RChain Africa Meetup Review

[David405]

Overview of the Meetup

On the 9th of June, RChain had its first local meetup in Africa. The meetup was a success as more people became more aware of RChain generally and also got handy in setting up RNode. Before the meetup, there was a lot of interaction with the University community and the Tech community in the the region (Nigeria) where the meetup was held.

The meetup included a video presentation, a lecture on Blockchain and a node testing session.

Programme of Event

• Welcome speech

• Video Presentation: Why Blockchain? The RChain Advantage

• Lecture: Introduction to Blockchain and RChain

• Snack Break

• Node Testing Session

• Lunch and Recap

  Expenses

• Publicity, Banners, Digital graphics $235

• Hall renting $365

• Camera and associated gadgets renting $127

• Snacks, Food and drinks $226

• Logistics $115

  Benefit to RChain

• A tutorial video on youtube for node testing

• Engagement with the University and Software community in Nigeria

• Formation of a rholang dev team

  Meetup Resources

• The slide from the lecture can be found here, the video will be out later tomorrow

• The video from the Node testing session can be found here

Attendance: 67 persons

Main Collaborators

• David Asamonye (@david405) - 30%

• Valentine Oragbakosi (@Valentine-Mario) - 25%

• Chidindu Ojimadu (@Ojimadu)- 25%

• Nonso Nwosu ( @nonnykul) -20%

Estimated Budget of Task: $[3000] Estimated Timeline Required to Complete the Task: [completed] How will we measure completion? [completed]

See CONTRIBUTING.md for details on budget and reward process.

Legal

Task Submitter shall not submit Tasks that will involve RHOC being transacted in any manner that (i) jeopardizes RHOC’s status as a software access token or other relevant and applicable description of the RHOC as an “asset”—not a security— or (2) violates, in any manner, applicable U.S. Securities laws.

[JoshOrndorff]

Slides are only visible to those signed in with a google account. They are not public.

[David405]

Hi @JoshOrndorff sorry about that, kindly check again

[BelovedAquila]

For a start up I think the RChain Africa meet up that held on the 9th of June at awka was enlightening, we are expecting more of it to come and more better and productive. At first, it was like," how do we organize it? " but so far we had and subsequent meet ups would be better than this, it was a success. Cheers!

[deannald]

@David405 I'm so glad you were able to host this meetup and look forward to hearing more about future events!

I did want to point out the guidelines and budget for local meetups as specified in this document from January 2018: https://github.com/rchain/bounties/wiki/local-meetup-program:-summary

If you feel like the work done at the meetup exceeds the budge guidelines, it would be helpful to either:

1. breakdown the additional value added and budget related to those items or
2. create separate issues so that budget can be voted on and assigned separately

It looks like you put a lot of work into the event and I want to make sure you are compensated accordingly.

[David405]

@deannald it's great to know you are anticipating future meetups and we won't fail to keep you abreast of our activities and progress reports. Yes, I am aware of the guidelines you posted in your comment, perhaps, an additional elaborate information concerning our expenses ( aside from the ones listed in my initial comment) will make you feel more comfortable with the budget placed.

• More than 20 hours was put into organizing the event, preparing the hall, preparing lecture notes ( I, personally, was up the whole night prior to the event, preparing study materials such as #797, testing RNode on my computer over and over again to ensure I encounter no errors during the event and trying to familiarize myself with any type of error that can occur during the process). $740

• Prior to the event, there was a lot of interactions with the university community and software companies to spur their interests in RChain and invite them to the event. #681 $250

• A professional event manager was hired and she was proved really useful in planning the event, putting in place logistics, preparing snacks, lunch, and drinks. $150

• Electricity is a major challenge in Nigeria and so we used an alternative source of power (AC generator) both in the preparation (check my first point) and during the event. $300

• Internet was provided both for the anchor and the audience during the event, especially during the node testing session. $150

• A professional video editor was hired to work on the video clips ( it cost a little more time and money to enhance the quality of the videos since the hall wasn't optimized for a video). $350

I don't if the efforts are convincing enough for you but I would love your feedback and input.

[deannald]

@David405 - Thanks this is a great help! It looks like a ton of work went in to hosting this event (and I'm sure struggling to get the node setup was nerve wracking especially during an event :) ). If you can assign budget estimations for each of the above bullets so we can see how they roll up to $3000 that would be useful in voting.

[David405]

It is good to know you are interested in this, the budgets have been updated in my comments, feel free to express your opinion on each.

[allancto]

@David405 @Valentine-Mario @Ojimadu @nonnykul I have created a skeleton for RChain Africa Community Report Jun 2018 in Members/CommunityBuildingWorldwide repo https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zRWt43P7UXFs99FGJD_TQnVNeebJ2dlG2Fv06BF_E_Q

I request that you write the June report and include this and other activities from your community (node setup,DoCC, forum and others). Writing this report might be an opportunity for @Pionelle , @casanwugo and others to participate as well. You may increase your budget recommendation for this issue or make it into a separate issue analogous to #803 (China community June report). Once the report is started (or completed) I'll be happy to vote on whichever issues you need voted and I will likely follow whatever %reward suggestions you make.

Thanks! -@allancto

[David405]

@allancto the report has been written and an issue #824 has been created to address it.