DevRel TPS report WE: 06-FEB-2021

Development Engineering Updates
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:purple_heart: DevRel Update Thread :purple_heart:

  • Progress
  • Priorities
  • Blockers
    :point_up:
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Progress:

Priorities:

Blockers:

  • Relocating tokens, validators, & exchanges to near.org
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Progress

  • delivered Gitcoin KERNEL presentations x2 (Wed & Fri)
  • reviewed 2 internally generated workshops
  • connected with community re: edu and devrel
  • reviewed resumes for devrel
  • reviewed NEAR Academy theme and narrative design
  • drafted proposals for two university programs

Priorities

  • KERNEL program next steps
  • finalize cross-contract calls repo
  • moar community outreach

Blockers

  • none
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  • Progress:

-EthDenver is in full blast :slight_smile:
-Grants Pilot Program launched!
-Grants website shipped
-Grants announcement post & new application portals live
-SputnikDAO activation ready (art portal commissioned and delivered)
-Getting traction/hype for our projects

  • Priorities:

EthDenver
Grants
-Get through beta pipeline for apps
-Get first wave of new incoming grants

  • Blockers:
    None
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Progress:

  • Drafted Getting Started Combined Documentation for Josh
    • Read through Orientation and old getting started documentation to locate and note
      repetitive, confusing, filler content to draft stripped down version
  • Conducted NEAR Without the Noise Interview
  • Checked NEAR Examples for functionality
    • Noted bugs in: Counter, Guestbook, and NFT
    • Noted Missing Instructions/Notes in ReadMe for Guestbook, Counter, FT
  • Updating backend of OW App for Blockheads
    *. Onboarding

Priorities:

  • Getting ramped up on Rust
  • Coming up with solutions to help streamline pipeline of incoming questions
  • ETHDenver Support
  • Finalizing OW Updated backend
  • Getting Community/Team Feedback for Music

Blockers:

  • Getting used to all the different channels and general onboarding but settling in
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Priorities (this week):

Cleanup project board for Q1, break out tasks to lists in epics, add tags
Cleanup last weeks examples, readmes etc…
Continue with ETH Denver promotion and connect with hackers
Live app review videos: ETH Denver NFT example walkthough, Payments API 2 with a smart contract (e.g. smart payments), …?
Check in with ZeroPool and projects

Progress (last week):

Onboarding β†’ Dorian (full); Robert & Vadim (soft / ETH Denver help)
Partner FirstBlood.io β†’ payments API example
ETH Denver Content β†’ Live App Review Series
ETH Denver talk β†’ prog onboarding NFT example
ETH Denver docs re-factor support
ETH Denver examples cross check
ETH Denver update to nearnames
ETH Denver content and hacker guide syncs with team
ETH Denver (help actual ETH Denver team with a few last minute things)
Grants β†’ Covalent
Grants β†’ CT6 fund CC vote and connect with Erik, Illia
Grants β†’ Trying to source manager for NEAR x Music community
Bounties β†’ NEAR x Ceramic integration

Blockers:

Penguins

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Priorities:
-ETHDenver content sharing/centralization
-DevRel content backlog
-Onboarding content manager and content support cont’d
-ETH interop positioning work
-user research work
-Content assists across NEAR team
-Brand work with marketing
-ETHDenver support

Progress:
-shipped grants content and site
-shipped Paras Lunar New Year content
-user research work

Blockers:
-none/time :wink:

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Progress (in the Week of 2021/02/01):

  1. On-boarding process: starts from Thursday
  2. Education: Near Cheat Sheet: draft ideas
  3. Partnership: worked / talked with 3 projects
  4. ETH Denver 2021: support in Beijing timezone and CN community
  5. UX: Wallet accessibility issue in China: identify issue and confirm plan
  6. Post: Learning Near the Easy Way for Chinese developers | Near ε…₯ι—¨ζŒ‡ε— (In-Progress)

Priorities (in the Week of 2021/02/08; please note China team will be on vacation from Feb 11th to Feb 17th for Lunar New Year):

  1. Onboard new users: Near Airdrop in batch: GitHub - near-x/near-scripts: Common useful NEAR scripts in JavaScript, built with near-api-js
  2. ETHDenver 2021: support in Beijing timezone and CN community
  3. Partnership: integrate one project with Near
  4. Education: kick-off the translation of docs.near.org into Chinese with CN Guilds and developers
  5. UX: Wallet Issue in China: follow up for CDN config, and wallet selection initiative
  6. Education: Near Cheat Sheet
  7. Post: Learning Near the Easy Way for Chinese developers | Near ε…₯ι—¨ζŒ‡ε—

Blocker:

  1. Didn’t have access to some systems, but resolved now
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