BB Outreach - CityDAO

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Nov 20, 2021

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Feb 4, 2022

Can you tell me a little bit more about what you guys are trying to accomplish at CityDAO?

Started w/ Wyoming DAO law - it allows a DAO to own real estate (and other physical possessions)

Can we make a city based on blockchain?

Can we revamp existing cities o use blockchain?

The BIG thing is land ownership on chain (started w/ Parcel 0)

The next projects will be revenue generating real estate, things with actual utility (maybe where people live)

But it’ll all be about on-chain ownership of property

They operate - extremely messy. Grew from 500->10k sellout of NFTs

Grew exponentially fast over the last few weeks, it turned into chaos

For contributors - what is the barrier to get people started?

People are contributing, but they aren’t as aligned as they were when they were smaller

Everyone has their own ideas, their own vision

More ideas are being thrown out than actual work - they want to get everyone aligned and on the same page

A lot of the work being done in terms of deliverables have been core-team related

Currently newcomers are doing proposals, meetings, community

But people aren’t writing a lot of code, for instance

Getting people to commit actual code is hard

What is the hard part?

Someone will say they are interested - he points them to Github, they just fall off

From discussions he had with contributors, people hit blockers and maybe don’t reach out

There is just friction

Lack of compensation as a goal - that could be part of it…they don’t want to completely incentivize people with JUST compensation, but it could help

What are your biggest challenges at the moment?

Alignment

Crowd control

People would misunderstand, freak out, mob mentality would happen

This drains the core team - they keep having to repeat themselves

Always telling people to go to the community call - after that, people are on the same page

People are doing work that matters

2 people working on the same things going in different directions

What are you hoping the bounty board can help you with?

Core team is putting in a LOT of work, and want help from contributors

Want to be able to compensate people for the work they do

Want to coordinate the work, so everyone is working in the same direction

Publicly display work being done

Alleviate friction points of onboarding - when you first join the server, immediately see a bounty that fits you, it’s short (no long-term commitment)

Once your have completed first task, the ball is rolling, helps you take on bigger tasks

Just knowing what to do FIRST - he always looks at open work when he joins a discord

Alignment that people see the stream of working coming through

Even when not on that team - you’re seeing the logs of people’s work

Q: Would you want to see an entire team’s work going through a bounty board?

Mainly he just attached bounties to GitHub issues. He will complete the bounties but not pay himself

All tasks have bounties attached. Sometimes it will be paid out, sometimes not

He would probably post all the bounties even if he completes himself

ACTION: links to look at the CityDAO GitHub

How would you reconcile tasks on GitHub vs bounty board?

He would reconcile this himself - it would be a manual process for now

He would like to use a more generalized task tracking system - maybe connect their central things (Notion) to GitHub

How are you expecting to use it?

Frontend vs through Discord bot?

Mainly expecting to use it through discord

They have had a demo w/ Icedcool and Bpetes and it looks great

They have to make sure it doesn’t get swallowed by Discord activity (probably will have dedicated channel)

Web frontend - will you use it?

He’s unsure if they would use it

For discord, it’s pretty chaotic, but EVERYONE is there

Discourse - they have one, but it’s not as active

Heard your bounties will all be geared towards gaining a Citizen NFT

How would this work?

TempCity token = this is an experiment

Non-transferrable, but you can only trade for a Citizen NFT

$1 for each TempCity, so it depends on the price of ETH (Citizen is 0.25ETH)

Are bounties useless for people with Citizen NFTs?

At the moment it’s 1 NFT = 1 vote

Citizen NFTs are also pretty liquid, so they could sell them

How do you expect to populate bounties?

Scott (admin/legal) does them as he thinks they are needed

i.e. intro the team to lawyers, random stuff like that

Bounties to find desirable land

Since they were using Citizen NFT, they were doing BIG tasks

But with the token, they can do it for smaller tasks

Dev and design will likely have smaller tasks to push through

Why would you use 0 value bounties?

Chance asked for this

Keeping all tasks in one place whether or not they have a bounty

i.e. a task tracking system

Even the statuses we have no will prevent things from getting lost in the void

How would you use it as an onboarding tool?

They don’t have an onboarding tool right now, they are working on it slowly (meets and website)

(Some stuff above, first task and such)

He would use it for devs, currently he’s post something specifically for new devs that hits their skills

With bounty board he could just send them there

FEATURE REQUEST: filter bounties by “TYPE” i.e. frontend, backend, node

Essentially filter by tag

If they did had an onboarding process, they could fit it in

Once you do your first task you get a Discord role

FEATURE REQUEST: bounties gated by Discord role

i.e. tiers of bounties that get unlocked as you gain more trust in CityDAO

Is trust an issue for you?

i.e. certain bounties only available to certain people?

It’s all word-of-mouth right now, but they would definitely like to have something a bit more documented

It could look similar to Bankless Internal Guild Tags - i.e. pass editor test, get EPA tag

So if you are a dev, you can get credentials to show you are a good dev

Example: they had a real-estate lawyer contributor come in and at some point their core team realized this person was good, so it would have been a good chance to do a role

But it could get crazy pretty fast - so they don’t know quite what to do here

Links explains L1 (stake) vs L2 (social) roles in Bankless

How are you planning on paying bounties on completion?  (i.e. tips?  Monthly?)

TempCity is through tip.cc - they will pay out through there

Core team members will pay out through there

Will only core team members be creating bounties?

They will at least have to approve them, they don’t have trust for general citizens yet

But they have some non-core people who would probably need to create bounties

But core team will have to pay out

he messages Scott and Scott makes it happen

They pay out as it happens - it’s all tips