Please note that this proposal is just a first draft and it is not final. We need your feedback to improve it and make sure it aligns with the needs of the community.
Overview
In the current V3 Creatives setup, the community has grown to about 75+ DAOs in over 25 countries, however a lack of support system has been a constant issue that has been highlighted over the past months.
With the growing community size, it becomes imperative to have a support working group, so the existing communities that build on NEAR and new communities that will join the ecosystem, get the support which will help them thrive.
The CSWG working group will be
- focused on providing support to communities and projects with specific demands
- By members in the NEAR ecosystem who have the expertise to provide it
- Based on the agree to the value exchange terms (Paid, barter, free assistance)
CSWG is different from the current funding focus of the Creatives DAO, which primarily focuses on funding quality projects from DAOs/Guilds.
Our hope is that self regulated and organised support system will increase the success ratio & retention rate and the overall health of a community, which will allow for bigger, more cohesive communities on NEAR.
CWG is the group that will focus on the following:
- Making sure everybody thrives and no one falls through the cracks,
- Identify the areas of support required by the existing and new creatives’ communities, and provide desired support,
- Create and organize the working group members who will provide assistance.
Suggested Support Areas
As the ecosystem continues to grow and evolve, the CWG can reassess its priorities and expand its focus to other areas as needed, however, in our opinion, for now, the most optimal way, would be to have two areas of support, such as:
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Community Building Support & Education - training and workshops on best practices for community building, effective communication, and collaboration within the NEAR ecosystem,
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Marketing and Promotion Support - CWG could have a special type of contributors that would maintain contact with the DAOs, write articles, and run the Creatives’ social media, and AMAs or implement marketing and outreach strategies.
Suggested governance structure.
An open working group with no criteria to part-take as a solution provider.
- Anyone who wants to provide solutions can join the working group telegram chat.
- The working group members add areas of support they provide in their near.social bio making it easy for communities seeking assistance to identify the right candidate and reach out.
- Alternatively, communities seeking assistance can drop a ‘Proposal to assist’ in the telegram chat group or on near.social.
- The working group members can then respond to their request if they are open to assisting the community.
- The community seeking assistance can then select the member or members they want to take support from based on the experience and the support members have to offer.
- The community seeking help can also request a call to identify if both the parties align or not.
Proposal to Assist
- Proposal to assist outlines the support a community is seeking
- Mentions the type of Value exchange. For example - Near tokens, NFTs or barter of some kind
- Should be in line with their roadmap and values of CD and NEAR
Bounty claim, Badges and reviews - near.social integration
- Once the assistance is completed and the bounty is claimed by the assistor,
- The community can then offer badges to the member who assisted. These badges will represent
- The more the badges, the more credibility the assisted member gains
- The reviewer can also allocate badges to the community assisted when they have achieved a skill set or an accomplishment.
Questions To The Community
In order to properly kick off with the CWG, we’d like to hear your feedback about the following topics:
- Do you see other areas of support apart from those provided above? How many people should fulfill its roles in the CWG supporting areas? What remuneration for would be appropriate?,
- What should the governance of the CWG and its contributors look like? (Examples:own Creatives token, trusties, or any other)?
- How should the process be structured for communities and supporters? (How and where the communities should look for a help, how the supporters could offer their services?)
- Do you see any other areas for development of the CWG?
Please leave your feedback and ideas below until the 28th of Feb 2023. The community moderators will gather all the observations into one CWG proposal in order to properly go live with the new initiative.