Project: Tamago, a music streaming/NFT hybrid platform built on NEAR
Funding scheme: Monthly
Proposal for Funding - tamaisland.sputnik-dao.near
Project/Council Members: @coyotefugly , @clarian
Requested Amount: $2,650
Target Address: tamaisland.sputnik-dao.near
On behalf of the Tamago project , a music streaming initiative soon to be deployed on the NEAR blockchain, I am making this proposal to the Creatives DAO to request its support for funding the Tamaisland DAO to fund the performances/events hosted by Tamago in the NEAR Hub metaverse. The metaverse space where we host the events is called Tama Island, and exists in the official NEAR Protocol metaverse, NEAR Hub. These meetups and virtual performances are intended to invite and engage artists and performers as launch prep for its music streaming platform, unveiling in stages in the coming months. The Tamago platform’s soft alpha launch is coming Feb 24th and artists are able to sign up to be a Whitelisted artist and get early access to test its features. There are currently 32 artists on the list.
The members of the Tama Island DAO seek to use these events as a pedestal for engaging artists with the Tamago initiative and also use it as a means of getting to know patrons who will be early adopters of its technology. Hosting these weekly gatherings enables artists to engage with founders, as well as fellow creatives and enthusiasts. As the Social media engagement grows and flows into the Tamago Telegram channel, newcomers to the project enter in and are immediately invited to join us at the upcoming metaverse event that week, which started out as once a week Friday meetups with DJ duo who call themselves U.N.I. They partnered with us in December and began streaming a two hour set into Tama Island, hosting and shouting out the Tamago project, and making it an immersive experience by adding their presence into the environment. Tama Island is a space where people can engage and get a sense of the community Tamago is organically building, introduce their creative work and see how they might get involved.
The Tamago community has grown quickly over the past two months from the increasing amount of interaction we create on social media and via the metaverse events, which are a huge source of discussion in the Telegram channel and attract a lot of hype. Due to this growth, we created the TamaIsland DAO, as we now see it necessary to increase and incentivize the patronage and activity at these events, especially in anticipation of the platform launch. We will use the metrics of recording number of attendees and recollect and make note of direct connections made with artists at the events (the live engagement is encrypted due to the privacy aspect of NEAR Hub’s metaverse). One way to measure our milestones will be to excite and attract performers who will then become involved with Tamago by joining our Telegram and becoming avid users of the platform/frequent guests at the events. The goal is to gain between 100-200 artists/people as users of the Tamago platform in the next month, and the networking, education, and enthusiasm from these events will be in great service of attaining that.
In a bid for awareness and invitation for engagement, Tamago requests the funding support of the Creatives DAO for incentivizing artists and performers that would be showcasing in future events listed below:
- Weekly Friday meetups with DJ performance from U.N.I
- Open Mic Nights - the first one will be hosted on Feb 15th, and will become a recurring Tuesday event
- Guest performances from prerecorded performances/live performers, these are TBD as artists/DAOs approach us every few weeks to host events (ex. GoaDAO Party with live streamed performance and presentation on March 16th)
- Audio-Visual installation by @zeitwarp on March 10th
The funding requested will be used to compensate the artists we host on the Island, incentivize more artists to get involved, and compensate coyotefugly.near for DAO management/coordinating and hosting the events. Justification for this project is in the might of the essence Tama Island provides to the Tamago project and community members. The founders and community builders wish to cultivate a community easily accessible by artists and relevant creatives in the NEAR Ecosystem through the web3 tools we can access by being on chain and not gatekeeping - an avenue that will inevitably lead creatives to choose NEAR. The mission of Tamago is aligned with NEAR’s mass adoption mantra and desire to bring Web3 awareness, which Creatives DAO will help bring forth through supporting projects like Tamago and it’s community building efforts. Its a “go” on all levels!
Individual Proposals for Events Listed (@adrianseneca)
Residual Budget for March 2022
$250 - Zeitwarp audio visual installation
Budget Breakdown for April 2022
$1,000 - 4 Friday meetups, $250 for each of U.N.I’s 2 hour DJ sets
$600 - 4 Open mic nights - $150 for each event to be used as incentives for performers
$400 - 2 live performances (TBD by invite or request)
$400 - compensation to coyotefugly.near for coordinating & scheduling all live events, and DAO management
Previous successful proposals for funding granted to the Tamago Project: https://gov.near.org/t/tamago-proposal-a-decentralized-protocol-for-musicians-on-near-x-humanguild/9321
Link to Tama Island: TamaIsland-Gatherings | NEAR Hub Online
The Tamago family looks forward to the encouraging response of the Creatives DAO.https://gov.near.org/t/proposal-payment-for-exit-liquidity-sound-vision-art-installation-dj-set-on-tama-island/17189
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