Please describe your proposed solution.
We have witnessed first-hand the influence ‘in-person’ community events have, and believe that by driving this forward and providing the community with a dedicated space to grow and thrive, then that is exactly what will happen.
By providing the UK community with a variety of events where they can meet others working and building in the space, we can assist in the acceleration of Cardanos growth, help onboard new users and help showcase the networks developments to others working in the wider web3 space.
We have a thriving and varied UK community consisting of Projects, Developers, Marketers and SPOs that we want to build upon by providing three specialised events over a calendar year.
These events will have differing focuses and expected outputs, but they do share a common goal; to promote accessibility, cohesion and understanding of the Cardano ecosystem. This goal will be achieved by:
- Coming together as a community to discuss relevant matters, and report outputs back to the relevant bodies.
- Promote and display advances within the network by using new tools in a real-world setting. (e.g. NFTPass ticketing solutions for all events).
- Broaden builders’ personal networks and help speed-up growth.
The main focus of the three separate events, along with examples of what they will involve and their purpose are:
- Technical Workshop (e.g.. Stake Pool operations, CIP discussions, DRep workshops).
The exact topics of this workshop are to be determined, closer to the events date, depending on any significant topics in the space at the time. We encourage this to be a community decision through a voting mechanism.
All outputs from this workshop will be recorded and submitted to the relevant body(s) and should provide valuable insight regarding the communities shared values.
- Project Showcase (e.g. NFT Projects, Artists, Gaming etc.)
This will be an event where project owners can demonstrate their projects/artwork/games to the attendees. They will be encouraged to promote and market their projects using any interactive means that they see fit.
If required, the option to demo their product through a presentation should be achievable and recorded interviews will be published as a means of further promotion.
This event will be marketed at both the Cardano and wider London web3 community.
- Community day.
A 'family friendly' day where Project and craft workshops will be available, coordinated with input from some of our favourite Cardano projects; the UK based element of ClayNation are involved and we're currently in discussion with others to help make this as interactive and engaging as possible.
We will continue with the social aspect of our previous events and host three ‘London Cardano Socials’ to coincide with the other – more specialist – events. These will be open to anyone and will be more appealing to those who aren’t directly involved in the technical side but still like to meet the community and discuss Cardano in a more relaxed environment.
Additional notes;
These events are as much about showcasing Cardanos uses as it is bringing people together, and with that in mind, we will incorporate all on-chain tools available to us in the management of the events.
We plan to film all relevant aspects of the events, interviews and demonstrations to allow for further marketing and distribution.
To widen the impact of these events we plan to contact prominent, local web3 press and to use the cross-chain contacts that we have developed to highlight what’s happening on Cardano to the widest audience possible.
We plan to create a specific 'Community Event Hub' (web-page/YouTube channel) to display our community event videos, interviews etc.
This will be open to all other global Cardano community event hosts to use as a way to ensure as much info as possible is available to as many people as possible.
Notable partnering/contributing projects confirmed to date include ClayNation and NFTPass. The connections that we've made over the last few years through hosting events will allow us to approach projects that will add real value to each event.
Proposed dates for the events are to be confirmed, however a rough guide would be; May, July and October 2024. The events will take place on a weekend and care will be taken to ensure that these events are accessible to as many interested parties as possible.
Our aim as a community focused SPO has always been to provide value to the Cardano community. We believe that by taking an approach that covers such a variety of events, we can do just that.
Please support us in our goal by voting for our proposal.
Chris & the Upstream team.