The Society submitted its treasury proposal for the DotsToLines collab: the human blockchain project.

The proposal centres in community growth and education focused in the verge of technology and art - this particular submission covers:

1. Narrative, marketing and comms outreach strategy and development
2. Brand development
3. Website development
4. Society treasury funding for new members, taking into account maker’s fee and candidate reward.

You can find the proposal doc to review here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1q6kFyznrDnyctZViK29J2OvBrr4D1LNo/view?usp=sharing

Thank you for submitting the proposal! The background information reminds me of a book I really liked: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/metal-and-flesh

A few questions / comments

• The graphic on page 5 of the PDF is blurry but I think I understand the flow
• What does vouching for a new candidate mean for the Maker? From reading the proposal this isn't totally clear to me. Is the Maker vouching that the the candidate is legitimate or has the tattoo?
• I really like that this includes a website for the Society. What will be included on the website, specifically?
• Who is the target audience of Pathways and how will we measure success of the gamification activities? Where will this outreach to new users happen?
• The proposal says it aims to solve 2 main issues with Kusama, one being "The disuse of available resources for building on the network;" but doesn't provide any examples. Would be curious what is meant by this statement.

@jack, answers below:

• vouching for a new candidate for the maker means they get their part of the reward as payment for executing proof-of-ink. The Maker is the tattoo artist, that by joining the Society can become a Maker of it and get rewarded in KSM for the work done.
• There is a first website developed by Shawn (https://www.shawntabrizi.com/substrate-society/). The website we are envisioning will be a more sophisticated version of this one, that will retrieve data onchain to give accurate information for candidates and makers on the next steps, samples on PoI including onchain info, include a blog about new projects, educational resources (incl. Pathways access) and detailed information on what the Society is. Shawn has shown interest in continuing the development of this website. We will partner with him for the first steps I believe, and use the brand resources developed on the 1st phase.
• The target audience for pathways is for now only non-tech people, especially artists, designers and musicians. the outreach of the project will be set up during the comms strategy outline between DotsToLines and the society, with Emily's help, and will include the use of DotsToLines handles for it. For this first, a more matured narrative is needed, so the first step is to develop this. The goal of the narrative is for non-tech people to understand the use of treasury.