DevRel TPS Report WE: 24-Apr-2021

DevRel Weekly Updates Thread

• Progress (last week)
• Priorities (for next week)
• Blockers

Progress

• Collab integrations
• Abra bots and magic moments launched
• NFT Gallery started
• CFW API helper started
• NFT Market audited and edited

Priorities

• NFT Market Templating and Documentation
• NFT Gallery
• API Helper

Blockers

• Internet obsession with cats

• Progress (last week)
  -Grants audit + technical reviews/interviews in progress for all.
  -Working on payment rails process
  -Budget reconciliation + Q2 planning
  -Partner meetings
  -Collision Conference

• Priorities (for next week)
  -Partner meetings
  -Prep for Miami Events
  -Lineup meetings for LA
  -Prep for Community Creators Hackathon
  -Get compliance docs and go through integration process for payment rails

• Blockers
  -Dev Shop contracts on hold, need clarity on resourcing and costs (need help from Matt+Peter)

Progress

• 10+ NCD.L1v developers earned their verified developer cerification
• 5 cohorts graduated, 100+ students joined and 50+ finished with 20+ demos
• videographer hired, new roles identified and recruiting has stated
• invited 4 new teachers on stage ( → @crasskitty, @mehtaphysical, @doriancrutcher, @VideoDon )

Priorities

• NCD.L2: level two
• NCD.L1.sp : self-paced
• onboarding Elaine

Blockers

• moar teachers please, who’s up next?

Progress

• Set meeting b/w Erik and investment team at Digital Currency Group
• Connected w/ technical team building a blockchain-based microbond system for the City of Berkeley
• Set meeting w/ BitGo to help scale $wbtc on NEAR
• Onboarding the City of Miami CIO as an Advisor to the Miami DAO
• Made intros between projects and investors
• Worked w/ Maggie on CRM Analysis
• Represented NEAR at University of Florida’s Digital Worlds Institute
• Solidifying partnership w/ ICON for interoperable bridge
• Started development of EventCred (POAP on NEAR)
• Connecting with individual contributors
• Reviewed two grants

Priorities

• Gitcoin partnership for bounties
• Review 5 grants
• CRM porting
• Individual contributor email campaign
• Managing and seeding relationships

Progress

• Partner integrations
• NAERverse browser plugin introduced (MVP): tips to social accounts, show near accounts in telegram chat
• NEAR Auth updated to reflect web wallet changes
• NEAR Tip App upgrade to perform tips for unknown NEAR account using social accounts

Priorities

• NEAR Social Drops App
• NFT for NEAR telegram chat
• API server updates re Mintgate integration
• NEAR Achievements [Domino] App

• Progress (last week)
  • Created and conducted presentation for NCD group
  • Made progress on NEAR community video with Family from Oregon
  • revamp’d Minecraft NFT Application to an awesome building NFT market
  • Corrected error prompt problem in near-api-js with Josh
• Priorities (for next week)
  • Finish Minecraft NFT App/Video
  • Review Grant proposals
  • Be on support for discord
  • incorporate NFT market place into BlockCraft
• Blockers

Progress (last week)

• Brought on a video editor ive worked with for 4 years “Jordan” for NCD & he exceeded our expectations with the first project!!
• Created & conducted a presentation with @doriancrutcher for @amgando 's NCD group
• Finished with a pre production meeting on Friday with @doriancrutcher to guide @mikedotexe boys to start the first video story about how Moses got into coding and why he’s building a publishing platform
• Got about halfway with the new BlockCraft Ep.10

Priorities (for next week)

• Finish & upload Ep.10 by friday to Youtube
• Create google Ad Campaign
• Have SputnikDAO promo video completed for the upcoming hackathon & delivered to James / market it

Blockers

• Get sprouts login from @Laura so I can start advertising blockhead video clip content & content in general across social platforms

Progress:
*NFT positioning
*partner progress
*content support
*Q2 planning
*lot of grants work

Priorities:
*Budget and hiring
*Sputnik V2
*content support
*BD collateral
*hiring

Blockers:
*Under the weather

Progress (last week)

• pluminite progress!
• launch fund proposal done
• calculations for costs done
• @patrick started work on Plumninite front end
• FAQ rough draft written
• Taught at NCD for @amgando

Priorities (for next week)

• work with @anon93622257 on the legal and privacy and OWS needs for pluminite
• wrap up the last of pluminite designs with contract designer
• source future designers for future projects
• work with @VideoDon & @mallynear in prep for pluminite launch
• handle any ops needs for pluminite launch (mailchimp,ect)

Blockers

• design

Progress in the Week of 2021/04/19:

1. Build: Good Progress in Partners Integration
2. Stake Drop & Analytics: staking monitor, design review
3. Team: Recruit DevRel full-stack dev
4. Dev Community & Education
   (1) NCD CN: grow mentor team, L1v certificate interview, content and course preparation
   (2) NCD Cohort 5: host and support developers
5. Build: NFT with NEAR + HIVE/STEEM: building the dev tooling and NFT market with community
6. Support: Technical posts proof reading: Engineering Weekly
7. Support: Airdrop links, Grant review, Wallet issues follow up, etc.
8. Support: Rainbow Bridge / Wallet / Contract Helper / Explorer Issues and Code

Plan in the Week of 2021/04/26 ~ 2021/04/28:

1. Build: Partners Integration
2. Stake Drop & Analytics: wallet dev follow-up, staking monitor, airdrop analytics
3. DevX: NFT demo and cookbook for partner developers
4. Team: Recruit DevRel full-stack dev
5. Dev Community & Education
   (1) NCD CN: L1v certificate interview plan, NCD CN plan with Sherif
6. Build: NFT with NEAR + HIVE/STEEM: work with community, building frontend tooling and NFT market
7. Support: Technical posts proof reading: depends on the plan of Homer
8. Support: Validator / Wallet issues follow up
9. Out of Office (Apr 29 ~ 30th)

Blockers:

• Recruiting