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# Raid Guild Round Table Notes: 6/17/2021
I started to take notes around 15 minutes in, so was trying to summarize some of the previous conversation.
## Education and Leveling Up
- RG needs Solidity devs!
- How could we structure a process for members to level up their skills (especially in high demand skill areas?)
- What would sponsored education experiences look like?
- Web3 Critical Skills
- The Graph
- How can we scaffold and structure guild members leveling up skills (especially in needed areas)
## Contract to Hire Model
- Hire the guild → guild assigns 1 or 2 devs → company hires devs → 10% of the dev's annual salary goes to the guild
- Would want to look into this coming from the client as a surcharge, not a cut to the dev's salary
- Would create an exit flow of talent, but this may be what many of our clients are looking for — could be a good pathway for members who don't want to be freelancers
- Would then want to make sure we're able to replace talent that goes out, especially with much needed skills such as Solidity
- Recent clients have been looking for talent, but RG isn't a recruiting agency. This could be a path to pursue
- Could also be structured as a longer term project such as a 2 year project → full-time hire after longer term engagement (Excalibur client?)
- RG members are freelancers, and aren't necessarily looking for this type of model (single company employment)
- This type of model is becoming more popular (agencies are losing talent to groups with a similar model to RG — *sourcing agencies*)
- Talent goes and sits on a *bench* doing internal projects or personal development while waiting to be sourced for a longer term project / company placement
## Raids, Raids, Raids!
- **ETHDenver**
- Would be fun to have a Raid Guild party during ETHDenver!
- *Blood of Moloch* recipe → brewer in Denver
- **OrochiDAO**
- Sponsor them → become a member of the DAO → throw a party!
- **Cleric Revamp**
- Revamping the process for taking new clients
- Admin processes such as setting up escrow taking a lot of time
- Focusing on getting higher paying clients for extended durations
- Often these clients need a *stepping stone* that could lead to larger projects
- Many *Excalibur* clients often require progression
- Consultations and smaller raids boost client confidence
- Cleric → PM handoff could be clarified and refined
- **New Cohort**
- Will do another one but need time to regrouping
- Potentially do a new cohort in July or August
- Folks willing to contribute to the process
- We can try to implement some of the newer processes such as sponsorship for the next cohort
- Can use this as an opportunity to reboot some of our models
- Guild at a point where we can level up processes since RG has an established reputation
- **Season 1 Projects**
- *web3template* and *cohort site*
- RIP funding once at point for more generalized template (could be a DAOhaus or UberHaus grant)
- Participants getting paid via RIPs — have cohort apprentices go through process of requesting funds from the *Season 1 DAO Guild Bank*
- **Series LLC**
- Individual raids to be individual Series LLCs?
- What would the process be? Internal discussion → proposal
- What are the steps for this to materialize?
- May need to update existing LLC paperwork to point to the xDAI DAO
- Escrow process could be automated
- Escrow spins up an *operating agreement* and inject the Series LLC into it during this process
- **EthCC**
- [https://ethcc.io/](https://ethcc.io/)
- Anyone attending?
- Funding for raid-representatives?
- Will have a keg of *Blood of Moloch*!
- Painting the keg? Banners?
- What is the cost for 1 keg?
- **$RAID Token Talk**
- Fill out the Airtable form if you want tokens!
- Check out the **#rip-raid-token** channel for updates and if you're available to help (5-10 hours over next few weeks)
- There are tasks to be done!
- React devs needed
- Check out the Trello board and self-assign tasks if able to help
- What is the pulse on $RAID token? Any concerns?
- Clients who pay the 500 consultation xDAI fee can move forward in the consultation queue by acquiring additional $RAID tokens (auction queue)
- Token will need to have utility and value → priority access to services is a way to do this
- Token tied to demand for guild services, and this could be a way to measure this
- Loyalty system and representation of "aggressive demand" for RG services
- How do you quantify how many clients want to hire RG?
## Resources
- [Raid Round-up: 6/15/2021](https://hackmd.io/0_XoX3j9Rj6bBYqpKQQZGQ)
- [https://raidguild.operatingagreement.eth.link/](https://raidguild.operatingagreement.eth.link/)