If you haven’t already read @erik.near’s post, please read more here: Guild types and onboarding thoughts
The context of this project is to address the following:
We’re currently working on this project with our consultant PM, to ship out a basic platform that allows people to list their guilds, and allows community members to join the guild on chain.
Note:
Talking through this project with Erik, one of the things that stood out to me was how on chain doesn’t necessarily mean a DAO. It could be a way in which we get people as on chain members, but not the only way.
This seemed to be surprising to a couple of people I talked to, so just highlighting here for those reading.
Considerations:
Talking to @amgando was really useful for us to look at the technical considerations like storage and tx costs involved for anyone joining the on-chain guild and how that might potentially be a barrier. Possible solution could be a pre-funded wallet to offset this cost, making it easy for people to join.
The other main one being the ability to sort, filter etc with on chain data- possible solution could be using something like The Graph to create a snapshot and not work off of live on chain data.
People involved:
We want to build this in the open and would love involve anyone who is interested. We need you! Come help us build this out. As soon as we get the initial version spec out, I will follow up on this post with more details. But we currently have:
- @amgando who has agreed to help us with basic smart contracts and connect with NCD grads/DiRs to help ship the product and support launch.
- Potentially Dan from Edu team, who has shipped the awesome NEAR Jobs page, can help with the front end.
- @starpause to see if there are basic components, like the membership component from Astro, that we can take and implement in this platform without starting from scratch.
- Our consultant PM.
The community team will be working on onboarding campaigns with guilds to help bring their members on chain on this platform.
Phases of the platform:
Phase 1: [2 weeks-Q4- Target Dec 7 for soft launch]
Basic website with list of guilds and people can easily join on chain. To start with, this will live on nearguilds.com until proper testing and user feedback has been given, to then move it to near.org/guilds.
- Prep: Figure out joining flows for each guild & connect to their call to action for select 6 Guilds identified below. These guilds have been chosen due to multiple factors like variety, onboarding process figured out, size etc.
- Join form/Closed guild/Open guild
- Integrate that within Github NEAR Ecosystem Map so that we have one central repository and everything else pulls from there.
* NxM - Astro DAO
* NEAR Vietnam - no Astro DAO
* NEAR Russia - Astro DAO
* Human Guild - no Astro DAO
* OWS - Astro DAO
* OSA - Astro DAO
- Scope incentives & implement for the 6 guilds
- All guilds in the Github NEAR Ecosystem Map are still visible in the basic website
Phase 2: [Q1 2022]
- Figure out joining flows for each guild & connect to their call to action for those remaining (not MVP 6 above)
- Integration with Astro DAO flow
- Meeting with Wallet Team to see how we can highlight top guilds after wallet creation process.
- Potential integration with near.org/guilds after proper testing.
Phase 3: [Q2]TBD
- Guilds standard
- Options for guild leads to customize, send emails etc. through the platform