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We are looking for more mentors to join our in-house mentorship program. If you have experience in development, design, product, marketing, or any area where you think your knowledge would be useful to other D_D members, please sign up via this form.
Open Proposals
[DRAFT] Ratify the Early Contributor Allocations of $CODE – a proposal outlining the strategy for final distribution of $CODE for early contributors.
[DRAFT] Increase the May & June Short-Term Allocations for Retaining Core Staff Due to Market Changes – a proposal to adjust payments to contributors to offset adverse market changes.
Temperature Check – DAO Mission and Values
After an explosive Season 0 which saw D_D grow fast in number of members and initiatives, help us review our mission, values, and goals by voting in this poll and sharing any feedback in the comments below it.
D_D Onboarding Feedback
We are working to improve the onboarding experience for new D_D members. If you have recently gone through the onboarding process, please help us by giving feedback via this form.
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Community Highlights
D_D Meetup at Permissionless generously sponsored by Hedera
D_D Meetup in Vancouver
An Effective Way to Build Your Own Oracle with Solidity by @noahliechti
The Complete Guide to Decentralized Autonomous Organizations by @nonstack
The Complete Guide to Decentralized Finance by @nonstack
What Is Developer DAO? by @MichelleBakels
A First Look at Avalanche by @ajcwebdev
Traveling Internationally for the First Time Thanks to D_D by @Nazeeh21
Lens Protocol Front-End by @dabit3
Why You Should Care About the Philosophy Behind DAOs by @bybobbay
Landing a Web3 Job via Developer DAO by @hot_town
Quick Custom NFT Marketplace by @ohhkaneda
How to Fetch NFT Collection Using JavaScript and OpenSea API by @code_gino
Upgradeable Smart Contracts – UUPS Proxy Tutorial by @Web3Club
New Job Who Dis?!
Congrats to dhaiwat.eth for landing a sweet new DevRel gig at Ankr! You’ve been such an asset to the Developer DAO community and Ankr is lucky to have you. We can’t think of anyone who deserves this position more 😊
Ecosystem
Stable coins are under regulatory pressure worldwide following the collapse of Terra.
Aave’s decentralized social media protocol Lens goes live on Polygon.
Ethereum testnet Ropsten’s merge is on track to take place on June 8.
Guild News
Governance
Project Updates / Announcements
A draft proposal seeking to Ratify the Early Contributor Allocations of $CODE is up for discussion on the forum. It covers the strategy for the final distribution of rewards based on our first Coordinape effort results and the deliberation of the #coordinape-working-group. Be sure to read through the proposal draft and join the conversation over on the forum.
Help Needed
The Grants Team plans to help teams participate in the upcoming Gitcoin Grants 14. If you want your initiative included in the effort, stop by the #grants-team channel for more information and to ask for advice.
Member Highlights
Thanks to everyone on the #grants-team for organizing and helping other teams join Gitcoin Grants 14!
Special thanks to willblackburn.eth for putting together the draft proposal!
Designers
Project Updates / Announcements
Check out the new design for our Town Hall POAPs! This POAP is a result of our new tasking/bounty system on DeWork. Be sure to take a look at all the other tasks in the pipeline! Once a task is completed, the person who did the work receives a sweet new NFT for their efforts as a proof of work.
Help Needed
The next Design Guild Bi-Weekly Sync takes place this Wednesday. This meeting will continue the discussion around the upcoming Season 1 budget. Be sure to RSVP for this one in the #🗓️-d_d-events channel!
Member Highlights
Shoutout to Julo for the excellent new POAP design!
Community
Project Updates / Announcements
The Spanish community is now hosting their own version of Vibes: Viernes de Vibras! Every Friday after the OG Vibes, join the chat and meet devs from Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Mexico, Spain, Puerto Rico, and more! You can RSVP for the first one in the #🗓️-d_d-events channel.
A gentle reminder to check out the #📣-announcements channel for the message made on May 21th by luan. The $CODE token launch is fast approaching, which will mark a significant milestone in the history of Developer DAO. Before we move into Season 1, a DAO-wide retrospective is taking place to find what is working or not, in relation to our mission and values leading into Season 1. For more information on this topic, check out this forum post.
Help Needed
The new onboarding process is proceeding well and helping newcomers find their place among the chaos of the DAO. There are group onboarding calls Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday this week. Be sure to RSVP for the one that best suits your schedule in the #🗓️-d_d-events channel.
Member Highlights
Thanks to Clavis, Alex1237, hamza, and wiseTy for all the hard work revamping the onboarding process!
Writers
Project Updates / Announcements
A new template is available to scribes for taking notes in meetings across the DAO. This new template will help keep notes consistent, while also storing action items in a database and linking them to specific meetings.
Help Needed
Be sure to join in on the next Writers Guild Weekly sync this Friday! We will continue to work on the details for revamping the Scribe process and define any other major goals or obstacles as we get closer to Season 1. You can RSVP for the sync in the #🗓️-d_d-events channel.
Member Highlights
Huge thanks to Boris - g01din.eth for the new scribe template!
Big shoutout to our faithful Chinese translators ChauzeixT, jiak, jimxjim.eth, and skyone! Your help in translating this newsletter and other publications is greatly appreciated ❤️
Marketing + BizDev
Project Updates / Announcements
The Jobs Board is now open for public posting! If you or your company have a job you would like to post for the Developer DAO audience, follow this link and fill out the form!
Collaboration with the #product-guild is bearing fruit in the form of a new hackathon for D_D members. Although still in its early stages of planning, this hackathon will be a sort of sponsored Dev & Tell where sponsors will engage with the community by showcasing their tech and then setting bounties for members of D_D to go after.
Help Needed
The next MBD Town Hall takes place this Wednesday! Be sure to RSVP in the #🗓️-d_d-events channel to join the discussion on essential topics leading into Season 1.
Member Highlights
Thanks to everyone involved with the initiatives creating incredible opportunities for D_D members!
Development
Project Updates / Announcements
The Developer DAO School of Code now has its own Twitter account! The purpose of this separate account is for the platform to post its own updates without getting lost in the feed of the OG D_D Twitter account. This initiative will be a significant contribution to the greater Web3 community, so it's vital for it to have its own space!
A new team aims to track Objectives and Key Results (OKR) in various initiatives across the DAO. They have already seen some success in building metrics for onboarding and are looking to reach out to guilds directly in the coming weeks to host meetings and explain the initiative in more detail and how to write OKRs.
A new project is underway which aims to allow users to use their genesis D_D NFT on mainnet to mint a sponsorship token on an L2 for someone else! This NFT will enable the recipient to access the Developer DAO Discord for a predetermined period of time.
Help Needed
Calling all Solidity experts! If you would like to help with auditing the $CODE smart contracts, hop in the #code-contract-audit channel and say hello! Anyone can take a look, ask questions, or point out any issues they see with the contracts.
Member Highlights
Big thanks to BluePanda, Milo, and the rest of the OKR team for getting things on building metrics across the DAO!
Shoutout to dhaiwat.eth for starting the project on D_D Sponsorship!
WAGMI
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