NSFW: Nouns Fair @ETHSanFrancisco

Context

We are NounsDAO Amigos. We are building a Spanish-speakers community for LatAm and beyond. We’ve been proliferating the ⌐◨-◨ adding some spice and a pinch of Ñs.

We recently hosted the second edition of the Nouns Fair. An IRL fun experience aimed to proliferate Nouns at the ETHBogota hackathon. We’ve confirmed the importance of this kind of event that helps increase awareness of the DAO, onboard potential builders, and put noggles in the eyes of hundreds.

More detailed info can be found here - https://discourse.nouns.wtf/t/nsfw-nouns-fair-ethbogota/2326 & https://discourse.nouns.wtf/t/nsfw-nouns-fair-ethbogota/2326/7?u=mono

Nouns Fair @ETHSanFrancisco

Given the success of the Nouns Fair in Colombia, the ETHGlobal team invited NounsDAOAmigos to make a new edition, this time at ETHSanFrancisco! We believe it’s important to keep having a presence at IRL events like this. As we saw in Mexico and Colombia, this is a great environment for spreading the ⌐◨-◨ and growing our Spanish-speaker community.

Goals

  • Make a new amigo, San Francisco
  • Onboard potential contributors
  • Put Nouns in the eyes of hundreds of builders

Details

:round_pushpin: San Francisco, California
:classical_building: Palace of Fine Arts
:spiral_calendar: November 4 - 6, 2022
:busts_in_silhouette: NounsDAOAmigos

The Nouns Fair will be a 3-day cultural experience focused on builders where they will be able to engage with others and learn about Nouns. This activation will be a localized nounish experience with photo opportunities, games, merchandise, and an NFT gallery. The proliferation of culture á la nounish. The following are examples of what happened in Bogotá and what we’ll create for San Francisco with a different flavor:

Photo-opportunity & noggles
A fully Nouns-branded photo station where attendees can take selfies and full-body photos will serve as a welcoming station. We want to create a photo set where people can feel nounish and share it on the internet. Of course, physical noggles are key.


Games
Two different games will be available at the place: foosball, and a traditional local game. We believe these games have a nounish feeling and will serve as an engagement factor.


Merchandise
Pins, stickers, and T-shirts will be distributed as rewards for spending time and engaging with the Nouns Fair by playing games and taking photos.



NFT gallery
A 5 screens NFT gallery representing local artists and some nounish representatives.


Costs and execution
Given our past experiences and the recent Nouns Fairs at ETHMexico and ETHBogota, we came up with this budget to make it suitable for ETHSanFrancisco in the US. We are asking for 23.25 ETH.


Costs are approximate. ETH avg. price of 1,200 USD. Prices in red are not final and we’ll seek to reduce costs as much as possible. The difference in these prices will be returned to the DAO.

We are excited about this new opportunity to keep creating nounish experiences IRL that can be replicated in other countries. But most of all, to spread the ⌐◨-◨ in a fun way!

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Yes PLEASE :slight_smile: que coooool !

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Yes Yes Yes This is amazing!!

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hey! here’s another summary of what happened at the Nouns Fair, this time in San Francisco.

Nouns Fair @ETHSanFrancisco

Thanks to Nouns and the funding from NSFW, NounsDAO Amigos could execute the Nouns Fair for the third time. An IRL experience to spread Nouns amidst ETHSanFrancisco –ETH Global’s recent hackathon in San Francisco, California. The event was planned for hackers from SF and different parts of the world. The event was held at the Palace of Fine Arts from November 4th to 6th, 2022.

The Nouns Fair was conceived as the official cultural space and NFT gallery inside the hackathon for 1,700 attendees –worth noting that there were no official events other than the Nouns Fair. Thanks to this, we were in a privileged and convenient position to put Nouns in attendees’ eyes.

What we delivered

The Nouns Fair experience comprised a space with a photo set, games, a merch stand, and an NFT gallery. This space inside the venue worked as the core attraction of the Nouns Fair, including the following:

  • Photoset
  • Games
  • Culture á la nounish
  • NFT gallery
  • Nouns Fair reel

To make it feel like a real fair, people had to interact with the games, noggles, and photo opportunities to claim their merch and POAPs. From 9 am to 9 pm, we encouraged people to interact with the fair and learn about Nouns!

Photoset

Inspired by the 60s’ flower power, the photoset included a VW bus at the center of the space decorated with Nouns flower heads, surrounded by noun heads, wood crates, baskets, a hippy carpet, and a swag station with t-shirts, stickers, pins, fortune cookies, noggles, and POAPs.

ETHGloblal’s team used the set to record interviews and take photos of teams after pitching them to judges. Some shots of the upcoming Nouns documentary were recorded there too.





















Games

The game area included foosball, ping pong, and carnival games as a play-to-earn-swag dynamic that helped to make people engage with the fair and the hosts to learn about Nouns.


Culture á la nounish

Fortune cookies were invented in San Francisco’s Chinatown. What better than blending the local culture with Nouns than making, arguably, the first custom-made nounish fortune cookies!







NFT gallery

The NFT gallery comprised five screens showcasing a very nounish selection, including Messhup, MrSeaks, Artxie, Greta Gremplin, Facu Serif, Brandon Mighty, and Nounish.




Nouns Fair reel

We hired a local professional that recorded the Nouns Fair experience.

https://youtu.be/ij0MoUOV-OE

The fair in numbers

  • 500 t-shirts
  • 300 pins
  • 500 stickers
  • 1,000 fortune cookies – the first nounish fortune cookies ever!
  • 1 VW bus
  • 1 giant flower nouns head
  • 3 mid-size noun heads
  • 4 big banners
  • 8 big posters
  • 1 floor graphic
  • 2 foosball tables
  • 1 pin pong table
  • 2 carnival games
  • 4 screens
  • 7 artists
  • 3 pairs of noggles
  • 204 POAPs

We spent three days proliferating Nouns. We witnessed the interest and curiosity of people asking about the mechanism of Nouns, NounsAmigos, and the possibility of making proposals and contributing to the DAO.

We’d love to see more people and Latinos participate in the upcoming months by joining Nouns and NounsAmigos, ultimately executing proposals from and for Latin America.

Deliverables

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As always, it was a pleasure proliferate Nouns to hundreds of people! :saluting_face:

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@mono thank you for this report on what was done, love seeing this documented.

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@mono this is great, what’re next steps for you and Nouns DAO Amigos? Gracias!

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hey Juan, we have several plans, including creating our own house to deploy funds to builders in Latin America and beyond! there are tons of amazing builders out there to be discovered, and we’d love to see them popping everywhere thanks to these efforts!