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**InternatioNouns - retro and 3 month experiment**

**⌐◧-◧ TL;DR:**

We want to keep gathering builders, experienced and new, from around the world and making them feel at home. internatioNouns is requesting XXXETH in funding for three months, which will allow internatioNouns to continue to support non-English Speaking builders to onboard more people to Nouns via web, twitter, TNS Shows, discord, contests, and community rewards. Builders and onboarders congregate and share notes in our discord as well as on the show.

We also want to expand into supporting groups to get IRL meetups and Welcome to the Nouninverse groups going! We aim to do this by providing funding for Nouns merch and other expenses as the groups get started. 

![](https://i.imgur.com/rgje8Qf.jpg)
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**Project Details**
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InternatioNouns is a TNS SoapBox TwitterSpace, a website, a support team, and a Discord community. But, we actually see it more like a family. We have our show every Friday, where builders like mono from NounsDAOAmigos and Mizukigreen from NounsDAOJapan take the stage to tell us the latest news about Nounish projects in their communities. In addition to these reports, we invite regional and language groups who are just starting up, to join us for a few weeks as they get setup, and we run art, food, and trait contests for them (filipiNous, nounsDAOAfrica). We provide one-on-one prop and cultural support for onboarders.

Great things happen in our discord!  Autoshi and wideEyeKarl were in there and the next thing you know Nouns Chocolate is on the FOODNOUN O'Clock show! 

![](https://i.imgur.com/O0jQv7f.jpg)

amigos, rio/br, and NDJ found the formula have solved the puzzle
- spaces in local language
- spaces in English
- tweeting in both languages
- IRL events


wy?
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First and foremost, it brings us joy. When we see a new twitter account that starts with "NounsIn", we feel happy and more whole.  When NounsDaoAmigos announced that they were doing regular meetups... joy.

This ever growin' list of regional groups... joy.
https://twitter.com/filipinouns
https://twitter.com/LocalNouns_jp
https://twitter.com/Nounfrica
https://twitter.com/NounsAU
https://twitter.com/Nounsbr
https://twitter.com/Nounscn
https://twitter.com/Nounsdach
https://twitter.com/NounsDAO_TH
https://twitter.com/NounsDAOAfrica
https://twitter.com/NounsDAOAmigos
https://twitter.com/NounsDAOChinese
https://twitter.com/NounsDAOJAPAN
https://twitter.com/NounsDAOru
https://twitter.com/NounsDAOar (argentina)
https://twitter.com/NounsDR
https://twitter.com/NounsInRio
https://twitter.com/nounsinsg
https://twitter.com/NounsLatam
https://twitter.com/nounslavs
https://twitter.com/NounsMY
https://twitter.com/nounsseoul
https://twitter.com/PinoyNouns
https://twitter.com/unouns_dao

NounsBR
https://nounsbr.wtf/

NounsDAO Africa
https://nouns.build/dao/0xd3e9387f3a1904d6803bcf9498d9a19e6f1a5f82/24

NounsDAO Chinese 
https://nouns.build/dao/0x91b00ea5f78026ba4a01042c55ec7eb65f092131

NounsDAO Japan
https://opensea.io/collection/nouns-dao-japan-pfp

UNouns
https://unouns.wtf/

seaNouns (Thailand)
https://nouns.build/dao/0xb8e3B7F90f785A1AA3445FF46cd293564320Fd7B/36

Over the past year, we have seen Nouns grow from a single auction to a worldwide movement. We all want to see more proliferation and more people introduced to Nouns. As the ecosystem continues to grow, we want to make sure that everyone can join in the fun, no matter where they call home.

There are 8 billion people in the world and approximately 1.5 billion people speak English. Our desire is to begin to unlock the potential of the other 6.5 billion by translating and proving support in the most spoken languages across the globe.

Mandarin - 1.11 billion people
Hindi - 602 million people
Spanish - 548 million people
French - 274 million people
Portuguese - 257 million people
Indonesian - 199 million people
German - 134 million people
Japanese - 125 million people
Tamil - 86 million people
Korean - 81 million people
Swahili - 71 million people
Thai - 60 million people


Here is how it all works
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**Community Rewards**
We have a bot in discord that automatically rewards our community members with apples when they are active.  We also have an Apple Master, who assigns apples for adding things for the website, such as Nounish Art Contests, Nounish twitter spaces (other than TNS which are automatically added), OTG event info, translating tweets, and tagging us on twitter with relevant information.

[More Info about Apple Bounties](https://internationouns.org/en/apple-bounties-in-internationouns-discord/)

**Contests**
A generous grant from Small Grants got us on our way to wonderful contests that show the amazing diversity in this nounish world, including hundreds of potential new traits that represent communities around the world.

We will return to a themed contest every week in March, like the African Traits and the FilipiNouns - and we have distributed more than 3.8 ETH + NFTs in prizes. Check out some of the contests that we made and their entries!  These contests produce a ton of useful cc0 artwork, to be enjoyed by all!  We especially love the discord stickers, which bring nouish seasonal joy to our community!

Generating a ton of Nounish cc0 graphics and videos, some of which you may recognize, such as jhee's work showing  Nouns around a campfire.

You can read much more about how onboarding artists helps to expand the Nouniverse in many ways in [prop 226](https://nouns.wtf/vote/226).

Here are a few contest links for ya:
[African Traits](
https://twitter.com/InternatioNouns/status/1600563421023453189/retweets/with_comments)
[African Culture](https://twitter.com/InternatioNouns/status/1595564702700109827)
[🎃NOUN-O-WEEN Discord Sticker Contest🎃](https://internationouns.org/en/halloween-discord-sticker-contest/)
[🎅 Holiday Discord Decoration Contest🎄](https://twitter.com/InternatioNouns/status/1604758468715352065)

And here are some of our favorite entries:

[![](http://internationouns.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Screenshot_20221107_031808.png)
](https://internationouns.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/2mYGkSwshzsqwSFQ.mp4)

<img src="https://i.imgur.com/IlSOA6o.png" height="200"><img src="https://i.imgur.com/AUg5Ao5.jpg" height="200"><img src="https://i.imgur.com/0mB9Fi2.jpg" height="200">

<img src="https://i.imgur.com/gnGhdi8.gif" height="200">
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https://i.imgur.com/kOk2j07.gif" height="200">
<img src="https://i.imgur.com/dIWFeAO.gif" height="200">


Our numbers reflect how much people enjoy being part of the community. Each show has an average of X listeners and each contest has about X entries. Take a look!

**Twitter**
We have a weekly show on TNS where our world wide crew of builders talk about what is happening in their part of the ecosystem, and take questions from the audience. It is a great platform for people who are just getting used to talking in space, much less doing so in English.

Our show is open for anyone to speak, which provides a great feeling of community.  And, we are often able to translate into 5 languages on any given show!

We have special guests from time to time, such as B from NounsDAOBr, WideEyeKarl from NounsInSg, and UNouns.

On our twitter account, we post a weekly list of spaces, some of which are not in English, and we are working hard to support builders to do shows in other languages. 

We also proliferate everything we can that is Nounish and is not in English, and we translate English into other languages to help them stay up on current events, and vice versa.

![](https://i.imgur.com/mGEzPDe.png)

![](https://i.imgur.com/60Hk4Jn.png)

![](https://i.imgur.com/yJ2Bm1z.png)


**Discord Server**
We also have an amazing Discord server, with 20 auto-translation channels. If someone sends a message in a Japanese channel, the message will be translated automatically to all other languages channels. Pretty cool, right?


![](https://i.imgur.com/Hu4ouZm.png)

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**Website**
Our website is partially crowdsourced via community rewards.  It offers 60+ languages via DeepL and gTranslate.

**The Nouniverse Calendar**
Includes twitter spaces, discord events, prop house rounds, nounish contests, irl events and more! You can filter by language, extension, etc.

NEED SCREENSHOT

**World Map of IRL Events**
![](https://i.imgur.com/wkw6cCQ.png)

**Ecosystem News Translated**
We have Gnarly New's maty.eth's Nouns Newsletter, NounsDaoJapan, and many more! 

![](https://i.imgur.com/IOXcvwS.jpg)


![](https://i.imgur.com/vufENAX.jpg)


**Previous Funding**
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We started in August with a hand from Small Grants, and have worked hard for many months to keep the project alive. We have received only 6.2 ETH (2.2 ETH from NSFW and 4 ETH from Nouns Prop House) and most of it went for prizes. The website hosting, translation costs, and plug in costs have been absorbed by xargs, in addition to a bunch of NFTs that she donated to our prize pool.  Our team has literally grown to over 20 people who help spread the word, speak on twitter spaces to promote international props and projects, translate tweets, update the website, help folks in discord, and work one on one with people who are onboarding with English as a second language.


Just think about what we can with a  budget, right?


**What if funded?**
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First of all, we'll keep what is working at it's best. The perfect combo of a show + a contest every week. Actually we'll improve our shows with retweet pickers and POAPs, attracting and onboarding more people to the community.  And, we will start a second weekly show so that both hemispheres are covered at reasonable times.

But we also want to bring new ideas to the table, such as:

- Weekly newsletter with the latest news shared by the builders in every show
- Weekly IRL gathering funded by us so international communities can meetup, celebrate life and bring more people to the Nouns party!
- Weekly calls in the Discord server to discuss the project itself
- Improvements on the website! Perhaps such things as "pin your city", and an art gallery for the contest entries!

Finally, we can save a lot in admin costs by purchasing plugins, translation services, etc. in larger amounts.

**Mulitsig Signers/high level voters** jp, xargs, san, rfg, andrewl

link to drive w/contest history, rounds, spending, etc.

**Budget**
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[This is the budget spreadsheet.  we will remove this link once we have final numbers and images.](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1C3WuTAoFKHqFTTGyRQ8xFTFZ776E7KCk8jK37puTcDY/edit#gid=499733199)



**One time costs**
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**Web UX redesign (WP Theme Contest)**

We would like to hold a contest for Nounish WP Themes as a way to upgrade 
our site, and bring usable tools to the Nounierse! We are asking XXXeth. XXXeth each would go to x winners who provided design drafts. They will receive another XXXeth once they have built the drafts into a Nounish cc0 WP theme and uploaded it to github publically. Next, we will choose one of those, and give xxxeth to the team to install it on our website and handle customizations. 

**Team RetroFunding**
We are also asking for retrofunding.  xxxeth for our team and xxxeth for our community. 

**Community Rewards**
We would like to reward our very active discord and twitter communities for keeping things active and interesting, translating tweets, etc.

**Ongoing Costs**
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**Teams**
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Our core team members are extremely dedicated and two of us work daily on the project. Our team has not received any payment since a disbursement in late 2022 for retro up to Oct 15th, which covered back to August, and the most highly paid only received a little over 0.5eth in that round. Almost everything since has been voluntary, out of pocket, or a prop for specific project. TNS does not provide financial support to any soapbox or reward any team member for running soapboxes.

To allow team members to grow and change, none of our team members are asking for a regular payment. Instead, we would like to experiment by having a budget allocated for each team, and each team will have retro rounds. This ensures that the more visible teams don't end up with all of the rewards. And, those allocating are familiar with the work that the others do.

We are seeking more people so that all of the work does not continue to fall on the same people, and to promote onboarding and growth.

**Admin Team** 
xargs, san, jp, houseofdrey


**Discord Team** 
xargs (admin), akva (communiy building and moderation), houseofdrey and gulamanyow (various roles)


**Website Team** 
- xargs manages the VPS, the website infrastructure and scheduling tools, importation of nounish newsletters
- Santhosh manages all of the data in the calendar/map.
- Guiriba will be writing articles and adding various new things to the website.
- coordination with community liasion team to make sure that our IRL Map, Nounish Art Contests, and 

**Tweeter Operations Team** 
danimim.eth, jp, xargs, santhosh
- a daily post with a screenshot of Nouniverse events for the day with tags on pertinant twitter accounts. threadded  with twitter space reminder embeds where doable.
- a daily thread with current auction prices for Nounish DAO Tokens
- coordination with the Community Liaisons to make sure we are getting important Nounish news out in other languages and international goings on into English.


**Show Hosting Team** mono, jp, davin, xargs, akva, mizukigreen, 
These are the folks who have been and/or are moving into position to co-host some of the twitter shows.

**Community Liaison Team** 
These people speak on our twitter spaces when there are nounish happenings in their area, help us keep the website data up to date, and help with translations in twitter and beyond. Some groups always have stuff going on, some only join us when they have props up or, are deploying a prop.  The pool of funds for this team will be distributed based on their activity.  They are listed below. 

Community Liasons are currently regional. However, we would like to expand to where we have liasions with other Nounish communities, such as Lil Nouns and Gnars.


Community Rewards (apples)

Art Contest Prizes

Meetups

Twitter Picker Prizes

POAP Art

Admin Costs

Admin costs include minting, gas for multisig transactions, web hosting, translation services, google map api, web plugins, discord nitro, bots etc. This also includes translation costs, which increase with activity, so the more we see here, the better we are doing! Team members have been covering these expenses and we would like to see that change.

These services and plugins are also used for The Noun Square (who do not have a website budget), and several smaller nounish projects.


We will be using a debit card in the future to track fiat expenses. We have moved away from deepL translation to gTranslate, which is much less expensive.  If there is admin budget after the three month trial, it will be returned to the DAO.


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>**[akva](https://twitter.com/Akva556)**
Discord: Akva#0001
internatioNounder • Ethereum_Brasil
 rep • thenounsquare squire • NounsBr founder 
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>**[ArtIsMyWeapon](https://twitter.com/ArtIsMyWeapon)**
Discord: ArtIsMyWeapon#4678
internatioNounder • Founder Imaginouns • Ready Player Noun • Co-Founder FoodNouns DAO • Nouncil • UMA • OTG OG


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>**[davin](https://twitter.com/davinoyesigye)**
Discord: davinoyesigye#8954
founder NounsDAOAfrica • Host of that's gnarly daily soapbox • Board member at gnarsDAO • Squire at The Noun Square

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>**[danimim](https://twitter.com/danimimm)**
Discord: danimim.eth#9826
contributor at NounsBR DAO • NouncilBR • Lil Nouner • approved prop Lil sister fund: Nounifying Rescued cats in Brazil. 

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>**[guiriba](https://twitter.com/guiribabrb)**
Discord: guiriba#2323
contributor at NounsBR DAO • NouncilBR • approved prop. 142

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>**[GulaManYOW](https://twitter.com/GulaManYOW)**
Discord: GulaManYOW#8351
Founding Member at FilipiNouns • Artist at Composables, The Noun Square, and Lil Nouns • InternatioNouns Team

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>**[houseofdrey](https://twitter.com/dharebaba)**
Discord: Houseofdrey#3760
Jollof ❣️ Nigeria • FoodNouns • Video Production

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>**[jp.⌐◨-◨](https://twitter.com/eusou_jp)**
Discord: eusou.jp#8930
internatioNounder • Noun Squire • Lil Rep • Building [Nouns in Rio](https://twitter.com/nounsinrio), [Encontre o adesivo](https://tiktok.com/@encontreoadesivo) and more.

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> **[RobotFishGirl](https://twitter.com/RobotFishGirl)**
Discord: RobotFishGirl#2795
Host/Video Editor at The Noun Square • Nouncillor • Voice Actor, Musician, full time general help around the Nouniverse


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>**[Santhosh](https://twitter.com/vellayan_0)**
Discord: Santhosh#2938
internatioNounder • A Squire at The Noun Square • Schedule Management Rockstar


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>**[WideEyeKarl](https://twitter.com/WideEyeKarl)**
Discord:.Wide Eye ⌐◨-◨#0424
founder nounsinsg • founder nounscn • created the first Nounish cleanup initiative • Nouns Chocolate • IRL proliforatoor extraordinaire


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>**[!xargs](https://twitter.com/mamaxargs)**
Discord: !𝚡𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚜#0333
internatioNouns founder • Knight at The Noun Square • Nouncil • Dev for thenounsquare.info and internationouns.org • host on that's gnarly and internationouns soapboxes on TNS 

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**Community Liaison Team**
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>**Africa** 
Davin (above)
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>**Brazil
[Debussy](https://twitter.com/debinvest)**
Discord: Debussy ⌐◨-◨#1531
NounsDao Brazil 🇧🇷 ⌐◨-◨  • Lil Nouns  • Gnars • MeebitsDao • Creator NounsSchool
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>**China**
WideEyeKarl (above)
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>**Dominican Republic 
[systemDM](https://twitter.com/davidmeyreles)**
Discord: systemdm.⌐◨-◨#0306
internatioNounder • creator Hybrid Nouns • Founder NounsDR • Nounsgarden collection on Composables
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>**Germany
[@bk](https://twitter.com/0xbk_)**
Discord: bk#6666
admin/moderator at lil nouns dao • noun squire at TNS • writing for builderDAO
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>**Japan**
[@Mizuki](https://twitter.com/mizukigreen64)**
Discord: mizukigreen🇯🇵danceNFT#0219
internatioNounder • NounsDAO Japan English Radio Team 
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>**Latin America
[@mono](https://twitter.com/0xMonografia)**
Discord: mono#0420
Founder and core member at Nouns Amigos • Enthusiast and promoter of Nouns subDAOs and derivatives • Product Designer at metamask

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>**Philippines
>[@Boss J](https://twitter.com/bossj_eth)**
Discord: bossj.eth#0939
Pinoy Nouns Founder • Lil Waiting Shed Creator
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>**Turkey
[@Dariush](https://twitter.com/0xDariush)**
Discord: 0xDariush#8182
Founder of ROADMAP journey (an ongoing nounish adventure) • NFT Artist  • Creative and Art director
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Thank you for reading and supporting!





