Greetings Nearians,
Allow me to convey heartfelt appreciation to the @regionaldao-council, @marketingdao-council and the Near Digital Collective for their tremendous work done in growing a live Near community.
**Guild / Community: Blockchain Club of Uganda
**Community Socials:
Team Members:
1.Mucunguzi Moses near.social
2.Mugumya Jefferson near.social
3.Niwamanya Martin near.social
4.Mugisha Abraham near.social
5.Derrick Baryo near.social
Blockchain Club of Uganda has been a Near Guild since 2021(close to three years now) and we have been contributing to community growth in Uganda through social media engagements on both twitter, telegram and of recent Near Social, meetups to mention but a few. For the past months, we have been applying for funding for our Guild to execute our activities and the @rc-admins has greatly advised on a few things here and there regarding getting ourselves ready and set for our community to qualify for funding. Among them to point out was keeping our tg community engaged, holding AMA’s and posting content on our twitter. We took the advice and more on this will be written in our monthly report.
Objectives
The key objective of this proposal is to generate buzz around the Near ecosystem and get locals involved in web3 familiar with Near and its general products for a general mainstream consumption as guided by the Regional Communities DAO.
Important to note is that our focus is also to familiarize local devs with the Rust lang so that they can feel confident and excited about pursuing advanced Near projects and learning pathways. This will definitely target student communities that have been largely untapped by web3(including Near), but they hold the key to spreading the word about Near amongst their friends and longer term becoming potential recruits as Near developers and advocates.
Establishing a strong community in this demographic will give Near a clear first-mover advantage that will pay forward huge rewards in a short period of time.
With a successful implementation of our community campaign for the next three months and in conformity with the Regional Communities Communities DAO guidelines, we hope to achieve the following deliverables;
- Onboard 100+ community members to near.social in each of the next three months. That is to say June, July and August.
- Onboard 100+ community members monthly to verify IamHuman. These will create Near Wallets and Atro DAO accounts. This will inform the mode of bounties distribution to the community.
- Produce 4+ original content and Translate at least 4 more Near materials to native languages including Swahili, Luganda and Kinyarwanda.
- Host 4+ events. For avoidance of doubt, this will refer to In Real Life(IRL), Virtual and blended/highbreed events. This shall be via the Near Kampala meetup group which we have been previously using for Near events in Uganda.
- Onboard projects on chain as well as tech students onto Near so that we can have more local devs start to build DApps on Near.
- New Near contributors will be brought on board. These will contribute to code, content, social media marketing and community growth and management.
- We shall also focus on establishing our existence in other various regions in the country in each Quarter among our milestones. These are namely Northern,Western, and Eastern regions. Core contributors will be assigned a region each.
Quarterly Milestones
Month1(July)
100+ near.social accounts from our local community
100+ Local twitter growth
100+ local telegram growth
1 Near event
4+ article translations and 4+ written content.
Biweekely giveaways
Month2(August)
Increase near.social accounts by 100+ accounts
Further twitter and telegram growth by 100+ following in each case
Collaboration with the Google Schools Club of Makerere University in the summer Code Camp
Biweekely giveaways
Participation in the Blockchain DevFest 23
1More articles and translations 4+ in each case
Month3(September)
Further Increase near.social accounts by 100+ accounts
More twitter and telegram following by 100+ in each case
A community meetup at hub that will be determined by the team
More articles and translations 4+ in each case
Biweekely giveaways
Implementation plan.
As part of our implementation plan, most of our campaigns shall focus on creating a community that is ready to consume Near products in a mainstream manner through increasing the onchain activity especially on Near social and BOS.
That said, our community shall strategically involve established groups such as the Google Developer Student Clubs, local community hubs, National Science Innovation Hub and other communities on the continent such as Near Nigeria for regional initiatives . This is how we plan to achieve our Objectives.
Twitter: We shall use twitter to disseminate information about the Near Ecosystem on a daily basis targeting our time zone prime time. Twitter will also be a great tool for online engagements as we plan to host twitter spaces. It is in these spaces that we hope to occasionally invite different members from elsewhere in the Near Ecosystems to interact with our local community.
Telegram: Tg will complement twitter as it will give an immediate one on one between the local community team and the local community. Our team Members will have a schedule for moderation on our tg channel. Tg will also be used for community challenges aimed at popularizing Near Social and BOS.
Giveaways: These will be used for onboarding locals on BOS, Near Social, Iam Human App… Also to further reach a good engagement in our social media channels again we are planning small promotions. On Telegram we are planning an activity contest where the most active users get rewards for their engagement.
Onchain Boost. In accordance to the RC-DAO, the Blockchain Club of Uganda will focus on enhancing onchain interactions and activities especially on Near Social and BOS. The rewards will emphasize and only be issued to community members who prove consumption of Near Social and local developers who deploy on BOS. To further strengthen use of BOS, we shall focus on partner developer events as we preach BOS to both Web3 and Web2 devs in Uganda.
Translations. We shall also make translations of key Near documentations to the major dialects of East Africa including Swahili, Luganda and Kinyarwanda.
The purpose of these translations is to achieve more mainstream adoption for easy understanding and consumption of the locals.
Some of our major focus will be put on Near Protocol BOS, Iam-Human App, near.social among others, this will also ease our onboarding process to these crucial Near products.
Medium. This will act as our community news/blog channel. Here, we shall be posting our created articles as well as the translated articles. Links for the articles will be shared on both twitter and telegram.
Events. Our events will be planned and shall target specific communities in every region in the country such as tech students at university, college blockchain clubs, local tech hub communities as well collaborating in different tech debates and gatherings such as the National Science Week 2023. For now, our major focus will be devs in a way of promoting BOS.
Collaborations. This will also play a great part in executing our campaign as we plan to collaborate with other communities such as Makerere GDSC, Aurora Africa, Encode Club and the National ICT Hub in more advanced activities such as hackathons.
Funding Allocation
Twitter. Disseminate news about the Near ecosystem on a daily basis while targeting the prime time of East Africa(GMT+3) to maximus reach and engagement.
This will be tracked on the number of posts and engagements which will also reflect increase in growth manifested in follower increase.
We intend to post thrice daily as per the EAT prime time in the morning, midday and evening.
This will cost $350 per month.
Telegram. This is where daily engagement will be maintained and we shall have a schedule for modulation amongst our team members according to time preference. Our goal is to have 24/7 support of our community members on telegram.
We shall have biweekly community talks which will also be held on telegram.
We shall set out with a goal of increasing our community numbers on telegram by 100+ per month. We shall also hold some telegram challenges aimed at increasing Near product consumption such as referrals to the BOS.
Budget for this will be $400 per month.
Content, Translation and blog/medium. This will include writing articles which will be posted on medium. These will be 4+ original articles. Our translation focus areas will include BOS, Iam-Human App, near.social
Our translated content will also be shared here and we intend to translate 4+ articles per month to meet the desired performance as per the Regional Communities DAO.
We shall also include memes and infographics to promote Near products and these will largely be shared on twitter.
This will cost $350 per month.
Community Bounties and giveaways.
These will be distributed using the Near tip Bot and Astro Dao accounts with the aim of increasing both Near and Local community. These rewards will specifically be distributed to Near Social and BOS users.
Through these, new members will be onboarded on the BOS, Near Social and these will as well verify IamHuman.
This will cost us $350 per month
Events. We shall ensure to host at least two events per month. This will majorly be virtual to cut IRL event costs.
We shall target specific audiences for these events and they will predominantly be technical.
We shall also seek to collaborate with local tech formations such as Makerere GDSC 1 with whom we already have established ties and clubs in various regions of the country to co-host these events so as to further cut costs.
At these events, we shall specifically focus on evangelising BOS and Near Social.
This will cost us $300 per month.
Total Monthly Budget:
Item Cost($)
Twitter 350
Telegram 400
Content, Translation & Blog 350
Bounties & GIveaways 350
Events 300
Total 1750
Monthly Budget: $1750
Astro DAO: bcuganda.sputnik-dao.near
Name: Mucunguzi Moses
Telegram handle: @MosesMucu