Formation of UK Regional DAO

drspinosa · December 12, 2021, 6:50pm

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Formation and tuning of UK Regional DAO

Proposal Overview

UK is and international multicultural country where creative industries and technology industries co-exist.

Harmony in UK has a competitive advantage to capture and build on a rich heritage of the UK’s creative leaders, including musicians, filmmakers, TV and theatre producers, authors, architects, games developers, fashion designers and publishers.

Renowned for their innovation and originality, UK creative pioneers and entrepreneurs pride themselves on working, in cross-disciplinary collaborative teams, providing business with the creative imagination that drives commercial success.

This is particularly true in London where there are world-class creative companies.

Tech City in East London is fast becoming a digital centre of Europe

Creativity and Technology go hand in hand. Creative companies and small fast-growing digital technology companies working together In UK bringing innovative solutions in the domestic and international markets

Furthermore, the gaming industries, innovative business and financial industries as well as green tech are among many more avenues where Harmony and its network can bring blockchain adoption and offer a lunch pad for web3 development and build bridges with the web2 world.

UK is ready to embrace new Technologies, reinventing itself by embracing new techniques and modes of business.
Harmony DAO UK can adopt this creative and innovative energy and offer education, network, adoption and new tools to existing as well as start-up companies and freelancers on a variety of disciplines to grow and build.

Depside this energy some UK areas such as Cornwall and Cumbria have been deprived of work and investment. Harmony UK DAO can work in these areas with local communities and also seek matched funding offering educational projects offering one type of solution by creating jobs, new freelance coders, creatives, inventors and entrepreneurs.

The UK DAO as it grows will create educational courses and modules for Universities.

London is an international hub and UK DAO will bring an international event in Europe attracting talent and instigate collaborations. This event will work as catalyst to establish the UK DAO. Also act as a reference to inspire local regional events in many other cities and attract investment.

The UK DAO will be an adaptive open organisation which can form a legal entity/ organisation (TBD) and have regional representation, all regions working collaboratively. As a dynamic and open organisation, the UK DAO will shapeshift and bring solutions to the UK creative industries education business financial sector and local regeneration.

3 Mandates of Harmony UK DAO

Adoption : Onboard and Inspire new community members through Practical and Theoretical Educational events. Enrolment into Harmony dApps and Ecosystem (NFT platforms, Validator Tutorial and Onboarding.). Potential for subscription format to free Harmony Newsletters.

Engagement : Approach institutions / Educational Bodies to Promote Learning with Harmony as a Gateway. Demonstrate Ecosystem dApps and Ecosystem Growth potential and in Real Terms at events, guest speakers (Gaming / Defi tutorials – Developer Outreach). Demonstrate interoperability and bridging of Chains. NFT Artist representation for creatives. Sponsorship of events.

Inclusivity : Utilise community initiatives to create and encourage active community participation across all platforms. Examples of this would be free Crypto safety workshops, free NFT experiences with Guest artists. Encourage collaboration.

What the UK DAO can do

Support - Be a centre point of Reference for UK Harmony In-person / Virtual Events and Networking for community growth and collaboration.
Safety – Promote and Educate Retail on Blockchain Safety / Promoting Benefits of HarmonyONE Wallet Features for the UK Demographic through Free Workshops and Events.
Developers – Assisting to Promote Harmony Blockchain Advantages and Simplify onboarding of New Developers and Harmony Ecosystem promotion for UK Devs, Through guidance and in-person events. Create Work-Experience-type Collaboration with Existing UK dApp Grants.
Publicise – Article Generation / dApp reviews / General Mixed Media to generate Interest / Excitement from Retail and Professional in UK Marketplace. Collaborate with Local Media and Universities to Spread Message to Key Demographics.
Planning – Plan and Execute Co-ordinated Harmony Events in Cities all Around the UK with Experienced Team Guidance. Work with Exchanges / Other Crypto Media to Assist in Covering Costs / Being self-sustaining.
AMAs – Knowledgeable and Credible presence within team for Q&As. Be a Trusted Update Reference Point for UK Harmony Users.
Promote – Community Representation for Diverse Community Needs through DAO In-Team representation for Creative Space. How-to Literature and NFT Marketplace Reviews and Special Featured Media / Interviews
Sponsor – Work with Exchanges / Other Media or Businesses to Cover Cost and Self Sustain.
Social Media – A Healthy Combined Social Media following for assisting in Promotion of the DAO and its Goals.

Multisig Wallet Info

TBC

Information of Governors

Adam Spinos (Drspinosa) - Main Roles: DAO Treasurer, Budgeter and Event / Content Co-Ordinator.
Miguel Jeria (Heaven) - Main Roles: Technical Content, Event Planning, Community Social Outreach (Social Media & Creative)
Chris (Cheeky Crypto) – Main Roles: Social Content & Marketing (relocating?)
Nick (Cheeky Crypto) - Main Roles: Social Content & Marketing
Roshan Narain - Main Roles: Dev Outreach & Proposal Onboarding Assistant
Dan Boyden (Wolf of All Streets) – Main Roles: Educational and Technical content co-ordinator
Sarah from Gaia – Main Roles: Limited as will soon be relocating
Michael Agua (Stakius Maximous) – NFT and Artistic direction
Alison Hand (Alix) – Admin and “housekeeping” collect weekly time sheets arrange timely payments and keep a record o ONEs spent and basic bookkeeping of fiat payments (ONLY suggested - To be agreed)

Proposal Ask

To achieve longevity and sustainable growth The UK DAO is asking for a £250k (GBP) paid over 1 year every 3 months starting from January 2022

Q1 £80K (GBP)

Q2 £60K (GBP)

Q3 £60K (GBP)

Q4 £50K (GBP)

Metrics for success

Successful London Launch Event with Sponsored Partnership. Mailing List with 80%+ Uptake from event attendees. Grow social Media Presence to Over 500 Followers on Twitter and Equal Number on Telegram.
grow the social media further from Q2 to 5000+ followers by the end of 2022
Run At least 3 Safety / Educational Workshops in Different Cities. Partner with Local Media or Educational Bodies for Event Collaboration and Exposure. Establish Website.
Run NFT Onboarding Events and assist in setting up 5-10 Validators on the network.
Establish Strategic collaborations and premierships, Tech and creative industries, Financial companies and local/ national government organisations and universities.
Form a Legal entity. NPO, CIC, Ltd, LLP etc - To be voted and established within 1 years from formation.
Recruit talent and support local hackathons in at least 3 UK cities
Offer at least one microgrant / hackathon for developing dApps, games tech bridging web2-web3 solutions
Offer support and feedback to the Harmony Core team to improve and develop the network.
Recruit talented people in the UK and internationally.
Repurpose unused or gained funds to support UK projects and much funding form either Harmony or UK institutions.

Links:

Telegram: Telegram: Contact @harmonyUKDAO
Twitter: @HarmonyUKDAO
Discord: Inside Harmony in the DAO section #uk-dao

nickv · February 3, 2022, 5:54pm

hey @drspinosa ,

Thanks for a great proposal and intent to grow harmony presence on the Foggy Albion.

Meanwhile I consider the UK DAO as a type of numerous regional DAOs of Harmony. Do you mind reviewing our frame for that kind of DAOs, that might help you to adjust the proposal and get funded to start delivering mandates

drspinosa · February 4, 2022, 4:25pm

Hi Nick
Thanks for the reply we will have a look. Just learning while doing this.
give me a few days to talk to the rest of the govs and read all the info.

nickv · February 4, 2022, 4:38pm

great, sounds like a plan

meanwhile have a. look to Our Update on Harmony DAOs, especially to the Process for starting and funding DAOs section. This will help you a lot to understand where to start.

if questions - address them here

drspinosa · February 10, 2022, 2:38pm

Hello Talk Harmony Admins

I don’t seem to be able to update the proposal anymore.
The Edit pen is not available anymore. is ther a reason or is there a problem?

Anyway I wanted to update and add the MultiSig wallet address: 0x322A8e46eDFC65f32680E59555Ec66C825c69Eb2

drspinosa · February 10, 2022, 3:36pm

Hey Nick

I read all the latest updated DAO info that you send and more that are keep coming out.

Despite the UK DAO may be classed as regional we started from a different angle.

The idea was to do an event in London and then the conversation among us and the Harmony core team was why don’t we form a DAO and via the event(s) grow the community.

The Regional DAO guidelines are almost not applicable in UK.

There is a large and very active crypto / NFT community in the UK. The majority of that community (as from my research but welcome others to add) are enthusiasts, investors, business growth in the financial sector, artists/ creatives.

However (again from what I have gathered) Harmony is very small in the UK and participation to form a DAO is very low, so the idea is to go a little bit big, eg events NTF drops Business and education at Universities, artist collectives, loads of social media content etc.

The idea for the proposed strategy is to start with the “WOW” to bring momentum into force and then keep onboarding from what we have achieved and the connections we made.

I personally was a bit reluctant to be part of any DAO let alone setting up 2 that I am currently doing.

I have done this before. I have set up a DAO type organisation before DAO was even a word and bitcoin was just surfaced. I ran for 10ys that organisation in UK and learnt a lot. Without being negative I do not want to repeat the same mistakes.

From those experiences I presented in the group and community an event and business-like proposal.

I think we need to go forward with this sort of unconventional Regional DAO and constantly monitor live what we are doing and fine-tuning as we operate. Discuss, Plan, Act, Feedback and repeat.

We need to build the community in UK and onboard crypto and not crypto to Harmony, educate and then we will be running a DAO with elections and have loads of participation.

A more business-like approach at this stage I feel will be better and then we open once there is more participation from the community.

Maybe it might be the wrong way, open to conversation and anyone from the UK community welcome to come on board to help plan and strategize the DAO in a different way.

drspinosa · February 10, 2022, 4:40pm

As an initial discussion we have 3 major areas we think we can start off with:

1.Building community/ awareness - media, events, partnerships
2. Initiating new deals( outbound activities)- tokenisation and NFT projects - small/ bug
3. Supporting projects(inbound traffic): validate and support projects for artists and other creatives

Moreover, with more streamlined targets for instance
to reach a 10k-20k community by August 2022.
Build one partnership or NFT project with a billion dollar organisation and projects with 3-4 mid scale organisations
Support 10-15 community projects in 2022

Our discussion will start next week with a zoom meeting planed on the 15th of Feb for 1h. Anyone is welcome to join us. Once a time is agreed I will post a link here.

nickv · February 12, 2022, 6:21am

hey @drspinosa,

thanks for giving the answer and inviting to the call - I’ll be there

btw, who did you invite on harmony behalf for the call?

all listed above (imho) closely correlates with the deliverables we set for a regional DAO

We recommend the following 5 initial deliverables for each regional DAO.

$10k for translating open.harmony.one.
$10k for host 2 meetups for 50 people each
$10k for partnering with a regional hackathon of 100 developers.
$10k for sourcing 5 approved grantees from that language or region.
$10k for growing public community to 1,000 active members on Twitter.

building a community

1,000 active members on Twitter during first 3 months and grow it the next periods;

Initiating new deals( outbound activities)- tokenisation and NFT projects

Supporting projects(inbound traffic): validate and support projects for artists and other creatives

for me this sounds almost like to bring projects (new and already launched) to harmony ecosystem - 5 approved grantees from that language or region; and 5 is not a limit - we can go beyond that number.

but anyway, let’s have a call and find out the best feet to penetrate the UK community!

see you on zoom!

drspinosa · February 14, 2022, 9:02pm

Hi @nickv

This is the link to the zoom https://bit.ly/3Lvoptl it is 4:30 pm GMT 15th of Feb we only have 40mins. This is not an official meeting just a first chat to say “Hi” only I and 1-2 others will join.

You are welcome to join and anyone else. There is no agenda. We just say “Hi”

I don’t dispute what the UK DAO formation looks like, we just started differently. The first chat was with another member of the DAO on a tweet with @giv to do an event in London not to build a DAO.

Then DAO seemed a good idea and followed by a lot of conversations on Telegram. I think it will be a good idea to read the initial chats on Telegram.

From those conversations, this proposal came about.

The basic concept is to onboard as many people from crypto and non-crypto mainly over events NFT onboarding from the massive UK creative community and work through all the people joined stage by stage. There is more on this project and we are thinking of this as a project that can have an impact.

Anyway, all these are to be discussed and decide what is best for growing Harmony.

On another note and this is my experience and opinion only.

I got some points I want to discuss about the formation and structure of DAOs.

I can not find anywhere to have a constructive chat about this and am thinking of wringing a study about DAOs on Medium at some point.

I would like the community to comment on my thoughts as well.

I had set up and run a DAO type organisation for 10ys and lost a lot of my money and time. I also gave the opportunity to people to take ownership. All were very enthusiastic and on board… TBD…

So there is a reason I have suggested to the group how we should potently form and run the UK DAO (at least on operational and funding levels) that can work in UK. Then we add the Web3 NFT dApps hackathons defi etc etc

Open for a continuous dialogue in public spaces…

nickv · February 15, 2022, 1:16pm

added to my calendar

Sam · March 25, 2022, 4:08am

Hello @drspinosa -

I have been watching your interactions with @nickv and I thought I would touch base to see where you are in your thinking about a UK Regional DAO.

Mind providing an update?
Thanks!
Sam

drspinosa · March 25, 2022, 7:29pm

Hi @Sam

I sent quick DM update and if interested you are welcome to our meeting.

UK DAO -London
Wednesday 30 Mar · 19:00 – 20:00
Google Meet joining info
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/waj-ybev-tdo
Or dial: +44 20 3956 8130 PIN: 321866362
More phone numbers: https://tel.meet/waj-ybev-tdo?pin=6447679023331

Have a good Weekend

Adam

Miketwotwo · March 31, 2022, 6:08pm

Hey guys, I see you’re doing some fantastic work!

Just wanted to know more about the DAO, got some questions…

Description of your community
Community deliverables with milestones for each quarter
How do you expect to measure community growth in terms of following:

i) Sentiment (positive/negative)
ii) Membership growth
iii) Engagement stats

drspinosa · April 6, 2022, 8:19pm

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