Nouns DAO

TL;DR: Run a decentralized one-week event for the Nouns community to come together, explore new ideas, celebrate each other, and bring in new contributors. Do this via 99 ETH in prizes on Prop House rounds.

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The goal of Nouns Hack Week is to be a fully community-run event. It will be as decentralized as posibble, with the goal being that it incentivizes all Nounish communities to run their own events during the week to get existing and new contributors excited about Nouns. The only goal of the “team” is to get the community excited about the concept, participating, and spreading the spirit of Hack Week. Everyone should permissionlessly add onto Hack Week however they see fit.

Tentative theme: keep nouns weird.

Logistics

Happenings:

• Run ideation sessions and hype before / during the hackathon
• Set up tech talks and events, and 1:1 calls to onboard new builders
• Get community members running their own events!
• Encourage participants to share their progress proactively on twitter and discords

“Team”

• isaac (builder, zora) + toady (TNS) + Explorer Grants team (dot, mrtn, jihad) + colin (recently nouns-pilled, founder of tweaks + marketing background)
• No compensation
• Not really a team, just a loose group of people cooking up the idea

Community Partners:

• Get DAOs, tools, and communities to run their own prop house rounds during this period
• We will reserve 10 ETH to supplement other rounds durnig Hack Week (all must have some Nounish element in their round). if not used, it will get sent back to the DAO.
• We are currently talking to folks at: Lil Nouns, Builder DAO, The Noun Square

Prizes

There will be two prize categories (all decided through Prop house):

• Tracks
  • Mobile App (30 ETH)
  • Dev Open Round (15 ETH)
  • Art, Media, Content Open Round (10 ETH)
  • IRL / Events / Community / Other Open Round (10 ETH)
• Grand Prizes (2 winners of 6 ETH for each option - 24 ETH total)
  • New Contributors - formatted as Explorer Grants, paired with ongoing support from the EG team.
  • Current Contributors - reward to continue their work on the project or build out new ideas.

Prize distributions can be adjusted based on community discussion. Participants are expected to have a solid MVP. Participants will not be able to win both a grand prize and a track prize.

Track Prizes: 65 ETH Grand Prizes: 24 ETH DAO Supplements: 10 ETH Total: 99 ETH to 2/3 multisig with mrtn, cdt, isaac (0x0d51044Ff95C4E3Bf77e2e08A8bA398646Bdb609)