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# Raid Guild - Discussion Notes

These notes are collected by Wordsmiths. To add information about your RAIDs or RIPs, please go [here.](https://airtable.com/shra8nA5pJbb9XcX6)

## Discord June 28, 2022

See bitbeckers re: https://discord.com/channels/684227450204323876/684227450955235335/991355259463139399

See kylestargarden about all night sprint that he did on his own in early June

What's han and roach been up to?

## Round Up April 19, 2022

- Sasquatch Brandon and LukeKK are talking about improving onboarding clients
    - take the outside perspective of someone wanting to connect with RG
        - client friction
            - stuck trying to get RAID
                - difficult to get
                - not much token utility
            - other dev shops give consultation and scope without upfront fee
    - how does RG consider these frictions and still protect the time and expertise of clerics?
    - how to bring in qualified clients and close deals?
    - enable hunters to vouch for prospective clients
        - allows hire us process bypass
    - good faith vs fee
        - apply initial consultation cost towards overall cost
    - this process might want to consider a sales perspective along with the dev perspective
    - going with the flow of how RG started might not be working 
    - hunter best practices - discussion
        - can this be automated
    - we're a service guild. why is it hard to scale our services?
    - bizdev process - build our process by bisdev experts, for zero friction for the client
        - fast paced and streamlined to get clients in the door
    - **LukeKK will make a proposal to make changes to bait clients**
        - he has lots of ideas and I didn't catch them all
        - he's a S4 apprentice and needs help making a RIP proposal
    - if the client doesn't go through with the project, a cleric should still get compensated
    - call it a deposit instead of a fee
    - finetune the language
    - RIP can integrate with Dungeon Master RIP
        - tie all the structures together
    - let's test it out manually with clerics and hunters, before getting things automated
        - we can manually add things to Dungeon Master
        - test what works and what doesn't
        - then automate after we see what works
    - there is a way to modify in Dungeon Master and work around the consultation fee
        - example: returning client that already knows what they want
    - when the scope is not clear, then the cleric has a lot more to do
    - when the client is new, then the cleric has a lot more to do
    - first test then RIP
        - validation and QA testing before making a new process
    - can a RIP be to test a strategy?
        - is that hourly rate per planning?
        - is it giving strategy to clerics and hunters?
        - when is social media strategy useful?
    - LukeKK's proposal could work with the current process
    - agile peacemeal approach is preferred
        - not a big overhaul
        - doesn't have to be technical
    - LukeKK's proposal can be discussed async
    - more info for clients
        - resources for clients to turn to
    - start a S4 channel about this
    - Token Talk - original talks about hire us updates

- How to shepherd apprentices to join a Raid party?
    - dework board at S4 was successful
    - how to integrate OGs, recent members and new apprentices on projects?
    - Inter-Guild Season Cohort???
    - we need to do more than onboard into web3
    - people get left behind and we loose them
    - there's demand to join a season, but theres not enough Raids for everyone
    - reengage S3 and S4 people for a cohort
    - give Raid party bonus for taking on apprentices
    - make a Raid Party, like a set team that you always work with
        - get to know each other and strengths and weaknesses
    - Season 5 
        - S3 + S4 + guild members
        - hackathon projects
        - dework bounty board
        - opportunity to work together
        - interguild push to ralley around
    - show apprentices what membership actually looks like
        - shadow day
    - shill cohort projects like esports

## Round Table April 14, 2022

- Season 4 Demo Day 
    - [Slide Deck](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1F1bZNxiWPCYcRN94szgaX9gxGn7Tfgxz9sF7XztHXKs/edit#slide=id.g1244882ebcb_0_67)
    - ShillShop is appreciative of M2's contribution
    - E2T consulted with winevault to finetune RIP proposal
    - PICO NFT game - NFT and partial common ownership
    - WTF PCO - [education website](https://bitter-term-8838.on.fleek.co/) about partial common ownership
    - Kickback events - starting to see about scaling, funding and deploy on Gnosis
        - [demo](https://vimeo.com/699451704/c5b20fd172)
        - could use some Postgresql help
    - Paloma illustrated logos and doodled stock photos on the [ShillShop website](https://shillshop.raidguild.org/)
    - Nifty Chess - notice board for MolochDAOs
        - a place where DAOs can list tasks that need to be done and have people contribute to. 
        - [hackmd](https://hackmd.io/@t_IcjdBBSYWEo4jZ-hJ35A/HJfd53ek5/https%3A%2F%2Fhackmd.io%2FvrHEABACRxC4qNCOZSCVrg%3Fview)
    - Tavern Keeper - async gamified onboarding
        - keeps track of progress on a profile NFT
        - support for community managers
        - want to ship a completed project to RG
    - Dungeon Master and dework
        - used for Season 4 task board

## Round Up April 12, 2022

It's not very friendly for clients to enter the system, especially if they're used to fiat.

Can we make a clear document that explains all the steps, begining at the most basic, like beginning with fiat.

launchnija is making something like this for ShillShop and will share with clerics.

What if we accept more than just xDai to welcome more clients?

Is there a way to make an automated exchange that can deposit xDai into the treasury, but allows clients to pay with various currencies?

Token Talk: 
- Raiders getting paid out in RAID
    - client deposits their currency
    - raiders get RAID
    - at the end of a raid, raiders can exchange RAID for other currencies
- RAID utility?
- Manage our funds?
- Bridge gap from hobby to full time gig?

## Round Up April 5, 2022

Onboarding without Mainnet:
- Polygon - Buy with Transak or Moonpay
- [Bridge Connext](https://bridge.connext.network/) crosschain bridge

Polygon/Mainnet Bridge:
- [Umbria](https://bridge.umbria.network/bridge/ethereum-polygon/eth)

If a Raider gets paid in NFTs, how do they share that with the guild? 
- Ask Token Talk and DAOhaus
- it's possible, but we don't have anything on Mainnet
- you can launch the exact same DAO or minion safe on different chains

## Round Table March 31, 2022

#### New Members:
- degenroach - championed by Kerp / sponsored by Mackenzie

#### Props & Shills 

EthDenver Hackathon - Three teams in the Finals
- [Moloch Rises](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/2071) (launchninja, flip, BruceDev, alcibiades)
- [Tavern Keeper](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/2469) (Govinda, JonValjonathan, WillyB, Autocrat)
- [DoerDao](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/1956) (bluewhiteorange, BeauTroxclair.eth, rowdy)

#### Onboarding into RaidGuild

- Members should feel welcome to pop into the cohort channels and provide feedback to folks in the new season
- Focus is to get the bounties flow setup and functioning 
- Tavern Keepers work to get the cohort members working on the DeWork bounties 
- Many builders in the cohort, they will be doing a whole lot of building on projects next week
- 2-weeks from now the cohort will be demoing their projects


#### The Lore 

- TW has been hanging out in there talking a little lore
- Meme driven development & ongoing conversation for roadmap in the guild
    - Govinda & others are talking a shift in lore
    - Guardrails / constraints for lore crafting
- Lore should map over the architecture of the DAO
- The risk is that the DAO architecture could respond negatively to the lore
- Increase clarity for the RaidGuild vision and provide constraints for the lore crafters so there are rails
- TW is taking next steps


#### Raids
- Bankless Website - high-fidelity version
- Unlock - We are building a tool like substack for web3
- Bales (uniswap fork project - quick and dirty)
- Kickback project - interested in reviving Kickback
- Launchpad team wants to build a dex tool for aurora-chain (l2) (full stand alone dapp)
- FilmDAO Clerics/team needed 

#### RIPs 

- Shillshop systemization RIP is looking amazing!
- Full-stack marketing service 
- Budgeting calculator document RIP


[Round Tables Notes - March 31st](https://hackmd.io/Wksm3Ph4R_KJpKbZeSbuoQ)

#### Closing Thoughts

- Token Talk - 2:30 PT on Thursdays - meetings have been consistently taking place throughout the past year 
- Takeaways - we need to have better engagement from GuildMemebers to make decisions about how Raid Token can increase utility / value for holders 
- Add more focus on this at the end of Futures talks 

#### Smart Invoice Product
- putting a team together & sourcing funding
- reaching out to organizations to get some grants 
- making Smart Invoice a core component of the freelancer stack
- looking for support from marketers, builders, and other interested parties 
- need product/project owners in the guild!
#### 
## Round-Up March 29, 2022

EthDenver Hackathon - Three teams in the Finals
- [Moloch Rises](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/2071) (launchninja, flip, BruceDev, alcibiades)
- [Tavern Keeper](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/2469) (Govinda, JonValjonathan, WillyB, Autocrat)
- [DoerDao](https://dorahacks.io/buidl/1956) (bluewhiteorange, BeauTroxclair.eth, rowdy)

Burnout research with DAOhaus
- how do you allocate your time?
- what metrics do you use?
- how do you decide how you spend your resources
- Sasquatch is accepting DMs about this

New Client Submissions
- how to see if it's been paid
- how does it get into the Discord

dework
- growing on Tae
    - working closely with DAOhaus
    - team continually working on it
    - alligned 
    - **better UX for mainstream**

Should we bring in more product people?
- smart invoice (escrow)
- funding 
    - grants
    - RIP

## Round Table March 24, 2022

- Thank you Tae for Season 4 Cohort
    - more apprentices that are already in web3
    - high level goal: high quality RG members
    - Episode 2 - unveiling the DAO
    - April 4 or 11 - Demo Day
    - Props - JP and Scott
    - Tavern Keeper bot??
        - can't replace the cohort experience
        - will anyone read everything?
- HausParty topic today: Competition
- **RG as DAO expert** - 
- WGMI DAO - community manager sevice dao
- Developer DAO 
    - NFTs and 1000s of people in there 
    - Ryan Coordinator (from Gitcoin) is focused on funding
    - want to learn from RG and maybe partner
- Dekan says, and Aaron agrees, build and solve problems first is what RG does, but the others are marketing first
- Influencer marketing - is it vaporware?
- How to open source our DAO knowledge?
    - write a book? "How to DAO"
        - use examples like DAOgroni and RaidBrood to explain the tools
- DAOshop - how to DAO consulting
- Do new DAOs want to fund consulting, or do they just want to market?
- Metalab only will talk to you if you're willing to pay 6 figures
- RG didn't intentionally make the lore
    - it hasn't been explicitly told
    - stories have emerged on their own
- How to DAO courses
- Educational content
    - open source and free
    - what is the upstream luxury product?
        - Parties
    - what's sustainable?
- as a DAO matures, what keeps it going?
    - RG members are at meetings
        - translates to 1000s of $s in time
        - we're not getting paid/we want to be here
- Some of the smartest people with the smartest intentions here right now
    - what kind of platform would honor this
    - is there some kind of traditional marketing?
        - how to fund that (parties that pay for themselves)
- Does DAOhaus feel too noble and not sexy enough?
    - investors want the pump and dump scams
- How to help the right people catch the value - Token Talk conversations
- How to use $RAID with this?
- **What is poaching and when is it okay?**
- Gitcoin wants to move comic team from RG to Gitcoin 
    - This is awesome and an example of fractalizing
    - The team is still RG and individuals are sovereign
    - it's a Raid in someone else's Discord
    - when communication stays in RG discord the guild can support the Raid team
    - Thank you TravisWyche for being open to discussing with the Guild
    - is this like aquiring a company?
        - GTC getting tributed to RaidGuild?
        - share buyback?
- tributing in the original token 
    - 20% of raw amount
     - at the original $ exchage rate
     - how can this add value to $RAID?
- pay people in other tokens?
- projects purchase $RAID?
- establish cash flows with tokens and Raids?
- Collective Brainstorm on tokenomics with Gitcoin?
- Jesters - emcee meetings
- New Role? - Minstrel - composing music


## Round-up March 22, 2022

- Bankless seeming serious
    - Needs Technical PM & Designer, sasquatch tae sidebar
- cleaning out the hire us queue
    - old bids don't demonstrate our responsibility well
- Season 4 Cohort restarted yesterday
    - Guild members are invited to add bounties or tasks for apprentices - tell Tae
    - GeoWebs and harberger tax - Dekan worked on the contracts that the cohort can work on - wargame
    - episode 1 is tomorrow at 2pm pacific
- RG and Developer DAO partnership?
- Tavern Keeper, the onboarding bot, and Monster Maps, especially since gas is lower right now - ApeironCreations has ideas
- Pentagraph - should we reengage them?
    - they are closing a good size funding round on April 11 
    - Raid probably wont start until after 2 weeks
    - learning the scope
- Collecting all RG proposals (sasquatch)
    - review and pull budgeting data out of them
    - getting a list of services together
- ShillShop has a slide deck with offers and pricing, clients can use (thank you launchnija)
- **Get scope and funds before doing work for clients.**
- Rare Pizza might be getting prepared to come to Raid Guild 
    - Moloch has been attacking them and they need help. 
     - ApieronCreations has been talking with Snacks.  
     - They need an offical submission when they're ready.
- GitCoin comic Raid was so successful that the Raid Party has been invited to continue the work as GitCoin, not Raid Guild.
    - team: 
        - treat like a raid
            - 10% spoils
            - RG excellence
            - request for shares - maybe not
        - build with GitCoin
            - use GitCoin's workflow and communications
            - brand GitCoin, not RG
        - challenge: guild's transparency principle
            - harder for guild to weigh in
            - harder for team to get guild's help
            - comms outside of RG control
        - team won't actually be working as RG, they'll be working as GitCoin
        - the 10% spoils and RG excellence is just as gratitude for the initial connection with GitCoin, through Raid Guild
    - Poaching 
        - why are they hiring a whole raid party?
        - there's no solidity or front end devs on this party
        - Clients want RG's good work in house
        - this issue comes up very frequently
        - might need a separate call on this specifically
        - ask apprenticies and new members
            - do you want a job?
            - do you want to freelance?
        - RG is freelance and encourages working in multiple DAOs, not full time employment
    - BizDev perspective
        - got a guild member within a client's team, learning about how else RG can serve them
    - the actual GitCoin comic is in the process of decentralizing so it's open source
    - gonna talk about this again at Round Table
    - Thank you TravisWyche for bringing the discussion to the guild
- EthDenver Virtual Hackathon judging scheduling is last minute. Don't miss out.

## Round Table March 17, 2022
### ~~Brands Participating in $WATER~~ BIG NO from the guild

- TECC
- GIVETH
- PANVALA
- BRIGHT
- RAIDGUILD

##### HNY is nearly the only asset with backing (dwindling reserves)
Creating a liquidity token to be paired with several different projects on gnosischain

- sell water to get xDAI in the door and create liquidity agaist xDAI


### Ways this can go wrong

- project tokens are only as good as their liquidity pools reserve assets
- how many millions of dollars of project tokens do you have vs the reserve token asset 
    - LPs are like a permissionless checking account
    - money in the pool represents money in the account
    - everyone gets a check to pull against that 
    - projects with the highest reserves get rekd
    - projects with low reserves benefit

#### Pros: 
- Pooling a portion of the $RAID treasury with other projects that will not dump on us and we will not dump on them 
    - introducing a some-what solid liquidity program for the $RAID token such that we would be able sustain RAID token price?

#### Cons:
- Flop
    - No one buys water token
    - We lose 100% of the 100k

- Fair token price
    - RAID might be undervalued in the basket

- Undermining our ability to create liquidity for ourselves in the future
    - do we want to do a liquidity program for ourselves instead
    - we might compete against ourselves in the future for supplying liquidity 

- Brand dilution
    - what happens when we associate ourselves with these different groups

### Fair Market Value of RAID ?

## Round-up March 15, 2022 

- After a client completes a design sprint with Raid Guild, they usually want to keep working with us. Clerics can then put in another application for the client into Dungeon Master.
- When a client says to not worry about an issue that Raiders want to reconcile, it's probably not gonna turn out to be a no-worry situation.
- When a client has a consult and then time goes by and the scope has changed, then a new consultaion must be completed to re-engage.
- What to do when you're doing front end work and there's a back end that you're relying on?
- Group DMs shouldn't be including the client, they should be a Raider channel.
- Is dework a useful tool for Raids?


## RaidGuild Divergence (Season 4 Onboarding) March 23rd, 2022 

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- arshdeep 
    - full stack developer
        - solidity dev
    - willdro intro'd him 
    - he is working on some on-chain gaming 

- Autocrat 
    - BackEnd Dev
    - Working on Tavern Keeper Bot
        - doing solidity for that 

- Ayanb.eth 
    - Software engineer
    - front-end 
    - former YC founder
    - member of Orange DAO
    - came across RG through guys at Opolis 
    - Web3 goals 
        - work on front-end development 
        - work on dapps
        - figure out what working in DAOs is like 

- beautroxclair.eth
    - Backend dev & smart contract dev
        - project management & content stuff interests him
    -  

- boilerrat 
    - project management 
    - contruction work
    - MetaPod

- byanca 
    - Austin 
    - Front-end dev
    - attended ETHDenver
    - New to web3 & interested in women led DAOs

- clavis
    - involved with a bunch of DAOs 
    - supporting onboarding in web3
    - working in project & community management 

- continuitydrift 
    - Writer looking to contribute and work on documentation 

- catalyst 
    - COO of CBD extraction company
    - starting a game called crypto warriors 
    - found raidguild on the Ethereum development website
    - Looking to be a people manager and helping support the community 

- cryptoson
    - mostly Back-End dev
    - managing teams as a CTO
    - Been building stuff with BuildGuild, 
    - Interested in working on NFT projects and minting 
    - Smart Contracts for NFT marketplace for trading NFTs

- cryptocano
    - 20 years in the softward industry
    - working last few years in crypto
        - enterprise blockchain 
        - token rich stuff
    - devops cloud architecture
    - 

- eduardo b 
    - Back-end dev
    - work on more projects and develop their portfolio
    - interested in projects/products like SuperFluid

- flare 
    - Frontend dev & web3 integrations
        - subgraph development 
    - participated in ETHDenver hackathon 
        - created the project battlships 

- gano 
    - Monk project manager
        - 2 decades in project management
        - product owner as well
    - Involved in Yearn 
    - Looking forward to building with devs in the guild

- george
    - full-stack dev (self-taught)
        - wizard
    - spearheading platform for ethereum cat herders 

- govinda
    - s2 
        - developing lore around onboarding
        - slaying moloch through the docs
    - working as a tavern keeper 
        - creating NFT profiles etc.

- graven
    - geoweb
    - monk 
    - mechanism design 
    - leans toward incentive structure 
    - change property management 

- jgreen7
    - Jordan chose Warrior
        - does some back-end & solidity as well
    - LSgrow - building an interface for ETHGlobal
        - building a front-end for their events protocol

- jonvaljonathan.eth
    - PaladinWarrior - 
        - submitted project to ETHDenver

- Joshua Samaniego 
    - front-end 
    - back-end
    - solidity 
    - contributor at tellor
    - & ricochet 

- jp 
    - raidguild, daohaus
        - front-end warrior, healer & monk
    - DAOnative project management tools

- jp4g.eth

    - implementation of state channels & rollups for ETHDenver
    - smart js 
    - zero-knowledge implementations
    - running scrum teams
    - battle zips 

- M2-GDAO 
    - marketing expert
    - proof of existence token to market
    - happy medium <> KYC

- materialyze (Gavin)
    - major contributor at Opolis
    - cleric/monk/hunter

- mitchmatch
    - scribe - enlightened about the writers guild 
    
- o090o 

- omarragab1518
    - react
    - solidity dev
    - web3 integrations
    - interested in Battlezips 
    - decentralized version of youtube

- paloma 
    - learned about Rg through her aunt
    - doodles images for shillshop
    - designer/illustrator
    - wants to make somem more designs for this work 
    
- peterturnbull
    - ex YC founder
    - fell down the rabbithole into web3
        - oracles/bridges/etc
        - bring off-chain assets on chain 
     - backend dev and UX Design
     - wants to learn more solidity
     - down to manage projects 

- ryan
    - web3 dev/some solidity 
    - music nfts
    - L2s 
    - member of Mochi & ATX DAO
    - Here to learn

- sirlee.eth
    - Michael is name
    - Budding Wizard 
    - Paladin in the web2 world
    - interested in the space

- SLM 
    - friends with kerp
    - create a roll 
    - sound designer, film, vr/ar world
    - Metaverse world building 
    - NFTs are interesting to him
    - Following everything going on

- stephenpdiesel
    - cleric/monk
    - hunter/healer
    - ops minded 
    - lead product manager focused on strategy & design
    - launched a few dapps
    - into coaching, product & project management 
    - been a part of DAOs since FWB season 1 
    - looking to get involved again

- Tricelex 
    - backend developer
    - going through some solidity work 
    - figuring out smart contracts
    - connected with Gitcoin DAO
    - came across RG when looking for builder communties

- Triforce Walt
    - paladin 
    - hopes of becoming a wizard
    - based in the UK
    - software developer working on autonomous vehicles & robotics

- Tufnel
    - smartcontract dev
    - front-end & react experience
    - down to develop lore 
    - registry provenance on-chain platform
    - frontend integrations for web3 DAOs with gastationnetwork
    - looking to work with more experienced devs

- UI369
    - warrior/paladins/necromancer
    - monk here
    - working in DAOhaus 
    - gamified user interface for some of the DAO architecture that he's working on 

- uknable 
    - UI/UX
    - Graphics programming
    - found us through google 
    - here to learn about web3 and what the hell is going on

- $tasia 
    - had a friend who was deep down the rabbithole 

- JaelenM 
    - UX/UI design
    
- willy b 
    - monk & archer
    - wants to explore all of the avenues that web3 has to offer

- winevault.eth
    - software developer in comms in south australia 
    - found RaidGuild through Carnegie Mellon 
    - Moloch DAO principles interest him
    - software dev manager in telecoms 
    - side-project going in the dairy industry 
        - nfts/commodity markets - using IoT with oracles
    - Monk scribe cleric 

- zkMeta - paul
    - full-stack dev
    - pm for the projects he leads
    - left job at amazon to join us here
    - building decentralized arbitrage bots 
    - working on multi-chain liquidity with composable 
    - working on a couple other projects that are his own in the space


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