DevRel TPS Report WE: 19-FEB-2021

DevRel Weekly Update Thread

Progress
Priorities
Blockers

Priorities:
-DevRel strategy/messaging
-persona work and user research
-dev team feedback alignment/prioritization
-Crypto Valley writing
-writing work with Illia
-Blockheads work!

Progress:
-TBD

Blockers:
-none

Progress:

• recovering from surgery
  Priorities
• Figure out how to prioritize and productize some examples with @mattlockyer
• Work on list of devs with @Cameron
  Blockers
  -none

Progress

• Several issues / discussions around FTs standard
• Working with James Young re: social tokens, user onboarding
• Working with MintGate early stages
• Developed diagram, repo and more for user onboarding + fungible token demos
• Hello Decentralization talk

Priorities

• finish demos
• talk

Blocker: help with “Distill and Amplify”

• we need some more help with idea extraction into simple process / diagrams / content
• there are brilliant people floating around NEAR collective and wider ecosystem that only travel in small circles with low volume outputs - need to distill and amplify - personally I need help with diagrams and distillation on the user onboarding work I’ve been doing and I’m guilty of over-indexing on “do” vs. explain

Progress

• prepared NCD materials
• planned NEAR Academy pairing sessions to write contracts
• recruited a few friends to the community
• created proposal for Hack the DAO hackathon theme with @shreyas

Priorities

• NEAR Certified Developer program, 20 ppl between Feb 22 - Feb 26
• NEAR Academy, launching mid March (like Ocean and Tezos)

Blockers

• none

Progress in the Week of 2021/02/15 (2021/02/18 ~ 2021/02/20 due to Lunar New Year):

1. Work with 2 partners of integrating NEAR into their product
2. Wallet UX issues feedback from community and follow-up
3. Wallet SDK design discussion with community
4. NEAR Certified Developer Program: invite developers to join
5. Enable Near Developer Docs translation into Chinese with community

Priorities in the Week of 2021/02/22:

1. Work with 2~3 partners of integrating NEAR into their product
2. Wallet UX issues: continue to follow up and seek solutions
3. Wallet SDK interface design
4. Education: Near Cheat Sheet
5. Post: Learning Near the Easy Way | Near 入门指南
6. Near Developer Docs translation: launch 1st version in test server
7. NEAR Certified Developer Program: Q/A and support to CN community
8. CN Guilds operation and motiviation strategy (with Angela)

Blockers

None

great work, Matt!

I’m happy to help with diagrams and process to make it easier for users and developers to understand how that works, and reuse the patterns in other DApps.