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DAO MastersHow To Develop A Bounty Program
This post was written by Kagami. Thanks to DAO Masters contributors David Burt, Andi Schuster, and Maryam for their research, as well as Nelson for their edits and revisions! Bounty programs unlock the power of decentralized work for DAOs. Bounties are tasks and projects that a DAO shares with its contributors and community to complete. These tasks may range from document translations and meeting notes to building products on top of Layer 2 chains like Optimism and Polygon. DAOs are discoveri...
DAO MastersPreserving Pseudonymity in DAOs
This post was written by Kagami. Thanks to DAO Masters contributor Zvi Band for their edits and revisions, as well as Jocelyn Hsu from Editorial Team! Pseudo-anonymity or pseudonymity is like a digital pen name where a person adopts a new name to represent them online. It’s an important feature of web3 that allows a person to explore digital identities and areas of interest that aren’t associated with their in real life (IRL) names. For many people, pseudo-anonymity is an important choice to ...
DAO MastersDAO Essentials: 6 Key Onboarding Practices
This post was written by Kassen Qian. Thanks to DAO Masters contributors Tyler Whittle, Behzod Sirjani, Nelson Jordan, and Angela Santurbano for their edits and revisions, as well as Jocelyn Hsu from Editorial Team! You show up for work, and there are ten strangers hanging around in your (virtual) office. One says they know all about you and want to work with you, and a few others are asking if they can take a look around. How would you feel? Excited? Terrified? Like it’s time to get a new jo...
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DAO Masters was launched as a crowdfunded research project with 122 backers in September 2021 with a mission to onboard the next million DAO contributors & operators. Season 1 ran for six weeks during September and October, 2021. The DAO Masters Discord now has over 1,800 participants, and its first product, a review of the top DAO tools, can be found at daomasters,xyz.
DAO Masters accomplished a lot in 6 short weeks. It all started when Julia fired off a tweet looking for contributors to crowdsource DAO market research. The internet came up with 40+ DAO tools, 80+ DAOs, and 30+ high-quality DAO write-ups for review.
With an overwhelming list of tools provided, the team quickly organized core teams: product, content, and community-ops.
Let’s dive in and celebrate what we accomplished in Season 1!
The Product team is primarily composed of contributors who helped shape the DAO Masters website — from design and layouts to tech stack and development.
In Season 1, the team settled on a sprint structure and laid out a roadmap timeline. One of the first goals was to secure a domain. (thanks to @DAOofSteve, we secured daomasters.xyz!) The team then shared ideas for web design and selected a website-building platform. Webflow was the top choice and was selected. The team also leveraged Zapier to populate content from Notion to Webflow.
Once the website was up and running, the Product team added a section for tool reviews, which includes video tutorials and the ability for people to add their own reviews. Check out an example here. They also added a resource library, along with easy ways to navigate based on your level of expertise and what you’re interested in.
With everyone’s help, the site went live on Oct 15!
Special shoutout to @hirsh @fudgy @mattflanagan and @DAOofSteve for product awesomeness in Season 1.
As noted above, there were many, many tools nominated for review in Season 1. The ever-diligent Content team focused on trimming down the list of suggested tools and started reviewing each one.
The tools reviewed during Season 1 were:
Aragon
Boardroom
Collab.Land
Colony
Coordinape
DAOHaus
DeepDAO
Discord
FairMint
Gardens
Gnosis Safe
Guild
Llama
MintGate
Mirror
OpenLaw
Orca
Rabbithole
Snapshot
SourceCred
Syndicate
Tally
You can check out the tools above and our ever-growing list of new tool reviews here. And, above and beyond written reviews, in Season 1 the team additionally created video tutorials. @liamherbst_ created the first video tutorial of Guild and @justin completed 6 reviews in a week! Amazing.
With all these reviews and more to come, @pheor0 & @Annika took the lead on creating a taxonomy to keep all current and future reviews organized and easy to find.
Moving beyond reviews, the Content team compiled a list of DAO Resources (which you can add to by sharing new tools in #add-a-resource in the Discord) and started a list of DAOs, led by @pheor0. This is the beginning of our current #join-a-dao project.
The Community & Operations team set up the core foundational tools for DAO Masters in Season 1. The key tools include:
Coordinape to manage contributions and compensation
Notion to organize documents and track team progress
Snapshot to vote on key decisions
We also launched our token, $DAOMASTR, and @merkle created a step-by-step guide for buying the token. Anyone who now holds a $DAOMASTR token can join DAO Masters!
With all these new members, @twhittle took the lead on creating a DAO Masters onboarding program for the community, and @kassen started a new project to interview other DAOs and outline best practices for DAO onboarding.
The Community team also brainstormed the DAO Masters vision and mission, and reached consensus on the mission of onboarding the next million DAO contributors and operators.
Marketing is an important subteam that helps bring DAO Masters mainstream. The team worked out the mission/vision of DAO Masters and from there, defined a set of values, identified the audience and its positioning and which channel to use for launch and its overall approach. @justin and @mark drove the planning and successfully launched a social presence for DAO Masters on Twitter (@daomastersxyz) at the end of October.
After the conclusion of Season 1, the team took a short "off-season" to reflect, regroup, and recharge before hatching the approach for Season 2. During the off-season, a number of questions came up. What was working? What wasn't? And, most importantly, what do we want to collectively accomplish during Season 2?
After many conversations, the team decided the theme of Season 2 will be "Sustainability: How can we build a self-sustaining DAO?" This includes thinking through what we need to do internally to operate as a DAO, what core activities we need to maintain, and how we can build an organization that encourages and enables new experimentation. Key activities for Season 2 include:
Building out processes to facilitate the maintenance of existing products and content (including the DAO Masters website and DAO tool reviews) in order to expand our brand/footprint in the DAO ecosystem
Defining internal processes for scaling our community, including onboarding, governance, and compensation
Exploring how we can build funding mechanisms to sustainably fund the DAO into future seasons
Defining 1-3 new experiments to expand the value DAO Masters adds to the DAO ecosystem
While we are just getting going into Season 2, DAO-oriented resources we are creating over the next few weeks that we intend to release into the world include:
Tool reviews
Video tutorials
Overviews of monetization models for DAOs
Resources for DAO onboarding, governance, and compensation
Original research
Long-form editorial
And a newsletter
DAO Masters Season 2 will run through December, 2021.
The best place to get involved is in the DAO Masters Discord. The tools and general chat channels are open to all.
If you want to see the resources that were created during Season 1, check out the tool reviews and other resources on the DAO Masters website.
Or, if you want DAO Masters delivered to your old-school inbox, you can sign up for our newsletter here.
Julia, Nelson J, Pheor0, justine, Hirsh, twhittle, jdubbs1381, Flanny, liamh, Fudgy, Kass, Bernacreates.eth, modernchaosmj, LarryFlorio, Seanmc.eth, jman4190, merkle_, bvajresh, Alex, annika, DAOofSteve
This Season 1 recap was written and edited by @jocelyn, @carllyn, @antoine, and @ccarfi
DAO Masters was launched as a crowdfunded research project with 122 backers in September 2021 with a mission to onboard the next million DAO contributors & operators. Season 1 ran for six weeks during September and October, 2021. The DAO Masters Discord now has over 1,800 participants, and its first product, a review of the top DAO tools, can be found at daomasters,xyz.
DAO Masters accomplished a lot in 6 short weeks. It all started when Julia fired off a tweet looking for contributors to crowdsource DAO market research. The internet came up with 40+ DAO tools, 80+ DAOs, and 30+ high-quality DAO write-ups for review.
With an overwhelming list of tools provided, the team quickly organized core teams: product, content, and community-ops.
Let’s dive in and celebrate what we accomplished in Season 1!
The Product team is primarily composed of contributors who helped shape the DAO Masters website — from design and layouts to tech stack and development.
In Season 1, the team settled on a sprint structure and laid out a roadmap timeline. One of the first goals was to secure a domain. (thanks to @DAOofSteve, we secured daomasters.xyz!) The team then shared ideas for web design and selected a website-building platform. Webflow was the top choice and was selected. The team also leveraged Zapier to populate content from Notion to Webflow.
Once the website was up and running, the Product team added a section for tool reviews, which includes video tutorials and the ability for people to add their own reviews. Check out an example here. They also added a resource library, along with easy ways to navigate based on your level of expertise and what you’re interested in.
With everyone’s help, the site went live on Oct 15!
Special shoutout to @hirsh @fudgy @mattflanagan and @DAOofSteve for product awesomeness in Season 1.
As noted above, there were many, many tools nominated for review in Season 1. The ever-diligent Content team focused on trimming down the list of suggested tools and started reviewing each one.
The tools reviewed during Season 1 were:
Aragon
Boardroom
Collab.Land
Colony
Coordinape
DAOHaus
DeepDAO
Discord
FairMint
Gardens
Gnosis Safe
Guild
Llama
MintGate
Mirror
OpenLaw
Orca
Rabbithole
Snapshot
SourceCred
Syndicate
Tally
You can check out the tools above and our ever-growing list of new tool reviews here. And, above and beyond written reviews, in Season 1 the team additionally created video tutorials. @liamherbst_ created the first video tutorial of Guild and @justin completed 6 reviews in a week! Amazing.
With all these reviews and more to come, @pheor0 & @Annika took the lead on creating a taxonomy to keep all current and future reviews organized and easy to find.
Moving beyond reviews, the Content team compiled a list of DAO Resources (which you can add to by sharing new tools in #add-a-resource in the Discord) and started a list of DAOs, led by @pheor0. This is the beginning of our current #join-a-dao project.
The Community & Operations team set up the core foundational tools for DAO Masters in Season 1. The key tools include:
Coordinape to manage contributions and compensation
Notion to organize documents and track team progress
Snapshot to vote on key decisions
We also launched our token, $DAOMASTR, and @merkle created a step-by-step guide for buying the token. Anyone who now holds a $DAOMASTR token can join DAO Masters!
With all these new members, @twhittle took the lead on creating a DAO Masters onboarding program for the community, and @kassen started a new project to interview other DAOs and outline best practices for DAO onboarding.
The Community team also brainstormed the DAO Masters vision and mission, and reached consensus on the mission of onboarding the next million DAO contributors and operators.
Marketing is an important subteam that helps bring DAO Masters mainstream. The team worked out the mission/vision of DAO Masters and from there, defined a set of values, identified the audience and its positioning and which channel to use for launch and its overall approach. @justin and @mark drove the planning and successfully launched a social presence for DAO Masters on Twitter (@daomastersxyz) at the end of October.
After the conclusion of Season 1, the team took a short "off-season" to reflect, regroup, and recharge before hatching the approach for Season 2. During the off-season, a number of questions came up. What was working? What wasn't? And, most importantly, what do we want to collectively accomplish during Season 2?
After many conversations, the team decided the theme of Season 2 will be "Sustainability: How can we build a self-sustaining DAO?" This includes thinking through what we need to do internally to operate as a DAO, what core activities we need to maintain, and how we can build an organization that encourages and enables new experimentation. Key activities for Season 2 include:
Building out processes to facilitate the maintenance of existing products and content (including the DAO Masters website and DAO tool reviews) in order to expand our brand/footprint in the DAO ecosystem
Defining internal processes for scaling our community, including onboarding, governance, and compensation
Exploring how we can build funding mechanisms to sustainably fund the DAO into future seasons
Defining 1-3 new experiments to expand the value DAO Masters adds to the DAO ecosystem
While we are just getting going into Season 2, DAO-oriented resources we are creating over the next few weeks that we intend to release into the world include:
Tool reviews
Video tutorials
Overviews of monetization models for DAOs
Resources for DAO onboarding, governance, and compensation
Original research
Long-form editorial
And a newsletter
DAO Masters Season 2 will run through December, 2021.
The best place to get involved is in the DAO Masters Discord. The tools and general chat channels are open to all.
If you want to see the resources that were created during Season 1, check out the tool reviews and other resources on the DAO Masters website.
Or, if you want DAO Masters delivered to your old-school inbox, you can sign up for our newsletter here.
Julia, Nelson J, Pheor0, justine, Hirsh, twhittle, jdubbs1381, Flanny, liamh, Fudgy, Kass, Bernacreates.eth, modernchaosmj, LarryFlorio, Seanmc.eth, jman4190, merkle_, bvajresh, Alex, annika, DAOofSteve
This Season 1 recap was written and edited by @jocelyn, @carllyn, @antoine, and @ccarfi
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