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This Week
D_D Jobs
To stay up-to-date with D_D job opportunities, check out this page and follow the Jobs Team on Twitter.
This year, we’re investing more in our job board and talent collective, an initiative spearheaded by @manny. In more detail:
– the D_D Talent Collective is free to join – sign up here!
– all new jobs now show up in #d-d-jobs in Discord
– a free tier is available for the job board – if you have a job opportunity to share, please do
– a paid tier gives you a Twitter Space about your position and company, as well as priority real estate on the job board, and a mention in the newsletter
– if the job board is not suitable for your opportunity, please head to #find-collaborators in Discord
Open Proposals
[DRAFT] DAO Governance Structure Upgrade – defines the roles, responsibilities, and rewards of Members, Contributors, and Stewards; updates the governance structure to DAO, Foundation, and Sub-DAOs; establishes a funding process and accountability mechanisms for Sub-DAOs
[DRAFT] D_D Operative System – introduces the Developer DAO Operative System, which aims to be the source of truth for all the rules, organizational structure details, and governance processes of the DAO
Sponsor: Quicknode
Few groups have been as early and steadfast in supporting D_D as our friends at Quicknode. A huge thank you to their team for believing in the DAO and supporting our mission to onboard the next generation of Web3 buidlers! Ready to start building? Fuel your dApp with QuickNode's cutting-edge infra and broad suite of tools. QuickNode makes blockchain development super simple with its support for over 15 blockchains and seamless APIs
Community Highlights
D_D DevNTell: Debond Protocol with @lesDecroissant and team
Automate Your Smart Contract with Gelato by member @Aayush_gupta_ji
A Gentle Introduction to Decentralized Storage by member @cryptoshuriken
From Bulletin Board Systems to Polkadot by member @RabbiGreenberg
Ecosystem
Amazon and Avalanche ink partnership to boost subnet deployment
Gitcoin announces Alpha round to test decentralized funding protocol
Polygon’s blockchain to undergo hard fork
SEC charges Gemini and Genesis with selling unregistered securities
Guild News
Designers
Project Updates / Announcements
The following $CODE payment was dispatched for work done by the following members; @Erik_Knobl: 4,800 for a total Guild Lead role, @Canna (She/They): 2400 for remaining Product Team role, @skayaz.eth : 600 for building the database, and also a proposal of 1000 $CODE for helping as signers and Guild support to @Julo, @aykay, @jazza.eth and @exwhyzee.eth.
Governance
Project Updates / Announcements
DDIP 21, Simplifying the Developer DAO Improvement Proposal (DDIP) Process, has been moved to snapshot. This is a very important proposal, that will help to simplify the DDIP process. Please make every effort to exercise your voting rights.
Writers
Project Updates / Announcements
Ben Greenberg’s blog post, titled “From Bulletin Board Systems to Polkadot", is live on the blog!
Marketing + BizDev
Project Updates / Announcements
StarkWare Sessions is hosting the Ethereum community to a two-day event of talks, panels, workshops, and round tables from Sunday - Monday, February 5-6, 2023, at the Cameri Theatre in Tel Aviv, Israel. To this end, they are offering free tickets, comprising free flights and entry tickets to the event, to three D_D members. Details on how to participate and win will be announced later.
Development
Project Updates / Announcements
The Academy meeting notes for January 12, 2023, can be found here.
A draft proposal for the Academy applying to become a sub-DAO, requesting a budget for season 2, and defining some organizational stuff has been started. Please review the initial draft proposal and join the discussion.
WAGMI
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