TL;DR
Bring the Nouns Fair and introduce the Nouns Prize to six ETHGlobal IRL hackathons. Let’s be where developers, creatives, and entrepreneurs gather to build. The Nouns Fair is the space to have fun, experience culture, build, and proliferate Nouns all at once!
WTF?
The Nouns Fair is an IRL experience that aims to spread Nouns among hackers and builders in web3.
As ETHGlobal states, they are growing the most valuable developer community in web3. At their hackathons, engineers, designers, and product leaders come together for three days to collaborate on building something amazing. The Nouns Fair is a dedicated space for them inside the hackathon where we create a fun nounish atmosphere. This makes Nouns associated with a positive and memorable experience.
The Nouns Fair serves different purposes to help hackers learn about Nouns:
- Awareness – hackers taking pictures at our photo sets and wearing cool Nounish swag
- Learning – we spend three full days answering questions about all things nounish
- Building – there will be a pool of 5k in prizes for nounish projects
The Nouns Fair is perfect for creating a builders’ cycle on a weekend. Awareness > Learning > Building > Proliferation > Awareness > …
We can’t miss this opportunity to put Nouns in the eyes of thousands of talented hackers!
So far…
We’ve hosted three editions of the Nouns Fair at ETHGlobal hackathons: in Mexico, Colombia, and the USA. After three editions we've confirmed the importance of this kind of event to increase awareness, onboard potential builders, and put noggles in the eyes of thousands.
We managed to put Nouns and noggles in the eyes of:
- 3,700 people in
- 3 cities: Mexico City, Bogota, and San Francisco, during
- 9 full days of nounishness with
- 3 Nouns Fair editions
All this blended with the local culture:
- Piñatas
- Games
- Candies
- Fortune cookies with nounish luck and a
- Nouns flower power VW bus
We also distributed nounish swag, including:
- 800 t-shirts
- 600 pins
- 1,600 stickers
- 400 POAPs
Nouns Fair Mexico
Nouns Fair Bogota
Nouns Fair San Francisco
Want more photos? Here are our photobooks on Flickr ↗︎.
Want videos? This is the vibe of each of the editions of the Nouns Fair!
Nouns Fair ETHMexico
Nouns Fair ETHBogota
Nouns Fair ETHSanFrancisco
Want more proliferation? Since the Nouns Fair happens inside the hackathon, ETHGlobal video recaps have been nounified, putting ⌐◨-◨ in the eyes of the Ethereum community.
ETHMexico Recap
ETHBogota Recap
ETHSanFrancisco Recap
Want more details? Here are more detailed reports of each Nouns Fair edition on Discourse:
- Nouns Fair at ETHMexico report ↗︎ (Funded by NSFW)
- Nouns Fair at ETHBogota report ↗︎ (Funded by NSFW)
- Nouns Fair at ETHSanFrancisco report ↗︎ (Funded by NSFW and reimbursed via on-chain ↗︎)
Want some alpha? San Francisco's fair was used as the set for the Nouns Documentary – hopefully, we'll make it to the cut 🙊
What do people say about the Nouns Fair?
Hundreds of people have enjoyed previous editions of the Nouns Fair. Their faces of joy smashing piñatas, getting candies, winning a T-shirt for playing foosball and just having a good time taking pictures with giant noun heads and learning about Nouns says it all! – We asked a few folks to tell us a bit of their experience at the Nouns Fair.
What is the plan?
The Nouns Fair will be a cultural experience focused on builders where they will be able to engage with others, learn and build with Nouns. These activations will be localized nounish experiences with photo opportunities, games, swag, and dedicated hosts answering every question about Nouns and building.
We want to keep onboarding international builders and help others create on top of Nouns. To do so, we plan to go to six IRL ETHGlobal hackathons forecasted for 2023.
- ETHGlobal Lisbon ↗︎: May 12 → May 14
- ETHGlobal Waterloo ↗︎: June 23 → June 25
- ETHGlobal Paris ↗︎: July 21 → July 23
- ETHGlobal New York ↗︎: September 22 → September 24
- ETHGlobal Istambul ↗︎: November (TBC)
- ETHGlobal Devcon: Q4 (TBC)
Countries and dates may change during the year. We’ll adjust accordingly as things unfold.
More info: Announcing the 2023 ETHGlobal Season article ↗︎ / Updates to the 2023 ETHGlobal Hackathon Season ↗︎
What to expect?
After three editions, we now know that making people's first experience with Nouns fun and meaningful makes the perfect environment to be receptive about wtf is Nouns, how the DAO works, and how people can collaborate.
This year we'll focus on making builders build with Nouns by doubling our efforts on incentivizing them to materialize their ideas with Nouns from the start. We’ll introduce a new way to learn the nounish vibe and encourage people to build in-site with Nouns: the Nouns Prize.
Nouns Prize – wtf?
People hacking at the event will get a chance to learn about Nouns by going to the Nouns Fair inside the venue. They will learn they can build on top of Nouns immediately at the hackathon and be rewarded. This is a way to showcase the nounish vibe and incentivize the use of Nouns to build whatever they can imagine. Hundreds of hackers building with Nouns all at once like a massive Nouns Prop House flash round – can you picture that?
This prize aims to reward builders that:
- Use Nouns art
- Build for the Nouns community
- Build public goods using Nouns
Doing this at every hackathon will help to a) have a dedicated window to onboard hundreds of skilled builders, b) get familiar with the Nouns’ culture, and c) incentivize building constantly.
More builders, more props, more proliferation.
Imagine hackers building with Nouns as they already do with protocols and tools like Polygon, Lens, MetaMask, Uniswap, Aave, etc.
Culture á la Nounish
The Nouns Fair's experience results from great design, excellent execution, and blending of cultures. We wrap all this in a concept we call culture á la nounish.
We've done it differently in each country. In Mexico City, we did it with rustic hand-painted fair stands, games, candies, and nouns piñatas. In Bogota, with a high-quality printed stage highlighting local cultural imagery along with traditional games, toys, and candies. And in San Francisco, with a 60's flower power VW bus and custom Chinese fortune cookies. All this with a pinch of swag.
We'll keep blending local culture with Nouns in this year's editions of the Nouns Fair. We're excited about the richness of culture this year's locations will bring.
Proliferation and culture á la nounish.
What is the budget?
With the experience we’ve had in the previous Fairs, we’ve kept what works best and made some changes, adapting both to each city’s event expectations and social media needs + the Nouns Prize for hackers.
To make this reality, we ask for $226,425 USDC worth in funding, which we'll allocate as follows.
Note 1: The Photo Set, Culture à la Nounish, and Traveling & Accommodation sections are considering a 5% buffer to cover potential changes in prices and schedules throughout the year.
Note 2: For security, all funds will be managed by a 3/5 Safe (0xFB35d8B136729D3aB74d687E482F3D16CE18d89C) including Ale, Mono, the Nouns Fair wallet, Necfas ↗︎, and Franklin ↗︎.
Who are we?
We want to turn the Nouns Fair into a vehicle that can proliferate and attract builders anywhere in the world. We've done it in three countries and want to keep adding more this year.
We are two nounders of Nouns Amigos, the community for all Spanish speakers. We onboard, encourage, and help our amigos to build with Nouns. We are nounifying Latin America and beyond.
We've been active with Nouns Amigos since June 2022. We've done weekly Twitter Spaces since then (now part of the regular TNS Soapbox schedule), three editions of the Nouns Fair, and created Nouns Amigos hub in Prop House ↗︎ which has funded 19 props in two months including two breakdancers that want to qualify for the Olympics in 2024 ↗︎, a giant skateboarding noggles rail in the Dominican Republic ↗︎, these Godzilla-size Nouns in the streets of Bogota ↗︎, 8 Meetups in 5 Latam countries ↗︎, sponsored a sub-champion MBT racer ↗︎, sponsored an Ethereum Guatemala conference ↗︎ and more ↗︎!
But most of all, we've gathered the Spanish community on Twitter ↗︎ and Discord ↗︎ under Nouns Amigos!
FAQ
- In a tweet, what are you trying to do? Bring the Nouns Fair and introduce the Nouns Prize to six ETHGlobal IRL hackathons. Let’s be where developers, creatives, and entrepreneurs gather to build. The Nouns Fair is the space to have fun, experience culture, build, and proliferate Nouns all at once!
- What is the budget? $226,425 USDC
- Have you done this before? Hell yes! – We've done the Nouns Fair three times: Mexico, Bogota, and San Francisco. Also, we’ve run four Prop House rounds with Nouns Amigos.
- Why does it matter? It's a blending of culture, fun, building, and proliferation. The perfect environment to attract builders, make them experience what feels like building with Nouns and getting rewarded.
- Who’s the Nouns Fair team? We are Alejandra and Mono from Nouns Amigos. We handle everything from ideation and planning to management, logistics, design, and hosting. In addition, we hire local businesses and individuals to help us host the fair, produce the photo sets, swag, and record the events.
- More questions? Ping us on Twitter: Alejandra ↗︎ or Mono ↗︎.
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