This is an announcement that the pictorial and documentary photography community has been renamed to The Ubuntu Fellowship.
Introduction
The UBUNTU Fellowship
The UBuntu Fellowship is a movement of creative photographers on chain who use the power of community to uplift each other in their web 3 journey. The fellowship chose NEAR because of its speed and affordability which makes it the most convenient blockchain platform for us as creative photographers to explore web3 as an avenue for revenue through our photography careers. We aim to build an NFT followership on NEAR by interacting with the immediate community and marketing ourselves conveniently with the value that we bring. The Ubuntu Fellowship comprises of a marketing campaign for NEAR Dapp closest to usage by creative photgraphers onboarding to NEAR e.g Genadrop.io, an incubation program, a collaborative residency style platform, a pedestal for a percentaged distribution for artworks and an online academy offering web 3 courses to upcoming creative photographers.
Marketing: The sole purpose of the Ubuntu Fellowship is to bring to the awareness of web 2 creative photographers that they can sell their creative works on the blockchain as NFTs which of course is a moire legitimate, secure and convenient option for such career. Marketing campaigns that enunciate the benefits of the blockchain in such endeavour would be properly fitted with having a NEAR Dapp like Genadrop.io take some space in the onboarding process. The Ubuntu fellowship would handle the education of the onboarded user concerning the requisites of being an NFT photoartist while also suggesting Genadrop.io as a suitable Dapp fitted for such activity
Web 3 incubation for creative photographers: This is a tutelage system that is afforded to all genuine upcoming creators within the community. This opportunity is afforded to anyone who contributes to the community and shows a degree of enthusiasm with the web 3 rave and would love to learn and familiarize themeselves with it. The incubation spans 1 - 2 months and would be the spear head for onboarding to the Ubuntu fellowship through social ads. The phase would be executed with step by step education of the enthusiasts within the community and also through availing them to necessary materials needed for them according to the degree of desire the prospects show in exploring web 3 . Using strategic marketing techniques, the incubation would prompt the prospects to perform certain social tasks in order to gain certain perks within the community, perks like paid community roles and access to funding for projects. The social tasks would include posting advert materials for the ubuntu fellowship through the prospects social channels in order to attract mor incubation prospects. We do this because we would like to use the incubation phase as helping web 2 creative photographers transition to web3 and at the same time bringing some traction to NEAR
Distribution Platform for creative photographers through marketing and promotion: The Ubuntu Fellowship in a bid to expand its community would invite established photographers who have sizeable traction on their reputation through their socials to mint some of their works, promote and market it while taking a percentage off the profits when the NFT gets sold. This one of the arms for which the community would attain self sustainability. This would be like traditional publishing houses that market some art for an artist and then take a percentage off the sales. This aspect of the Ubuntu Fellowship would be practical if the fellowship in its month of inception directs its trajectory towards gaining a lot of marketing ground in the photoartistry space.
Mantra
The mantra of the P.D Photography Community is to convey stories of Human meaning and virtue through pleasurable aesthetics for human enjoyment. Photography is a great tool of communication and a whole lot is usually said in photographs. We believe in using such aesthetic in photography to contribute to the needed healing in the world and an addition to the overall perception of the beauty that is in the world. We strive to create a portal for the entrallment of the audience through stunning photographs and subtle stories underneath the frames. Our activity schedule are rich in content, meaning, direction and utility to challenge maximize the potential of the photographers in our community while also serving our audiences the best of quality that we can muster
Activity Sequence
Photography Onboarding Projects: An outreach and awareness campaign that engages remote people as models for descriptive or narrative photography. These people are educated about web 3 with their active participation in the education by them being the subject of a narrative photograph, wallets are opened for them in the process and they are shown how the minting takes place with the subsequent assurance to them that once that NFT is bought their created wallets would be created
Documentary Photography: We would be engaging the community with tasks and bounties to propose projects that resonate with the human experience in virtue, responsibility, and sacrifice in everyday society. This is one of the major highlights of the community
Social Series and Shorts: With community engagement and consent we would be using community material to create social media series and shorts for youtube and tiktok and the like. The content created would also revolve around the human experience in virtue and inclusion. This would be obvious since it doesn’t stray much from our mantra
Community Engagement through Web 3 trivia and Quizzes: These trivia would highlight more on the knowledge of applicable and utility Dapps that are on NEAR to encourage patronage and utilization of NEAR Blockchain products
ROADMAP
INCEPTION M1. Onboard web2 members into web3, strengthen brand image through socials, Onboard web 3 photo artists and creators who resonate with the theme so as to aid the newly onboarded web 2 folks, round up community whitepaper, mint NFTs and help broadcast artiste profiles, Grow the community to at least 70 active members
M2. Request Funding for activities and build observations.com 1 for upload of all community content, create NFTs stemming from community projects, keep a steady sequence of Youtube and TikTok short videos created from the community content, grow the community to 150 active members
M3. Broaden reach and create open portal for incubation/distribution platform to invite established web2 photographers for residency program and NFT promotion and revenue splits
Astrodao address: createdbychaos.sputnik-dao.near
Below are our socials
Telegram: Contact @PDPhotographyCommunity 2
Instagram.com/p.dphotographycommunity
We would be expanding to other necessary social networks soon as we attain some brand status image presentation.