Hey there fellow Arbitrum DAO Delegates!
As you know, we approved a DAO proposal for Arbitrum DAO to fund a partnership with ETH Bucharest 2025, which is a conference happenning from April 2ⁿᵈ to April 5ᵗʰ, in the National Library of Romania, in Bucharest. This is the third event that Arbitrum DAO has been involved in partnership with the ETH Bucharest organizers after we had a booth at ETH Bucharest 2024 and partnered for the first Arbitrum Stylus Hackathon in the world, last November.
To make this happen and for Arbitrum DAO’s presence in the conference to be impactful, with need to decide, as a DAO, how we are going to participate in the conference.
Taking the original proposal as reference, here are the decisions we need to make, as a DAO:
- who is going to have the speaking slot on the main stage (which can be a 1-hour talk or three 20 minute talks and therefore, 3 speaking slots by 3 different speakers)
- who is going to give the in-person technical workshop session pre-hackathon (which can be about Stylus for example)
- which hackathon bounties do we want to fund, how do we design them and how do we split the total prize money of $19,350 USD between the several hackathon bounties. (the total amount approved on snapshot for these hackathon bounties was $21,500 USD, but the whole proposal had a 10% discount, which should also needs to be applied to this amount, therefore $21,500 - 10% = $19,350 USD)
- who are going to be the judges of the Arbitrum hackathon bounties (and potentially also the mentors during the hackathon)
- who is going to be at the Arbitrum DAO booth, to man the booth during the 2 conference days, and represent Arbitrum DAO to the 1500+ expected attendees of the conference.
- who designs the prime exhibition space of 25 square meters for the Arbitrum DAO at the conference (ETH Bucharest takes care of the production of it)
- what merch will we distribute, if any on the Arbitrum DAO exhibition space, who designs it, who produces it, and how much we should spend on it (this would have to be funded by the DAO, or from the $5,000 USD budget mentioned below, or some other way)
- who designs the digital roll-ups displayed on screens in key areas that loop across all vertical TV screens, digital and print branding, and main stage branding as well as the branding on website, social media, and print materials, and the chair covers on the main stage.
- which Arbitrum DAO delegates get selected to win one of the 10 general tickets and 5 VIP tickets (which give access to the exclusive Speaker’s Dinner for VIPs)
- who gets a discount code to buy tickets with 50% off for the conference.
To help with the DAO making these decisions and ensuring that Arbitrum DAO presence at ETH Bucharest 2025 is a success, the organizers of ETH Bucharest 2025 asked @ZER8 and I to work with the DAO to make this happen (since we are Arbitrum DAO delegates local to Romania).
Also, and most importantly, the organizers made available up to $5,000 USD from their own payment, so that the DAO can make these decisions above and to make sure we can make this happen in the best way for the Arbitrum DAO. So we also have to decide, as a DAO, on how to spend, up to $5,000 USD to make this happen.
There is also a specific topic on the private telegram group for Arbitrum DAO Delegates where we can discuss all of this. If you are an Arbitrum DAO Delegate that is not in that private telegram group, please send me a DM on Telegram to paulofonseca1987 so that I can add you there.
Please reply to this post with your ideas and opinions about each of the 10 decisions above, and with your suggestions as to how we should spend up to $5,000 USD to facilitate all of this as well.
I would also like for the Arbitrum Foundation to have a more hands-on approach in the organizing of this event (and give their input on all the decisions above that we need to make), and also for them to help contribute for the event to be a success for Arbitrum, by having someone from the Arbitrum Foundation that would come to the event and officially represent Arbitrum DAO.
We need to decide all of this in the next few weeks, since the conference is happenning in less than 6 weeks and we should decide all of this, at least a month before the conference.
Also, tell us if we are missing anything else in here that we should think about, discuss, and decide on, to make sure Arbitrum DAO presence at ETH Bucharest 2025 is a success!
LFG!