Hey there!
We had our coordination call today, and you can check it’s recording.
Some updates on the decisions we are trying to make, as a DAO, in the same order as in the original post:
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Speakers: it turns out, we can have 3 talks of 20 minutes each, instead of 2 talks of 30 minutes as I stated in the original post. One of the talks is going to be done by someone from the @Arbitrum Foundation (still to be confirmed by who specifically), another talk is going to be done by @Sinkas (still to be confirmed as well), and we have to find another speaker to represent the DAO (I was thinking about @JoJo maybe in partnership with @CastleCapital folks to talk about the grants program that was just recently approved onchain)
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Hackathon workshop: Chris from @offchainlabs (also still to be completely confirmed) is going to be the one giving the technical workshop for the hackathon participants, and will also mentor the hackathon participants and be a judge for the Arbitrum hackathon bounties. Srinjoy from @offchainlabs will also be one of the hackathon judges, and will be waking up at 5 am on the US West Coast to do so remotely.
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Hackathon Bounties: This is one of the most urgent decisions we need to make, by next Monday, and I will be setting up a Telegram group and a working call with Chris and Srinjoy, to figure out the hackathon bounties that we will have for the participants. For each hackathon bounty we want to do, we need to fill in this template, that the hackathon organizers provided us with.
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Hackathon Judges: besides Chris and Srinjoy from Offchain Labs, probably @andreiv, @ZER8, and me will also help judge the hackathon submissions since we’ve also done that for the previous Arbitrum Stylus hackathon last November. Anyone else who is coming to ETH Bucharest, and has technical context about Arbitrum is also very much welcome to be a mentor and judge in the hackathon. Just a reminder that the hackathon starts 2 days before the actual conference days, on the 2nd of April, and lasts until the 5th of April which is the second and last day of the actual conference.
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Manning the booth: All Arbitrum DAO delegates, contributors, Arbitrum Foundation, and Offchain Labs members are welcome to help man the Arbitrum DAO booth at the conference and represent Arbitrum to the +1500 conference attendees and hackathon participants.
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Design of the booth: This is also one of the most urgent decisions to make right now, since the booth needs to be produced in time for the conference in less than 5 weeks. This is the type of booth Arbitrum DAO will have at the conference and it is the biggest type of booth at ETH Bucharest and there will only be one other booth of this size. The folks at the @Arbitrum Foundation will help design the booth based on designs of previous Arbitrum events. So, just imagine this, but Arbitrum branded.
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Merch: This is the other decision we need to make that is kind of urgent since the merch also needs to be produced in time for the event. @Sinkas mentioned that MetaFactory could help figure out some cool merch ideas and we ask the community to come up with ideas for the merch we could do. We have up to $5k USD for the production of it, and the Arbitrum Foundation can also help with designing some of the merch. We were aligned that we might just do less quantity of merch but more high-quality merch that should be given away selectively.
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Digital roll-ups: These are FullHD (1920px by 1080px) vertical videos that will loop across the several TVs spread across the venue and can be up to 120 seconds long. We will probably need the Arbitrum Foundation help with the design of these. Or if anybody else wants to create this, be more than welcome to.
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Free tickets: I’ve put up this Google form so that anybody that is coming to ETH Bucharest and wants one of the 15 free tickets (of which 5 are VIP tickets with access to the Speaker’s Dinner) we have available for DAO members can submit their interest. If 2 weeks from now, we will have more people requesting tickets than tickets available, people will be selected based on their delegated voting power.
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Ticket Discount Code: we need to figure out how to share the Arbitrum DAO specific discount code that gives 50% off on the ticket prices. You can check the current conference ticket prices here.
So, to summarize, our next priorities are:
- Defining the bounties for the hackathon with Offchain Labs
- Get a Booth Design from the Arbitrum Foundation
- Figure out, as a DAO, what kind of merch we want to have at the booth.
If you have suggestions and ideas please share them here in this thread.
See you Monday next week, on the next call.
Thank you all!