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ello all! We are writing this report after a very long time. So, this time, we are here with a combined report for the months : November, December 2020, combined with a general overview of what all happened and changed during the first year of DNA´s existence and our ambitious plans for the new year.
DNA searches for HIGH-QUALITY posts that aim to DESCRIBE and determine the BIODIVERSITY AROUND YOU with added EXPLANATIONS and INFORMATION. For these informative posts DNA offers a CURATION SERVICE using the @dna.org account. It is also a CURATION TRAIL. In addition we run the SPECIES HUNT which aims to COLLECT and COMPILE the BIODIVERSITY all over the world on an external and public accessible website.
Monthly Report and Changes (Nov 2020)
1. Curation
DNA will publish a monthly curation report from now on which states all the biodiversity posts from Hiveans that were upvoted by the dna.org account.
November 2020:
We curated 43 great posts authored by the following blockchain members:
@nelinoeva, @keuudeip, @gidlark, @txatxy, @little-peppers, @digitalis, @juancar347, @sumaiya777, @kansuze, @barski, @birdwatcher, @oscurity, @farm-mom, @nilpan, @actioncats, @oks2crypto, @papilloncharity, @crazy-andy, @exator, @pinkdragonfly, @marianomariano, @pradeepdee6, @ratel, @sallybeth23, @giovanna18, @a0i, @tinta-tertuang, @mballesteros, @mers, @yetaras, @vladimirkozar, @ewkaw, @belkisa758, @ellenripley, @leylar
December 2020
We curated 22 posts in the past month, here are the authors of the amazing posts we curated:
@carlosadolfochac, @melbourneswest, @oks2crypto, @sallybeth23, @joanstewart, @leylar, @txatxy, @donald.porter, @gidlark, @mballesteros, @ratel, @lucascosolo, @birdwatcher, @fermentedphil, @francyrios75, @parauri
We thank our curators AN: @adalger, @bucipuci, @juanbg, @nelinoeva, @redheadpei, @tinta-tertuang; FF: @annephilbrick, @barabara-orenya, @melinda010100; FL: @qwerrie; Others: @brittandjosie, @papillioncharity, @melbourneswest for the amazing work that they have been doing!
(Special thanks to @tibfox for managing the curation services and automation)
2. DNA is A Community Effort
DNA is not a project being run from / under the name / ownership of any personal account / person. DNA is home to different communities and is essentially a community project. Our funds are collected through donations and the project is owned by the community.
At the moment DNA is the home of #amazingnature, #fascinatinginsects for all your posts about insects, #featheredfriends for our feathered friends and the #fungilovers for all your posts about fungi and mushrooms ^^ .. But we hope that more nature related communities will join and participate in this gigantic and ambitious nature project, or maybe some Hiveans start their own little project there ;)
3. DNA is Now Ready to Mutate!
It's been sufficient amount of waiting and planning. Now we'll start implementing some very interesting new projects.
Random mutations are not a good idea! So here we set some rules and boundaries for ourselves...
All of the initiatives undertaken by DNA will follow the below general principles:
- Every project / initiative will be for the good of the society in general, and will be scientifically driven.
- The projects will never be oriented to gain profits for ourselves.
- We'll be paying our staff for all their work as a token of gratitude. (currently, due to lack of sufficient funds, and earnings, we are only able to support them via votes)
- Whatever extra profits we earn (which we are unable to use for our own functioning), will be donated to organizations working selflessly which DNA deems worthy and needing the donations. (For example : Wikipedia.org, Archive.org, etc)
- Every DNA initiative will be run as a separate community. These communities together make DNA what it is.
4. Outlook and Future Projects
We are actually planning two big new projects within the DNA community that will be implemented once the actual announced changes are found to work flawlessly and once we were able to gather the necessary expertise:
- External DNA Website where we will present the collected and compiled Species Hunt posts.
- DNA Species Hunt Program: We'll be implementing a new program from DNA soon. This program will aim at creating a global Hive-based biodiversity catalogue. We'll encourage people to go out and explore the biodiversity around them and post about the same in a scientifically appropriate manner so that the information collected can be used to create a catalogue of scientific value.
WHAT WE HAVE REACHED SO FAR !!
- Own discord server DNA DISCORD (Free to be joined by all interested Hiveans) where all the nature lovers of Hive can meet, discuss and share their nature content.
- We gathered fellow supporters and communities in the DNA project.
- We created a #Biodiversity-only-post channel where all DNA-members tare allowed to drop post that correlate to DNA´s biodiversity philosophy.
- We initialized a curation service for all biodiversity posts that are published withing our fellow communities (AN, , FI, FF, FL). All community Moderators are also set to DNA-Curators and have the right to use this curation service.
- We are also flagging off a new community : the DNA Citizen Science Hub for internal use and posting important announcements. Later on, we might use it for conducting interesting activities and projects run under DNA.
DNA Discord
Within our DNA DISCORD we have created several channels for you.
- #Home: This channel is for open communication and discussions and also features our monthly Biodiversity NEWS (That will be implemented from now on).
- #DNA WORK: Here you can post your Species Hunt entries and look up the monthly Species Hunt Reports which care a compilation of all the entries that were submitted. The Species Hunt is the actual work of DNA that is going to start from now on and will be explained in a special post that we are working on right now.
- #Communities: We also added a channel for each fellow community that supports DNA and calls this project their home.
- #DNA Curation System: This channel is reserved for all your posts that are following DNA´s biodiversity philosophy. It is also used by all the DNA-Curators for their biodiversity-curation within the DNA communities.
If you are INTERESTED in DNA, please do not hesitate to ask about it, or directly JOIN US in the DNA DISCORD ;), we already have a 200 people strong community here!
DNA Work
We will soon state in a separate posts the implementation of the SPECIES HUNT (simultaneously announced together with this first year report ). This will be the ACTUAL WORK OF DNA that is going to start from now on and. All of your Species Hunt posts will be used one day in our DNA-website that aims to bring the ambitious DNA project beyond the blockchain.
Fellow DNA Communities
AMAZING NATURE COMMUNITY
FASCINATING INSECTS
FEATHERED FRIENDS COMMUNITY
FUNGI LOVERS COMMUNITY
Amazing Nature Community:
- @adalger : DNA Curator / AN Contest
- @bucipubi : DNA Curator / AN Challenge
- @juanbg : DNA Curator / AN News
- @nelinoeva : DNA Curator / AN Curator for Zoology
- @redheadpei : DNA Curator / AN Curator for Botany
- @tinta-tertuang : DNA Curator / AN Curator for Geography
Contest & Challenge: To implement some funny activities for the AN community members and enrich the interactive experience there is a weekly Contest and Challenge. The voting for the winners will be done by the whole DNA community. in the AN community channel in the DNA Discord.
Nature News: There are weekly Nature News that cover recent nature related topics and aims to bring to you some interesting knowledge about what is happening in the world.
Amazing Nature Curation: AN Curators are choosing up to 5 post weekly within the AN community, corresponding to their assigned topic (Botany/Zoology/Geography), and are compiling them into a weekly curation report.
Fascinating Insects Community:
- @faltermann : DNA Curator
- @jaki01 : DNA Curator
Feathered Friends Community:
- @annephilbrick : DNA Curator
- @brittandjosie : DNA Curator
- @barbara-orenya : DNA Curator / DNA Art-designer / FF Curator
- @melinda010100 : DNA Curator /
- @nelinoeva : DNA Curator / FF Photo Contest
Photo Contest: Here you can participate by sharing a post that contains a picture of a bird or birds that matches a specific topic that changes on a weekly basis.
Feathered Friends Curation: The curator chooses several posts per week within the FF community and compile them into a weekly curation report.
Fungi Lovers Community:
FungiFriday Challenge: Every Friday you are welcome to share all your great fungi posts, no mater if they are photos, drawings, art, food or anything else. Just add the #fungifriday tag to it.
DNA Curation and Biodiversity-Posts
We have own curation service for posts withing the fellow communities (AN, FI, FF, FL) for all biodiversity posts. All Moderators of the 3 communities have posting rights and are allowed to to curate those entries in their corresponding communities with the @dna.org account that are suiting the DNA biodiversity philosophy and show and explain the biodiversity around them in great detail.
In addition we have created a #Biodiversity-only-post channel where all DNA members are allowed to drop post their biodiversity posts to their them with other DNA members.
Public Outreach Work
We created a DNA Twitter account and a DNA Instagram account from which we will reblog all out Species Hunt Reports as well as the Biodiversity News. The accounts will be run by @papillioncharity and @melbourneswest for us and are hoped to raise the awareness of what we are trying to create here to people outside of the blockchain. We are still thinking of other ways to increase the awareness of DNA beyond.
DNA Community Rules
Only post you own original content into the #biodiversity-post-only channel and do not copy&paste or plagiarize !
Do not post pictures without text. As we try to share the biodiversity around us detailed explanations and identifications that suit the AN philosophy are necessary!
Always reference the source of pictures and texts, even if they are your own !
Use the appropriate "Species Hunt Template" for creating your Species Hunt posts. We will pin it there for you very soon. As we aim to compile them and also want to share them on a external website on day this is a necessary prerequisite.
No hate or discriminatory language of any kind or other offensive behavior !
(© @suheri )
Want To Help Us ? All Help is Welcome!
You can help us by the following means:
- Experts & Management: If you want to help us managing the project or some aspect of the project like developing our website, managing species databases, helping out manage activities on Discord etc, please drop a comment to this post mentioning @adalger, @medro-martin if possible.
- Nature Enthusiasts: If you are a wildlife photographer or have scientific knowledge about biodiversity of any kind : birds, butterflies, mammals, insects, fungi ... or any other category, we really need your help! Please join us on Discord, and also drop in a comment to this post.
- Supporters: If you want to support the project, you can do the following:
- Donate / Delegate to @dna.org.
- Follow DNA Curation Trail.
Best wishes, the whole DNA Team
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Nice to see how wonderfully everything is coming together. Thanks for this D.N.A. Team.
Hey there @redheadpei ^^
It was a busy year for all in bringing everything together how it is now, but there is soo much enthusiasm in DNA that I believe the year ahead will make even greater things possible ^^ .. Thank you for helping out in DNA and AN all the time 😉 .. You are a great Moderator and curator here ❤️
Best wishes,
The DNA team
Most welcome @adalger. It’s my pleasure.❤️
For the love on nature, I will assist where possible once we are on a steady connection from our side and make DM to people here in Discord.
Thanks for taking @dna.org from strength to strength in excellent team work effort.
Thanks for the appreciation and support @joanstewart . Hope to see you back on Discord soon!
Best,
Team DNA
With slow internet connection not in Discord as often, try make it once or twice a week. Always in contact 😅
No matter how often you are able to connect, help and enthusiasm is not counted in numbers of time in DNA @joanstewart ^^ you were and are supporting DNA and all its communuties greatly from the very beginning 😉 .. Even if we would see you only once a month you are and will ever be a big part and valuable family member for all times 😘
The more we learn about nature, the more you realize you still know very little.
Hopefully with time places like this become a great educational tool.
Have a wonderful Sunday!
If we could transform the whole DNA project into a big educational tool once with the help of all Hiveans this would be an awesome accomplishment ^^ .. Lets put it onto the list of our vision of the future 👍
Species Hunt program, and to be later forwarded to the DNA-website. That I think is a great plan, and a really ambitious future project. A tough work that is most challenging, and requires great energy! I really like that plan, and really hope it will be realized. If that happens in the future, I believe, it will be able to eliminate the dissatisfaction that has been felt by the lack of information provided by various electronic encyclopedias on biodiversity, especially in my opinion about the distribution of species which is still largely determined by the field in which the researchers conduct their research. Through the Species Hunt program, I believe a lot of information about the distribution of many species will be revealed more accurately. I really hope this noble project will be carried out well.👍
Hey there @keuudeip ^^
The Species Hunt declaration was published now and the correponding template is also pinned in the DNA discord already 👍 you can look it up there and maybe leave your impressions and suggestion.. It will start on February, so it still time left fir adaptiond and improvements if you have any ^^
Best wishes,
The DNA team
Thanks for the notification, and I'll go check it out.🙂
Hehe .. we hope that you all like it and will participate .. Also the template is very demanding every help and hunt is welcome ^^
Good projects and every effort is worthwhile. Everything that translates into loving nature is urgent and we must all say present. Congratulations and success!
A virtual hug ♥
Smile sweetly and wink eye. ;)
nice account. Hive on!
Thank you @qwerrie ^^
We all here at DNA are hoping to create a huge and meaningful place where all nature-lovers are welcome and can share their passion with each other ! Thank you very much by the way for participating in this great project with the #fungilovers 😍🍄
Best wishes and the very best for 2021,
The DNA crew ^^
Good news here @adalgar and I looking forward to the "Species Hunt Template", as I am currently working on invasive Wasps that are destroying our 300 year old Oak trees here in South Africa.
Hey there @papillioncharity ^^
The Species Hunt declaration and the corresponding template will be posted soon and pinned to the DNA discord ! .. But it will be a template that is not to easy to fill out . We are aiming to put quality over quantity here as the most important rule of all .. The whole DNA crew work together hand in hand to create this scheme and bring it to you, but we finally decided that it is ready now 😁
Best wishes and the very best for 2021,
The DNA crew ^^
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Hello; @adalgar and the team!
We appreciate your work and your post was manually shared on Twitter by @papilloncharity from the DNA team!
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Thank you for the Posh-work @papilloncharity ^^
.. and for taking over the role of the official DNA twitter Moderator .. Your help is highly appreciated and will not only raise the awareness of mother nature within Hive itself, but will additionally help the whole Hiveasphere to get more attention. We all love this little bubbled place here and you are doing a great job 👍
Best wishes and the very best for 2021,
The DNA crew ^^
Wow @adalger what amazing news! I can't believe that the future of DNA work it's growing so fast! Congratulations for all the fantastic staff!🥳😁🐬
Hehe, it really is @juanbg ^^
This is just the start of the actual work of DNA .. Depending on how the Species-Hunt evolves we really look into a future of great evolving projects .. Thank you very much for helping out with the #Biodiversity-News by the way ! This will be a beautiful addition to the DNA experience 😍 .. You are already doing an awesome job on the AN Nature news !
Best wishes and the very best for 2021,
The DNA crew ^^
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We hope that this will be only the start of a great badge collection which one day will represent our effort in bringing nature more closely into the Hive blockchain .. You are all doing a great job here and we appreciate it highly and hope that we can play our little role too here to make Hive a great place to be and find other like-minded persons ^^
Best wishes and the very best for 2021,
The DNA crew ^^
Thank you @dna.org. Have a wonderful 2021 year too.
Thank you for all the work you do.
You are welcome @kanzsuze !!
We are working really hard on bringing nature-lovers together and to create as much funny and interactive projects withing these for you ^^ .. The Species-Hunt will be our actual work as a DNA family in the end that will also reach outside the Hive blockchain ^^ If you like what we do here and want to support or participate you of course are highly welcome 😁
Best wishes and the very best for 2021,
The DNA crew ^^
Thank you and congrats!
Thank you @ellenripley ^^
Thank you friends for all the work you do to support the community and I wish you much success in this new year!🤗
Thanks for the wishes @mballesteros ^^
We are trying our best to support the various nature communities and bring them all together ! .. We here at DNA all love nature and enjoy to share it with each other nature lover out there .. It is our passion and we will not rest in improving the nature experience for you out there until we definitely will find not other aspect anymore which we can include and improve .. and this will probably never happen 🤣
Best wishes and the very best for 2021,
The DNA crew ^^
This so impressive how much was done and how ambitious the project is,
I just hope that there are enough members within DNA which show the same enthusiasm in creating the Species Hunt entries, hehe .. but luckily there is no rush ;)
I hope so. ☺
Great to see the update and future plans!
Happy New Year and Hive on :)
Hey @ewkaw 👋
The plans for sure a really ambitious, but the idea is actually a great one and if everyone participates we can create something meaningful and lasting all together 😁 .. Fungi will be a minthly topic too one day and we probaly need some experts then, hehe .. They are really hard to charackterize 🤔
Best wishes,
the DNA team
We do have some mushroom experts around (not me.. I just shoot them :p).
Fingers crossed it works out the way you want. It would be truly awesome!
Hehe ^^ .. in theory, if everything works out fine, this project will be awesome indeed ! .. We just have to hope for enough interested and enthusiastic participants and the proper use of the template ;) .. But now we probably just have to wait ..
Hi there everyone !
Here we proudly present to you our DNA-Project First-Year Report.
This time it actually is a combined curation-report for November & December 2020 and a general overview of what all happened and changed during the first year of DNA´s existence. It also explains to you our ambitious plans for the new year, namely the implementation of the Species-Hunt. This will be the start of our actual work in DNA and we hope you will all enjoy it and participate ^^
Best wishes and thank you all for the support during our first year,
the whole DNA Team