My intention here is to provide a consolidated list of the most important links for getting started in the NEAR community. We are creating so many opportunities to learn, grow, and build your own value systems throughout ecosystems of communities. That’s why this forum post simply aims to redirect anyone who is exploring the NEARverse
Please feel free to edit and include more places to go!
NEAR is an open source platform that accelerates the development of decentralized applications. Developers can overcome high fees and slow speeds by building on NEAR’s fast, scalable, and low-cost blockchain protocol. Certified climate neutral
For a map of the whole NEAR ecosystem, you can refer to this content on GitHub:
Dashboard For Analytics
https://ecosystem-metrics.onrender.com
This category is for the Analytics Guild to share metrics and insights related to NEAR Ecosystem. We hope to build trust in our governance systems by promoting accountability.
Where does NEAR communicate?
The best sources of truth (other than the NEAR blockchain) are probably GitHub and this forum, intended for governance. As expected, NEAR is a complex ecosystem with many interconnected organizations and communities. To simplify this, we often use terms like “guilds” and “squads.”
NEAR Community
Really, the NEAR community is everywhere! Join to discover opportunities and build momentum toward your goals. Feel free to make a post here on the forum in order to share any ideas or specific projects and proposals.
This category is for discussion regarding the NEAR community, including various guilds, DAOs, and individual contributors.
Engineering Updates
See all posts tagged as #weekly-updates
Read the NEAR Daily on Twitter ~ @NEAR_daily
Announcing the launch of the NEARWEEK News Guild
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About NEARWEEK
NEARWEEK is an international network of NEAR stakeholders gathered around the purpose of enabling, collecting, curating & distributing easily accessible news within the greater NEARverse.
The following proposal seeks to democratise and implement transparency in the world of news media. Instead of being the voices of few, which has often been the case with traditional…
Discord
Telegram
Reddit
WeChat
Open Web Sandbox
We recommend you start by learning more about contribution rewards via the Open Web Sandbox community. Here is a great place to find ways to play, learn, and earn:
Sandbox Projects
This subcategory of the Open Web Sandbox - NEAR Forum category is for highlighting the Rewards and Opportunities available within the Sandbox program each month!
Join OWS To Collaborate and Contribute!
Need Help With a Project? Request Open Web Contributions:
Where does NEAR collaborate?
NEAR is fully open source, and pull requests and new issues are more than welcome!
Build Solutions
This category is for discussions related to development of NEAR products, including the core protocol, tooling, and various applications.
Get Started
Ask Questions
Opportunities
NEAR Community Fund
Are you an Ecosystem Contributor?
Are you seeking funds?
Do you have a project and need support?
Are you ready to submit a proposal?
If the answer to any of these questions is YES, then you are in the right place!
NEAR offers incentives that empower communities and projects to achieve their goals.
We, the NEAR Community Squad, have completed our transition to using community-driven Sputnik DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations) as governance structures of the NE…
Learn Together
This category is for discussions and announcements related to the education of everyone using the NEAR platform
Led by: @amgando
Hello NEAR Academy! In partnership with 101. Labs, the new NEAR Academy is a keystone of our educational onramp at NEAR Protocol.
Est. reading time: 3 minutes
Share Knowledge
This category is for discussion, ideas, and proposals related to NEAR Marketing, Branding, Growth, and the like.
Where does NEAR coordinate?
NEAR Enhancement Proposals (NEPs)
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
Learn about the many potential benefits of governance of DAOs, by DAOs, for DAOs like these: Sputnik DAO: Empowering Communities | by Illia Polosukhin | SputnikDAO | Jun, 2021 | Medium
Forum Discussion
Where does NEAR create?
This category is for all kinds of creative contributors in the NEAR ecosystem ~ share ideas/projects, make proposals to DAOs, and learn from each other! Creatives SputnikDAO Council: @chloe & @mecsbecs
The Creatives SputnikDAO ’s purpose is to help support the creative Guilds/DAO’s within the NEAR ecosystem. Please submit a payout proposal to the Creatives SputnikDAO if you are a “Creative Guild Leader” or if you do not see another relevant creative DAO to submit to .
[How To] Start a new Creative Guild/Community at NEAR
Are you a Creative Guild Leader within the NEAR ecosystem?
If you’re interested in forming and leading a specific kind of creative community group please check that it does not already exist . If it does exist, great, please feel free to join whichever community you’d like. If it doesn’t, then this guide may be for you.
First things first, head to the NEAR Guild website and click “Apply Now”.
Now for the Public Welcome!
The rest of the pr…
Guilds and Projects
This category is for discussion about specific Guilds (communities with a unique identity based on related projects and goals) or the general ideas of Guilds. We are both individually and collectively deciding objectives and key results, while creating opportunities to learn, build, and grow. Our mission is to drive meaningful participation, sustainable development, and positive impact by intentionally coordinating various groups of contributors.
NEAR Global
The City Nodes Category is for organizing the spinning up and management of NEAR Community “Nodes” in key cities worldwide.
Regional and Local Guilds
NEAR Arabia
NEAR Australia
NEAR China
NEAR France
NEAR Hispano
NEAR India
NEAR Korea
NEAR Nigeria
NEAR Philippines
NEAR Portugal
NEAR Russia
Обсуждаем достижения NEAR Protocol, задаем вопросы, вместе ищем ответы, общаемся с командой. Строим децентрализованные приложения на NEAR и приближаем внедрение OpenWeb.
NEAR Turkey
NEAR Vietnam
Near York
https://twitter.com/NearYorkCity
The above post is an editable wiki, and your contributions would be much appreciated!