[Rejected] MERITOCRACY: MERITOCRACY PLUGIN (Connect NEAR with 43% of the internet), MERITOCRACY CLUB, MERITOCRACY COIN, THE HUMAN TEAM (HUMAN VS AI BLOG), MERITOCRACY FOR WOMEN, INFLUENTIAL CIRCLE, NCB & NEAR WOMEN SPANISH

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Dear @HOM-TC-COA and NEAR Ecosystem @Dacha @alex.shevchenko @illia @kendall-near @Cameron @jarednotjerry @Illuminfti

This proposal was posted in September at NEAR forum and deferred to November, posted on time on November 15, and deferred again to December for MDAO decision. We have limited of characters in the Forum, so our [FULL PROPOSAL IS INTHIS LINK](NEAR PROPOSAL DEC 2023.docx - Google Docs) there you can see the proposal in detail for the next 3 months. We truly believe that NEAR can lose valuable founders, and in this case, female founders of whom we do not have many in the WEB3 ecosystem, if the decision process is not accelerated. On the other hand, it is the first time we apply for HoM GRANT and we hope to receive the response faster.

In the meantime we have received offers from Cosmos and Ethereum, so now our proposal is MULTICHAIN not just for NEAR Ecosystem. Please check out this proposal below that could help mass adoption and retention on NEAR and WEB3.

Section 1 - Project Information:

  • Project: MERITOCRACY
  • Proposal Title: MERITOCRACY: MERITOCRACY PLUGIN (Connect NEAR with 43% of the internet), MERITOCRACY CLUB, MERITOCRACY COIN, THE HUMAN TEAM (HUMAN VS AI BLOG), MERITOCRACY FOR WOMEN, INFLUENTIAL CIRCLE, NCB & NEAR WOMEN SPANISH.
  • When was your Project established? Our history with NEAR started when we won a grant from Near foundation in December 2021 to build MERITOCRACY PLUGIN. We’ve just finished the functionalities of the MPVs of my Startups and built communities, that are interconnected and support each other and now we are ready for users, but what stopped us is the legal and Tax structure, and that is why we came up with this project which is very necessary for founders who want to build WEB3 must deal with regulatory and tax issues around Crypto.
  • Category: Ecosystem/NFT/Regional Development/Marketing
  • Project’s Category: Community Led, NFT, Ecosystem, Startups

Section 2. Previous Funding

  • Have you received funding for this project from any source?: Yes
  • Any source of funding. This may include NEAR Foundation Grants, and existing GDAOs, among others. We won a Grant from the NEAR Foundation in December 2021 for built MERITOCRACY PLUGIN that connect NEAR with WEB2 (WordPress). We successfully finished all the 4 milestones that NEAR FOUNDATION requires from us for the Grant and we launched the Plugin and then NEAR changed the Wallet. Although it was not in our contract with NF to do additional work to change the plugin to the new wallet, because this happens after our contract was signed, we did it for free, and MERITOCRACY plugin successfully migrated to https://www. mynearwallet.com/

We don’t receive any additional funding from NEAR Ecosystem

Section 3. PROJECT URLs

OUR COMMUNITIES:

MERITOCRACY PLUGIN (Co-Founder / Connect NEAR with 43% of the internet):

MERITOCRACY CLUB (Founder):

  • Website (Hybrid dApp that connects with NEAR wallet through MERITOCRACY Plugin): https://meritocracy.club/
  • Twitter (more than 10K of Followers): https://twitter.com/socialmeetclub
  • Fanpage and groups on Facebook and also I have the Fanpage of book with 112,000 fans, but we don’t believe in Facebook anymore for WEB3, so much censorship for Businesses and the algorithms have excessive control against good organic content. But maybe we can do some experiments there because my networking is very valuable there, just in case.

https://www.facebook.com/Socialmeetclub https://www.facebook.com/groups/SocialmeetBestHackersPeruSiliconValley
https://www.facebook.com/groups/socialmeet

THE HUMAN TEAM (Founder / HUMAN VS AI BLOG):
Website (Hybrid dApp that connects with NEAR wallet through MERITOCRACY Plugin): https://thehumanteam.org/

INFLUENTIAL CIRCLE (Founder):
Website (Hybrid dApp that connects with NEAR wallet through MERITOCRACY Plugin): https://influentialcircle.com/

My Link in Bio with my 7 dApp MVPS of my Startups as an example of use cases of the MERITOCRACY PLUGIN: https://thehumanteam.org/marilyn-alvarado-ceo-founder-socialmeet-the-best-meritocracy-club-in-the-world-and-the-human-team/

Is Your Project Targeting a Specific Country? In general, it is GLOBAL, some projects are bilingual (Spanish and English) but in the case of NEAR WOMEN It is a global community of WOMEN in SPANISH for Near Protocol

Which region will your DAO/ Project support? Global/International with special focus in SILICON VALLEY where I live and where I have an outstanding network as you can ask to NEAR people who live in San Francisco and also can check of my highlands on my Instagram https://www.instagram.com/marilynalvaradoq/ or in my Facebook https://www.facebook.com/marilyn.alvarado.967/

Section 4. Applicant Information

Sure, all these recent activities were FOR FREE:

I was giving a Spanish language webinar about BOS and Aurora as you can check out here in this link:
https://x.com/socialmeetclub/status/1722622018481500554?s=20

I was honored to be invited to a VIP Reception at APEC as a representative of Woman Founder from Latam in Silicon Valley . Here are some photos and videos about that invitations to USA APEC 2023 as leader women:
https://twitter.com/socialmeetclub/status/1724922791864991866?s=20

I was a speaker at Open Web House powered by Hackbox / Ethereum MĂ©xico 2023 . https://www.facebook.com/713815574/videos/988028462284674/

https://x.com/openwebacademy_/status/1709675280024117394?s=20

I was a speaker as Women Founder for Open Web Academy
https://x.com/openwebacademy_/status/1705312649712652479?s=20

I was a speaker as a Founder of Meritocracy for NEAR@NIGHT
https://x.com/NEAR_at_NIGHT/status/1709021883192996145?s=20

I was the host to support NDC “Meet Candidates that will support Latin America and Women in the NDC”
https://x.com/socialmeetclub/status/1703199841604775997?s=20

Section 5. Team Members
Please provide information about Team Members. Information should be included.

My team is made up of well-connected founders outside the NEAR ecosystem from Peru, USA (SILICON VALLEY), and Pakistan one of the top ten countries of The 2023 Global Crypto Adoption https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/2023-global-crypto-adoption-index/ like my co-founder Saad Iqbal from the MERITOCRACY plugin https://www.linkedin.com/in/saadiqbaladvani/. It makes a lot of sense because I will attract new small businesses and new people to the NEAR ecosystem, not people who are already are part of NEAR. Additionally, some valuable people from “Aurora is NEAR” They are ready to work too if we receive funding. Unfortunately, we receive few DMs from other people in the ecosystem and they receive the indication that don’t work in my project, or they will lose their funding, and they don’t want to put in risk their current funding, when is not guarantee that we receive funding either. I don’t know if what they said in their DMs is true or not, because there are many hacks nowadays in the ecosystem, so you never know.

I am the leader of my team: Marilyn Alvarado
â—Ź CEO & Founder of Socialmeet the Best Meritocracy Club in the World
â—Ź Co-Founder and Project Manager of MERITOCRACY PLUGIN
â—Ź Founder of Meritocracy For WOMEN

  • Founder of NEAR Women, the 1st Women Community for NEAR created in 2022, approved by NEAR FOUNDATION,
  • and WOMEN SPEAKER IN WEB3 for LATAM
    I was decorated by the Peruvian American National Council (PANC) and was a Speaker at the United States State Department with a presentation on new communication tools in the 21st century. Similarly, she was recognized by the United States Congress for creating Socialmeet. Her Startup was selected by PROMPERU to represent Peru in the Pacific Alliance (Peru + Colombia +Chile+ Mexico) Workshop in RUTA N (one of the most important innovations think tanks in Latin America) in MedellĂ­n, Colombia and Silicon Valley/ San Francisco in 2019 at Palace of Fine Arts.

I can mention and include the following roles of my team, some of them will be from the NEAR Ecosystem and from Communities of Blockchain Peru and Silicon Valley as well and will be fluent Spanish and English Speakers, familiar with the idiosyncrasies of Latin culture. Some individuals will fill multiple roles. Roles will include:

  • 2 Business Partnership leaders
  • 2 CM Spanish Native Speakers
  • 1 CM Tech core of Meritocracy Plugin in English he also speaks Urdu the lingua franca of Pakistan https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahmed-hussain-pmp-%C2%AE-678488189/
  • 1 Instructor for NCB (NEAR Certified Business): prepare and teach the certification in Spanish, focus on NEAR ecosystem and its best and serious projects and what they offer have to businesses and Startups.
  • 1 Co-Business Instructor NCB (NEAR Certified Business): prepare and teach the certification, focus on Businesses and insights of Founders and CEOs about they want to find in NEAR.
  • 1 Translator to English of the NCB (NEAR Certified Business)
  • 1 video editor
  • 1 Producer and Interviewer
  • 1 Business Co-Interviewer
  • 1 Lawyer
  • 1 Tax Expert
  • 1 Designer
  • 1 Writer
  • 1 Researcher
  • Team of developers and Growth Hacking specialist in WordPress and NEAR under the direction of my Tech Co-founder Saad Iqbal of MERITOCRACY PLUGIN (upgrades and maintenance). As an expert in WordPress, we know: maintenance and upgrades of the plugins are vital, because this not depends on us, depends of WordPress itself and the other plugins of third parties as well, as a result 3 months can be sound a short period for developers, but for WordPress could happens more than 100 upgrades or more in this period of time.

Section 6. Experience

What related qualifications, experience, or track record does your team bring to this initiative?

Short Summary of Your and Team’s Professional Experience

My Co-Founder of MERITOCRACY PLUGIN is Saad Iqbal, Founder of Objects, WPExperts, Wooexpert, and myCred, with over 500+ satisfied clients with 1000+ projects delivered worldwide, his WordPress development experts are known for developing and customizing functional and feature-rich WordPress theme and plugin solutions. Additionally, if you’re looking for the best gamification plugin, MyCred consistently ranks in the top five recommendations by WordPress experts.

We won a Grant from the NEAR Foundation in December 2021 so we work together for almost 2 years.

We are business partners and the perfect complement for each other because I am the project manager of MERITOCRACY PLUGIN, the business and marketer person, also with great networking in Silicon Valley, and he is the technical person with great reputation in WordPress, additionally I am a women Founder in WEB3 that sometimes also help us in be attract for certain kind of attention from some institutions that are interesting in empower women founders in WEB3. We built together the open-source plugin, we finish already our contract with NEAR Foundation and successfully finished all our Milestones.

List Web3 Projects You Have Completed, Live Links to Examples of Relevant Work and Relevant Data Points Showing Your Competencies

  1. MERITOCRACY PLUGIN Co-Founder. Launch Page: https://meritocracy.club/official-launch-meritocracy-plugin-a-bridge-between-wordpress-web2-43-of-internet-web3-near-protocol/

Section 7. DAO/Project Charter/White or Litepaper and Goals
Project Overview: Presentation with a short High-Level 6 bullet points summary (Mission, Vision, Core programs and how they align with NDC’s NDC CoA Vision, team, and requested budget for the next three months

  • What Problem Are You Aiming to Solve?
  • DAO/Project Charter;
  • How can your DAO / Project achieve NDC priorities, goals, and KPIs?
  • Roadmap of your DAO/project, Milestones, and achievements

MISSION

  • Call excellent BUSINESSES and entrepreneurs TO DO BUSINESS, CREATE PARTNERSHIPS, and COLLABORATE with NEAR PROTOCOL and its main projects like BOS, NEAR SOCIAL, REF.FINANCE, AURORA, SHARDOG, and others.
  • Provide a plan for people with MERIT and TALENT to transition into the NEAR ecosystem.
  • “COMMUNITY & BUSINESS EDUCATION: Keep attracting to A GLOBAL COMMUNITY of ENTREPRENEURS, ARTISTS, CELEBRITIES, INFLUENCERS, INTELLECTUALS, JOURNALISTS & LEADERS, AND TRAIN THEM TO DO BUSINESS with NEAR Protocol with the new strategic certification in NEAR: NCB (NEAR Certified BUSINESS).” This quotation is part of the mid-term proposal for 6 months. Either way, in 3 months, we can continue to attract those people with our program “BUSINESS & TECH” on our YouTube Channel and our Twitter account.
  • INFLUENTIAL CIRCLE: create an army of MICRO INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE and MICRO AMBASSADORS to help us spread the word faster in Collaboration with Shardog, Influential Circle, or others in the NEAR ecosystem.
  • We have started with a collaborative partnership with NEAR PERU, CIDE-PUCP, ASOCIACION BLOCKCHAIN PERU, CRYPTOBLOCKPERU, ASICREA PERU, MERITOCRACY PLUGIN, FABLAB PERU, FABWOMEN, TIERRA Y SER, AURORA ES NEAR, NEAR BLOCKCHAIN EN ESPAĂ‘OL, WORLD ANIMAL REGISTRY and more and also with universities with a focus on Spanish speakers.

TARGET:

  • Founders
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Investors
  • Developers
  • Startups
  • Women who speak SPANISH
  • Artists
  • Ambassadors
  • Contributors
  • Micro-Influencers

OUR COMMUNITIES:
We reviewed the historical support for other communities approved in this Forum and noted that the average budget approved was around USD 2,000 per community. We have 4 communities + 1 Twitter Community. Our proposal includes our work with these 4 communities. For the past 3 months, we have taken the initiative to keep building those communities without any financial support.

  • MERITOCRACY PLUGIN (Spanish and English): This is the community for this plugin, which won a Grant from Near Foundation, and is a bridge between Web2 (Approx. 43% of internet are websites made in WordPress) and WEB3 (NEAR)
    https://t.me/MeritocracyLab 1
  • Meritocracy For WOMEN (almost 400 members, Spanish and English): This is a multichain community that connects CEOs, Founders, CTOs, Investors, and other stakeholders in WEB3 from Silicon Valley and Latino America. The focus is on AI, and new technologies, and is mainly intended to help to bring more women to leadership in WEB3. Also, Illia Polosukhin and many valuable members of the NEAR ecosystem (all genders) are there. We would be happy for you to join us and check out for yourself!
    https://t.me/MeritocracyWomen 2
  • NEAR Women (around 70 women): NEAR Women the 1st Women Community for NEAR created in 2022, approved by NEAR FOUNDATION, (It is a global community of WOMEN in SPANISH for Near Protocol, and focuses on attracting more Spanish-speaking WOMEN to WEB3, interesting in business, funding opportunities, building on WEB3, education, legal, taxes, and partnerships with businesses and projects in the NEAR ecosystem. Telegram: Contact @NEARWomen This community is led by Spanish-speaking WOMEN, like the Fintech Founder Rosa Maria Orellana @rosamaria, or @Millyr06 Milly Rodriguez, an active member of the Aurora ES Near Community since September 2022 creating articles for the Medium Blog additionally She is running the Twitter account now X of that community.
  • NEAR Peru founded with @rosamaria and myself, we both also we were part of the council of NEAR HISPANO representing to our country Peru.

According to Ethnologue, Spanish is the 2nd most spoken language in the world among native speakers (485 million) and is the 4th most spoken language in the world among all speakers (559 million).

Since the last election of NDC, the Latino community has lost representation in NDC. The reasons for this area are controversial and not clearly identified but could be driven by mistakes or misunderstandings of the rules, not necessarily by bad intentions. Give a chance to Latino women to lead this project and show that our community from Latino America and Spanish Speakers around the world are honest, hardworking, and can show clear results based on KPIs required by NEAR. We will create partnerships with the most relevant communities from Pacific Alliance nations (Mexico, Colombia, Peru, and Chile) as well as other Spanish-speaking communities in WEB3. We have already established strategic alliances and collaborations with some communities in the NEAR ecosystem like Near Blockchain en español, Aurora ES Near, Open Web Academy, CIDE-PUCP, ASOCIACION BLOCKCHAIN PERU, CRYPTOBLOCKPERU, ASICREA PERU, MERITOCRACY PLUGIN, FABLAB PERU, FABWOMEN, TIERRA Y SER, WORLD ANIMAL REGISTRY.

We will conduct independent activities for our Spanish community in collaboration with NEAR communities, like we started with OPEN WEB ACADEMY, AURORA ES NEAR and CRYPTOBLOCK PERU and FIRULAIX (WORLD ANIMAL REGISTRY) . Here is the Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/live/xn62mIlDn-I?si=6LW3I-Dn1Ys8ttOl

Youtube and X talks about Businnes:

-Business & Tech (All the Monday at 8 pm PST) X Channel: @SocialmeetClub with more than 10,000 followers (in SPANISH or ENGLISH)

-Business & Tech (All the Tuesdays at 8 pm PST) YouTube Channel SPANISH or ENGLISH Socialmeet Global Meritocracy Club: @socialmeetmeritocracyclub

In both cases, the idea is to invite founders or marketers of interesting projects on NEAR to explain Business Opportunities or Partnership with Platforms like Ref.Finance, BOS, Shardog, MERITOCRACY PLUGIN and others.

OUR Hybrid dApps that connects with NEAR wallet through MERITOCRACY Plugin:

As I mentioned before, all my Startups and niche communities are interconnected and support each other.

  • Socialmeet: The Best MERITOCRACY CLUB in the World, is a community of talented, skilled, people with merit in general, is a huge project but because I have limited resources I started with the MVP platform, where some meritocracy member can sell their consulting hours with USD and NEAR.

  • THE HUMAN TEAM is the Blog of Meritocracy Club, and the MVP is like a small “Patreon” for bloggers or experts called the Human Team that Challenge AI (tools like ChatGPT)

  • INFLUENTIAL CIRCLE is my other MVP that help grow different small business, startups and WEB3 projects faster and also is necessary for my startups and the growth of my communities. It is a very strategic startup that works in WEB2 but also connects with NEAR Wallet for unlock PASSCODES

  • NCB (NEAR CERTIFIED BUSINESS) is a Business certification that helps attract business to NEAR and is how we believe we can get more transactions and retention. I explain it in detail for the 3 months: HERE

Funding scheme: Monthly, This proposal is for 3 months

Expected impact and value you foresee for the NEAR ecosystem/community

Our focus on attracting Businesses and Founders to NEAR ecosystems will provide better results than just focusing on transactions and retention of individuals because interested businesses will invest time and money, which will create many more transactions and real-world use cases, further developing the NEAR ecosystem.

Our Goals and Focus in 3 months:

Accounts Retention
After 1/2/4/8 weeks, aim to retain at least 75% on-boarded accounts. (because to get the new certifications NCB (NEAR Certification Business) necessarily needs to be on-boarded, because this is part of the requirements. Our main target are Small Businesses that are attracted to do business with NEAR (They will see the NEAR ecosystem as Partners to attract a new market: WEB3)

Account Acquisition
Cost — A target acquisition cost is difficult to calculate per account because (similar to OPOLIS), because the target is NICHE and implies a lot of one-on-one communication to attract businesses or entrepreneurs with startups instead of individuals. Fortunately, our leader is a founder, so she understands the needs of startups. She was a Key Account Manager and worked with the biggest companies in Peru, so her know-how is unique and valuable for this specific project.

dApps Engagement
Ensure that at least 75% of accounts retained can interact with more than one dApp in the NEAR ecosystem. BOS, Aurora, Ref. Finance, Shardog, Near Social and others (That’s why the NCB is so important because the goal of this bootcamp is for the business owners to interact with the main dApps of the NEAR Ecosystem)

Social Engagement Score
Increase 10% compound metric of the number of posts, likes, and followers/views in our social media channels, including Twitter, Telegram, Near Social and LinkedIn (because our Target is Businesses).

And this proposal include my unique Know how and Reputation in Latam and Silicon Valley and power LinkedIn with great networking as well my other social media like my Twitter @SocialmeetClub, where well know founders and influential people from the Blockchain industry follow us, like the Governor of Colorado Jared Polis.

Section 8. Budget
Projected Budget for the next three months (In USD for each Task/Milestone)

OUR BUDGET IS SIMILAR TO #SheIsNEAR, but in our case we have clear KPIs.

Links to Similar Proposals from Near Foundation, existing GDAOs, Near ECO (if applicable)

Of course, here is the link to the #SheIsNEAR Budget and Proposal, and we make the comparison with them because I WAS PART OF THE CORE TEAM OF SHE IS NEAR as many members of the “HOUSE of MERIT” know for the meetings and the interactions that we have in the private chat for the creation of this DAO. Until suddenly I received strange public tweets indicating that I am no longer part of SHE IS NEAR, coincidentally it was after I asked for help from the main leaders of the NEAR ecosystem on Twitter ( X ), to help us investigate the hack of SHE IS NEAR, which is very, very strange, because for example, if I were hacked, I would be the first to ask for help to investigate, it would be me. Additionally, I founded the first NEAR WOMEN community in 2022 #NEARWomen and my proposal has WOMEN leaders, most of them founders. and women with recognized experience and great reputation INSIDE and OUTSIDE of NEAR: http://gov.near.org/t/approved-she-is-near-dao-ndc-v1-application-ndc-budget-subcategory-code-hom-004p-1-1-ecosystem/36898

Exactly the same as She is Near, which was approved by HoM, but in our case, our proposal includes UPDATES, MAINTENANCE and RESEARCH for 3 months of the MERITOCRACY PLUGIN and at least develop an add-on for the Meritocracy plugin for LINK myCred badges (on the top 5 WordPress gamification plugin in the world) to NEAR protocol NFTs. (probably working together and coordinating with Mintbase, Shardog, if they are interested)

MERITOCRACY BUDGET
DESCRIPTION Jan-24 Feb-24 Mar-24 TOTAL
COUNCIL TECH LEADER 2500 2500 2500
BUSINESS LEADER 2500 2500 2500
EDUCATION LEADER 2500 2500 2500
LAWYER 0 2500 2500
TAX CPA EXPERT 0 2500 2500
NCB (PRIZE) 800
Social Media, Marketing & Communications 5000 6000 6000
Partnerships and Media 9700 10000 10000
Technical MERITOCRACY PLUGIN 11000 11000 11000
Educational Program for BUSINESS: NCB 0 3500 3500
33200 43000 43800 120000
  • What is the length of Commitment to Delivering Your Project? Will your team be working on this project full time?: I will working full time and the rest of my team part time
  • Will your team be fully renumerated from this budget? Yes

Section 9. Project/DAO longevity

  • Does your project/DAO require one-time or continuous funding?
  • Part of our Project implies continuing to build communities for NEAR that is basically marketing for NEAR so this need funding. However another part of our project, the idea is that in the future we generate revenue for us and for NEAR.

Will your DAO/Project device way of sustaining itself after this round of funding?
This is our plan, but part of our project is the research for the second part of MERITOCRACY PLUGIN, and we hope to find a way to generate a great business model in this research as well.

What are the possible roadblocks to the success of your project/DAO?

The obstacle we could have is not receiving support from NEAR, not because our proposal is bad, because it is not. We have received many congratulations via DM on Telegram from several members of House of Merit, whom we do not know but they see the quality of our proposal that It makes us happy because we believe in MERIT and not in Clientelism, Cronyism, or Nepotism, but we see that in NEAR there are at least 2 opposing teams and it seems that the proposals are being measured, not by merit but for other reasons that sooner or later will end up affecting seriously the great ecosystem that NEAR have.

Thank you in advance for your feedback, advice, and support. We are open to collaboration and guidance and look forward to keeping working with NEAR Ecosystem

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Dear Team! Unfortunately, Your proposal was rejected.

  1. Voting Consensus 8/15 has not been reached

  2. You can find poll results below and reasons for the rejection from House of Members who voted in comments on the poll Astra++ by astraplusplus.ndctools.near on BOS

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