The future of the Daily Update email system

[David Chapman]

The Standing Parties chose not to fund Cody's work of adding Discord screenshots to the Daily Update. As a result, we currently have it turned off.

Now, the Daily Update email does have additional functionality such as reporting of threads and votes in this forum as well as some reddit posts. In addition, I can think of additional ways the Daily Update can be expanded and made more useful along the lines of what @Jason Chen proposed here. But I'd like the opinion of the Standing Parties and thus this poll.

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[Jason Chen]

I personally find this really useful to keep up to date and make sure I am not missing votes.

If Guides can keep the calendar up to date, I think it would be helpful to put this week's events (guide meetings, ongoing government discussions, ..etc. on the daily emails as well.

 

[Michael Lam]

I would still like the updates for Factomize.com. In my opinion, Discord to me has always been a more informal place to bounce ideas and such, but if there is anything needing to be followed, it should be on Factomize.

 

[Niels Klomp]

Hmzz, what if I personally don't have a preference as I am always up to date?

Happy to follow majority, but I really don't know how to vote myself here.

 

[Keith Pincombe]

I'm happy for this to left on. Might as well see how much it affects the open metrics, if there is a large drop of opens/visits then may as well turn it off completely.

 

[Jason Gregoire]

I’m in the same camp as Niels. Unless it’s expanding the community or informing some greater audience, it’s probably not needed. In fact it’s absence may drive more presence on discord/our other news forums.

 

[Michael Lam]

I disagree with Niels and Jason. They may follow everything closely, and that's great, but not everyone can do that. An email is pretty much free to send. I don't see the harm in keeping it. We can certainly argue against having to fund via a grant for discord snaps. I can make a reasonable case that it could be harmful to stop it. @David Chapman , can you please explain if there is a meaningful cost to keep it?

 

[David Chapman]

@David Chapman , can you please explain if there is a meaningful cost to keep it?

There is not an additional cost to keep it. I have a mailgun subscription but I was keeping that anyway for the forum and newsletter emails.

 

[Samuel Vanderwaal]

If there's no additional cost to keeping it then I support it as it's clearly useful to some ANOs, even if not all.

What about expanding it, does that incur additional costs or time? By whom?

 

[Benjamin Dufty]

Agree. If cost is zero/negligible then I would vote to keep it as is at the very least. I personally find the forum reporting stuff quite useful

 

[David Chapman]

What about expanding it, does that incur additional costs or time? By whom?

Let's take for example the idea of creating an Agenda/Minutes system to make governance meetings more efficient and transparent. If we tied the Daily Update into this, then Chappie would automatically add a meeting reminder to the Daily Update. If the Guides changed the meeting date or time, he'd add that. He could provide the agenda link and share the minutes once done as well.

It would just take some additional dev time on projects we already plan to do. Nothing very time consuming though.

 

[Niels Klomp]

I disagree with Niels and Jason. They may follow everything closely, and that's great, but not everyone can do that. An email is pretty much free to send. I don't see the harm in keeping it. We can certainly argue against having to fund via a grant for discord snaps. I can make a reasonable case that it could be harmful to stop it. @David Chapman , can you please explain if there is a meaningful cost to keep it?

How can you disagree with me when I literally say I don't need it but will follow majority

 

[Quintilian]

The more we can automate away from the guides the better. I say this in context of expanding the functionality to add agenda/minutes functionality. If it can create the agenda automatically and also include functionality for any standing party to add agenda items that would be quite effective. That way any standing party may add an agenda item they want discussed for an upcoming governance meeting. If it could also tie into the governance document section to factomize the minutes that would be beneficial.

 

[David Chapman]

If it could also tie into the governance document section to factomize the minutes that would be beneficial.

It would. And anyone with a forum account could add an agenda item.

 

[Nolan Bauer]

Allowing anyone with a forum account to add to the agenda will be an awesome addition. Right now, it’s taking a good amount of time transposing the Guides “next week items” to the individual current business sections. Happy to work with you to streamline the process and automate the agenda creations.

 

[David Chapman]

Allowing anyone with a forum account to add to the agenda will be an awesome addition. Right now, it’s taking a good amount of time transposing the Guides “next week items” to the individual current business sections. Happy to work with you to streamline the process and automate the agenda creations.

Unfortunately, it doesn't look like any of this is going to happen.

 

[Michael Lam]

How can you disagree with me when I literally say I don't need it but will follow majority

Well, I agree you didn't say you were firmly against it. But it sounded like you were implying you were leaning towards a no. I'm firmly a yes keep it. Not sure about expanding it, but definitely keep it

 

[Niels Klomp]

Well, I agree you didn't say you were firmly against it. But it sounded like you were implying you were leaning towards a no. I'm firmly a yes keep it. Not sure about expanding it, but definitely keep it

Nope I am honestly not leaning against anything. Just pointing out I would not be able to vote on it

 

[David Chapman]

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