We are officially in Season 3! A large amount of growth happened in Season 2, but rather than leveling out, we’re still growing. Our projects and organization continue to improve, and this overall development of our infrastructure will make it ever more rewarding to be a Guild member. And the best part? We’re building this together. Here’s a touch of what we’re building.
Welcome to The Scribe’s Quill.
Authors: BanklessDAO Writers Guild Coordination:
nonsense 🏴 | Coordinator;
Ap0ll0517.eth 🏴 | Secretary;
Siddhearta 🏴 | Newsletter Team Coordinator;
Samanthaj 🏴 | EPA Coordinator
Frank America 🏴 | Client Services Organizer
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Writers Guild in Bites
The Council of Writers Weekly, Monday at 6:30pm UTC.
Weekly Newsletter Team Sync, Thursday at 5:00pm UTC
Weekly Editorial and Publishing Arm (EPA) Meeting, Thursday at 10:00pm UTC
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DAO Editorial backlog
Meeting Notes
Council of Writers, January 3, 2022
Newsletter Team Sync, January 6, 2022
Editors Circle (EPA), December 9, 2021
Announcements
Writers Guild Coordinape—Epoch 2 is live! Head over to Coordinape to distribute your GIVE and let your fellow guildmates know how much you appreciate them.
Snapshot: Season 3 Project and Guild funding
Governance Solutions Engineer Discussions: https://forum.bankless.community/t/draft-2-governance-solutions-engineer-program/2663; https://discord.com/channels/834499078434979890/844341131864047656/930120108548972574
Writers Workshops discussion: https://discord.com/channels/834499078434979890/930178781023453216/930476105201254512
Team Updates
Newsletter Team, siddhearta
📈 Newsletter Stats
Subscribers: 9,828 (+190)
Latest TOTAL page views:
Weekly Rollup: 10,798
Decentralized Arts: 11,583
State of the DAOs: 15,055
Decentralized Law: 14,691
🗞 Weekly Rollup
What happened this week in BanklessDAO
Editorial: Governance Solution Engineer proposal by Jake and Stake
Front End: Ssasho0
Back End: theconfusedcoin
Editor: Trewkat
We are also looking for someone or multiple people to fill Freedom Fighters role taking community call notes on Fridays. If you are interested in this role (1000 bank) please contact Freedom Fighter so he can show you the ropes.
☯️ State of the DAOs
Jake and Stake has posted in the #newsletter-general channel open bounties for this weeks Ecosystem Takes and DAOs at a Glance. 200 bank bounty each, due by the end of Tuesday. Get PAID to learn about crypto!
EPA
Last week in the EPA we had an illuminating discussion on meeting times. In the meeting, we achieved soft consensus that the current EPA meeting time should stay at 5pmEST/10pm UTC, but we should add an earlier time on the same day (or the day before) to catch members whose time zones don’t fit. That earlier time will function as my EPA Coordinator office hours. I’ll chat with members who can’t make the later time, get their feedback on important topics of discussion, and help them with articles they’re editing or writing.
I’m still determining which time would be best to hold these office hours. Because The Top Edit will be reduced to 1 day per week, I’m thinking of holding them Thursday morning at 10am EST when the second Top Edit would normally be. DM me with thoughts and opinions on this.
On deck for the EPA meeting this Thursday are discussions on our channel reorganization, adding a Medium navigation bar, POAPs for published articles, and getting our EPA governance document fired up.
Last week I contacted Design Guild for a new POAP. Nittra 🐸#4499 snapped up the job, and I love the way it turned out! See you all Thursday.
From Your Coordination Team
Ap0ll0517.eth | Secretary
Season 3 is just getting underway and the Writers Guild is on fire! I’m excited to see how we compound upon our success in the coming months. Below is a snapshot of our current treasury and how we are beginning the season.
BANK: 228,433.38 → 112,433.38 (-116,000 BANK)
DAI: 1169.6 → 1259.6 (+90 DAI)
PERP: 45 → 45 (No change in PERP)
USDC 30 → 150 (+120 USDC)
The WG distributed 116K BANK for governance roles and bounties last Friday. Transaction details can be found here. We also have 100K BANK allocated for the current Coordinape round. After all GIVE is allocated and BANK is distributed, we’ll have just over 12K BANK in our treasury until we receive our S3 funding from the Grants Committee.
The guild also received more stable coins from Clients Services. We now have just over $1400 USD in stable coins. Starting in Season 3, Client Services will begin revenue sharing with EPA multi-sig instead of WG multi-sig.
The WG also has 3 new writers! Congrats are in order to AustinFoss, benharvey.eth, and teeLEROO! Welcome to the team, let’s fly!!
nonsense 🏴 | Coordinator
Lots of changes and big moves have been made as we transitioned into Season 3. We executed on our first round of elections, ratifying Ap0ll0517.eth 🏴 and myself to maintain the roles of Guild Secretary and Guild Coordinator respectively, and electing FreedomFighter 🏴 to serve as the Guild’s Talent Scout! This was our very first test run of the election process outlined in our governance draft, and with few hiccups, it was executed very well. Special thank you to Jake and Stake for taking the lead on running the elections and making sure everyone had ample opportunity to participate. With this experience behind us, we can hone the process.
It’s fantastic to see all the enthusiastic collaboration surrounding the many moving parts in the Guild. The governance doc has been getting a lot love. The numerous workshops are being reviewed for greater alignment. The editing workflow, guild onboarding, and marketing efforts are just a few more examples. We’re all heads down developing the infrastructure under which we want to work, and that’s just so damn beautiful.
We own Season 3. Season 3 belongs to us. We came out of Season 2 strong and flying high, but we’re going to leave Season 3 even stronger and flying higher. What we’re building now will serve us well in future seasons. Stay the course, writers and editors, because we’re taking off.
In service to you, the Guild, and the DAO,
nonsense 🏴