[Closed] Blockchain Club of Uganda Quarterly(June,July&August)

Salute,

Allow me to convey appreciations to the @regionaldao-council, @marketingdao-council and the Near Digital Collective for the great work done so far in revamping a healthy community and of course every community member for the tireless efforts and contributions which has ensured a thriving ecosystem.

**Guild / Community: Blockchain Club of Uganda

**Community Socials:

Telegram
Near.social
Twitter
Medium

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

Scope

Africa is beginning to take shape in blockchain technology with a great deal of discussions surrounding this new technology as a new form of reclaiming the internet by the people and for the people.

In particular for Uganda, Since the frenzy of cryptocurrencies that reached the country in 2017, the blockchain ecosystem has been steadily growing with Binance registering over 50,000 users in the first year(2018) it was introduced in the nation. Today, the most popular exchange in Uganda boasts of over 500,000 users which has led to a growth of trader communities, users, enthusiasts, developers, builders and startups.

As of today, there are crypto merchant firms that have set foot in Uganda such as Yellow Card, Afriex, chippercash and Amaano. Uganda also has a domestic crypto exchange, Binusu. Blockchain protocols are also starting to set up structures in Uganda to tap into the forty five million people market.

Overview

Blockchain Club of Uganda has one of Uganda’s most popular web3 communities of university students, web3 tech hub collaborations and enthusiasts and with a vibrant and highly-engaged student base of Blockchain clubs in a number of Universities across the country. These groups are organized in student clubs with affiliation to the Blockchain Club of Uganda. With this community base, we’ve held numerous hugely successful Nearcentric events in the past two years which have attracted hundreds of students interested in engineering and coding and we think that with the growing popularity of Web3 and Near in Africa, this proposal will prove to revamp the community through engagement initiatives and campaigns ranging from social media, content creation, local events, ideathons, education challenges, document translations, bootcamps etc in order to supercharge mainstream adoption of Near protocol in the region.

Blockchain Club of Uganda’s own platform allows any student to get help with their questions, right from their smartphones and pc’s. The vast majority of our students are final year high school and university students, making this an ideal demographic that Near can attract to further its goals. We currently work with over 20 top schools and universities across Uganda.

The key objective of this engagement is to generate buzz around the Near ecosystem and get students familiar with Rust so that they feel confident and excited about pursuing more advanced Near projects and learning pathways. Student communities have been largely untapped by web3 communities (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.

Objectives

The key objective of this campaign 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.

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(June)
    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(July)
    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
    More articles and translations 4+ in each case
  • Month3(August)
    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.

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 giveaways and bounties.
  • Giveaways: To 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.
  • 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. We shall use Near Kampala for events.
  • 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

  1. 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.

Some of our giveaways will be conducted on twitter.

This will cost $400 per month.

  1. 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. Our bounties and some giveaways shall also be conducted on telegram.

Budget for this will be $500 per month.

  1. Content and Translation. 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 and these will largely be shared on twitter.

This will cost $400 per month.

  1. Community Bounties and giveaways.

These will be executed on both twitter and telegram.

These will aim to increase both Near and Local community social following.

Through these, new members will be onboarded and these will as well verify IamHuman of course bearing in mind that the bounties will be distributed on the Astro Dao accounts.
These bounties and giveaways will be distributed via the Near tip bot.

This will cost us $350 per month

  1. 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 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.

This will cost us $200 per month.

Total Monthly Budget:

Item Cost($)
Twitter 400
Telegram 500
Content & Translation 400
Bounties & GIveaways 350
Events 200
Monthly Total 1850

Quarterly Budget: $5,550(June, July & August)

Monthly Budget: $1850

Astro DAO: bcuganda.sputnik-dao.near

Name: Mucunguzi Moses

Telegram handle: @MosesMucu

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Hello!
Thanks submitting your proposal.
Do you have plans for getting builders. Even web2 builders to getting cool stuff done on bOS?
It will be good to indicate it here

Also, how shall you share community rewards? Through AstroDAO and or near tip bot on telegram? It will be good to include these things for clarity sake

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Thank you for your proposal,

few questions;
$400 for Twitter, $500 for Telegram. how do you manage to spend this, Is it a giveaway or the management of the social accounts?

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Funds should go more into making users learn how to use near.social and getting builders on bOS.

A quick question.

What is/are the projects on NEAR that you plan to introduce your community to?

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Hello @IgbozeIsrael yeah sure, we shall definitely work towards getting local builders to creating cool stuff on the BOS. Our previous call threw more light on this especially when it was explained that the BOS is designed to favor common languages such as JavaScript and that is definitely something we intend to explore.
And our rewards will be distributed by both AstroDao esp for the BOS and near social on boarding as well as the tg tip bot. Gonna updates our proposal with these details!

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Hello,
These fees will cater for both management and giveaways. These giveaways will be to people who will complete community task challenges set to them via both tg and twitter as well as giveaways on our biweekly calls on telegram.

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our major focus will be BOS, Iam-Human App onboarding, near.social so that we can have more apps with our local community contribution.

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Your proposal should show how you will do all those.

There is so much on social media without defining how on chain activities will come to be.

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While, if this cost is twitter and telegram giveaways inclusive…

What about this one again;

  1. Community Bounties and giveaways.

These will be executed on both twitter and telegram.

These will aim to increase both Near and Local community social following.

Through these, new members will be onboarded and these will as well verify IamHuman of course bearing in mind that the bounties will be distributed on the Astro Dao accounts.
These bounties and giveaways will be distributed via the Near tip bot.

This will cost us $350 per month

???

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Hello @Bakaka you probably did misunderstood my answer to your former question. Whereas we shall have community challenges such as MEME and twitter threads about BOS which will be rewarded, this particular funding (Bounties) will be specifically for Onboarding people on BOS and near social. As you’re aware, wallets need some gas for storage and the likes for one to be onboarded on BOS. There will be specific twitter spaces and telegram calls to onboard people on BOS and near social… The same will also be done on the university IRL meetups which shall be carried out in collaboration with GDSC.

Also kindly note that the spending of these giveaways will be well tracked as it will be done onchain.

Please get back to me in case you want more clarity or if you suggest I seperate social media moderation and giveaways that are not BOS, near social related.

Thanks.

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Hi, I’ve been checking out your proposed posting schedule and I noticed something. You’ve mentioned wanting to post three times a day, but over the past month of May, I’ve see 2 posts from you, along with a few retweets. Also, there’s almost 2 months of no tweets from your account.

Consistency is key in building a community.

Do you have any other examples of channels you’ve managed? Maybe there’s some other work you’ve done that can give me a better idea of your capabilities.

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Hello @jarednotjerry our quiescence has been due to lack active contribution as a result of suspension of guild funding late last year. We guild has not had funding for half a year plus. Our proposal comes after the revamption of community related growth initiative under the @regionaldao-council. We shall therefore resume activities with the Regional Community WG support.

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Hello!
Thanks for your responses to questions.

If your community cannot be active without any funds, what will happen when there is a delay in funding?

For Regional communities, funding goes to those communities that show efforts even when nothing is done.

See example from NEAR NIGERIA.

They had a whole month without funding but they had AMAs and many other events.

I have run a community without funds available too. I am saying this because, looking at your Telegram community, nothing is happening there.

My suggestion is that you should keep an active community before asking for funds to do things that require funds.

Since MAY, it’s an average of four people that talk in your TG group.

The community mod, you and two others who just like texts.

It’s education before rewards.

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Get your community active with valuable activities then you can send in a proposal hopefully for July.

We only fund active communities that provides value.

With that being said…

I can nkt support this proposal.

Looking forward to your next proposal and update on the activities you did for this month

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Noted,

We shall do as you and @IgbozeIsrael have recommended and be assessed for July.

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Dear @Mucu256 I’m closing your
proposals according to RC WG decision.

Thank you for your patience during the review process.

Suggestions: Try to work on your community by pushing more content, particularly trending ones on the ecosystem, and some discussions about what is going on in the ecosystem.

Sometimes you can pick a topic and discuss it within the founding team in the group in form of AMAs (chat), and many members will learn from the discussions, you don’t need to invites or designs a fliers.

Make some twitter threads like twice a week on what interest you most in the ecosystem.

Invite some of us to your community to speak about the ecosystem trends.

We are not just here to support, recommended, approved or rejected proposals, we here to support and help every community leaders to grow his/her community and help them where necessary.

Looking forward to seeing your next report without funding, because it determines July proposal approval.

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