# Community Squad Weekly Updates: 3 MAY 2021

**URL:** <https://gov.near.org/t/community-squad-weekly-updates-3-may-2021/1512>\
**Category:** Community DAO\
**Tags:** community, weekly-updates\
**Created:** [May 3, 2021, 10:01am UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/community-squad-weekly-updates-3-may-2021/1512 "2021-05-03T10:01:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![3UN1C3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/8dc957/32.png) [@3UN1C3](https://gov.near.org/u/3UN1C3)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 10:01am UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/community-squad-weekly-updates-3-may-2021/1512/1 "2021-05-03T10:01:56Z")

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Briefly describe your ‘key results’ from last week’s work plan and your plan for this week. @weekly-updates  
@shreyas @jlwaugh @Chloe @starpause

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**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:** [May 3, 2021, 10:54am UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/community-squad-weekly-updates-3-may-2021/1512/2 "2021-05-03T10:54:43Z")

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**Last week:**

- Guild onboarding: Reviewed guild application proposals & quiz, sent out acceptance emails, had interviews
- NEAR RU meeting: Strategy and working group discussion
- India accelerator: On-boarded Devrel, confirmed partners, ready for launch.
- BI proposal discussion with their team: Few details to discuss
- Grants interview and feedback for Dani
- NEAR PH meeting and strategy
- OSA proposal discussion and catchup with Blaze
- NEAR India social media person onboarded
- NEAR Stars guild discussion
- 4NTS bi weekly
- India edu and train the trainer program meeting
- Africa proposal review
- Sync with Bowen on growth and India accelerator

**This week:**

- India accelerator
- Guild onboarding
- Africa proposal meeting
- Community proposal review
- BI proposal

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**Author:** ![Grace](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/gov.near.org/grace/32/10544_2.png) [@Grace](https://gov.near.org/u/Grace)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 6:34pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/community-squad-weekly-updates-3-may-2021/1512/3 "2021-05-03T18:34:36Z")

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Batteries are charged 🔋 🚀 and I am all geared up for this week’s convo.

- DemoDay week, after two weeks of full work, the Community Squad has something special to show…
- Sync up with everyone and get up to speed on our community’s TODO’s
- [https://summit.openweb.community](https://summit.openweb.community) Our Hackathon and Summit are ready to rock!
- Hiring, lots of applications to review and decisions to make…all very exciting stuff
- Work on our CommunityOS v1 and dashboard

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**Author:** ![Grace](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/gov.near.org/grace/32/10544_2.png) [@Grace](https://gov.near.org/u/Grace)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 6:36pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/community-squad-weekly-updates-3-may-2021/1512/5 "2021-05-03T18:36:42Z")

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> [@shreyas](#):
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> India accelerator: On-boarded Devrel, confirmed partners, ready for launch.

👏 India Accelerator ready to 🚀Launch! Awesome!!

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**Author:** ![starpause](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/gov.near.org/starpause/32/3658_2.png) [@starpause](https://gov.near.org/u/starpause)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2021, 3:04am UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/community-squad-weekly-updates-3-may-2021/1512/6 "2021-05-04T03:04:54Z")

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**Status Boards**

[Sputnik v2 Project at GitHub](https://github.com/orgs/near-daos/projects/1)  
[Lang DAO Grants at GitHub](https://github.com/near/lang-DAO-grants/projects/1)  
[Community Squad Key Results](https://www.notion.so/nearprotocol/12647d47544a432f9962392dd896b5cd?v=0767bcc5fed84f46ab863901985b023f)

**Last Week**

- SputnikDAO
  - More [Sputnik QA (ClickUp PDF)](https://gov.near.org/uploads/short-url/uB9cgRHlcM5K26pX9Uu93lUqG62.pdf)
  - Sputnik v2 Docs Kickoff w/ Gus & Den
  - DNS settings for Sputnik v1 reskin (w/ Den & MP)
  - Finalized contract w/ “Project Astro” team for Sputnik V2 UX Sprint
  - SputnikDAO Analytics with Tiffany and Yifang

- Grant & Funding Reviews
- Outreach
  - Finalized monthly newsletter content
  - Contributed content to NEARWEEK
  - Presented NFT farming concept at “we’re all NEAR” VR demo hour

- Community & Creators Summit/Hackathon
  - Onboarded Ben Jacobs to Social Token DAO
  - Promoted CNC CON/HACK in “Future of NFTs” Clubhouse
  - Kicked off Collab.land bot on NEAR discord for CNC CON/HACK

**This Week**

- SputnikDAO
  - Analytics with Tiffany and Yifang
  - New logo and favicon from Josh (+ content updates) to distance from NEAR branding (community project)

- Community OS
  - Install sesh.fyi to socialize DAO office hours
  - Continue roughing in [CommunityOS playbook draft](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PHZFo-FZPL0Uf3BCAi6ujWeff9zmPfE1QVPs3CFzDsY/edit)
  - Clean up the discord support channels (priority after scam incident)
  - Seed Club Partnership meetings (not naming names for surprise launch)

- Community & Creators Summit/Hackathon
  - Roadmap Collab.land discord bot for CNC CON/HACK
  - Publish final bounty/prize numbers
  - Promote with Ross
  - Plan “Communities” panel/preso with Chloe and James for summit.openweb.community

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**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:** [May 4, 2021, 6:53am UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/community-squad-weekly-updates-3-may-2021/1512/7 "2021-05-04T06:53:27Z")

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### Key results from last week:

- synced with Metagov about [governance track of hackathon](https://metagov.github.io/open-web-challenge) and [Metagov Sputnik DAO](https://sputnik.fund/#/metagov.sputnikdao.near)
- communicated plans to update role assignment process in the NEAR Discord
- hosted weekly contributor Q&A session with Chloe
- promoted weekly Sputnik DAO walkthrough as part of [DAO Rush Week](https://daorushweek.com)
- presented about OWC&C hackathon during “We’re all NEAR” event in VR
- repurposed Education Guild on Telegram for [NEAR Staker DAO](https://t.me/stakeNEAR)
- writing about community fund governance with our team
- helped NEAR India Guild form [India Covid Relief DAO](https://sputnik.fund/#/indiacovidrelief.sputnikdao.near)
- participated in “Future of NFTs” event on Clubhouse (organized by Mintbase)
- made category for [Creatives](http://gov.near.org/c/creatives/47) on the forum
- coordinated with Gitcoin re: hackathon “Prize DAOs” and upcoming email blast
- met with Collab.Land team to plan bot integration and user experience

### Plan for this week:

- execute hackathon communications plan
  - promote team building exercises next Tuesday
  - finalize landing pages and event schedule
  - coordinate Gitcoin email blasts and social media push
  - distribute hype video and relevant forum posts
  - create specific onboarding materials for hackers

- explore idea of “Charity DAOs” with Panvala
  - draft forum post with examples: ICR, Marma J Foundation, etc.

- update role assignment process on Discord
  - add new skill-based roles
  - integrate Collab.Land bot

- activate [Figment Learn Sputnik DAO](https://sputnik.fund/#/figment_learn.sputnikdao.near)
- meet potential contributors in Q&A sessions
- collaborate on editorial re: DAOs improving ESG performance
- support launch of India Accelerator
- DAOify Sandbox rewards with 4NTS Guild
- help OysterPack write forum post about NEAR Staker DAO

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**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:** [May 5, 2021, 6:52am UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/community-squad-weekly-updates-3-may-2021/1512/8 "2021-05-05T06:52:54Z")

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Focusing on hackathon this week:

- Prep & present with comms squad for internal bi-weekly “Demo Day” → focus on SputnikDAO reskin and Hackathon.
- Meetings with Ross on how to support Hackathon from marketing standpoint.
- Working with @enidavis to set social tokens events into hackathon schedule
- Start officially setting events into Airmeet (+ Airmeet branding graphics)
- Multiple “Bounty DAO’s” still need to complete their funding proposals. The plan is for each DAO to submit a funding proposal to the community fund for ~2k NEAR in funding (10k USD).
  - Looking to support @Natural-Warp, @iotachan, @yassine, and @lenara on their submissions (VR, onboarding, generative art, and gaming)

- Coordinate with Mintbase for hackathon support.
