Community Squad Update Thread
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@shreyas * @jlwaugh * @nima
Priorities (Update every Monday)
Progress and blockers (Update every Thursday)
SputnikDAO * @jlwaugh
~40 proposals have been submitted to SputnikDAO.
NEAR Grants Pilot Program
The NEAR Grants Program is live! In the first half of 2021, the NEAR Grants Pilot Program will award USD 1 million in grants funding and resources to promising teams whose work will foster and expand NEAR’s technology and community. The NEAR Grants Pilot Program will award grants and bounties across four streams: Open Source and Public Goods; Startups; Education Initiatives; and Bounties.
Paras
Paras has been actively building its digital art card marketplace on NEAR since its launch in December 2020. To promote the platform, the NEAR Asian community team has joined hands with Paras to run a Lunar New Year Celebration event from 5-19th February. There are also a other community activities going on this week such as AMAs and Red Packet giveaway.
ETHDenver (5-12 FEB)
ETHDenver has kicked off! Please tune in and join us at the NEAR booth! If you’re interested, do let me know. More updates and a post-event summary will be posted next week.
Community Squad’s Effort Last Week:
- ETHDenver (ongoing)
- Paras CNY event (ongoing)
- Expanding community fund funding programs
- NEAR Turkey onboarding done! We now have a Telegram group to start(Telegram: Contact @Nearturkey)
- What can i do for near proposals
Boring Metrics
Global community:
- Discord total members: 8814 → 9077 (+263)
- Telegram total members: 8194 → 8289 (+95)
- Active guild: 26
China community (Prepared by Angela):
- Officially managed groups: 17 (Total members: 4988 → 5283)
- Guild managed groups 24 (Total members: 4801 → 4516)
- QQ officially managed group: 224
- Active guild: 6
- Official Account (think of it as newsletter subscribers)*: 7411 → 7585
I will be OOO from 12-15 Feb for CNY 
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if you’re interested comment here and introduce yourself! <3
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