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> Location for EthCC 2024 

The eligibility criteria listed on the website are placed below, with each addressed specifically. 

Criteria #1: You #should have at least one core team member who was at a Zuzalu event (Zuzalu Montenegro or ZuConnect) for a minimum of a week.

> The team includes two core members that attended Zuzalu (Rhiannon) and ZuConnect (Xenofon).

Criteria #2: You should be open about your other sources of funding and not think of it as a factor that can disqualify you.

> This is a new project that seeks to bootstrap. As such, we have no outside funding as of right now. Instead we have invested in growing our partners in the accommodation space. 

Criteria #3: Tech must somehow create value to the Zuzalu ecosystem.

> There are a number of ways that ZuForever can create value for the Zuzalu ecosystem. First of all, community and co-living are integral parts of the Zuzalu experience, hence the longer duration periods and focus on living in close proximity to each other during previous Zuzalu pop-up villages. ZuForever makes this process seamless for Zuzalians and other community members.

> Through co-living, ZuForever connects and democratizes resources, people and experiences by allowing Zuzalians to attend Ethereum-focused conferences alongside their peers and through cost-effective and flexible accommodations options, providing Zuzalians a sanctuary, everywhere and anywhere that Ethereum conferences take place. Workshops, gatherings and co-living segmentation can help propel the impact of these attendees in providing value to the broader Ethereum ecosystem by, for example, formulating hackathon teams that are committed to bringing their ideas into reality. 

> In addition, ZuForever allows its members to book their accommodations in a tokenized manner and at ever-decreasing discount rates. This allows early stakeholders to book their accommodations ahead of time and re-sell them at a higher price if they ultimately cannot attend these events. This flexibility is not available through traditional web2 accommodation options.

> Last but not least, through the dVillage experiment at EthCC 2024, the members of the core ZuForever team have proven that creating a broader co-living option through ZuForever can allows us to raise sponsorships and cover the cost of accommodation for underprivileged Ethereum community members that usually cannot attend Ethereum and Zuzalu conferences. At EthCC 2023, over 50 people were able to attend and stay in Paris for free, all because of the now-proven co-living offering. 

Criteria #4: Blockchain-facing tech must be maximally compatible with Ethereum and common Ethereum ecosystem standards.

> ZuForever will build its DAO entirely on EMV-compatible chains, for example a layer 2 like Optimism, and will ensure that the end-all software developed is open-sourced and maximally compatible with Ethereum.

Criteria #5: Technology projects must be fully open-source, relevant to the needs of in-person Zuzalu events.

> The ZuForever DAO will be on EVM, hence it will be open source by nature. MVP will be more manual, ensuring that we understand the tech needs for the project in the first half of 2024, before committing technical resources into building a platform that can automate this offering to the broader Zuzalu and Ethereum ecosystems. 
