Skatopia
Member
Thanks to the community for helping us tailor the pre-proposal(s) into the current proposal.
(Proposal, Part 1)
Synopsis
If you read the original pre-proposal for this project last month, you'll notice WE HAVE DOUBLED THE NUMBER OF DAYS FOR THE EVENT (from 3 to 6), but kept the cost almost exactly the same. Now the Bowl Bash 22 event is going to be two consecutive weekends, and some people will stay here during the week between as well. We're still expecting no less than 1,000 people for the duration of the event. Also, bands will be playing live at Bowl Bash on all three stages, and that includes the stage directly across from the Dash Expansion area of construction.
(Yes, if you sponsor this project, all large events that feature enough bands for us to open the second stage, will have live bands playing right in front of the Dash sponsored area.)
Introduction
We'd also like to thank the strangers who have donated Dash to help alleviate the burden of the proposal fee.
For ease of reading this long/detailed pre-proposal, we will use bold print for areas of relative importance throughout.
Overview and Agreement Structure
We (Skatopia) wish to present the Dash community with a chance to sponsor an expansion of a world famous extreme sports and concert venue in exchange for a number of benefits, including naming and labeling the new edition (to the existing Lula Bowl) after Dash. We also have some future proposals in mind, which will be explored below.
All project funds asked for in this proposal are paid over a three month period, which allows the Dash community to stop at least the last payment if they find we are not keeping to our side of the agreement. We structured the pre-proposal this way to mitigate risk for the Dash community when dealing with a new contractor/partner (us). Our business reputation for upholding contracts with sponsors spans 22 years this year, so we're not worried if you wish to do due diligence.
Evidence that the specific funded activity has been actually completed will be submitted where practical, including photos and videos of before, during, and after activities, including images of the areas of importance for construction and giveaways/how-to presentations. The duration of this arrangement with Dash's Masternodes is from the date of the first payout (the return of the submission fee in the first week of May 2017) until the first week of July 2017 (the deadline for reimbursement payments for which Skatopia provided evidence of completion). The construction completion date is set for July 1st, 2017 or before, depending on what weekend weather permits, but it will absolutely be completed by July 1st, 2017. That is the deadline date of construction for the sake of this agreement. The date which concludes this agreement is the July date of our last payout (the first week in July).
To sum up, if the proposal is passed by the Masternodes, the 5 Dash anti-spam submission fee will be returned along with the cost of the project/sponsorship in three equal payments over a three month period, from the 1st week in May 2017 until the 1st week in July 2017.
In the future we'd like to work directly with Core (perhaps Marketing) on a pay-after-we-prove model for merchant adoptions based on commission-only (so we only get paid for successful adoptions). Right now, the budget system for proposals doesn't really allow that efficient and risk mitigating model for the community for two reasons: A) the payments over months have to be equal in amount, and B) the pay-as-we-prove model is not easily implemented in a single proposal, causing fees and risk on the side of the proposer to be ever increasing and untenable. We believe we can score a large amount of merchant adoptions through our for-profit and non-profit partners and sponsors, so we're confident about working on commission. So, we're hoping this proposal with a traditional funding model will pass, establishing trust on both sides, so that we can work together in that way in the future (until such a time it can be done directly on the network).
Interesting detail:
We are being extended a short term line of credit from a friend of the park who first introduced us to Dash back in October of 2016. This individual is confident enough in Dash's Masternodes and treasury system to loan us the amount upfront we'd be short to complete the project going into the last payment (the project completes on July 1st 2017, but final payment won't come until days later). So, a Dash treasury agreement is being used as the basis for the creation of credit in the form of a loan in real life.
What is Skatopia?
Skatopia is an eighty-eight acre, nearly 22 year old non-profit skateboard park and extreme sports destination located in Rutland, Ohio. It's owned and operated by founder, Brewce Martin (a now retired professional skateboarder). It features a museum of skateboarding history with exhibits spanning nearly 100 years of skating culture, thousands of unique boards, many ramps for skating (seven unique bowls), two standalone stages for bands and one small stage for more intimate shows, 88 acres of land for visitors to explore and enjoy, and the Pabst House (the product of a former long term sponsorship with Pabst Beer Company). It has a dedicated annual turnout which is dependable and enthusiastic, and hails from all over the world.
Skatopia also has strong long term business relationships with dozens of area businesses in several States, both as collaborators and sponsors, some of which are featured on the skatopia.org website. The park was featured in an episode of MTV's 'True Life', 'Viva La Bam', Fuel TV's countdown of 'Best Backyard Scenes', and more recently in an episode of the documentary series on Netflix, 'Unplanned America'. The park was also featured in the video game 'Tony Hawk's Underground 2', as the final level. Further, it's constant coverage by skateboarding media led to a profile in Rolling Stone. They also have a full length documentary filmed on location over a several year period, 'Skatopia: 88 Acres of Anarchy', which was an official selection of several film festivals, including Sundance. More than a thousand bands have played live at Skatopia, including names like Black Flag, GWAR, Lamb of God, Immortal Technique, Green Jelly, etc.
At our last party at the end of March/beginning of April, we had no less than 10 bands play live, and many of them played multiple days. That annual party was the smallest of our annual parties. Our next event is of comparable size, an educational conference, and it takes place in early May. Every event following the conference is quite a bit larger. The event we are asking Dash to sponsor, along with the Dash Expansion, is Bowl Bash 22, and it spans two consecutive weekends from June 16th-18th to June 23rd-25th. Some people will stay here during the week between parties, so the event is technically June 16th-25th, but fewer people will be here on weekdays and the contracted vendor will not be here, so we didn't include those extra days as part of the agreement.
There are two entities: Skatopia the museum and park, and Skatopia's print shop. The print shop has the capability of printing stickers, signs (up to billboard size), and t-shirt production. Skatopia also has its own line of wheels for skateboards, in collaboration with Bones Wheels, and had a shoe line with Draven (a company licensed to do work for bands like The Misfits and The Ramones). Skatopia also had its own clothing line through their deal with Volcom, and a skateboard line with Eastern Skateboard Supplies.
Skatopia is also a community, with several people living on the premises full time, contributing labor to the park and print shop to maintain them, fill print orders, and set up for expansions (in preparation for additional labor to realize the plans). In addition to in-house labor, Skatopia has a small but constant flow of volunteers. Parties are held to attract more labor for expansions, and are annual events.
Skatopia has one in-house vendor on location, a website, and an outsourced/contracted vendor that can all potentially offer Dash as a payment option. The park also never closes. It's open 24 hours a day, seven days a week (although the contracted vendor is only present for parties and possibly conferences, and the in-house vendor keeps regular business hours).
What Can Skatopia Offer The Dash Community?
What Skatopia can offer to the Dash community is a relatively large following of people who can be made aware of the technology, an in-house vendor that can adopt Dash as a payment option, a contracted vendor who can adopt Dash, a website that can adopt Dash, several daily quick presentations over the course of the next multi-day party on what Dash is, how to download the wallet, receive and send payments, use instant and private features, and how to use Dash at point-of-sale in real life.
Skatopia can also offer a large banner displaying that Dash is sponsoring the next party. This also includes six medium size banners posted all over the park to the same effect, and a t-shirt for the presenter of the Dash how-to tutorials (identifying him instantly to all, inducing conversations). The presenter will also get an area (or "booth") near the vendors to set up for point-of-sale demonstrations and general help, highlighted with a medium size banner.
We can also offer to name the new expansion of the Lula Bowl we are constructing at the next party after Dash ("The Dash Expansion"). This area is directly across from our second of three stages for live music and other performances, assuring Dash marketing will feature heavily in any large event. When sponsorship is in place the expansion is permanently (barring unforeseen considerations*) named after the sponsor. We have precedence for the market value of such an arrangement, given past sponsorship and past marketing agreements for specific areas of the park (the Pabst House, as part of the overall Pabst Beer Company sponsorship deal, as one example). We also have some very long term and loyal sponsors who have their brand featured all over the park (Independent Truck Company, for example, and Volcom Industries). We may market long term sponsors more than contractually obligated, as a show of appreciation.
If this proposal passes, Skatopia will receive reimbursement for the funding necessary for the Dash Expansion, and Dash will receive in return:
1. A new audience for Dash
2. An in-house vendor adoption
3. A website vendor adoption
4. A contracted vendor adoption
5. Several daily Dash how-to presentations (for the duration of the next multi-day party) on how to download the wallet, sending and receiving coins, using private and instant features, and using Dash for in-real-life point-of-sale scenarios, etc.
6. Printing and hanging one very large banner and 6 medium sized banners** signaling Dash's sponsorship of the event and project
7. Printing a t-shirt for the presenter of the Dash how-to tutorials and giveaways
8. A large outdoor skateboard bowl expansion (obstacle) named after Dash with a large pre-existing stage right across from it; this expansion will feature the Dash logo painted all over the decks around the bowl and on the back of the extension (logo includes the "digital cash" phrase along with the Dash logo itself and website)
9. The above mentioned presenter will also hand out $5 in Dash to the first 12 or 13 people per day (75 total people over the 6 days) who sit through a presentation and/or downloads a Dash wallet at Bowl Bash 22, then will steer the recipients to the participating vendors; prices are structured in such a way as to promote people taking home a little Dash - which promotes their return to spend it, and keeps them thinking about Dash
10. Video and/or photo evidence of all of the above where possible and practical (obviously the identity of some participants may not be revealed due to their preference)***
11. Free entry into the park any time of the year for the duration of the sponsorship for the Core Team, active Developers, and any other Dash employee or person deemed a friend of the company (up to the mutual discretion of Skatopia and Dash communities)
12. A box of "goodies" from the project mailed to Dash (if someone provides us an address), possibly including some of the banners as keepsakes, and definitely 25 stickers of the type handed out to everyone at the party
(* 'unforeseen considerations' such as events that might damage the reputation of Dash so severely as to negatively effect Skatopia's bottom line; however, no such considerations have ever come to pass for any of our sponsors, and Dash is also free to ask us to remove any sign of sponsorship of the expansion at their discretion, as we are free to remove it at any time, or remove Dash as a payment option, due to the above mentioned reputation damage)
(**The large sign (banner) is 44 inches by 8 feet ; The six medium signs (banners) are 2x2 feet; six flip-board signs for the how-to presentations are 24x36 inches; one 2x2 feet sign for the Dash giveaway and how-to area)
(***Photos and/or video will be presented of the area of construction before major work begins, during the process of construction, and after the completion of construction. Further evidence will be presented, where practical, of the purchase of the concrete and other supplies. Evidence will also be presented of any of the other aspects of the project where practical, especially if requested.)
Schedule
The next event is on May 6th and 7th, 2017 (the S.E.E.D conference). The next major party is scheduled for June 16th-18th and 23rd-25th, 2017 (the Bowl Bash). This agreement will sponsor the Bowl Bash party, our largest of the year (expecting minimum 1,000 people over the course of the two weekend, depending on weather). That is the event where the banners of sponsorship will be hung throughout the park and the event we hand out free Dash and do how-to presentations on how to use Dash. The work on the Dash Expansion will be completed no later than July 1st, 2017. It may be completed sooner if labor is available. Skatopia is incentivized to get the work done while we have all the extra labor at the events, so proscrastination on the project is not an option.
(To be continued in Part 2)
(Proposal, Part 1)
Synopsis
If you read the original pre-proposal for this project last month, you'll notice WE HAVE DOUBLED THE NUMBER OF DAYS FOR THE EVENT (from 3 to 6), but kept the cost almost exactly the same. Now the Bowl Bash 22 event is going to be two consecutive weekends, and some people will stay here during the week between as well. We're still expecting no less than 1,000 people for the duration of the event. Also, bands will be playing live at Bowl Bash on all three stages, and that includes the stage directly across from the Dash Expansion area of construction.
(Yes, if you sponsor this project, all large events that feature enough bands for us to open the second stage, will have live bands playing right in front of the Dash sponsored area.)
Introduction
We'd also like to thank the strangers who have donated Dash to help alleviate the burden of the proposal fee.
For ease of reading this long/detailed pre-proposal, we will use bold print for areas of relative importance throughout.
Overview and Agreement Structure
We (Skatopia) wish to present the Dash community with a chance to sponsor an expansion of a world famous extreme sports and concert venue in exchange for a number of benefits, including naming and labeling the new edition (to the existing Lula Bowl) after Dash. We also have some future proposals in mind, which will be explored below.
All project funds asked for in this proposal are paid over a three month period, which allows the Dash community to stop at least the last payment if they find we are not keeping to our side of the agreement. We structured the pre-proposal this way to mitigate risk for the Dash community when dealing with a new contractor/partner (us). Our business reputation for upholding contracts with sponsors spans 22 years this year, so we're not worried if you wish to do due diligence.
Evidence that the specific funded activity has been actually completed will be submitted where practical, including photos and videos of before, during, and after activities, including images of the areas of importance for construction and giveaways/how-to presentations. The duration of this arrangement with Dash's Masternodes is from the date of the first payout (the return of the submission fee in the first week of May 2017) until the first week of July 2017 (the deadline for reimbursement payments for which Skatopia provided evidence of completion). The construction completion date is set for July 1st, 2017 or before, depending on what weekend weather permits, but it will absolutely be completed by July 1st, 2017. That is the deadline date of construction for the sake of this agreement. The date which concludes this agreement is the July date of our last payout (the first week in July).
To sum up, if the proposal is passed by the Masternodes, the 5 Dash anti-spam submission fee will be returned along with the cost of the project/sponsorship in three equal payments over a three month period, from the 1st week in May 2017 until the 1st week in July 2017.
In the future we'd like to work directly with Core (perhaps Marketing) on a pay-after-we-prove model for merchant adoptions based on commission-only (so we only get paid for successful adoptions). Right now, the budget system for proposals doesn't really allow that efficient and risk mitigating model for the community for two reasons: A) the payments over months have to be equal in amount, and B) the pay-as-we-prove model is not easily implemented in a single proposal, causing fees and risk on the side of the proposer to be ever increasing and untenable. We believe we can score a large amount of merchant adoptions through our for-profit and non-profit partners and sponsors, so we're confident about working on commission. So, we're hoping this proposal with a traditional funding model will pass, establishing trust on both sides, so that we can work together in that way in the future (until such a time it can be done directly on the network).
Interesting detail:
We are being extended a short term line of credit from a friend of the park who first introduced us to Dash back in October of 2016. This individual is confident enough in Dash's Masternodes and treasury system to loan us the amount upfront we'd be short to complete the project going into the last payment (the project completes on July 1st 2017, but final payment won't come until days later). So, a Dash treasury agreement is being used as the basis for the creation of credit in the form of a loan in real life.
What is Skatopia?
Skatopia is an eighty-eight acre, nearly 22 year old non-profit skateboard park and extreme sports destination located in Rutland, Ohio. It's owned and operated by founder, Brewce Martin (a now retired professional skateboarder). It features a museum of skateboarding history with exhibits spanning nearly 100 years of skating culture, thousands of unique boards, many ramps for skating (seven unique bowls), two standalone stages for bands and one small stage for more intimate shows, 88 acres of land for visitors to explore and enjoy, and the Pabst House (the product of a former long term sponsorship with Pabst Beer Company). It has a dedicated annual turnout which is dependable and enthusiastic, and hails from all over the world.
Skatopia also has strong long term business relationships with dozens of area businesses in several States, both as collaborators and sponsors, some of which are featured on the skatopia.org website. The park was featured in an episode of MTV's 'True Life', 'Viva La Bam', Fuel TV's countdown of 'Best Backyard Scenes', and more recently in an episode of the documentary series on Netflix, 'Unplanned America'. The park was also featured in the video game 'Tony Hawk's Underground 2', as the final level. Further, it's constant coverage by skateboarding media led to a profile in Rolling Stone. They also have a full length documentary filmed on location over a several year period, 'Skatopia: 88 Acres of Anarchy', which was an official selection of several film festivals, including Sundance. More than a thousand bands have played live at Skatopia, including names like Black Flag, GWAR, Lamb of God, Immortal Technique, Green Jelly, etc.
At our last party at the end of March/beginning of April, we had no less than 10 bands play live, and many of them played multiple days. That annual party was the smallest of our annual parties. Our next event is of comparable size, an educational conference, and it takes place in early May. Every event following the conference is quite a bit larger. The event we are asking Dash to sponsor, along with the Dash Expansion, is Bowl Bash 22, and it spans two consecutive weekends from June 16th-18th to June 23rd-25th. Some people will stay here during the week between parties, so the event is technically June 16th-25th, but fewer people will be here on weekdays and the contracted vendor will not be here, so we didn't include those extra days as part of the agreement.
There are two entities: Skatopia the museum and park, and Skatopia's print shop. The print shop has the capability of printing stickers, signs (up to billboard size), and t-shirt production. Skatopia also has its own line of wheels for skateboards, in collaboration with Bones Wheels, and had a shoe line with Draven (a company licensed to do work for bands like The Misfits and The Ramones). Skatopia also had its own clothing line through their deal with Volcom, and a skateboard line with Eastern Skateboard Supplies.
Skatopia is also a community, with several people living on the premises full time, contributing labor to the park and print shop to maintain them, fill print orders, and set up for expansions (in preparation for additional labor to realize the plans). In addition to in-house labor, Skatopia has a small but constant flow of volunteers. Parties are held to attract more labor for expansions, and are annual events.
Skatopia has one in-house vendor on location, a website, and an outsourced/contracted vendor that can all potentially offer Dash as a payment option. The park also never closes. It's open 24 hours a day, seven days a week (although the contracted vendor is only present for parties and possibly conferences, and the in-house vendor keeps regular business hours).
What Can Skatopia Offer The Dash Community?
What Skatopia can offer to the Dash community is a relatively large following of people who can be made aware of the technology, an in-house vendor that can adopt Dash as a payment option, a contracted vendor who can adopt Dash, a website that can adopt Dash, several daily quick presentations over the course of the next multi-day party on what Dash is, how to download the wallet, receive and send payments, use instant and private features, and how to use Dash at point-of-sale in real life.
Skatopia can also offer a large banner displaying that Dash is sponsoring the next party. This also includes six medium size banners posted all over the park to the same effect, and a t-shirt for the presenter of the Dash how-to tutorials (identifying him instantly to all, inducing conversations). The presenter will also get an area (or "booth") near the vendors to set up for point-of-sale demonstrations and general help, highlighted with a medium size banner.
We can also offer to name the new expansion of the Lula Bowl we are constructing at the next party after Dash ("The Dash Expansion"). This area is directly across from our second of three stages for live music and other performances, assuring Dash marketing will feature heavily in any large event. When sponsorship is in place the expansion is permanently (barring unforeseen considerations*) named after the sponsor. We have precedence for the market value of such an arrangement, given past sponsorship and past marketing agreements for specific areas of the park (the Pabst House, as part of the overall Pabst Beer Company sponsorship deal, as one example). We also have some very long term and loyal sponsors who have their brand featured all over the park (Independent Truck Company, for example, and Volcom Industries). We may market long term sponsors more than contractually obligated, as a show of appreciation.
If this proposal passes, Skatopia will receive reimbursement for the funding necessary for the Dash Expansion, and Dash will receive in return:
1. A new audience for Dash
2. An in-house vendor adoption
3. A website vendor adoption
4. A contracted vendor adoption
5. Several daily Dash how-to presentations (for the duration of the next multi-day party) on how to download the wallet, sending and receiving coins, using private and instant features, and using Dash for in-real-life point-of-sale scenarios, etc.
6. Printing and hanging one very large banner and 6 medium sized banners** signaling Dash's sponsorship of the event and project
7. Printing a t-shirt for the presenter of the Dash how-to tutorials and giveaways
8. A large outdoor skateboard bowl expansion (obstacle) named after Dash with a large pre-existing stage right across from it; this expansion will feature the Dash logo painted all over the decks around the bowl and on the back of the extension (logo includes the "digital cash" phrase along with the Dash logo itself and website)
9. The above mentioned presenter will also hand out $5 in Dash to the first 12 or 13 people per day (75 total people over the 6 days) who sit through a presentation and/or downloads a Dash wallet at Bowl Bash 22, then will steer the recipients to the participating vendors; prices are structured in such a way as to promote people taking home a little Dash - which promotes their return to spend it, and keeps them thinking about Dash
10. Video and/or photo evidence of all of the above where possible and practical (obviously the identity of some participants may not be revealed due to their preference)***
11. Free entry into the park any time of the year for the duration of the sponsorship for the Core Team, active Developers, and any other Dash employee or person deemed a friend of the company (up to the mutual discretion of Skatopia and Dash communities)
12. A box of "goodies" from the project mailed to Dash (if someone provides us an address), possibly including some of the banners as keepsakes, and definitely 25 stickers of the type handed out to everyone at the party
(* 'unforeseen considerations' such as events that might damage the reputation of Dash so severely as to negatively effect Skatopia's bottom line; however, no such considerations have ever come to pass for any of our sponsors, and Dash is also free to ask us to remove any sign of sponsorship of the expansion at their discretion, as we are free to remove it at any time, or remove Dash as a payment option, due to the above mentioned reputation damage)
(**The large sign (banner) is 44 inches by 8 feet ; The six medium signs (banners) are 2x2 feet; six flip-board signs for the how-to presentations are 24x36 inches; one 2x2 feet sign for the Dash giveaway and how-to area)
(***Photos and/or video will be presented of the area of construction before major work begins, during the process of construction, and after the completion of construction. Further evidence will be presented, where practical, of the purchase of the concrete and other supplies. Evidence will also be presented of any of the other aspects of the project where practical, especially if requested.)
Schedule
The next event is on May 6th and 7th, 2017 (the S.E.E.D conference). The next major party is scheduled for June 16th-18th and 23rd-25th, 2017 (the Bowl Bash). This agreement will sponsor the Bowl Bash party, our largest of the year (expecting minimum 1,000 people over the course of the two weekend, depending on weather). That is the event where the banners of sponsorship will be hung throughout the park and the event we hand out free Dash and do how-to presentations on how to use Dash. The work on the Dash Expansion will be completed no later than July 1st, 2017. It may be completed sooner if labor is available. Skatopia is incentivized to get the work done while we have all the extra labor at the events, so proscrastination on the project is not an option.
(To be continued in Part 2)
