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# KodaDot Community Call # 1
**Date & Time:** 17th of March 2021 at 2pm UTC
**Location:** [Gather.town](https://gather.town/)

**KodaDot Links:**
[Website](https://nft.kodadot.xyz/)
[GitHub](https://github.com/kodadot)
[Twitter](https://twitter.com/KodaDot)
[Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/KodaDot/)

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## Agenda: 
- Welcome 
- Introduction KodaDot 
- Status development 

## Community Efforts: 
- Community Telegram Sticker pack
    - We really see it as our community lingo 
    - We are happy to support, buyback stickers through KodaDot NFT gallery once they are published

- Community merch
    - Merchant costs support 
        - ideas for merch
    
- Carbon Calculator
    - how we can offset mints
        - user transactions
        - treasury
        - validators themselves
        - housing
        - provider for datacenterum

- Growing channels
    - Local channels guidelines?

- Artists efforts
    - spotlight on frequent minters on KodaDot
    - support artist 

- Get to know each other 
    - introduce yourself, what you do in one line

- Feedback loop
    - What features would you like to see?

- Questions about costs of gallery engine
    - IPFS pinning - Pinata
    - Textile read/writes


## Notes: 
- Anett - introduction of agenda
- Wao - welcome, update on our roadmap, Started as grantees then moved forward. Started as NFT explorer on Kusama, now we started to hacking around low carbon gallery for multichain future 
- Wao - Carbon carculator of NFTs and how to offset this Clean NFT initiative
- Wao embrace the artist economy, make it UX first for non tech savy people
- This is just a beginning of what we will work on in the future
- Viki - overview of gallery, recent add search, working on 3D viewer for artfowrks 
- Viki - we are looking for people to help out explore KodaDot 
- Wao - we may deploy kodadot to other chains, now we are looking for improving kodadot UI
- Wao - Kodadot is running on Textile so it we dont have any servers and everything is happening in your browser
- Jennifer - introduction, she found us on IPFS meetup, 
- Ani - introduction, he is apart of Substrapunks commuunity, 
- Viki: demo on how to create pack of NFTs, how to curate packs and embedding galleries
- Wao: demo on how packs works for now, missing users profile
- Jennifer: have you guys connected to pinata team on how to pay for pinata costs in order to let NFT holder pay for it
- Wao: pinata has distribution problems with gateaways, we have been thinking about costs but it is more of a distribution problem with acceleration. Looking forward to be location independed. Give artist option to store their content on arweave. Looking forward to connect IPFS to Arweave
- Jennifer: selling art and resseling
- Wao: IPFS can solve it and we are looking forward to solve it probably with curations. Now we are just model viewer for the RMRK graphite 
- Alf: company airdrops 500 tokens to artists to some particular marketplace. Maybe some airdrops on roadmaps or refund gas fees. 
- Wao: Kusama fees are low and will be much cheaper soon. We would like to rely on word of mounth. 
- Wao: Ethereum has metatransaction where galleries can support gas fees, Subsocial is doing something similar with freemium transactions.
- Wao: carbon calculator is ongoing for Kusama network. Validators, owners, network can pay for offsetting these carbon dumbs. 
- Jennifer: Gitcoin has green NFT initiative 
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