Hey Chloe and the NEAR team - so once again would just like to thank you all for inviting us to be a part of this, we’re super enthused and have begun working on these in the past weeks.
So as we talked we’ve been through a hiring (and restructuring) process within our association and have also been reaching out of our association to fill the roles and to contribute a small team to help represent NEAR within Lisbon.
The team is composed of 4 / 5 individuals each bringing a different skill set & network to the group, we’ve also left room in the roles to collaborate with others so we can maximise reach and efficacy.
The Team
- Events Coordination : @halisonlp
Originally from Brazil, Halison has to Lisbon 6 years ago, he formed the DJ duo Digital Black and also Trafka Studio performing regularly and running regular events around the city.
Halison has events experience ranges from music events to managing a hostel for internationals. He’s also been a musician in various bands and projects across Lisbon. The Trafka events happen monthly at the studios and are really well attended.
Tasks:
Events organising & production including venue bookings, speakers & workshops bookings & events management
Events promotion
Co-managing the socials channels,
Ideating on event types including hackathons, workshops & other events types
Attending team meetings & meetings in the wider ecosystem
Participating in governance
Laura & Erica are both visual artists with a flare for digitally produced artwork and graphic design. Both have been producing NFTs and working on the Rare Effect events and exploring the metaverse.
Our plan is that they will be working partly on the branding & design of the events and the city node branding as a whole. We want to develop an open source brand manual so it can be adopted by any city node in the future with adaptable logo, event artwork template and presentation template.
Erica Doo Stuff Website
Laura Penez website
Erica Instagram
Laura Insta
Tasks:
Designing all artwork and branding for the project
Developing logo which can be used open source for more city nodes
Developing an easily customisable event template artwork
Developing all signage required for organisations in the city node ecosystem
Attending team meetings & meetings in the wider ecosystem
Participating in governance
- Community Management : @TRosario
Tasks:
Main point of the contact for the community
Managing the Telegram channels and forum pages
Attending events and making links with community
Attending team meetings & meetings in the wider ecosystem
Participating in governance
- Ecosystem Success : @StevenR
Co-founder of Arroz Estudios, Art Progression Now & Just Shake. Steven has been leading creative organisation for around 10 years through the UK and since moving to Portugal 3 years ago. He’s an events specialist having run events organisations all over the UK and been working as an events production freelancer across europe for 5 years. Steven also has a technical background with a masters degree in mechanical engineering.
As the president of Arroz Estudios, Steven has deep ties with the cultural sector in Lisbon from the association & music venue network to local government, funding and policy makers.
Tasks:
Developing overall objectives for the team and metrics on fulfilment
Forming initial links with organisations
Identifying potential new opportunities
Searching for more team members when required
Attending team meetings & meetings in the wider ecosystem
Participating in governance
Next Steps
We have already begun reaching out to organisations that we feel have the potential to become DAOs & Guilds with great feedback. We’re on the verge of onboarding 3 organisations already and have many more in the pipeline.
In the next few weeks we feel it’s important for us to have a meeting with yourself @chloe and any other advisors or stakeholders to establish some OKRs for the project so we can structure our work around these goals and outcomes.
We also feel like the project would benefit from having at least one individual as a part of the team that has experience in DeFi protocol rollout. We have some links for this but would also like to see how things progress in the Hackathon to see if anyone comes forward.
Remuneration
We’re requesting 1800NEAR$ tokens (+ expenses) per month for this work.
For the month of August, it’s thought this will be combined with the Hack Node planning which will be a great launch pad for us to interact with the rest of the NEAR team and ecosystem and merge into these roles.
The current thinking is that we’ll apply for 2 of the 3 operational roles for the hackathon of value 1k NEAR$ this is so we can leave the door open for more collaborators in both the hacknode and citynode planning 
So that would mean for the month of August we’re requesting a reduced amount of 800 NEAR$.
To process this we’ve created an Arroz team DAO and process staffing payments with a contribution to our new spaces campaign:
EquipaDoArroz.sputnikdao.near
In terms of operational expenses, we’ve had a brainstorm and think these will
- Additional internet connection for Arroz estudios which will be used day to day and also for the Hackathon [approx 35NEAR$/ month]
- A new computer for Halison. this would definitely help the process and make (at least Halison) more functional [amount TBD]
- Travel costs for the group for meeting offsite with other organisations in and around Lisbon [approx 100N$/ month]
Please let us know feedback on this and we’ll keep working on it in the background 
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considering they should all be on the forum already)
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