PROPOSAL: NEARWEEK NEWS Guild Funding May, 2022

NDC Community and nodes Guilds
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Dear all,

Based on the March + April Report NEARWEEK is asking for $9800 to cover the following costs:

  • Content creation @Aria $4000
  • 3 x NEARWEEK agents, $1000 paid monthly
  • NW Translations to Chinese and Vietnamese, $100 pr translation pr week
  • NW infographics $1600

Thanks,
NEARWEEK NEWS DAO

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Hey guys,

Love everything that NEARWEEK does but this proposal for funding is lacking.

Can you please expand on each of the points?

  • What content will Aria create? Where will it be shared?

  • What’s the role of the NEARWEEK agents? How are they performing?

  • What translations?

  • What infographics are going to be created? What for?

Overall, the proposal needs to be a little more fleshed out. Cheers :beers:

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Good day! Could you please check pm? Thanks

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Ofc @David_NEAR !

Content
@Aria is working as the editor of NW, this means she 1) writes herself and 2) assigns content pieces to writers. On average NW is publishing 2 pieces a week and these are the pieces currently planned for May 2022:

  • 03/05: Guide to Launch Pads in the NEAR Ecosystem
  • 06/05: NEARWEEK Perspectives - Ozymandius
  • 10/05: Datality
  • 12/05: Croncat
  • 17:05: A Guide to Borrowing and Lending on NEAR
  • 19/05: Privacy on the NEAR ecosystem

All of the payouts for content pieces that she enquires or puts out herself can be found here on the NW content DAO

1 Content piece is missing (NEARWEEK Perspectives: Ozymandius), as this was enquired by me and has already been paid for directly from wallet: Nearweek.near. Please see the transaction here

We have made a tiering system in order to payout writers according to experience:

Pricing Breakdown (x Word) Bonuses
Tier 1: $ 0,25 DeFi: + $0,10
Tier 2: $ 0.40 Interviews: + $0,05
Tier 3: $0,55 Guides/ Intros: + $ 0,05
Announcements: $0,15 fixed amount x word

All of the content pieces are promoted on NW Twitter and published on the NW medium page and in the future they will also be published on the new www.nearweek.com website. Here’s the archive page.

Besides the content pieces Arianna has been moderating the majority of our Twitter spaces, which amass to 1.5 a week.

NEARWEEK Agents
Currently the NEARWEEK Agents include @TRENDHEO @Kv9990 and @anhtn512 . The agents take care of a range of different activities:

  • Managing NW Telegram group as admins
  • Drafting and publishing the “Daily Newsletter” in NW TG Group
  • Drafting the weekly newsletter from the proposals made for the NEWS DAO - They have each specialised within topics of the NW ecosystem in order to ensure content included is legitimate.
  • Posting news in the NEAR official Discord News channel
  • Helping out with content production for Twitter posts (Data for infographics and threads)
  • Transcribing interviews for article / content use
  • Daily operations ad hoc tasks

We’re currently very satisfied with their work. They have shown great willingness to take on work, autonomy and performance.

I hope to see their roles evolve as NW grows :crossed_fingers:t3:

Translations
Currently each NW newsletter/edition is translated into Chinese and Vietnamese. Each translation has been settled at a $100USD.

Vietnamese
NEAR Vietnam Official TG is the largest NEAR group in Vietnam with 14,249 members. There are about 500-1000 people who will be reading each NEARWEEK edition in the group.

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Also, each Vietnamese translation is shared on 2 major Vietnamese facebook groups about Near Protocol: NEAR Vietnam OfficiaI (11,190 followers) and the NEAR Protocol Vietnam Community (57,300 followers)

Chinese
The translation is shared in NEAR China TG group (6000+ members) and NEAR Discord Group Chinese channel and within several Wechat groups (more than 1000+ people)

Example: https://near-china.medium.com/nearweek-edition-47-cb253f3ce206

Infographics
The infographics are produced in house by @cudam321.near and include:

Please let me know if further expansion is required :globe_with_meridians: :cowboy_hat_face:

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Sweet, thanks so much for sharing.

Happy to support :100:

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Thanks for the elaboration @JPALHUMAIDAN - please send an invoice for the above USD $9,800 amount to community@near.foundation, to be paid in the token denomination of your choice, and we’ll be proceeding with issuing this payout request.

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I had a chance to click through the Nearweek site - great stuff. Will you be working with contributing editors in the future as well? It seems like the more NEAR content/stories we can get out there, the better.

As you grow, I know an excellent linguist that could help handle translations into Spanish, Italian, and French if you’re interested.

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Thanks for reaching out.

This is definitely the direction we want to move in. Please reach out to @Aria who’s leading our content efforts.

Have a great day

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