Monthly Report OWS [September]

[Sofia_Alum]

Hello community,

Below is the OWS Monthly Report of September.

1. Production

• Humans of the Open Web Sandbox: OWS Journey of AVB
• DAO Party press release: Introduction to DAOs on NEAR
• The Creators of the Blockchain Programme: continued collecting AMA feedback

2. Social media

• Discord (1581 members, 12%+ since August)
• Twitter ( 1641 followers, 155% since August)
• Youtube (39 subscribers, 18%+ since August)
• Medium (25 followers, 67%+ since August)

3. Events:

Weekly AMA’s: 5 AMA’s hosted weekly (all can be found on YT channel)

• 01/09/2021 - OWS Weekly AMA: Blaze from NEAR Wiki
• 08/09/2021 - OWS Weekly AMA: Cron Cat
• 15/09/2021 - OWS Weekly AMA: Shroom Kingdom
• 22/09/2021 - Weekly AMA: ITSMYNE NFTs
• 29/09/2021 - OWS Weekly AMA: Social Media Best Practices

On September 30th we hosted long-awaited RoundTable talking Defi with 5 project/guild leads from: Ref Finance, Wizard Guild, MetaPool, Merchants of NEAR, Cheddar → check it out here: September OWS Party: DeFi Debunked

4. Projects that engaged with the OWS in August-September

All project collaborations (some are closed for new candidates by now)

[September 2021] Sankore project opportunity: help us with website management || The call is closed

We are happy to announce the collaboration with the Sankore Guild. Sankore 2.0 (S2) is an Africa-focused community integrating the NEAR blockchain to projects and solutions conceived and built by local developers in Kenya. The organisation, which is named after Africa’s oldest educational institution, helps developers to make use of NEAR and adopt Web3 technologies. What We are looking for a team who will help us with the website management. There are three available roles: Writing conten…

[September 2021] $MYNE project opportunity: help us to create 3D avatars

Following the previous opportunities provided by $MYNE, we are happy to introduce the new creative task. ITSMYNE has partnered with a leading global movie production company and is helping them create NFTs of movie-related content assets. We’re looking for someone with the ability to create whimsical 3D illustrations and design assets. This is a recurring project, and we can potentially give great contributors a ton of super excited work relating to sports and movies. As a first step, we wan…

[September 2021] $MYNE project opportunity: help us with the landing page and visual content

We are glad to jump in with a new opportunity for a collaboration with $MYNE. The project includes multiply group task and one for the video production. Let’s start the collaboartion 1st Task The token explainer page $MYNE is developing a landing page to show audiences (from Telegram and social channels) information about the MYNE token, to encourage bounty hunting, HODL tokens and in general create a good image of the token to the crypto investor community. For the landing p…

[September 2021] Sputnik DAO project opportunity: making visuals about success cases: CLOSED

Hi Sandboxers, Let’s start the the collaboration together with Sputnik DAO to tell the success stories of Guilds and Daos. Our goal is to make DAOs feel human and present their success cases with infographics and animations. What? Conduct an interview or pick up a showcase of Guilds and Daos from the list. The list should be sorted be sorted by Value / # Proposals Also, take a look on DAOs below: https://twitter.com/HypeDAO famjam.sputnik-dao.near marmaj nearweek REF-FINANCE CODAME …

[September 2021] Shroom Kingdom opportunity: help us with graphic designs

Hi Sandboxers, We start the new collaboration with the Shroom Kingdom - an upcoming play-to-earn video game built on the NEAR Blockchain. We are looking for people who will help us with the graphic designs for the upcoming NFT airdrop. Sandboxers have several opportunities to participate: 1. Founder NFT graphics design The NFT will need a unique pixel-art style, that represents our platform. We have not yet decided what should be displayed at all, so we are happy for suggestions. Tasks: d…

[September 2021] Open Web Sandbox opportunity: help us with the Pitch Starter Kit

We are glad to provide a new opportunity by the Open Web Sandbox. We need collaboartors to help us with the various tasks for The Pitch Starter Kit. What? The OWS Team is planning to design The Pitch Starter Kit on how to pitch your idea/project to the NEAR Ecosystem. The goal of this series of tutorials is to help Sandboxers get their ideas off the ground as easily as possible. The OWS Team does not take effective pitching for granted and that is why we would like to help people shape their …

[September 2021] NEARverse Portal opportunity: help us with content creation and coordination

Hi everyone! We jump to September with the new collaboration opportunity with NEARverse Portal Guild. What The NEARVerse portal is an ecosystem-wide initiative to create, curate, and maintain a portal of information (how-to, faq, analytics, visual aids) for visitors and engaged NEARVerse users. It is a landing pad for the different zones throughout the NEARVerse that is jointly managed by the NEAR Core team, Guilds, DAO’s, Projects, and individual contributors. How-To Contribute The NEARVer…

[August 2021] NEARWEEK opportunity: help us with content creation

We end August with a new creative opportunity for the collaboration with NEARWEEK Contact me or @Sofia_Alum if you have any questions about project or open discord to discuss them. What? We are looking for weekly recap video/animation which is to be featured in the newsletter. Use the example for inspiration by this link How? Contact me #nastiqs on TG or on Discord nastique#5490 to start the collaboration Deadline 5th September

Projects still ongoing and looking for Sandboxers!!!

5. Internal updates

• As @mecsbecs has stepped out of the reviewing process, we hired a new OWS moderator: @Jacopo welcome to the team!

• Full team composition to be found here: OWS Team an Introduction

• Onboarded contributors to the new USD denominated funding: Rewards Systems Modifications

• Full Budget Report Estimation is available here

5. Challenges

• Catalyst launch has been postponed due to the longer waiting period for the last smart contracts check

• Handling general negativity around the new USD Denominated system was draining. Responding professionally to contributors’ concerns/complains did take a lot of cognitive resources from the whole team. (reactions can be checked under this post but also a lot of negative messages have been received by the OWS moderators in private.)
  More clear communication and delivering the “why” behind could have helped a transition to be smoother, reducing frictions. It could also reduce uncertainty and unnecessary doubts of many committed eco-system members (in OWS and beyond)

• Intensity of the operational work behind reviewing contributors’ growing requests. Although a cap of 300 USD has been introduced, the amount of submissions in September is still higher than in August. All the approved contributions can be found here.

6. Looking ahead

• It has been waiting for long time, but we are finally launching 4 language channels on Discord! We will do a month of piloting with 4 regions (Spanish-speaking, Russian-speaking, Vietnamese, India) and expand further if successful.

• OWS Website is coming out in early November!

• 29 October OWS Monthly Party: Evolution Of Education

We continue adapting and improving every month, any input will be highly appreciated. More detailed development of the OWS for the coming months will be available in the new roadmap in the course of October.

OWS Team