I agree that $160,000 was a significant amount of money. Most of the funds were used to purchase 14 sails, print logos, and rent boats. J24 sailboats is most popular sailboat with including many yacht clubs in US. We still have sails and can use these sails to promote nouns and build relations with teams and yacht clubs. Yachting is different from skateboarding and esports. It is less viral but each club has 500+ members and sailing programs for various age groups. I hope someday we can establish connections with numerous yacht clubs and unite them for the sustainability cause for example distributing glasses made from recycled plastic.

The photos from prop102 and 173 are currently circulating on social media, and I have sent two of the sails from 102 to teams in Argentina and Greece.

For prop173, I exceeded the budget by $20,000 because I had to purchase racing sails in the US last minute due to artwork delays and cancelation from the drone photographer.

Actually, many were excited about the sailing event but couldn't visit New York. I reserved a large boat for 70 people and seven smaller boats for 30 people. Some individuals who registered couldn't attend for personal reasons for example artmatr and electric capital. In the group photo, you'll see 30 people, but many were observing from the sidelines, including members from the Manhattan Yacht Club.

I think merch from prop173 was great. I didn't refuse anyone who asked for merchandise and sent them before or after the event. I hope that if this proposal passes, more people will join us next year. It is valuable to meet at least once a year. I am confident in my ability to organize a yacht events only, so I am offering my services.

Regarding next year, I have minimized expenses. There will be no photo/video shoots, just a gathering.

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Meetups are important but for this budget you could do something much more exciting on the land. Stunts can be great for proliferation but they tend to only work once and need to provide outsized returns.

candidly, +1 noun40

The first event looked like great fun for those who attended but for the cost; I’m not sure it provided great value to the DAO.

I was expecting some rich evergreen media from the event (there was budget for this) but so far have only seen pictures that were taken on mobiles and/or by the attendees own cameras.

I also echo Noun 40 that some costings implied are eye watering. $12,000 for good and drinks for example.

I like the sailing part, its a fun, quirky way for us to ”advertise” during nft nyc. But im not sure if its a good format for a meetup. Id love for a local to help drive the meetup aspect, and something about it doesnt feel ”organic” enough to me. (I know thats not the most actionable feedback, sorry.)

Abstaining for now.

(noun40 voting via agora)

I'm gonna be honest here. I don't think this is a good spend for the dao. last year's prop (https://nouns.wtf/vote/173) wasn't really a success imo. it promised 100 ppl attending, a big photo/video budget, all sorts of other things, and spent $160,000. what came out of it? around ~30 ppl in the group photo. some social pics. someone that went to the event relayed to me it was underwhelming and was actually asked to pitch in money that they never got back.

also these line items feel a bit crazy to me. $12k for food and drinks? $18k to rent a boat for a single day? $10k for unexpected expenses? spending $55k for less than 50 ppl hanging out for an afternoon seems way too much for me.

Didn’t attend the last one but heard great things from everyone who did. Providing opportunities for the community to get together and meet one another is great for establishing a strong culture. Thanks for all your hard work!

Leaning no here. Not sure we saw enough from the first sailing prop to really get us excited about doing it again.

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Huge shoutout to the team for hosting the sail events in the past (seems logistically hard to pull off!)

But i’m personally not a huge fan of sailing as a great IRL activation for nouns. Mostly because it’s logistically a huge pain for NFT NYC attendees to get to. IRL activations are an opportunity for the noun-curious to come and get to know the community — and decreasing the cost of doing so (when there’s tons of competing events) feels important 🙏

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appreciate the revision based on feedback and support in person gathering

In-person Nouns gatherings are important. This is a fun one! The budget is reasonable for an event of this size.

In person gatherings help a lot with deeper connections within the DAO. Even though the output isn't as easy to measure, I've been to a number of Nouns events and can attest to how valuable they are.

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Perfect, ty for accommodating the changes :) Hopefully I can make it this time!

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