Aragon Monthly is a community curated monthly digital newspaper about Decentralized Autonomous Organizations and the Aragon ecosystem.
Content curation is the process of gathering information relevant to a particular topic or area of interest.
Aragon Monthly is created by the community, for the community.
Anyone can contribute by creating or requesting new content about DAOs and anything related to the Aragon ecosystem.
- Community members, Contributors and Editors create Issues for News, Articles and Classifieds
- These Issues are requests for new content to the upcoming newspaper issue
- Issues that get "upvoted" by the community get added a
bountylabel and thatbountywill be funded to incentivise fulfillment of that request- Editors can also add the
bountylabel to any Issue they consider to be interesting content- The person who created the Issue may also request the
bountylabel to be added if they wish to fund that Issue themselves
- The person who created the Issue may also request the
- Once a bounty label has been added, anyone can send funds (ETH or ERC20 tokens) to the smart contract and help fund that bounty
- Editors can also add the
- Anyone can contribute to creating the requested content on Issues by creating a new Pull Request that fills the request
- By creating a new Pull Request that
Closes issue #X, anyone is free to claim the bounty on that Issue- These will be reviewed on a first-come first-served basis
- Editors are community members that frequently contribute high quality content and have priority over other contributors. They can assign themselves to Issues in order to signal their intent to fulfill that particular Issue
- By creating a new Pull Request that
- At the end of the month, Pull Requests are frozen and any open Issues are cleaned
- Editors will evaluate open Issues to see if they think it should be carried over to the next newspaper issue and close all remaining ones
- Reviewers and Editors will review all open Pull Requests and either merge or close those accordingly
- The Editor-in-chief makes sure that all completed Pull Requests are merged, compiles the Front Page and ensures that everything is working fine, publishes the Monthly newspaper issue to https://monthly.aragon.one/ and sends out the Aragon Monthly Newsletter
There's a few different ways to contribute new content:
News
There's news happening all the time and we're looking to have all the interesting content presented in the newspaper!
- Submit a Pull Request with the News content and wait for it to be reviewed and merged!
- Make sure your Pull Request follows
Articles
- If you feel like writing about a topic that someone else has requested to read about in Issues
- Create the content
- Submit a Pull Request to close the Issue and wait for it to be reviewed and merged!
- Make sure your Pull Request
- Fills the requested Issue and follows
- Guide for submitting a new Pull Request
- Guide for submitting Articles
- Make sure your Pull Request
- If you want to contribute fresh, original, new content for the newspaper
- Open a new Issue describing the kind of content you wish to contribute
- Create the content
- Submit a Pull Request to close the Issue you opened and wait for it to be reviewed and merged!
- Make sure your Pull Request follows
If you have a topic that you would like to either read about, create a New Issue with a descriptive Title and a clear description of the type of content you would want to see in Aragon Monthly.
Be sure to include all the details in the new Issue as described in the Guide for submitting a new Issue
- Install MkDocs
- Install mkdocs-material using Python,
pip install mkdocs-material
- Install mkdocs-material using Python,
- In the
aragon-monthlydirectory, runmkdocs serve - Open http://localhost:8000/ in your browser
mkdocs.yml
docs/
├─ archive/
│ ├─ issue00/
│ └─ issue01/
├─ articles/
│ ├─ columns
│ │ ├─ images/
│ │ └─ name_of_column.md
│ ├─ editorial/
│ │ ├─ images/
│ │ └─ title_of_editorial.md
│ └─ opinion/
│ │ ├─ images/
│ │ └─ title_of_opinion_piece.md
│ └─ index.md
├─ classifieds/
│ └─ index.md
├─ contributors/
│ ├─ columnists.md
│ ├─ contributors.md
│ ├─ editors.md
│ ├─ index.md
│ └─ reviewers.md
├─ guides/
│ ├─ guide_for_submitting_a_new_issue.md
│ ├─ guide_for_submitting_a_new_pull_request.md
│ ├─ guide_for_submitting_articles.md
│ ├─ guide_for_submitting_classifieds.md
│ ├─ guide_for_submitting_news.md
│ ├─ index.md
│ ├─ new_issue_template.md
│ ├─ new_pull_request_template.md
│ └─ repository_structure.md
├─ images/
│ ├─ favicon.ico
│ ├─ logo.svg
│ ├─ monthly_no_image.png
│ └─ monthly.png
├─ info/
│ └─ index.md
├─ news/
│ ├─ aragon.md
│ ├─ daos.md
│ ├─ name_of_tag.md
│ └─ index.md
├─ newsletter/
│ └─ index.md
├─ stylesheets/
│ └─ custom.css
├─ CNAME
└─ index.md
Editor-in-chief is the publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies.
- Editor-in-chief - @Smokyish
Editors are people that regularly provide content to the publication and make sure that the content is always high quality. They write articles, review Pull Requests and are generally active in the creation of this publication.
- Editor - @bradymck
- Editor - @ludmila-omlopes
- Editor - @lkngtn
- Editor - @eordano
Reviewers are people who contribute by helping review new content submitted via Pull Requests
- Reviewer: @john-light
- Reviewer: @izqui
Columnists are people dedicated to contribute quality content for an extended time, usually on the same subject area or theme each time – that typically contains the author's opinion or point of view.
- Editor/Reviewer/Columnist - Get your name here by contributing!
- Make Aragon Monthly so successful that there's a demand for Aragon Weekly
- Turn Aragon Monthly into a DAO that fully governs the project