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# Core Team Meeting 2022-08-23

_Attendees:_
- Afri
- Franzi
- Helena
- Ligi
- Nich
- Rose
- Jacob
- Eylon
- Anna
- Caspar
- Kaan

## Overview of workstream leads & contributors
https://office.ethberl.in/pad/#/2/pad/edit/832o4AbMbssHdXCJafTyVPaE/

## General Updates & Discussion
- Update your profile pics!
- Re hackers/sponsors/random people DMing you: WE ARE FULL - No more spots, 30 hacker spots as emergency spots and for hackers who forgot to claim buffer


## Update Round of Workstreams (workstream leads in brackets)

#### General / Legal (Afri)
- Raul on vacation
- Closing sponsorships this week
- Swag-ordering started
- Mentor helpdesk running at <https://ask.ethberlin.ooo>

#### Core Planning & Content (Franzi, Afri)
- Another factory viewing today at 2PM
- Finalizing room distributions and floor plans
- Following up on keynotes:
    - Mark Nadal confirmed
    - Alec Empire confirmed
    - Jarrad Hope waiting for confirmation
    - Chelsea Manning & Jaya waiting for confirmation
    - E.G. waiting for confirmation
- Gillord kind of confirmed as moderator for Fri & Sun (if you don't know him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d961TWOSnBU&list=PLjOcf_IVqERknYTwN0k1d5cwOd_LGhn3E)
- Blog is set up and can be used now! blog.ethberlin.ooo
- Will send emails this week to all people that want their face or profile pic on the website
- Finished reviewing hacker applications

#### Design (Hany, No BS)
- had design meeting on monday
- see updates in website & swag

#### Website (Kaan)
- Prelimary hacker-manual https://ethberlin.ooo/hacker-manual
- Venues https://ethberlin.ooo/venue/
- Interactive program with pop-ups to the venue map and showing dynamically what is on the program and what is already past
- Faces (Mentors, Judges, Team,)
    - Under ~~contribute~~ contributors
    - Should we start asking for photos?

#### Sponsors (Raul, Nich)
- 3 open sponsorship slots left, 3 docs out for signature, 2 more in the queue


#### Community & Communications (Helena, Eylon)
This week's schedule:
   - Monday: Alphabet
   - Today: All applications are now closed & Meme 
   - Weds: What to expect as a hacker at the event
   - Thursday: Announce some judges
   - Friday: Manifesto thread
ETHWarsaw proposed a partnership
- Press update
    - Decyrpt
    - The Block
    - Fortune
    - CoinDesk TBD

#### Swag (Carl)
- Ordered the survival bag contents, starting to make some payments
- Printworks wants to coordinate final t-shirt design with Hany directly.
- Deliver crop tops to Printworks this week?
- String bag design is agreed.
- Survival bag design needs to be finally agreed, then we can order this week.
- To receive the designs for buttons/pins  and potentially stickers from Hany. Orders should be on time.
- Need to agree on webcam covers this week.

#### Experiences Curation (Helena)
Confirmed experiences:
- No Time to DAI escape room
- Treasure hunt
- Joyspace wellness program 
- Pandora Mind Spa 
- Surveillance Camera Display
- Cinema Room 
- Chess Tournament 

Still tbc:
- Graffiti wall? 
- deep fake ads 
- cocktail making competition
- (Kaan) ETHB3rlin logo display
- XR room visual experience

#### Volunteers (Rose)
- reminders to claim ticket sent out
- 45 volunteers arrived in Telegram group
- about 9 tickets not (yet) claimed
- Thanks to everyone who plugged in their volunteer needs!:) 
- - here's the list: https://office.ethberl.in/sheet/#/3/sheet/edit/ef3961c7fa53243adefce3088f09e496/
- Do we need volunteers for:
- - Backdoor (no),
- - Keynotes, Open&Closing Ceremony, lexus & streaming?
    - yes, we'll need 2 volunteers for the times we have "program": Friday 4PM - midnight, Saturday: none, Sunday: 2PM-5PM
- Next up:
- - schedule briefing and Q&A call for beginning of September (~2 weeks before event)
- - describe volunteer areas & make a poll to gauge (non-binding) preferences
- - create shift plan

#### Mentors (Anna, Caspar, Kirill)
- Afri deployed a first version of helpq, testing, and fixing
    - https://ask.ethberlin.ooo/
- @franzi: reminder email to claim ticket? What are the current claimed/unclaimed numbers?
- Wanted to create a mentor-only chat for coordination/questions/directing people to open tickets etc.
    - Who can do it for me or give me permission to?
- Mentor leaderboard: If anyone has fun POAP ideas and/or has created some before, please let me know
- Drafting on-boarding email for mentors with basic information


#### Judging (Nich, Jacob, Ksenia)
- Nich, Franzi, Jacob trialing Snapshot's QV voting feature. Clarifying some questions directly with Snapshot
- 30 confirmed, 17 pending confirmation
- Matrix group created, but no one invited yet
- Made a judging distribution sheet to see which other profiles/subject matter expertise we need
- We have a judging plan in place

#### Entertainment (Helena, Arseny, Kristina)
- After party venue almost confirmed (just finalising some last min details with regards to offer)
- Hackathon entertainment:
    - Justin for the opening ceremony (has 4 pages of requests so we are trying to get some clarifications)
    - Gillord as mc & host 
    - DJs for sat:
        - Ozan 

#### Ticketing (Ligi, Afri)

 - extended vouchers
 - meeting with Ansi from MotionLab today


## Miscellaneuous
