Intro👋

• GM GM🌞
• Starting off with a new Town Hall theme song by J6C6!
  • J6C6 also created the opening jingle for GM NFTs & a Rug Radio Sound Board

DAO Council & Governance🏛

• Deadline to vote on the governance frameworks on Snapshot is 11:59pm EST on July 25th
  • Your voting power is equal to the number of Membership Passes and Genesis NFTs that you own
• Working on getting a couple of proposals submitted very soon after the frameworks are approved
• Kenobi, Core Team committee
  • Shoutout to the entire team for all of the work that they’re putting in to build Rug Radio
  • Introduced the idea of integrating a Rug Radio button with customizable NFT projects that have launched

Team & Content Updates✍️

Updates for Creators

• Interested in joining the Rug Radio ecosystem as a host or creator? We have a new form for creator applications and would love for you to join us!
• Updates from Patrick
  • Brought on 5 new shows this week with the goal of bringing on more every week
    • NFT Backstage Show by Tino Forbidden & GratefulApe
    • Bridge It Babble by Cordy Young
    • Sunday Dinner by Zach Radio
    • Radio Tapete by Sergito (Our first show in Spanish)
    • Tuesday Live Crew by Ron Jordan
  • Current Shows include
    • WVRP’d Music Mondays by Jeff Nicholas & Lindsey Byrnes
    • Elevating Women in Web3 by Lori Grace
    • BIPOC by Ed Balloon and the homies
    • Elevating LGBTQ2IA People in Web3 by Kristina Flynn & Jessie Soleil
    • Law Line w/ by Carlo & Genco
    • NFT Fine Art by Erin McGean
    • Throwback Thursday by Adam McBride
    • GM NFTs by Mando, OSF, & Farokh
  • Reaching out to get on a call with creators on Thursdays @ 2pm EST / 6pm UTC to brainstorm and get to know each other
• Our first Youtube creator is joining next week as we move to becoming platform agnostic and increasing exposure
• Onboarding multi-lingual creators for Japanese, German, French, and Portuguese shows is currently being worked on
• Gldncrypt0 is officially part of the Rug Radio team as a Junior Producer!!!
  • He has been helping with things like putting GM NFTs on Spotify and increasing exposure outside of Twitter
  • As part of the team, he will be working to expand these efforts to all Rug Radio creators

Updates from Amie

• Started designing new, high quality merch this week
• Started uploading panels from NFT.NYC to YouTube
• Setting up a weekly newsletter to start sending emails for content and what’s going on behind the scenes
  • Ryguy offered to start helping put this together
• Working with a graphic designer for a media kit for partnerships
• Governance frameworks
  • Worked on the behind the scenes task list such as documentation, financial, and administrative tasks

Updates from Farokh

• Recognized concerns around marketing, promotional, and communications about what is being built so we’re going to start working on a newsletter and brainstorming innovative ways to get the community involved in helping contribute
• Partnership & collaboration applications are now open which is a very high priority
• Request for a show to be more centric around the DAO and community and would like to see this be a community effort
  • Open to hosting a community office hours on Spaces on non-town hall Friday’s

“I’m really excited! All of the creators that I’ve spoken to have such an amazing educational outlook and are doing such a great job at building the culture in our community and sharing stories.” - Patrick

“We want to help everyone be able to have this organization where you have your show, and we want to help you guys capture that show and be able to repurpose the content across all platforms.” - Farokh

Bildr Updates🏗

• Working with Bildr to get the platform ready to onboard hosts as well as start testing & getting feedback
  • There were some concerns about the initial design so we’re making some adjustments to make it more intuitive and user friendly

Miscellaneous💬

• Opened an AMA channel in the Discord where the community can ask questions

Interested in listening to the entire Town Hall? Check out the recording on Twitter!