D_D Academy Sync - 23 Jan 2024

Last meeting

Purpose

A stand-up across D_D Academy sub-teams.

Desired outcomes for the meeting

The greater Academy team stays up to speed on the big picture.
Sub-teams highlight blockers and opportunities to collaborate across the initiatives.

Resources

🗒️ Agenda & Notes

Check-in. 30 seconds each: How are you feeling? What are you grateful for? What are your expectations for the meeting?
- Expectations:
Must covers. Anything pressing that needs addressing immediately?
- v2 launch status
  - expected launch date jan 31
- piablo ’where’ do we create a ‘communication channel/pipeline’ for help for all domains? DM is a ‘bad’ way to start reaching out (see: Mentorship). This is a biggie for post-MVP, but still relevant now.
  - wolovim: suggest contributor pipeline get attention post-mvp
5 minute floor for Team Stewards to highlight events in their domain:
- Product & Design
  - uma + wolovim walkthrough — quick notes to remind us what to turn into github issues or action appropriately otherwise:
    - quiz buttons need some additional padding
    - rounded modal dialogs
    - width of the lesson content
    - navbar width (back button and connect button)
    - homepage
      - consider updating code sample with something from a lesson
      - add all four partners
    - any footer updates want to borrow from gordo
    - lesson/track cards tweaks, e.g., vertical height
    - lesson/track card images - one per track
    - author bio cleanup - socials, name styling
    - back button highlight
- Pedagogy & Content
  - piablo most of the previous content is ready to ship.
- Development
  - wolovim: mdx styling and several other styling cleanups done. still a priority:
    - get fonts loading in staging/production (issue open)
    - fix a wallet sign-in issue (issue open)
    - additional styling and polish cleanup (few issues open)
5 minute floor for other updates. Add any other topics for discussion as bullet points below.
- kemp - I’m starting to build relationships with other DAOs and their delegates unlock grant funding to create things in-house and there is still demand from commercial partners to create course content.
  - Ideas I’d like to start executing on asap 🙂
    - Find educators in the DAO who are interested in authoring courses around specific topics, build course plans and apply for funding via grant programs
      - What is the MVP for this? Are the team happy to trust me to run with this?
    - Exploring what the on-chain strategy for Academy looks like and opening conversations with delegates at L2s for this (Arb)
    - I’ll keep an eye on retroactive public goods funding opportunities coming up, we missed out on an easy 6 figures in funding for the DAO in the last OP round.
    - Empower Manny to bring in commercial partnerships
Check-out. 30 seconds each: How are you feeling? Takeaways from the meeting?

🗣️ Open discussion

ADD DISCUSSIONS THAT ARE OUTSIDE THE AGENDA

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