DevRel TPS Report WE: 13-FEB-2021

DevRel Weekly Update Thread

• Progress
• Priorities
• Blockers
  

Progress

• sketch out NCD (NEAR certified developer program) with @sasha and @potatodepaulo
• continue development of web 3 appreciation course
• record intro to web 3 for non devs
• engaged with a couple of guilds as they startup

Priorities

• NCD
• cross contract calls repo

Blockers

• none

Priorities (this week)

• Build out processes
• Do retros for ETH Denver & draft of processes
• Clean up project board
• Launch NEAR Bytes series
• Continue with Live Code Review (cover token standards)
• Partners, Partners, Partners (developers)

Progress (last week)

• ETH Denver was a hit
• Mini retro in Slack
• Lots of videos, networking, partner talk and process drafts

Blockers

• Father time

• Progress (last week)
  -DevRel team crushed ETHDenver and the NEAR community is the coolest!
  -We were an orchestra in perfect unison (behind the scenes, it was a lot of juggling and a lot of late nights-- but I’m super proud of our team)
  -Grants Pilot Program was launched and we got our first round of apps in!
  -Talks/Panels in EthDenver and Peter as a “Celebrity Judge” for the final rounds
  -Thank you to Matt/Josh/Arto for judging the NEAR bounty submissions (I’ll be allocating some additional ones this week as discussed to winners, etc)
  -Initial convos with the Head of Innovation for the Governor’s Office re: Integrating NEAR into some very cool projects.
  -The SputnikDAO crypto + art activation was a hit!! We should do this again in the future
  -Really positive interactions with developers+community members all around in the EthDenver #near Discord, Veertly hacker space, and in the Denver Sports Castle!

• Priorities (this week)
  -Upload Dani into projects board (GitHub)
  -Set up milestones and process the first batch of grants
  -Onboard Mattias for his one week sprint on Grant Milestones/Scorecards design
  -Onboard newbie members into DevRel team

• Blockers
  -Understanding timelines & actions around Meta Guild Grants (help build process)
  -Lots of admin work piling up, need to review grants coordinator role applications (already in Greenhouse) and hire someone asap.

• Progress
  Completed Rust Fundamentals Crash Course
  ETH Denver was amazing/ Assisted ETH Denver Participants
  Audited API Workshops
  Working on audits for live code review rust videos
  stack overflow updates
• Priorities
  Auditing Live Code Review
  Working out OW mainnet Videos
  Working out Music Matching App Video
  Working on Internal Dev Rel All in one Tool
• Blockers
  Want to become more proficient in Rust to better help our users and make cool apps
  Still Learning the ins and outs of dev rel (looking forward to getting into the role post event now haha)

Progress

• ETH Denver attendance & support
• Docs refactor remaining tasks
• /near & /near-examples repos cleaned up DevRel Issue #21
• Indexer Guide nearly complete DevRel Issue #23

Priorities

• [DOCS] update SDK overview/guides · Issue #22 · near/devrel · GitHub

Blockers

• [DOCS] Move validators, tokens, & exchange to near.org · Issue #20 · near/devrel · GitHub

Priorities:
ETHDenver retro and content sharing
kicking off new phase of user research
Grants work
Transition to full DevRel
standard descriptions
some editing w/ Illia
stood up Community Content Medium

Blockers:
-None