Funnel
• Continue the content database so Joep can start adding them to the calendar
• Meet with Jen and Orvard from PH Guild
• Get started on Influencer Strategy (if I still have time)