First Ever OpenWeb Sandbox Online Party: Boosting Community’s Superpowers
On the 18th of June, the first ever Open Web Sandbox online party was held by the community moderators on the Sandbox discord channel, as a part of the series of activities tied to the relaunch of the OWS Guild. Well, how was it?
The main goal of this event was to kick off the beginning of the new Guilded Age within the NEARverse and the OWS becoming home for all NEARians and Sanboxers. Moreover, we wanted to create and highlight the networking opportunities for all members of this open-source community and let’s be honest: this goal was achieved.
With approximately 70 attendees, every one of which had a chance to pitch their own project built within the NEAR ecosystem, around 10 projects got the place in the spotlight. Among them, Gene, who presented Decentraland, Chloe, who talked about Marma J and Sachamat pitched the idea of creating a Legal Guild within the NEAR community. Also, guilds like the Swine Guild and the Hispano Guild were represented by their core team members.
The party was also joined by the NEAR core team members such as the full stack developer Matt Lockyer and the community wizard Shreyas. Shreyas has shared possible opportunities within the NEAR community:
“We are excited to be a part of this onboarding of the Sandbox and there is a lot of stuff going on within the community at the moment, including DAO’s and platforms for the community systems. If you are interested in contributing to any of these, do let someone from the community know. You can find us on the forum, we are pretty active there, we are about 8 people in the team and we are still hiring and growing”.
Besides, we were honoured with the presence of multiple NEAR community members such as Grace, James, Ross, Joep and of course the glorious founding father of the Open Web Sandbox – Ozymandius. Many thanks to the charming new Sandbox co-lead Rebecca (@mecsbecs) who helped to organize the party and ensured everything ran smoothly during the event.
This digital party could not be complete without digital giveaways: Doctor NEAR NFT cards created by one of the OWS moderators Samtoshi_F_Baby. We handed out these amazing tokens for free to all guests of this unique get-together as proof of “partYcipation” through Collab.land.
This being said, we would like to thank everyone who made it to the party and helped create this awesome sphere that we all love Sandbox for. This event was only the first one in line; there are many more to come, so definitely stay tuned and keep an eye on the OWS discord channel and Twitter for the freshest community updates!
Yours,
The OWS Team
