Name of DAO
DAOlators
Proposal overview
DAOlators is a DAO, currently on the Polygon chain, run by experienced ‘DAOists’. We are a truly diverse team of 9 governors from 9 different cultural and language backgrounds, with experience in web3, DAOs and translations. Our aim is:
- to onboard professional translators and translate the web3 space with high quality
- to train translation enthusiasts to be web3 translators thus create jobs for people
- to help language and web3 newbies learn new languages and how to be onboarded to web3 in their native language
- to help people who do not speak English to have equal access to the content in web3
With this application, we would like to move this DAO to the Harmony chain and continue to impact the web3 space with passion. On the journey to onboarding the next billion people into web3, we play a critical role which is making web3 content available to the masses. Less than 5% of the world population uses English as their native language, hence we want to reduce the language barrier for as many languages in the world as possible and enable a truly diverse and culturally rich world on web3.
We know that simply producing translated content is not sufficient to onboard new users; in most cases, new users need to be taught how to use web3 tools in their native language. Web3 can be overwhelming for beginners, so we want to ease people into web3 by offering language roundtables where they can learn a new language from native speakers or learn how to use web3 tools in native languages. By translating #ONEquest – Daily Race for 1M users we will guide applicants trough the journey in the language roundtables.
From our experience in working with web3 translations over the past months, we have realized that web3 translations are not easy for folks who are not crypto-native. Additionally, many people are interested in contributing to crypto, and find translations as an easy path to contributor roles, but they are not professional translations. In DAOlators, we will educate the crypto enthusiasts on how to make professional translations via translation workshops and will help existing professional translators navigate the world of web3.
Our governors
- Raybankless
Engineer from the meatspace. Started contributing DAOs in 2021.
BanklessDAO - Translators Guild Project Manager.
Turkish Media Node Coordinator.
JuiceBox DAO - Turkish translator
CitaDAO - Turkish translator
Sobol - DAO Cartographer
Frabric DAO - DAO Cartographer
DAOlators - Genesis Squad
- Gpe is a philologist and a professional translator with experience as a project and account manager in the meatspace.
Joined Bankless DAO in Sept 2021 and has ever since been working in DAOs full time. Currently active in bDAO as a Roleholder in the Translators Guild and language champion in the International Media Nodes project, Juice box DAO and on the genesis team of DAOlators. Has extensive experience translating web3 content and has already created some tools that future web3 translators could use - glossaries, tips & insights to improve translation work, etc.
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Jengajojo
Jenga has been working in DAOs since summer 2021 and has experience leading DAO projects, creating content, managing communities and translatingWeb3 content to Hindi. -
VallentinaC
Valentina is an Italian professional translator and graphic designer/digital illustrator - she joined BanklesDAO in Summer 2021 and has slowly transitioned into working in DAOs full time. Currently active in various roles, including onboarding and accounting for the Translator Guild and the IMN project in bDAO, as well as a designer/illustrator for both the Design Guild and the Marketing Guild. Starting in January 2022 she also took on the role of Translations Coordinator for bDAO ITA.
- JohnChan
JohnChan has been working as a software lead in Web2 internet firms for more than 10 years IRL. Started researching and contributing in banklessDAO from 2021.
- Lalocripto
Lalo founded “Espacio Cripto”, the most listened crypto-related podcast in Latin America interviewing some of the top players in the DAO ecosystem. He’s been a contributor at BanklessDAO since 2021, he also contributed to Yearn Finance and he’s an active member of FWB.
- Romko
A man who is open to new adventures.
Started contributing DAOs in 2021.
BanklessDAO - Translators Guild.
Ukrainian Media Node Coordinator.
JuiceBox DAO - Russian translator
SnapShot- Russian translator
DAOlators - Ukrainian and Russian translator + reviewer
- Johnotherbright
Jon has been working for over two years on the translations of BanklessFR which now has over 2500 readers. The systematic proofreading of content and the selection of translators allows us to offer a quality of translation worthy of the systemic change that web3 offers.
- ilk
Ilk is a professional translator who started contributing to the Bankless DAO in 2021 with an ever-growing enthusiasm and experience.
Gnosis safe multisig wallet
Currently DAOlators use the following multisig wallet on Polygon: 0x1eb59f6abb4a80c781b3e86fb42590a9b5914e87
The DAO will exchange the members who are eligible for the multi-sig every three months. This means that at the end of the three months, all DAO members who have participated in admin, marketing or translations in the DAOlators project will be eligible to stand for Governor elections.
Everyone is eligible to vote at these elections. The candidates are given 3 days to declare their candidacy and the elections will be held in discord via sesh poll. The election will last for 72 hours. The top 9 rankings from this poll will be part of the multi-sig for the next 3 months.
Proposal ask
$140,475 for 10 languages. Price is adjustable according to number of languages - minimum of 5, maximum of 13 - to adjust proposal ask per language number, use the DAOlators pricing calculator
| Expense | Cost | |
|---|---|---|
| Translate 75000 words @$0.15/word | $112,500.00 | |
| 20 language roundtables and onboarding calls at $250/each | $5,000.00 | |
| 8 web3 translation education workshops $250/each | $2,000.00 | |
| Translation tool (crowdin), Notion (doc management), Server, server bots, other tool costs | $5,000.00 | |
| Project Management (7%) | $7,875.00 | |
| DAO Governance (9 governers at $100/hr, 1 hr per week for 12 weeks long.) | $8,100.00 | |
| $140,475.00 |
DAOlators have worked out a flexible budget, the metrics to which can be changed as per Harmony’s Funding Guidelines. Receiving only a partial amount of the grant ask at the beginning would not affect reaching the initially set KPIs on time.
Metrics for success
- One translation training workshop weekly
- Eight language round tables held on a bi-monthly basis in various languages and one onboarding call held by a governor each week
- 25 000 words translated monthly per language
- Two professional translators onboarded per month
- 20 newbies onboarded to using Harmony/Web3 apps for the first time per month. Measured by completing Harmony One quest
External links
Discord Server: DAOLators
DeWork task board: Bankless DAOlators | Dework
to have the Harmony community participate to ask questions and provide feedbacks.