Decentraland’s MENA Community Outreach Plan (DEI) This proposal is now in status: REJECTED. Voting Results: * Yes 44% 1,391,543 VP (40 votes) * No 56% 1,764,665 VP (33 votes)

Thank you for your vote and feedback Matimio, your support is dearly appreciated!

Grant looks well thought out and, imo respectful in the amount of funds being requested! Love seeing more and more onramps from and for communities from all over the world!

Hi Cheddar! Thank you so much for your detailed and just feedback. Please allow me to address a few points you brought up. What happens after the 6 month? And to add to that, what happens if we don't get the grant? Taxir will continue its current level of involvement, Moustafa will continue to be the only Arabic reporter in The DCL Report, and we will do what we can at our capacity to be around. Decentraland is our metaverse of choice after we thoroughly researched many leading metaverse platforms. This grant is a one-time-off to provide a corner stone for the Arab community in DCL to build on, and it will make our work easier having all the media and educational resources to use while onboarding new users and builders. We might apply later for much much smaller grants for offline events and major metaverse events (e.g. MENA X DCL Metaverse Festival), but the current grant covers all the media and education requirements that we will need long term speaking, so we won't be applying for that again, and our voluntary work will cover our long term involvement. We will definitively consider your remarks regarding media buy in and streamers spending, we realize they are big ticket items, and we are open to reduce them if the grant ended up being revised. Thank you again for your feedback and for the time you took to go through our proposal :beers:

Dearly Appreciated AwedJob! And thank you for all the support and guidance your provided through the last three months, it helped us a lot. We will always be a part of the community :raised_hands:

hey cheddar, the 30k are divided into 6 projects, we are paying 8k to 2 professional well known streamers with 100+k follower, we OFFER them blockchain and decentraland training, if they wanted, we dont interfere with the stream, we let them do their job. we see the media buy ins as an added value, with the low cost and a high reach among the youth ,the projects won't need any follow up efforts after 6 months, unless if we wanted a discord moderator for the arabic channel, and i dont think that is necessary, cause in this 6 months we will be creating a community that will help each others, thank you for taking the time to let us know what you think and feel :heart:

I'm voting NO because although I have seen some of the videos produced and the quality is nice, I'm not sure this merits 30k for 6 months.. what happens when the 6 months is over, another 30K? I also think we could do without the media buy ins, or they could be more cost effective. I don't see a benefit in paying 8K to teach two streamers about blockchain and decentraland. If the amount was smaller and just included the educational videos I would be more inclined to support it.

Voting YES: Ammaro, Moustafa, and the Taxir team came to the CBD server about three months ago. They have been inquisitive and eager to learn. They have attended tours lead by myself and the rest of the ABC Decentraland Tours team to observe how we do things. They have sought comments and criticisms to their proposal so that they might improve it and resubmit it. Decentraland is a truly global asset. As such we need native speakers to present it to different parts of the world. The Taxir team has been working and continues to work hard to produce content and experiences that reaches people who speak Arabic. They have a realistic timeline, an experienced team, and examples of the quality of work that has been and will be produced.

Thanks Sinful! We enjoyed learning about Decentraland and being part of the community over the past few months :) Your support is dearly appreciated :beers:

Yes for me @Ammaro and the Taxir team have been taking the time to get involved with the Decentraland Community as well as to compile enough information about our platform so that he may transcribe it into Arabic, I would love to see this pass because i feel like it would be a good move for exposer in Arabic Countries.

Thank you frisky! We dearly appreciate your feedback and support, and thanks for making our proposal better :))

Easy Yes my friend! I really like how you took the proposal originally to the forum to receive feedback from the community. I saw you made the changes and really hope this passes! Really like your team dynamics, and see huge potential in attracting quality users into Decentraland. Job well done!