Hi @jlwaugh , thanks for reaching out.
Just had a chat with @TRosario and i think we might need help on the technical side, so it would be setting up the overall challenge & finding suitable judges. We’ve got a really nice idea, just need to get the technical wording together
Here goes the proposal for the Hackathon Challenge created by Arroz Criativo.
Prepared and written by @tabear!
Creating a Use Case for Social Tokens
As the first physical space and association in Lisbon which is working with NEAR, we are looking forward to implementing our own social token. For a reference: our cultural association has around 9000 members in total, runs 7 events per week, works with volunteer & paid roles and offers studio and coworking spaces for artists in Lisbon.
In order to implement our own token we are opening a challenge for tokenomics experts!
Challenge:
Arroz Criativo is looking for a roadmap/plan on how to implement, use and distribute its own social tokens. What could the tokens be used for? How could liquidity be added? What would be a possible emission plan, market cap, total supply etc.? It should be a complete guide on the possibilities of social tokens which can also be used by other associations worldwide that would like to implement their own social token and are new to the crypto/token sphere.
Submission Requirements
Sponsor
Arrozcriativo DAO
Judge Contact @StevenR
Any ideas on how to develop this further and help us create a great guide for helping infinite projects with Social Tokens.
Our challenge on the MetaBUIDL Airtable.
Send over a message or follow up the a post here!
Hi @StevenR - makes sense that there’s been some slow-down as you find your dev, so as you’re working that out bear in mind that you can still post your payout for the first installment of 33% of your overall budget [as it is currently] to the CommunitySquad DAO so your DAO has funds to get you started.
I know you were prioritizing someone who is local but perhaps @yassine is willing and able to assist? Teleconferencing in could be an option!
Always want to connect our creative dev folks!
Ok great, i’ll put that through later today or tomorrow - thanks 
Here is the presentation thread for our Lisbon Hackathon Challange. Follow up there for more details, full talks, line-up and workshops.
Any ideas, hacks or propositions feel free to add there.
I hope to see you all online or in person at Arroz Estúdios if possible ! 
Hey @StevenR ,
Your proposal looks good. Can you please schedule a call with us so we can understand how we can help you host a great event: Calendly - Pratik Parmar
Now to introduce the Lisbon Hackathon there will be a introductory workshop “What is a Hackathon” this next Wednesday at Arroz Estúdios.
Here is the event. Come on by if you are in Lisbon!
Just did it, speak tomorrow
Tomorrow we have the first day of the Hackathon in Lisbon!
Kick-off session from 10h until 17h. We will have 2 talks given by @vandal about the NEAR Ecosystem and Social Tokens.
Register here: https://forms.gle/XsvgEPBnQjyYvXsp7
Facebook Event: Here
Following up the development on the Lisbon Hack Node, here we are on our second day after a awesome Kick-Off last friday, more information in the thread and some photos.
Reposting the work report for the month of August for our Lisbon Hack Node.
Any comments or details explained please feel free to ask.
Hi team, just to update on the budget of this. @TRosario and me went through it today and updated.
Highlights are:
@mecsbecs please have a read to get reacquainted and we’ll await your consensus 
Thanks all
Summary of First Week’s Lisbon Hackathon 27th Aug – 3th Sept
So after this first week of the Lisbon Hack Node we are really happy to report our implementations and hacks. The collectives and projects that were presented were mainly from the Lisbon City or surrounding areas like Almada.
Participants: Physically at Arroz Estúdios: 23 / Online: 4
We will provide all the registration done via Google Forms emails and Wallets in the end of the Hackathon.
Projects:
27th Aug - DLBC Lisboa – Associação para o Desenvolvimento Local de Base Comunitária de Lisboa
Direct translation would be Association of Local and Community Development of Lisbon, which is a funded project by the Portuguese government and Lisboa 2020. The project started in June and they have a 18th month project financed to create a Local Coin in the city of Lisbon.
They want to implement the local coin for social use and community-based projects that don’t have the ability to receive funding in Euros. Creating a circular economic and decentralize from the usual implementations of funding proposals, creating more open possibilities for associations that deal with social work and empower them.
Next steps: Meetings are being scheduled to brief their team, give presentations in Portuguese and explain more about blockchain technology and NEAR Protocol.
31st Aug – Gruta – Plataform / Label / Production
Gruta is an Almada/Lisbon project created in 2016 with the idea to create a plataform for more emergent Music Artists. Now with more than 90 Podcasts recorded in video and shared thought Youtube and social media, with around 57 000 views, it has created a big community and attracted totally different crowds and scenes. Creating and co-organizating with different collectives dozens of events throught the years, has also collaborated with Portugal City Halls and sponsorships to create and show their perspective with Cultural events.
Last year it expanded their work to exist as Record Label also. Now with 17 releases available online, they range from EP’s, Albums and Singles. It has grown with the contacts from artists, musicians and venue organizations.
Production was always one big aspect of the project, with renting logistics audio, video, services, technicians, consulting, communication, digital marketing and executive production
Facebook / Instagram / SoundCloud / YouTube / gruta.live
Wallet created: gruta.near
Hack ideas already developed to be deployed:
Next steps: Maintaining contact and introduce the full team to the NEAR Ecosystem in the next meetings. Presentation on the Forum and the creation of the DAO.
1st Sept – Mãe Solteira – Record Label, Booking Agency, Events Producer, Activism
Mãe Solteira does a very important job with the Feminist and Queer community, helping spread their skills and showing the need for their participation in world decision making questions.
It started last year, with a very firm schedule as releases, bookings, events and activism leads. It works in activism, creation of tools of information and investigation for the general population to participate. Giving back the differences and needs that need to be address. As Booking Agency it tries to create a plataform of engaging their artists with venues and other collectives. Producing big events with a very political and decentralization of power stance, disrupting the usual chain of command and prejudice we can still see on a daily basis.
They also have another branch of the collective called Post Carbon Collective that uses 3D simulations and virtual reality in a transhumanism topic and theme.
Bandcamp / Instagram / Facebook
Wallet created: maesolteirarecs.near
Hack ideas already developed to be deployed:
Next steps: Maintaining contact and introduce the full team to the NEAR Ecosystem in the next meetings. Presentation on the Forum and the creation of the DAO.
2nd Sept – Rádio Ophelia – Community based Online Radio with shows and interviews.
“Rádio Ophelia is an on-line community, pirate, radio, streaming live from Almada with its transmission fully dedicated to the independent music scene.
We first started transmitting in January 2018, and our work since has been creating a network between independent artists and/or labels, or communities, and to be a meeting point and a platform of communion and promotion of those same artists or collectives.
So far, we are cooperating with over 50 artists, labels or collectives, from all across Portugal, and we count around 500 shows produced and transmitted live, all of them available on Mixcloud.”
radio-ophelia.pt / Instagram / Facebook
Wallet created: radioophelia.near
Hack ideas already developed to be deployed:
Creation of an online Radio that will host talks, integrations and communication on everything * related to the NEAR Ecosystem in Lisbon.
Next steps: Maintaining contact and introduce the full team to the NEAR Ecosystem in the next meetings. Presentation on the Forum and the creation of the DAO.
This project will be forward and continued in the Lisbon City Node.
2nd Sept – HOC - Hub de Oficinas Comunitárias – Advance of technology and tools in ONG’s and Social Communities
The project is born with the idea of developing technology to forward the decentralization and give the tools of optimization to social care institutions and ONG’s. The connections with a few institutions are already established and the work already deployed in the creation of dashboards and general tools for their specific project. Social innovation is a must as a tool of activism, so giving the communities ways of interpretation of their own rights, assets and value to empower them. Main goals are to achieve structure and finance to give options and opportunity’s that can scale to needs of each type of organization. The gap is huge and statistically there’s more than proof of a need to innovate in the social sector.
This project was developed in works with different institutions and not as a specific institution but the forward idea is to create as soon as possible identity for this idea. It was promised to be delivered in the following weeks.
Hack ideas already developed to be deployed:
Next steps: Maintaining contact and introduce the full team to the NEAR Ecosystem in the next meetings. Presentation on the Forum and the creation of the DAO.
3rd of Sept – Arroz Criativo Challenge “Social Tokens and their Use Cases” & Summary Creation
This is a summary information from what I have gathered from extended meetings with the collectives. Please contribute to this ideas and way’s of getting us forward with our community.
This project’s will also be forward and continued in the Lisbon City Node.
In a responsability definition, I asked this collectives to deliver in the following week more information about the projects they have, which I will help in the construction using the current technology we have and I know off.
I also gave instructions for the creation of their own DAO’s and present their work of this forum, I will help them in this subject wherever I can 
@chloe @mecsbecs Please guide anyway we can improve the communication to this collectives with innovative ways and integrations to our NEAR Ecosystem.
Awesome, seems like the hackathon is off to a great start in lisbon!
As always, anyone from the near Community who considers themselves a creative leader can join the creative Guild leaders chat on Telegram: Telegram: Contact @CreativeGuilds
That is probably the most efficient way for creatives to start getting support within the wider NEAR ecosystem. From there, we can direct them wherever they need/want to go 
(for example maybe the dev chat: Telegram: Contact @neardev)
Hi @TRosario - great summary of what looks like it was a busy week!
Awesome to see the stand-out ideas folks are hacking away on and already how you’re seeing the next steps for them.
Question about this first project you listed here - was this group present at the Hack Node or involved in the Hack Node activities? Since this doesn’t seem to be related to the Hack Node and the MetaBUIDL Hackathon, seems like this would be a perfect addition to your Lisboa City Node brief of activities in August in the staff payout post (because having their involvement in the City Node would be absolutely incredible!). Really trying to avoid too much confusion between the two entities, so not sure how it fits here - unlike the others who seem to be engaged in the ongoing Hackathon in some capacity:
Also wondering how the Arroz’s challenge would be transferred over to the City Node work when this is a challenge undertaken by the organization to deploy a social token for the specific Arroz Criativo Guild?
Happy to discuss more in our weekly meeting on Monday to be sure there’s the dev support needed to help bring this concepts from ideation to execution.
Hi @StevenR - the wealth of activity and costs here definitely exceed the Hack Node budget guidelines so there is a need to reassess:
The funds of 1,139 NEAR (which is equivalent to USD $7,232.65 as of today) paid on event launch would be sufficient to cover venue and associated costs as listed now but the staffing and operations costs are not in line with what is on offer per the Hack Nodes Open Call - Hackathon 1 Update.
Having the space available for folks to drop in and engage in your Hack Node challenge, and to participate in your established programming at Arroz Estudios, is a lovely complement to the MetaBUIDL Hackathon but was not part of the original ask as an item that required separate budget. Please revise the staffing and ops costs to show in EUR or USD not exceeding USD $1,500. Great to see you’re tracking registration with the registration bonus on offer in mind, and please also review the Open Call Forum post to see the details of the prize pool for your open challenge and the press mention bonus also on offer for your reference.
Looking at how the Lisboa Hack Node’s budget compares to other Hack Nodes in other localities where they had to rent a different venue to host their viewing party event and/or closing event shows shows a huge discrepancy that is not equitable. Happy to discuss further on Monday if there are any questions.
Thanks for appreciating the summary
@chloe I will forward people to these telegram groups, thanks for tip. I am trying to get them engaged on the forums and use the communication tools that already exist. It will for sure increase their work within NEAR Ecosystem.
@mecsbecs I am trying to compile more steps and directions for each of this collectives/projects so they be as much immersed as possible.
About that first project, I will updated it in the Lisbon City Node brief of activities, I wrote it here because they came to the Hackathon specificly. There were 2 persons from their team at Hackathon Kick-Off event, in which earlier that week, they reached us by email speaking of wanting to participate and explained their project. They were there to learn more about the Hackathon and how it would be conducted.
After the introduction talks that happened, I personally went to speak to them because I recognised a possibilty of something getting lost in translation. They said one of their team members didn’t speak English. Also they don’t have any blockchain technology knowledge.
Their project is still looking for a Computers Engineer from what they said. I also talked a bit about Social Tokens and NEAR Protocol technology and how they could use it in their project.
All of this is really interesting and I really want to pursuit this in the following weeks, during the Hackathon and for the Lisbon Node afterwards, since I work in both teams.
I want to make a portuguese presentation to their team, getting closer to their project and engage in more meetings with their full collective and project. Our connection should grow as much as possible.
About that description of the Arroz Challenge, it’s an error in my wording. I will edit the post.
Arroz Creativo challenge itself won’t transpose. I was trying to speak only about the Hack ideas and projects that have already engaged with us in the Lisbon Hackathon, those will be continued on the Lisbon City Node work and I will pursuit for the best of their implementation using the NEAR Ecosystem. I believe the community really needs the push so they start engaging more.
About the Challenge itself, we wanted the creation of a guide that could help Arroz Criativo in their own creation of a Social Token, but not only, we want it to be used by the community for their own ideas and creations!
I am following the participants work and I had introductory meeting this Friday with one of them to see what already is being done. Me and @StevenR are also putting this forward with the help of another judge @diminator and scheduling next meetings.
Indeed if possible please forward us a Dev that could help us achieve something great!
Any other information needed please say