Education Team Weekly Update 4th Oct-8th Oct

Brief Summary

As we ushered in Q4, this week was a mix of looking forward and closing existing product loops.

While the team aligned on what Q4 means to all of us, the team’s lack of enough human resources is cutting us too thin.

Having said that we saw good traffic getting genrated for the ecosystem due to stats.gallery and near.university and Near-in-Minutes outreach efforts.

stats.gallery

NEAR University accounts

NEAR in Minutes

Some recent quotes from among the team

Uncertainty isn’t an easy thing to deal with, but that’s the usual thing when you take a new challenge

Focusing on creating a catchy NiM Dao because I want to ship something that makes people interested

Results

Team

• Team alignment on Q4 OKRs
• Entire team started working on their Q4 OKRs and next three months plan

Funnel

• Set up a meeting with a local university club about the pilot NEAR Ambassador program
• Brought all partnerships to a logical end for the Q4 cycle
• Identified one digital marketing and SMM agency and in advance level of conversations
• Launch of Oct edition of NEAR Certified Programs
• Invited 2000+ potential learners for NCPs
• Lunched Discord Server for NEAR University
• Partner onboarding toolkit designed and launched

Software

• near.academy

  • Redesign finished with desktop and mobile versions

• stats.gallery

  • Better infrastructure for stats.gallery in the works

• near-in-minutes

  • Enhanced the NiM Dao page
  • Fixed some bug I was having with the NiM Dao modal
  • Created a catchy hero section for the NiM DAO

• [new project]

  • 5 Loom videos distributed to a growing team, with plans to redo them as short, more focused walkthroughs

Content

• Changed Jr. Dev Handbook flow.
• Tested NCDL2 examples
• Designed one day NCD level I and II
• Designed two week NCI

Challenges & Blockers

• Personal commitment
• A lot to smooth out in the workflow while trying to create several data views.
• New hires for [new project]
• Lots of work and requests for support for stats.gallery
• Not enough instructors

Action items

Team

• JD for new hires in the edu operation and partnership

Funnel

• Support in NCPs implementation
• Project planning for all partners and internal alignment

Software

• near.academy

  • Prepare assets and components for the NA development
  • Make researches related to new tasks for this quarter
  • Collect information for the NCUX
  • Connect with Corwin and Sharif about onboarding demo; prepare some rough drafts

• stats.gallery

  • working with some developers to implement new stats.gallery features
  • more robust caching dB for stats.gallery

• near-in-minutes

  • Developing few more informative sections on NiM Dao, like how to use NiM Dao
  • Learning more about goal-driven tutorials instead of reference driven
  • Creating a PR and sharing NiM dao with the edu team for feedbacks

• [new project]

  • More Looms to help workflow
  • Need to onboard more people, and filter out less-committed folks

Content

• Develop NEAR Ambassadors program
• Record videos: randomness tutorial and NEARCON presentation
• Started new flow for JDH
• Study contracts and find more errors
• Create contribution repo for JDH to share errors