Aragon Team Update: January 2018
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
Next
- 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
Next
Aragon UI
- New components as necessary, especially the ones I missed delivering in January:
TimeInput
DateInput (calendar)
Aragon Apps
- Token Manager
Aragon Dapp
- Launching webworkers for apps who have declared a background script
- Launch launch launch 0.5!
AragonOS
- Help with audit and necessary fixes
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
Next
- 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
Next
- 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
Next
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
Other
- ETHDenver Governance Workshop preparation
- Research efforts related to Aragon Network services
Next
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
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
Next
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
Next
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
Next
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.
- 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
- Aragon Q4 Development Update
- Introducing aragonOS 3.0 alpha, the new operating system for protocols and DApps
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:
Next
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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