Thanks for your feedback @ostanescu.eth.
It’s our assessment on a yearly basis 1 event per quarter would be most effective, alternating 1 GovHack Core event, then 1 Open GovHack event.
The advantages are supportive and additive of each other, Core events maximise alignment and dual-track engagement with 1) core contributors and 2) Open events attract and grow top newcomer talent to ensure there is always fresh new dna of talent coming to the ecosystem.
Why a long-term proposal?
A long-term proposal provides a significant advantage to Arbitrum:
- to secure GovHacks as a unique competitive advantage for Arbitrum for the next year
- people can predictably plan their travel, fly in the required number of days earlier than each major conference
- know year round all the key places to be to deepen IRL connections in the Arbitrum community
- for HackHumanty to be able to book and secure the best venues for Arbitrum in advance
- to be able to train and retain a dedicated, consistent high-context delivery team across 2024/2025 across 3 or more continents. This is non-trivial. In addition many conferences rotate the city they are held i.e. ETHcc, Devcon which requires continual adaptation. While there are generalisable principles in event programming, production and facilitation, there are always idiosyncrasies to be handled in the way every country and culture operates. This requires an organising team that’s adaptive and capable to research, plan, deploy and execute in many new operating environments.
We have this proven capability with Hack Humanity. - a year long program allows tracking of longitudinal engagement, retention and proposal evolution and ROI
- It solves the issue of limited time for planning and marketing that occurs by having to do the full Forum/Snapshot/Tally process every 3 months.
- Personally, it’s a time and energy-intensive process doing one-off proposals every 3 months, and not a sustainable way of working as a service provider.
Regarding Devcon in Bangkok, the best dates I envisage are Nov 8-10. It can be done, it’s very tight though, it’s 9 weeks from now and the proposal process is 1 week on the forum, 1 week snapshot, 3 weeks Tally before funds are available, and most venues require at least 50-80% downpayment to secure the venue.
GovHack Denver was organised in 3.5 weeks, and GovHack ETHcc in 4.5 weeks.
It is doable I am in Bangkok right now and have hired a local event producer to research and scout venues already, we have a shortlist of candidate venues.
The main reason for the long-term proposal is to get out of this short-term crunch cycle of organising events with limited lead time in this manner. However, I’m willing to do this for Devcon, provided we get a yearly program in place so the following year of events have proper lead time for planning, marketing, and a sustainable way of working.