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bDAO Website Design Workflow

bDAO Website Design Workflow

Squad: OrnellaWeb3, DidierKrux, MantisClone, Cisco, BOBO, Fiyin, Becks, Teekaygod
💡 Weekly Sync to improve the bDAO Website
Wednesday, Jan 17
Attendees:
  • MantisClone
  • Fiyin
  • DidierKrux
  • Lawrence
Learnings:
  • MantisClone’s update
    • MantisClone has not made progress on the migration into CloudFlare.
    • bDAO Website Design Workflow has stalled in the last few weeks.
    • MantisClone is busy at home - wife due to give birth Feb 9th
    • OrnellaWeb3 has been busy with new duties as Grants Committee
    • DidierKrux finished the News UI and is waiting on design feedback
    • MantisClone suspects that the BanklessDAO/HQ branding drama created uncertainty around the future of the DAO and caused contributors to float away.
    • MantisClone suspects that the Holidays in December and the end of Season 9 / start of Season 10 may have contributed.
    • Multisig has 40500 BANK (about $130 USD) in it currently
  • Fiyin’s Update
    • Open to new design work
    • MantisClone requested Fiyin take a look at the new News Widget UI.
  • DidierKrux.eth’s Update
    • We are waiting on feedback for News UI and Brand Clarity
    • Hesitant to deploy News UI until we have feedback and Brand Clarity.
    • There will be a brand meeting with Ryan Sean Adams on Friday Jan 19th
  • Lawrence’s Intro
    • Offered to design pages for the website
    • MantisClone explained that we’re waiting until we have Brand Clarity before starting new design work
Action:
  • MantisClone to check if the Season 10 Budget has been approved.
  • MantisClone to check in with the Marketing Department to see if Season 10 Funding is on it’s way.
  • Fiyin to take a look News Widget UI and provide feedback
Wednesday Dec 13
Attendees:
  • DidierKrux
  • MantisClone
Learnings:
  • DidierKrux finished the News UI widget
    • The top-nav menu now has a black background
    • The content of the News UI loads quickly
    • The Carousel timing is good
    • The Carousel stops auto-rotating if the user manually clicks to show a particular card
  • MantisClone did not make progress on the Cloudflare Backend migration
Action:
  • OrnellaWeb3 to assess if the initial content is good
  • MantisClone to find someone to help with a UI Styling Review
  • MantisClone to finish migration to Cloudflare Backend
  • DidierKrux to hand off control of the News UI to the Marketing Department
Wednesday, Nov 15
Recording (expires in 6 days)
Attendees:
  • DidierKrux
  • MantisClone
  • BOBO
  • Samuel BG (didn’t talk)
Context: Weekly Sync
Learnings:
  • Changed these notes title from “Illustration Workflow” to “bDAO Website Design Workflow”
  • DidierKrux - worked on website
    • Homepage News UI - https://dw-237-news.bankless-website-7zu.pages.dev/
      • Progress looks nice.
      • Open to feedback from a designer.
      • Currently (but it’s all configurable)
        • Latest News box holds 5-6 links
        • Carousel holds top 3 links.
    • Backend optimization
      • Takes 10-15 seconds to scrape website feeds
      • Using Vercel Redis as cache
      • Cron runs once per hour to refresh Redis Cache
    • Notion now has a manual trigger for publishing Announcements (Not Departments, Projects, and Guilds which are still manual script)
  • IDEAs:
    • BanklessHQ should give us a referral code so they can tell how much of their traffic comes from BanklessDAO. We can add it to the Media Nodes page.
Actions:
  • OrnellaWeb3 and Cisco to provide async update.
  • DidierKrux to keep working on the Homepage News UI
  • DidierKrux to explain to MantisClone how the backend is implemented
  • MantisClone to start migrating backend into CloudFlare pages (if it makes sense, pending discussion with DidierKrux)
  • MantisClone to send meeting scheuler link to DidierKrux
  • MantisClone to work with InfoSec team
    • Switch bankless.community domain over to Cloudflare Pages deployment
    • Disconnect MantisClone’s Cloudflare account from Github bankless-website repo
    • Make sure Preview Links are working
    • Ask InfoSec team’s tolerance for backend hosting costs on Cloudflare Pages
Open Questions:
  • What content should we put on the Homepage News UI?
    • Probably Bankless Publishing. Or Weekly Rollup
  • Should we include Bankless HQ content?
    • MantisClone and DidierKrux leaning towards No.
Wednesday, Nov 8
Recording (expires in 6 days): TODO
Attendees:
  • DidierKrux
  • MantisClone
  • OrnellaWeb3
Context:
  • Weekly Sync
Learnings:
  • OrnellaWeb3:
    • Busy with Onboarding workstream (not directly related to Website). Will be able to focus on the Website more after Onboarding Workstream improvements are complete.
    • Not downgrading DASH subscription now. Reevaluate Q1, 2024.
    • Consolidating the Branding Guideline progress is slow because only 2 people are skilled enough to help (OrnellaWeb3 and Sandeep). This is okay - branding can be plugged in later after the website structure has made more progress.
      • This Branding Guideline will be used to update the website.
      • This Branding Guideline will be cleaned up and posted (as a PDF) to the website for all to see.
    • Many BanklessDAO YouTube channels were taken down presumably due to impersonation concerns, but Bankless HQ didn’t request this. DAO and HQ are working together to get BanklessDAO channels re-instated.
      • DidierKrux reported that one of his Bankless Twitter Accounts was taken down as well.
      • Maybe Doppel is responsible? https://www.doppel.com/bankless. Confirmed during call đź‘Ť
  • DidierKrux:
    • Made progress on the News-Banner widget for the home page. Prototype Infrastructure and show images/text on screen - complete.
      • Next: Improved UI and performance.
    • The News-Banner widget is using the Bankless Academy backend in Vercel.
  • MantisClone:
    • New Cloudflare Deployment! https://bankless-website-7zu.pages.dev/
      • The Cloudflare deployment is administrated by InfoSec team (BogDragonov and Stackthat.eth) using their Terraform Infrastructure repository.
      • Next:
        • Redirect bankless.community domain over to the new Cloudflare deployment.
        • Wind down the Vercel account before next billing date on November 23rd
  • Next week, OrnellaWeb3 will be async, at DevConnect Istanbul.
  • The Marketing Department is making the Season 10 budget, due Nov 11th, send to ErenTarg.
    • The Website Project is part of the Marketing Department.
    • The Marketing Department will receive funding for Season 10 and send the portion meant for Website development/maintenance to the Website Project multisig: https://app.safe.global/home?safe=eth:0xca22f929Aa5DBe2db2d0305d31604FE0dfD386b5
    • Include:
      • Retroactive payment for the Website Design Update done in Season 9
      • Website Design Update budget for Season 10
      • Website Operational Budget and Bounty Budget for Season 10
    • Don’t include:
      • Website Operational Budget and Bounty Budget for Season 9 (already covered by Marketing Department)
    • Discuss KPIs:
      • Number of visitors? No. We’re not actively driving visitors to the site. Also this is heavily influenced by market conditions.
      • Uptime? No. This is managed by InfoSec
      • Content Accuracy and Improvement? How do we measure this?
      • Time to update? (response time to update the website when requested)
      • Activity? (Stop funding if no progress for 1 month)
      • Idea: Maybe we should define Milestones instead? Milestones are easy to “game” too.
      • No Conclusion.
Action:
  • DidierKrux to improve UI and performance on the News-Banner Widget
  • OrnellaWeb3 to consolidate Branding Guidelines into one document.
  • MantisClone to investigate the availability of a backend in Cloudflare Pages.
  • MantisClone to send Season 10 budget ask to ErenTarg
  • Cisco to continue iterating on the images and finish the 4th one
Wednesday, Oct 25
Recording (expires in 6 days):
Craig Recording
Craig Recording
https://craig.horse/rec/zLcm6EuIJt?key=7qHUYL
Attendees:
  • DidierKrux
  • OrnellaWeb3
  • MantisClone
  • BOBO
  • Cisco
  • Teekaygod
Context:
  • Weekly Sync
Learnings:
  • Discussed using Chippis from Perchy in BanklessDAO branding.
  • Cisco shared new images, using classic BanklessDAO colors (Black White, Red, etc.) instead of the proposed colors (Red, Gold, etc.). These images are meant for the landing page
    • DidierKrux recommended a “boxed” black background so regardless of the background of the website, the images will still have a black background.
    • Ornella and DidierKrux requested to add more red to the images.
  • DidierKrux shared progress on the News and Announcements widget for the home page, auto-populated with the latest blog post, latest community call, and latest bankless academy page.
    • Updating this list takes about 10 seconds so had to add a backend for caching. Cloudflare pages don’t support backends so currently, DidierKrux is using the Bankless Academy to host the backend.
    • Ornella asked if the News/Announcements widget could somehow explain what BanklessDAO is and does.
    • News and Announcements will be a carousel (slider that rotates left/right to show each story one-at-a-time)
  • DidierKrux shared a long-term vision for creating reusable components for the Website that can then be used by other Bankless-affiliated projects.
    • MantisClone cautioned that making resuable components may be out-of-scope for current website redesign effort.
Action
  • MantisClone to look into whether Cloudflare offers any free backend services.
  • OrnellaWeb3 to aggregate the Branding Guidelines into a single slide deck.
  • Cisco to continue iterating on the images and finish the 4th one
  • DidierKrux to continue iterating on the News/Announcements widget for the home page
Debrief
  • MantisClone forgot to share that BOBO submitted a PR to fix the Menu. MantisClone to review and merge when ready.
Wednesday, Oct 18
Recording (expires in 6 days): https://craig.horse/rec/xTFIUo5Z3x?key=cbQqVn
Attendees:
  • DidierKrux
  • OrnellaWeb3
  • MantisClone
  • BOBO
  • Cisco
  • kolaaade
Context:
  • Weekly Sync
Learnings:
  • DidierKrux demo’d the new Work-with-us page
  • OrnellaWeb3 explained the plan on how to audit the copy:
    • Enlist help from other Marketing Department members
    • Hard for any one person to know everything that’s happening in the DAO
  • DidierKrux showed News widget mock-up. Discussion:
    • Propose putting it at the top of the Home page
    • All agree that news widget should be on the landing page
    • Unclear whether it should be above or below the fold
      • If above the fold: Keep users updated. Provide value immediately. but doesn’t necessarily teach new visitors what bDAO is.
      • Need to decide what is most important: New Users or Returning Users
    • Goals: News widget should be updatable by Marketing Department without Dev support
  • MantisClone demo’d the Google Analytics dashboard
  • Cisco
    • working on illustrations for the landing page
    • 3 / 4 landing page images complete
  • MantisClone reported that migration from Vercel to Cloudflare Pages is almost complete.
    • Tried Github Pages, but rejected b/c doesn’t offer preview links. Cloudflare Pages does.
    • MantisClone submitted a PR to InfoSec’s Terraform repo
    • MantisClone added secret API keys to Bitwarden
    • Credit to stackthat.eth and bogdrakonov.eth who helped review and ensure secrets were stored securely. (They should be included when this effort is compensated).
Action:
  • OrnellaWeb3 to continue auditing the website copy.
  • MantisClone to fix the menu bar.
  • OrnellaWeb3 to chat with Perchy about Chippi as part of the visual identity of BanklessDAO.
  • OrnellaWeb3 to sync with Cisco to discuss using white instead of yellow on landing page images.
  • Cisco to finish landing page illustrations
Wednesday, Oct 11
Recording: https://craig.horse/rec/dEbxpkb0XL?key=sVE_hw
Attendees:
  • @DidierKrux.eth
  • @BOBO
  • @MantisClone
  • @OrnellaWeb3
  • @Teekaygod
Context:
  • Weekly Sync
Learnings:
  • @DidierKrux demonstrated the new Projects, Guilds, and Departments page populated with data in Notion
  • Ideas:
    • Update the Work-with-us page to be the same as Projects Guilds and Departments, backed by Notion
    • Idea: Feedback mechanism built straight into the website
      • Like Canny but maybe more Web3 friendly?
    • News page to aggregate feeds from all of the BanklessDAO publications.
    • Add a “History” page to list historical units that are no longer active.
    • Add a “Constitution” iframe that pulls directly from Github
    • Add CTAs for all Projects, Guilds, and Departments
      • All CTAs to Discord onboarding? Or CTAs to Project/Guild/Department page?
      • Recommend: Notion page or Discord start here
      • Ultimately each unit will choose their own preferred landing page.
  • When do we update the look and feel? How should we go about updating the website?
    • Consensus: Pick a page, and revamp one at a time - together as a team with input from both tech, marketing, and design.
  • @OrnellaWeb3 proposed About-us should have a diagram and section that explains “What is a Project, Guild, Department?”
  • @DidierKrux shared how to use ChakraUI and the ChakraUI Figma Toolkit. It provides default spacing and style that looks good.
    • All stakeholders (designer, developer, marketer) would benefit from learning about it
Action:
  • @OrnellaWeb3 to audit and fix the copy in Notion
  • Team to start by fixing the menu bar and the Home page.
Wednesday, October 4
Attendees:
  • @MantisClone
  • @Becks
  • @BOBO
Context:
  • We had an async meeting last week.
  • MantisClone shared that the Website Project is out of money.
  • BOBO deployed a new Departments page
  • DidierKrux.eth is working on Notion as CMS task
Learnings:
  • Over the last two weeks, @TeekayGod and @BOBO fixed images on the website.
  • @MantisClone requested funding from the Marketing Department.
  • @MantisClone working on an effort to migrate out of Vercel. Initially targeted Github Pages, but now working on Cloudflare Pages (because Cloudflare offers preview deployments for PRs)
  • @Becks task to audit images in Dash has been completed âś…
Action:
  • @MantisClone to put the first 3 of Cisco’s images (Governance, Projects, Departments) on the website so we can see how it looks.
  • @Cisco to provide 4th image (Guilds)
  • @MantisClone to fix Bankless Academy image & DAO Stewards image.
  • @MantisClone to finish migration to Cloudflare Pages
Wednesday, Sept 20
Attendees:
  • @MantisClone
  • @Cisco
  • @BOBO
  • @Fiyin
  • @Teekaygod
Learnings:
  • Cisco completed 3 images. 1 still in progress.
  • MantisClone reported that no one has picked up the Notion CMS task.
  • Assumptions:
    • Ornella's copywriting audit of the homepage is still in progress.
    • Beck's department and project image audit is still in progress.
Action:
  • @Cisco to post the 4th image (Guilds)
  • @everyone to review Cisco’s Guilds image once it’s complete
  • @MantisClone to find dev for Notion CMS task. Make another slide on Community Call, Reach out to Dev Guild.
  • @BOBO to create tasks on Website DeWork to fix images - up to 1000 BANK each.
  • @Fiyin to share the Design Guild “Drawing board” logo
Tuesday, August 15th
Attendees:
  • @MantisClone
  • @Cisco
  • @Fiyin
  • @mikeysploitable
Learnings:
  • @Cisco created 3 new images and is seeking feedback
  • 3D artist, @mikeysploitable, joined the discussion
  • @MantisClone created a slide and @OrnellaWeb3 presented it at Aug 11 CC.
Action:
  • Everyone to provide feedback on Cisco’s new images.
    • Especialy MantisClone, BOBO, OrnellaWeb3, Becks, and Fiyin
  • Did Becks gain access to DASH for uploading logos?
  • OrnellaWeb3 any updates regarding the green color in the style guide and copywriting audit?
Tuesday, August 8th
  • Action:
    • Cisco: 4 designs + ETH symbol
    • Becks: logo audit
    • Ornella: check the green color in the style guide + copywriting audit, Ryan/David photos.
    • MantisClone to create a slide for Aug 11 CC. Call to action: Dev needed to make Notion-as-CMS Blog Page
    • Ornella to present MantisClone’s slide on Aug 11 CC because MantisClone travelling, can’t attend
    • Fiyin: check figma file of the existing website
  • Goal: update homepage draft mode, show to the DAO and get feedback, and a proposal for extra funding.
Tuesday, August 1st
Attendees:
Context:
  • Noticed inconsistent illustrations on bDAO website
  • Recent bDAO Website Bounty yielded poor images
Learnings:
  • Cisco working on Moodboard, inspired by Ethereum.org case study
    • The new color scheme proposed by Cisco exactly matches past brand guidelines with new accent colors added: green and gold đź‘Ť
Next Steps:
  • Cisco to create image that ties all elements of the Moodboard together
  • Becks to collate all project, department, and guild logos. (Examples: Dev guild, Translators Guild, Desing Guild, Legal Guild)
Tuesday, July 25th
First meeting, we decided that the illustrations of Ethreum.org are our benchmark.
We need to have native DAO illustrations, Cisco will work on sharing references and our first step will be a moodboard.
BOBO will help re-assigning these tasks from the website team.
OrnellaWeb3 will help coordinating extra funding needed. We should work with active budgets from: Website Project, Design Guild, Marketing Department. If there is more needed, we share our achievements on a document and we can request for retroactive payment from the Grants Committee.
Becks will follow coordination and give weekly updates at the Marketing Department.
 
 
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bDAO Website Design Workflow

bDAO Website Design Workflow

Squad: OrnellaWeb3, DidierKrux, MantisClone, Cisco, BOBO, Fiyin, Becks, Teekaygod
💡 Weekly Sync to improve the bDAO Website
Wednesday, Jan 17
Attendees:
  • MantisClone
  • Fiyin
  • DidierKrux
  • Lawrence
Learnings:
  • MantisClone’s update
    • MantisClone has not made progress on the migration into CloudFlare.
    • bDAO Website Design Workflow has stalled in the last few weeks.
    • MantisClone is busy at home - wife due to give birth Feb 9th
    • OrnellaWeb3 has been busy with new duties as Grants Committee
    • DidierKrux finished the News UI and is waiting on design feedback
    • MantisClone suspects that the BanklessDAO/HQ branding drama created uncertainty around the future of the DAO and caused contributors to float away.
    • MantisClone suspects that the Holidays in December and the end of Season 9 / start of Season 10 may have contributed.
    • Multisig has 40500 BANK (about $130 USD) in it currently
  • Fiyin’s Update
    • Open to new design work
    • MantisClone requested Fiyin take a look at the new News Widget UI.
  • DidierKrux.eth’s Update
    • We are waiting on feedback for News UI and Brand Clarity
    • Hesitant to deploy News UI until we have feedback and Brand Clarity.
    • There will be a brand meeting with Ryan Sean Adams on Friday Jan 19th
  • Lawrence’s Intro
    • Offered to design pages for the website
    • MantisClone explained that we’re waiting until we have Brand Clarity before starting new design work
Action:
  • MantisClone to check if the Season 10 Budget has been approved.
  • MantisClone to check in with the Marketing Department to see if Season 10 Funding is on it’s way.
  • Fiyin to take a look News Widget UI and provide feedback
Wednesday Dec 13
Attendees:
  • DidierKrux
  • MantisClone
Learnings:
  • DidierKrux finished the News UI widget
    • The top-nav menu now has a black background
    • The content of the News UI loads quickly
    • The Carousel timing is good
    • The Carousel stops auto-rotating if the user manually clicks to show a particular card
  • MantisClone did not make progress on the Cloudflare Backend migration
Action:
  • OrnellaWeb3 to assess if the initial content is good
  • MantisClone to find someone to help with a UI Styling Review
  • MantisClone to finish migration to Cloudflare Backend
  • DidierKrux to hand off control of the News UI to the Marketing Department
Wednesday, Nov 15
Recording (expires in 6 days)
Attendees:
  • DidierKrux
  • MantisClone
  • BOBO
  • Samuel BG (didn’t talk)
Context: Weekly Sync
Learnings:
  • Changed these notes title from “Illustration Workflow” to “bDAO Website Design Workflow”
  • DidierKrux - worked on website
    • Homepage News UI - https://dw-237-news.bankless-website-7zu.pages.dev/
      • Progress looks nice.
      • Open to feedback from a designer.
      • Currently (but it’s all configurable)
        • Latest News box holds 5-6 links
        • Carousel holds top 3 links.
    • Backend optimization
      • Takes 10-15 seconds to scrape website feeds
      • Using Vercel Redis as cache
      • Cron runs once per hour to refresh Redis Cache
    • Notion now has a manual trigger for publishing Announcements (Not Departments, Projects, and Guilds which are still manual script)
  • IDEAs:
    • BanklessHQ should give us a referral code so they can tell how much of their traffic comes from BanklessDAO. We can add it to the Media Nodes page.
Actions:
  • OrnellaWeb3 and Cisco to provide async update.
  • DidierKrux to keep working on the Homepage News UI
  • DidierKrux to explain to MantisClone how the backend is implemented
  • MantisClone to start migrating backend into CloudFlare pages (if it makes sense, pending discussion with DidierKrux)
  • MantisClone to send meeting scheuler link to DidierKrux
  • MantisClone to work with InfoSec team
    • Switch bankless.community domain over to Cloudflare Pages deployment
    • Disconnect MantisClone’s Cloudflare account from Github bankless-website repo
    • Make sure Preview Links are working
    • Ask InfoSec team’s tolerance for backend hosting costs on Cloudflare Pages
Open Questions:
  • What content should we put on the Homepage News UI?
    • Probably Bankless Publishing. Or Weekly Rollup
  • Should we include Bankless HQ content?
    • MantisClone and DidierKrux leaning towards No.
Wednesday, Nov 8
Recording (expires in 6 days): TODO
Attendees:
  • DidierKrux
  • MantisClone
  • OrnellaWeb3
Context:
  • Weekly Sync
Learnings:
  • OrnellaWeb3:
    • Busy with Onboarding workstream (not directly related to Website). Will be able to focus on the Website more after Onboarding Workstream improvements are complete.
    • Not downgrading DASH subscription now. Reevaluate Q1, 2024.
    • Consolidating the Branding Guideline progress is slow because only 2 people are skilled enough to help (OrnellaWeb3 and Sandeep). This is okay - branding can be plugged in later after the website structure has made more progress.
      • This Branding Guideline will be used to update the website.
      • This Branding Guideline will be cleaned up and posted (as a PDF) to the website for all to see.
    • Many BanklessDAO YouTube channels were taken down presumably due to impersonation concerns, but Bankless HQ didn’t request this. DAO and HQ are working together to get BanklessDAO channels re-instated.
      • DidierKrux reported that one of his Bankless Twitter Accounts was taken down as well.
      • Maybe Doppel is responsible? https://www.doppel.com/bankless. Confirmed during call đź‘Ť
  • DidierKrux:
    • Made progress on the News-Banner widget for the home page. Prototype Infrastructure and show images/text on screen - complete.
      • Next: Improved UI and performance.
    • The News-Banner widget is using the Bankless Academy backend in Vercel.
  • MantisClone:
    • New Cloudflare Deployment! https://bankless-website-7zu.pages.dev/
      • The Cloudflare deployment is administrated by InfoSec team (BogDragonov and Stackthat.eth) using their Terraform Infrastructure repository.
      • Next:
        • Redirect bankless.community domain over to the new Cloudflare deployment.
        • Wind down the Vercel account before next billing date on November 23rd
  • Next week, OrnellaWeb3 will be async, at DevConnect Istanbul.
  • The Marketing Department is making the Season 10 budget, due Nov 11th, send to ErenTarg.
    • The Website Project is part of the Marketing Department.
    • The Marketing Department will receive funding for Season 10 and send the portion meant for Website development/maintenance to the Website Project multisig: https://app.safe.global/home?safe=eth:0xca22f929Aa5DBe2db2d0305d31604FE0dfD386b5
    • Include:
      • Retroactive payment for the Website Design Update done in Season 9
      • Website Design Update budget for Season 10
      • Website Operational Budget and Bounty Budget for Season 10
    • Don’t include:
      • Website Operational Budget and Bounty Budget for Season 9 (already covered by Marketing Department)
    • Discuss KPIs:
      • Number of visitors? No. We’re not actively driving visitors to the site. Also this is heavily influenced by market conditions.
      • Uptime? No. This is managed by InfoSec
      • Content Accuracy and Improvement? How do we measure this?
      • Time to update? (response time to update the website when requested)
      • Activity? (Stop funding if no progress for 1 month)
      • Idea: Maybe we should define Milestones instead? Milestones are easy to “game” too.
      • No Conclusion.
Action:
  • DidierKrux to improve UI and performance on the News-Banner Widget
  • OrnellaWeb3 to consolidate Branding Guidelines into one document.
  • MantisClone to investigate the availability of a backend in Cloudflare Pages.
  • MantisClone to send Season 10 budget ask to ErenTarg
  • Cisco to continue iterating on the images and finish the 4th one
Wednesday, Oct 25
Recording (expires in 6 days):
Craig Recording
Craig Recording
https://craig.horse/rec/zLcm6EuIJt?key=7qHUYL
Attendees:
  • DidierKrux
  • OrnellaWeb3
  • MantisClone
  • BOBO
  • Cisco
  • Teekaygod
Context:
  • Weekly Sync
Learnings:
  • Discussed using Chippis from Perchy in BanklessDAO branding.
  • Cisco shared new images, using classic BanklessDAO colors (Black White, Red, etc.) instead of the proposed colors (Red, Gold, etc.). These images are meant for the landing page
    • DidierKrux recommended a “boxed” black background so regardless of the background of the website, the images will still have a black background.
    • Ornella and DidierKrux requested to add more red to the images.
  • DidierKrux shared progress on the News and Announcements widget for the home page, auto-populated with the latest blog post, latest community call, and latest bankless academy page.
    • Updating this list takes about 10 seconds so had to add a backend for caching. Cloudflare pages don’t support backends so currently, DidierKrux is using the Bankless Academy to host the backend.
    • Ornella asked if the News/Announcements widget could somehow explain what BanklessDAO is and does.
    • News and Announcements will be a carousel (slider that rotates left/right to show each story one-at-a-time)
  • DidierKrux shared a long-term vision for creating reusable components for the Website that can then be used by other Bankless-affiliated projects.
    • MantisClone cautioned that making resuable components may be out-of-scope for current website redesign effort.
Action
  • MantisClone to look into whether Cloudflare offers any free backend services.
  • OrnellaWeb3 to aggregate the Branding Guidelines into a single slide deck.
  • Cisco to continue iterating on the images and finish the 4th one
  • DidierKrux to continue iterating on the News/Announcements widget for the home page
Debrief
  • MantisClone forgot to share that BOBO submitted a PR to fix the Menu. MantisClone to review and merge when ready.
Wednesday, Oct 18
Recording (expires in 6 days): https://craig.horse/rec/xTFIUo5Z3x?key=cbQqVn
Attendees:
  • DidierKrux
  • OrnellaWeb3
  • MantisClone
  • BOBO
  • Cisco
  • kolaaade
Context:
  • Weekly Sync
Learnings:
  • DidierKrux demo’d the new Work-with-us page
  • OrnellaWeb3 explained the plan on how to audit the copy:
    • Enlist help from other Marketing Department members
    • Hard for any one person to know everything that’s happening in the DAO
  • DidierKrux showed News widget mock-up. Discussion:
    • Propose putting it at the top of the Home page
    • All agree that news widget should be on the landing page
    • Unclear whether it should be above or below the fold
      • If above the fold: Keep users updated. Provide value immediately. but doesn’t necessarily teach new visitors what bDAO is.
      • Need to decide what is most important: New Users or Returning Users
    • Goals: News widget should be updatable by Marketing Department without Dev support
  • MantisClone demo’d the Google Analytics dashboard
  • Cisco
    • working on illustrations for the landing page
    • 3 / 4 landing page images complete
  • MantisClone reported that migration from Vercel to Cloudflare Pages is almost complete.
    • Tried Github Pages, but rejected b/c doesn’t offer preview links. Cloudflare Pages does.
    • MantisClone submitted a PR to InfoSec’s Terraform repo
    • MantisClone added secret API keys to Bitwarden
    • Credit to stackthat.eth and bogdrakonov.eth who helped review and ensure secrets were stored securely. (They should be included when this effort is compensated).
Action:
  • OrnellaWeb3 to continue auditing the website copy.
  • MantisClone to fix the menu bar.
  • OrnellaWeb3 to chat with Perchy about Chippi as part of the visual identity of BanklessDAO.
  • OrnellaWeb3 to sync with Cisco to discuss using white instead of yellow on landing page images.
  • Cisco to finish landing page illustrations
Wednesday, Oct 11
Recording: https://craig.horse/rec/dEbxpkb0XL?key=sVE_hw
Attendees:
  • @DidierKrux.eth
  • @BOBO
  • @MantisClone
  • @OrnellaWeb3
  • @Teekaygod
Context:
  • Weekly Sync
Learnings:
  • @DidierKrux demonstrated the new Projects, Guilds, and Departments page populated with data in Notion
  • Ideas:
    • Update the Work-with-us page to be the same as Projects Guilds and Departments, backed by Notion
    • Idea: Feedback mechanism built straight into the website
      • Like Canny but maybe more Web3 friendly?
    • News page to aggregate feeds from all of the BanklessDAO publications.
    • Add a “History” page to list historical units that are no longer active.
    • Add a “Constitution” iframe that pulls directly from Github
    • Add CTAs for all Projects, Guilds, and Departments
      • All CTAs to Discord onboarding? Or CTAs to Project/Guild/Department page?
      • Recommend: Notion page or Discord start here
      • Ultimately each unit will choose their own preferred landing page.
  • When do we update the look and feel? How should we go about updating the website?
    • Consensus: Pick a page, and revamp one at a time - together as a team with input from both tech, marketing, and design.
  • @OrnellaWeb3 proposed About-us should have a diagram and section that explains “What is a Project, Guild, Department?”
  • @DidierKrux shared how to use ChakraUI and the ChakraUI Figma Toolkit. It provides default spacing and style that looks good.
    • All stakeholders (designer, developer, marketer) would benefit from learning about it
Action:
  • @OrnellaWeb3 to audit and fix the copy in Notion
  • Team to start by fixing the menu bar and the Home page.
Wednesday, October 4
Attendees:
  • @MantisClone
  • @Becks
  • @BOBO
Context:
  • We had an async meeting last week.
  • MantisClone shared that the Website Project is out of money.
  • BOBO deployed a new Departments page
  • DidierKrux.eth is working on Notion as CMS task
Learnings:
  • Over the last two weeks, @TeekayGod and @BOBO fixed images on the website.
  • @MantisClone requested funding from the Marketing Department.
  • @MantisClone working on an effort to migrate out of Vercel. Initially targeted Github Pages, but now working on Cloudflare Pages (because Cloudflare offers preview deployments for PRs)
  • @Becks task to audit images in Dash has been completed âś…
Action:
  • @MantisClone to put the first 3 of Cisco’s images (Governance, Projects, Departments) on the website so we can see how it looks.
  • @Cisco to provide 4th image (Guilds)
  • @MantisClone to fix Bankless Academy image & DAO Stewards image.
  • @MantisClone to finish migration to Cloudflare Pages
Wednesday, Sept 20
Attendees:
  • @MantisClone
  • @Cisco
  • @BOBO
  • @Fiyin
  • @Teekaygod
Learnings:
  • Cisco completed 3 images. 1 still in progress.
  • MantisClone reported that no one has picked up the Notion CMS task.
  • Assumptions:
    • Ornella's copywriting audit of the homepage is still in progress.
    • Beck's department and project image audit is still in progress.
Action:
  • @Cisco to post the 4th image (Guilds)
  • @everyone to review Cisco’s Guilds image once it’s complete
  • @MantisClone to find dev for Notion CMS task. Make another slide on Community Call, Reach out to Dev Guild.
  • @BOBO to create tasks on Website DeWork to fix images - up to 1000 BANK each.
  • @Fiyin to share the Design Guild “Drawing board” logo
Tuesday, August 15th
Attendees:
  • @MantisClone
  • @Cisco
  • @Fiyin
  • @mikeysploitable
Learnings:
  • @Cisco created 3 new images and is seeking feedback
  • 3D artist, @mikeysploitable, joined the discussion
  • @MantisClone created a slide and @OrnellaWeb3 presented it at Aug 11 CC.
Action:
  • Everyone to provide feedback on Cisco’s new images.
    • Especialy MantisClone, BOBO, OrnellaWeb3, Becks, and Fiyin
  • Did Becks gain access to DASH for uploading logos?
  • OrnellaWeb3 any updates regarding the green color in the style guide and copywriting audit?
Tuesday, August 8th
  • Action:
    • Cisco: 4 designs + ETH symbol
    • Becks: logo audit
    • Ornella: check the green color in the style guide + copywriting audit, Ryan/David photos.
    • MantisClone to create a slide for Aug 11 CC. Call to action: Dev needed to make Notion-as-CMS Blog Page
    • Ornella to present MantisClone’s slide on Aug 11 CC because MantisClone travelling, can’t attend
    • Fiyin: check figma file of the existing website
  • Goal: update homepage draft mode, show to the DAO and get feedback, and a proposal for extra funding.
Tuesday, August 1st
Attendees:
Context:
  • Noticed inconsistent illustrations on bDAO website
  • Recent bDAO Website Bounty yielded poor images
Learnings:
  • Cisco working on Moodboard, inspired by Ethereum.org case study
    • The new color scheme proposed by Cisco exactly matches past brand guidelines with new accent colors added: green and gold đź‘Ť
Next Steps:
  • Cisco to create image that ties all elements of the Moodboard together
  • Becks to collate all project, department, and guild logos. (Examples: Dev guild, Translators Guild, Desing Guild, Legal Guild)
Tuesday, July 25th
First meeting, we decided that the illustrations of Ethreum.org are our benchmark.
We need to have native DAO illustrations, Cisco will work on sharing references and our first step will be a moodboard.
BOBO will help re-assigning these tasks from the website team.
OrnellaWeb3 will help coordinating extra funding needed. We should work with active budgets from: Website Project, Design Guild, Marketing Department. If there is more needed, we share our achievements on a document and we can request for retroactive payment from the Grants Committee.
Becks will follow coordination and give weekly updates at the Marketing Department.
 
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