As part of my personal day-to-day as a NEAR Foundation MarCom team member, I have been assisting @yadira and @rosanna1 on the Events team with Guilds and creative community involvement in the upcoming NEAR | CON event.
It became apparent to me very quickly that someone ‘on the ground’ in the Lisbon area - familiar with the NEAR creative community and with exhibition logistics experience - would be needed to assist with the curation and execution of the various creative activations. Someone altogether more than a standard exhibition curator, as NEAR | CON will be unfolding on physical and virtual planes.
Here’s how the role for the Creative Activations Lead has been established:
Tasks and responsibilities:
Liaise with creative partners to envision and execute the NEAR creative activations at NEAR | CON (Oct. 26 & 27 with set-up and take-down time):
NFT Gallery
VR Exhibition
Happy Hour musical entertainment / live musical commitment
Still photography & videography, workshop room animation
MetaVerse engagement (i.e. virtual after parties);
Liaise with and source information from the creative partners to the NEAR | CON Production Agency so all logistical and technical requirements for the physical creative activations are accounted for;
Potential assistance with set-up and take-down of the creative activations;
Attend daily to weekly syncs with Rebecca, meetings with partners & Production agency as required, attendance at daily NEAR | CON internal syncs, and other NEAR | CON related meetings as relevant;
Post-NEAR | CON reporting which would include sourcing testimonials from creative partners and the amalgamation of metrics such as # of transactions related to NEAR | CON on their NFT marketplace, most active NFT store, etc. from these partners and from the internal NEAR Core team.
Timeline:
Duration of the position would be from September 1 until November 30 (tentative end date) to accomplish all wrap-up and reporting
Deadline for the full draft of the blue-print for all creative activations is September 16
From there, we will kick off into detailing logistics until launch of NEAR | CON on Oct. 25 (Day 0 - for registration, etc.)
Take-down and wrap-up to begin on Oct. 28
There was only one super-star who could fill this role and that is @tabear - co-founder of the muti DAO, current muti DAO council representative on the Lisboa City Node DAO, former community manager at Arroz Estudios (Arroz Criativo Guild), and creative project manager extraordinaire.
Please post with regular updates as to your progress and so as to form the basis of your monthly payout requests from the communitysquad.sputnikdao.near. Depending on the number of hours dedicated each week within a month, the hourly rate will be between EUR 20-30/hour. Considering the tight turnaround at the beginning of the position for the September 16 deadline, more than the standard 8 hours/day may be required and so a higher rate within this range will be given to compensate for dedicated over-time.
Thank you, Tabea, for agreeing to work through all this with me and to lead how the Lisbon and global NEAR creative community will be featured and celebrated at the first ever NEAR | CON!
Hey everyone!
Thank you @mecsbecs for getting me onboard, I am very much looking forward connecting all those amazing Guilds and creative partners in the physical space in Lisbon!
We have divided the workflow in different steps. I am in the process of contacting all possible partners to understand the possible participation. After the meeting with the production company we will have more infos on what is physically possible and I will get back to the partners to confirm the final contribution at NEAR|CON.
Here comes a report of my first week (1.-3.9.):
3 syncs with Rebecca 3h
Working on the production sheet, creating the workflow and creating a specific Guild/Creative partners involvement sheet 3.7h
Contacting possible partners to set up meetings & introduce the project (NxM, Paras, NFT Club, Arroz Criativo, Incubadora DAO, CUDO DAO) 0.5h
Working on the floor plan/ set up 1h
Meeting with CUDO DAO/Heverton 1h
Meeting with Incubadora DAO 1h
Meeting with Nxm/Vandal 0.5h
Meeting with Arroz Criativo 0.5h
Meeting with Rebecca & Rosanna to give updates 1.5h
total: 12.7h
Let me know if there are links for visibility or any other infos missing that you would like to see in this report
Thank you, @mecsbecs and tabear for hitting the ground running! Excited to see these updates posted on here and to make NEAR | CON a great event for everyone.
As we’re nearing (ha!) the end of the month, it is time to issue your first payment for work completed thus far:
First period (Sept 1-17) - 56.7 h x 30/hr = EUR 1,701*
Second period (Sept 18-25) - 17.5 h x 20/hr = EUR 350
Travel reimbursement = EUR 55
Total = EUR 2,106
EUR → USD: $2,465.04
USD → NEAR (@ $7.31): 338 N
Please post for your first payment of 338 N to the Community Squad SputnikDAO as this work has been undertaken to best represent the creative community but as part of the overall community involvement efforts at a NEAR official event. Since there’s no Events DAO (yet!) the Community Squad DAO is the best fit for this proposal to my mind.
*justification for the higher rate in this period: we had a September 16 deadline for the full mapping of all activations and the work and availability expectation was such that Tabea would be able to complete all this initial work in only 2 weeks, which she did.
Rebecca Sync Daily sync Community Choice Awards screen QR codes Metaverse integration
4
20.10.
Presentation Rebecca Sync NFT Videos
3
21.10.
NFT Videos
1
total: 14h
NEARCON (physically in Lisbon, 22.-27.10.)
22.10.
13
23.10.
6.5
24.10.
7
25.10.
7
26.10.
11.5
27.10.
11.5.
total: 45h
&
53€ transport (Bus, uber, petrol)
7€ props (sanitation props VR gallery)
Thank you very much for offering me this opportunity @mecsbecs aka the super woman ! I enjoyed it a lot & I hope everyone else had fun with our creative activations
Third period (Sept 27-Oct 21) - 61.75 h x 20/hr = EUR 1,235
Fourth period (Oct 22-27) - 45 h x 30/hr = EUR 1,350*
Reimbursements = EUR 60
Total = EUR 2,645
EUR → USD: $3,051.58
USD → NEAR (@ $11.50): 266 N (rounded up)
Please post for this payment of 266 N to the Community Squad SputnikDAO linking to this post.
*event rate applied for odd and long hours with last minute changes
I literally would not have been able to do this without you and all the compliments we received on our killer creative activations filled me with such shared joy and pride. Looking forward to tackling wrap-up starting next week!
