Newsletter Team Proposal: Season 1
Program Proposal #1
Program Champion:
siddhearta
Program Name:
Newsletter Team Proposal - Season 1
Program Justification:
The Writers Guild currently has three newsletters that require ongoing resources and funding:
- Weekly Rollup (internal)
- Project Updates (internal)
- DAO Newsletter (external).
The Newsletter Team would manage the weekly operations, organize and moderate weekly meetings, and ship content at regular scheduled intervals. These programs each require formal roles and compensation in order to ensure accountability and timely execution.
Currently, the Weekly Rollup is sponsored at the rate of $5,000 USD per quarter. The Writers Guild has voted to allocate 80% of sponsorship revenue to the DAO treasury, and 20% to the Newsletter Team to offset Guild funding. In the future, we project that the DAO Newsletter will also be sponsored as well.
Program Terms
In order to ensure efficient operations, management, and distribution, we propose the following roles be created and funded.
The roles would exist for a trial period lasting for Season 1 and require renewal or otherwise be more firmly instantiated.
Roles
Weekly Rollup (ships weekly):
- Front end/ back end author (co-author split)- responsible for Community Highlights, What’s New, Action Items, and Proposals
- 2000 BANK/week
- Headline piece author (co-author split)- responsible for weekly featured piece
- 2000 BANK/week
- Community call note taker
- 1500 BANK/week
- Editing
- 1000 BANK/week (Primary)
- 250 BANK/week (Secondary)
- TOTAL 6,750 BANK/ week = 81,000 BANK/Season1
Project Updates (ships monthly):
- Author (co-author split)- responsible for project updates, needs, and supporting content
- 2000 BANK/publication
- Editor
- 1000 BANK/publication
- TOTAL 3,000 BANK/ publication
DAO Newsletter (pending):
- Author (co-author split)- responsible for curating DAO content
- 2000 BANK/publication
- Editor
- 1000 BANK/publication
- TOTAL 3,000 BANK/ publication
Newsletter Team Organizer:
- Responsibilities include:
- Maintain a weekly agenda and content calendar
- Onboarding new members of Writers Guild to newsletter team
- Moderate weekly team meetings
- Take notes (or otherwise collect) during weekly team meetings
- Represent the Newsletter Team on the weekly Writers Guild Meeting
- Role Salary:
- Streams over 12 week period
- If Season is extended the salary is extended at the same rate pro rata.
- Contains BANK for full term
- Operates off hourly wages and weekly hours
- [5 hrs/week] * [250 BANK/hr] = 1,250 BANK/week
- 1,250 BANK/week * 12 weeks/season = 15,000 BANK total