Aragon Team Update: January 2018

Feb 05, 2018 7 min read

Written reviews of what the team members have been up to

Team members will produce a write-up of the most important things they have worked on since last Community Meeting, the problems they have found and what they plan to do in the next weeks (that can be a bit blurry, and that's fine). These write-ups will be published as a blog post for the community to review on Monday before Friday's meeting.

Community Meeting 08

Community Meeting 08 will take place on Tuesday February 13th at 5PM CET / 11AM EDT, the upcoming livestream can be found at https://youtu.be/iTh9QMgg0ZQ and a recording of the meeting at https://www.youtube.com/c/AragonProject. And feel free to post any questions you might have for the team in the Community Meeting 08 AMA thread!

Aragon Community Meeting 08 Write-Ups of January 2018

Alexa --- Operations Assistant

Q1 Offsite

Organized and Booked Q1 Team Offsite

Payments

Worked on finding payment service providers
Sent final reports from December to our accountants to close out Fiscal Year 2017
Making payments to service providers, ordering equipment for the team, paying conference sponsorships and community awards and lots of small details like that
January Payroll

Work with our accountants to finalize and audit FY2017 reporting
Help get payroll application and automated payment to lawyers off the ground
Start on Q2 Offsite
Work on finalizing logistics for Q1 Events/Meetups/Conferences

Brett --- EVM/Solidity/*

Aragon UI (@aragon/aragon-ui)

Small tweaks and additions
Managed a number of bounties, thanks @fiber-god, @kdichev, @monokh who hunted them all down!

Aragon (@aragon/aragon)

IFrame to render apps in, and a progress indicator for the loading

AragonOS (@aragon/aragonOS)

Internal audit for pre-3.0 version
Small clean ups / fixes
2.0 documentation grammar fixes

Aragon UI

New components as necessary, especially the ones I missed delivering in January:

TimeInput

DateInput (calendar)

Aragon Dapp

Launching webworkers for apps who have declared a background script
Launch launch launch 0.5!

John --- Community Lead

Started work on a community github repo

README.md
CONTRIBUTING.md
UNLICENSE.md

Wrapping up work on the first draft of the Aragon Community Guide

Community definition
Collaboration enablers
Project governance

Aragon announcement distribution

Q1 travel planning

Community stats

Finish Aragon Interactive Demo Series planning document, write formal announcement once ready
Release Aragon Community Guide v1.0 for peer review
Open up aragon/community repo on GitHub for public contribution
Traveling to ETHDenver to meet the local community, will look into planning a local Aragon community gathering
Keep wiki and community stats updated and be available to help out in community channels

Jorge --- Tech Lead

aragonOS

Refactor and release aOS 3.0, announcement
Coordinate and kickoff audit with Whitehat Group
Documentation refactor WIP
APM refactor as Aragon org

Aragon Core

Start integrating all parts of stack into Aragon v0.5
Development and testing templates for Aragon organizations
Started and reviewed work on new Payroll app

Others

Added Status Open Bounty to our repos, which resulted on +10 new open source contributors.
Attended 0x dev meeting and pushed for a future EIP
Organizational and legal strategy planning for 2018 with Luis and Maria

Launch Aragon v0.5
ETHDenver hackathon and EthCC presentation
Aragon 2018 development roadmap
Write and submit EIPs for some of our work: smart contract ecrecover, proxy standard and decentralized source code verification.

Luis --- Project Lead

Hiring

Helped hiring for

Design Lead

Solidity Engineer

Product Manager

Strategy

Implemented a first version of the Nest application process
Worked with Placeholder on a hedging strategy
Brainstormed about multiple strategy topics with Maria and Jorge
Help some people apply to Nest

Dev

Commented on multiple GitHub issues

Internal

Oversee migration from Trello to Flow
Reviewed Q4 goals, established Q1 goals together with Jorge and each team member
Continued token buyback
Legal stuff
Help with next team offsite

Communications

Helped Tatu with Aragon Nest launch blog post
Interview in An Ethereum Podcast by Evan Van Ness, together with Maria
Interview in FLOSS Weekly

Governance

Continue hiring processes to have resources allocated to Labs

Hiring

Help onboard all new hires
Continue the search for a Developer Relations candidate

Internal

Keep reducing the number of tools we rely on

Strategy

Make progress on encouraging multiple teams to work/build on Aragon
Give first Nest grant out!

Product

Launch 0.5!

Luke --- Research Lead

Aragon Labs

Kicked off Modular Token Curated Registry working group
Kicked off Liquid Democracy working group
Aragon Labs Announcement Blog (Publishing Soon!)
Started Liquid Pledging Integration project with Giveth

Proposals

Aragon Nest Proposal: Verifiable off-chain tabulation of carbonvote style signalling

Other

ETHDenver Governance Workshop preparation
Research efforts related to Aragon Network services

Aragon Labs

Working group wiki documentation
Finish Liquid Democracy Specification and start development
Help port TCR pattern to aragonOS
Work on improving community involvement and engagement with Labs, proposal discussion, experiment incentivization, etc.

Research

Continue ongoing research efforts related to Aragon Network Governance
Experiment with Signaling/CarbonFeedback and Off-chain tabulation

Other

ETHDenver!

Maria --- Strategy and Ops Lead

Strategy

Worked on the launch of Nest, reviewed the first applications and talked to applicants answering doubts about the application process
Worked on the structure of the Aragon proxy
Worked on exploring friendly jurisdictions that could be key for certain parts of the project
Worked on the initial ideas on the future of the structure of the Foundation and the Team
Worked on several legal strategies important for the successful development of the project
Worked on the Aragon IP licenses and IP related matters

Operations

Organized and structured the work and the workflow with the different lawyers collaborating with the project
Worked with EY on the several accounting matters
Reached out to some accounting firms regarding audit services
Meetings with several banks, law firms and other service providers firms in Switzerland

Other

Helped reviewing the blog post on Nest
Interview in Evan Van Ness' podcast together with Luis

Strategy

Continue working on Nest improving the program as it develops so we have key teams working on many of the key challenges for Aragon and Ethereum
Continue working on the several IP related matters
Continue working on the different strategy initiatives mentioned above

Operations

Oversee accounting to make sure all different tax and accounting obligations are met
Start working with an accounting firm on the auditing of the annual accounts

Oliver --- Glue

node-aragon

Adjusted pretty much everything to accomodate breaking changes in aragonOS
Reading state is fully functional, tx pathing is almost adjusted

Misc

Lots of code reviews

Ship 0.5

Pierre --- UI & Interaction Developer

Aragon / Aragon Apps

Permissions app frontend
Voting app frontend
Finance app frontend

Aragon UI

Added CountDown
Added SidePanelSeparator + SidePanelSplit (SidePanel layout components)
Added Info
Added ContextMenu

Aragon / Aragon Apps

Connect apps to node-aragon
Getting everything ready for 0.5
Payroll app

Aragon UI

Add more components as needed
Add a focus state accross components
Improve visual consistency
Remove flow from components
Blog post to introduce Aragon UI

Tatu --- Communications Lead

Designed, created and soft launched Aragon Monthly

Aragon Monthly is a community curated monthly digital newspaper about Decentralized Autonomous Organizations and the Aragon ecosystem.

Content curation is the process of gathering information relevant to a particular topic or area of interest.

Aragon Monthly is created by the community, for the community.

Anyone can contribute by creating or requesting new content about DAOs and anything related to the Aragon ecosystem.

https://monthly.aragon.one/

Created and designed the concept of a community curated digital newspaper that is accompanied by a monthly newsletter
Issue 00 was sent out to Aragon Monthly Newsletter subscribers
Invited people from the Ethereum & Aragon community to join as Staff Contributors
Have been helping community to add and review content for Issue 01

Working on the wiki

Many updates to the wiki, creating new issues for people to contribute, reviewed Pull Requests and merged them.

Polishes to Nest repo

General layout polishing, creating guides for submissions and updating templates.

Blog posts

Provide feedback, help edit & polish posts, review blog posts by others

Small updates to the layout of the Homepage of the blog

Community Meetings

Design the procedure and create a documentation for our internal Process for Community Meetings

Create a Guide for CM Write-Ups

Sponsorships

Aragon is a proud sponsor of:

Wiki

Keeping Wiki up to date and adding content

Aragon Monthly

Publish Issue 01 and send out the monthly newsletter, help community and staff contributors in creating and curating content

Blog

Announce Aragon Core alpha v0.5
Other possible announcements, updates, interviews

Continue working on overall communication strategy

Start preparing communications for all the things Aragon

That's it for the month of January, these Community Meetings and Write-Ups are a monthly thing, so let us know what you think of the recent developments and do join us at the Meeting livestream to ask questionsand discuss everything that has been going on!

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