[Closed] OFF/GRID Side event @ NEARCON Lisbon '23

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Initiative summary

Overview

Hi all! My name is Matt and I am one of the CoFounders of FactoryDAO. We are here to present: OFF/GRID.

OFF/GRID is an experiment in autonomy & collective intelligence.

OFF/GRID pops up as a side event at curated global Crypto Conferences, creating a unique real world DAO experience.

Our goal is to learn & share our ideas and practices from across the DAO and cryptospace and engage in deep critical discussion & collaboration on how to drive the DAO space forward. We learn together during the day, and then we party together at night.

OFF/GRID is a critical space, where we experience DAOs as they should be. Where Hackathons concern themselves with code, this is a DAOathon and is focused on ideation and creativity. This no-code-required event opens it up to all aspects of your community, including communitarians, artists, writers, philosophers, and more. DAOs are going to need everyone, not just the technically minded.

A curated whitelist of 40- 60 participants (venue dependent) is invited to go OFF/GRID with a wider open event in the evening. The environment is one of energy, yet comfort. All needs are taken care of for the day and night so participants can focus on engaging with the content and building connections.

OFF/GRID is the perfect space to drive forward critical thinking in DAOs, governance and emergent design and can be tailored to the real life problems and opportunities of a protocol ecosystem.

On the 7th June 2023, FactoryDAO held OFF/GRID as a side event to ETHPrague as part of Prague Blockchain Week.

What OFF/GRID brings to the NEAR Community

  • Foster Governance knowledge sharing in the community
  • Help the community build the best sustainable governance practices
  • Enable the community to experiment live with DAOS
  • Demystify DAOs
  • Educate the community
  • Bringing FactoryDAOs tools to the NEAR chain and community for use on the day and into the future

The Day

The day is facilitated by Dr Nick Almond. Nick is the Founder of FactoryDAO, and ex Associate Dean of Learning, Teaching and Enhancement, at the University of the Arts, London College Fashion. He has over 20 years of teaching, academic and governance design experience. Nick has been designing and building decentralised organisations for the last 10 years. Co-founders Naomi Dara Harris and Matthew Haynes, facilitate the day, alongside members of the FactoryDAO community.

The day is built with engagement in mind. It’s a meeting of minds and a live governance exercise involving the participants, facilitators and the curated key opinion leaders.

The Night

The OFF/GRID attendees welcome the other conference goers to join the fun and friendships made in the day go deep into the night and beyond. This is an opportunity to bring in a wider set of the community to learn from people who experienced the event in the day.

The goal of the OFF/GRID: Metric for success:

The Imagine DAOs competition.

All participants are encouraged to collaborate and develop DAO ideas to submit to the ImagineDAOs competition. Each participant will be able to submit one DAO idea to the competition. They can also create groups too.

Winners:

For the day, we are a DAO. During the day, there will be a range of votes to participate in.

The final vote of the day will allow the participants to vote on the peer submitted ideas in Imagine DAO’s competition.

The top ideas are voted on by the participants and prizes are distributed.

Prize Pool ($1.5k + sponsor top ups)

The competition is run as a “Quadratic Competition” meaning that the prize pot is split by quadratic vote, with first prize taking 50% of the prize pool and N places as runner up where N is decided by vote on the day.

Bringing FactoryDAO tools to the NEAR ecosystem:

Our tools are currently deployed on Ethereum, BSC, Polygon, Optimism, RSK & Avalanche.

We will port our Mint and Influence toolsj to Aurora for the event, which will enable the users to have a NEAR native experience and use all of the tools for their own DAO creation and management as and when we release.

  • Metrics for measuring success:

    • 40-60 irl participants + virtual participants
    • Every participant and remote participant submitting an idea to the ImagineDAOs competition
    • Every participant actively engaged in governance
    • Estimated timeline and achievement milestones
      • Venue & guest speakers organised
      • Advertising Live
      • Issue NFTs on the day to IRL and Remote participants

  • Links to similar, previously funded forum proposals (if applicable)

Funding Details

  • The event has a ranged spend from low key, to full event with deployed tools to the NEAR ecosystem.
  • Total requested amount in USD
  • Low Key (US $10k/NEAR 9090 at time of posting)
    • Day event only, Optimism chain deployment.
    • FactoryDAO team support and facilitators.
    • Merch, food, engagement activities, prizes.
  • Full event (US $30k/NEAR 27272 at time of posting)
    • Full event, with Aurora deployment and dev support.
  • NEAR Wallet ID / DAO: 65f7e245b7a8ca61d9d46afcf1b476cd4c6832a7d03990f7f0bc78d2d7bb6bf5
    • Wallet owner’s name: ExUnico

The below is based on us having to source and set up the venue for OFF/GRID. It is also based on the assumption that the venue has little to no infrastructure or staff, which is often the case. However, if NEARCON has facilities, staff and supplies, the price can come down significantly.

  • Venue hire
  • Prizes for the ImagineDAOs competition
  • All catering and drinks
    • Breakfast, lunch & dinner
    • Snacks, water, soft drinks, alcohol
  • A/V equipment hire
    • Video Camera, tripod and cables
    • Projector & Screen
    • Wireless Mics & Mixers
    • DJ Decks and Mixers
    • Speakers
    • Lighting
    • Cables etc
  • Furniture hire
    • Tables and covers
    • Chairs
    • Podiums
    • Misc
  • Staff (2x DJs, 1-2x Barman, 1 x Cleaner, 1 x Security, 3-4 x Volunteers)
  • Van hire for 3 days. (before, during and after the event(
  • Guest speaker coordination
  • Full event facilitation
  • Accommodation and Flights for FactoryDAO Team (3 People)
  • Merch for participants
    • Tshirts
    • Totes
    • Name Badges
    • Stickers
  • Printing
    • Printed, colour DAO trilemma workbook for each participant
    • Flyers
    • Posters
  • Stationery
    • Whiteboards
    • Pens
    • Paper
  • Ancillary
    • Little items to make the day smooth for the participants and remain self-contained.
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Fully support this proposal and can’t wait to see it happen.

I attended OffGrid’s Prague DAO workshop, which turned me from a huge DAO skeptic into someone a lot more optimistic/ and intrigued by solving human coordination challenges with blockchain. The atmosphere was fantastic, with a setup aimed at facilitating interactions between speakers and audience - reducing barriers and resulting in one of the most interactive workshops I’ve experienced in the crypto realm.

Now that NEAR is trying to decentralize governance and coming up against major obstacles such as potential voting fraud, lack of transparency on budgeting, etc., this workshop will help establish the mindset needed by participants to make governance happen on NEAR, taking a pragmatic approach that also gives a voice to the community fostering a culture that allows diverse people to thrive.

Time to get some more DAO talks going on NEAR! Also this tooling on BOS would be pretty amazing. :star_struck:

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Do you have a case study or any media captures of this event?

Have you tried NEAR native DAO tooling? Even if you don’t have a DAO set up to receive funding it would be good to have at least a named address (easy with a shard.dog link).

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Hi starpause,

Media: We have images to share and a doc to upload but the forum doesn’t allow links, images or docs. Any suggestions on how to share?

Shard dog: We minted a shard dog, which you can see on the wallet address. Is there anything else to do here? (65f7e245b7a8ca61d9d46afcf1b476cd4c6832a7d03990f7f0bc78d2d7bb6bf5)

NEAR native DAO tooling: I had a look at the Repo. Are you suggesting that we use that over our own tool?

Anything else that we should work on for our proposal? it’s only 3 weeks till the event and we need as much lead time to organisation of the event and marketing etc.

Thanks, Exunico

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Hi all,

It’s getting closer to NEAR CON and we need at least 2-3 weeks lead time to not only organise the location and event but also to market it to the NEAR community and port our tools.

Is there anything myself or the team can do to expedite things? Links to things have been requested but I am unable to share due to forum restrictions.

Is it ok to share one like this? offgrid dot international.

Thanks!

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Hi @ExUnico thanks for following up here. As mentioned on our TG chat, the MarketingDAO is waiting for next steps and approval from House of Merit and new governance before we can review current proposals. We hope to know more soon!

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Thank you for your proposal.

It is great to see Nearcon side events, especially those that increase participant engagement.

There is a side event or community grant support from NF for Nearcon, reach out to @RussLive215 or @Aescobar and he will guide you through the process and share all the necessary documents with you.

Unfortunately, won’t support this proposal and wish you successful outcome

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Hi @ExUnico following up from the MDAO council. The NF team is supporting side events at NEARCON through grants. Here is the application to submit – it’s open until 10/27:

I think that is the best route for you to go to support this event.

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Hello! Unfortunately, your proposal doesn’t align with NDC goals and KPIs, so I can’t support it. Please revise your proposal and submit it again.

You can apply for a NF grant to participate in NearCon

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Hi everyone,

Thanks so much for the feedback.

We really excited about NEAR and are looking forward to building on it and getting to know the community. The infrastructure you guys have built is phenomenal and we think we can do something really ground breaking on NEAR. Dr Nick (CoFounder and CEO) of Factory Labs, actually attended and spoke at NEAR CON this year and loved it.

We will definitely run an OFF/GRID side event for a NEAR CON in the future and look forward to building DAOs with you.

Cheers!