thanks @Argonaut for the feedback..

yes, we will follow up with some updates around this area before going to snapshot.

Yes, we have considered this and reached out to the AF team, identifying some synergies. In the past, ArbitrumHub has successfully facilitated briefings for various grant programs officially and was linked in all the official forms of the grant program. With continuous development, support, and proper resources in place, we plan to avoid duplication and instead align our efforts to maximize impact.

thanks

@here We will proceed with the snapshot in January after the DAO holidays. Until then, we plan to update the proposal based on the feedback received, which includes:

First running this as a pilot program with clearly defined impact metrics, use cases, and future goals throughout the DAO's existence. We will refine the budget and roles according to the workload requirements.

Regarding reporting, we will reduce the frequency and instead focus on platform use cases, expansion, and outreach. We will publish comprehensive work and performance reports bimonthly.

The budget will also be reduced since our initial goal is to run this as pilot and establish proper workflows and integrate into different DAO verticals to increase impact. As this will be a pilot program, our first year will focus on developing this into a highly useful and impactful initiative. While the budget will be requested for a full year, it will be distributed quarterly via MSS.

If others have any additional suggestions or feedback, please feel free to share.

Thanks

thanks @Argonaut for the feedback..

yes, we will follow up with some updates around this area before going to snapshot.

Yes, we have considered this and reached out to the AF team, identifying some synergies. In the past, ArbitrumHub has successfully facilitated briefings for various grant programs officially and was linked in all the official forms of the grant program. With continuous development, support, and proper resources in place, we plan to avoid duplication and instead align our efforts to maximize impact.

thanks

@here We will proceed with the snapshot in January after the DAO holidays. Until then, we plan to update the proposal based on the feedback received, which includes:

First running this as a pilot program with clearly defined impact metrics, use cases, and future goals throughout the DAO's existence. We will refine the budget and roles according to the workload requirements.

Regarding reporting, we will reduce the frequency and instead focus on platform use cases, expansion, and outreach. We will publish comprehensive work and performance reports bimonthly.

The budget will also be reduced since our initial goal is to run this as pilot and establish proper workflows and integrate into different DAO verticals to increase impact. As this will be a pilot program, our first year will focus on developing this into a highly useful and impactful initiative. While the budget will be requested for a full year, it will be distributed quarterly via MSS.

If others have any additional suggestions or feedback, please feel free to share.

Thanks

thanks @cp0x for the feedback.

Here is the Role Breakdown:

1. Researcher

• Monitors all Arbitrum ecosystem developments
• Tracks DAO activities, governance proposals, and community initiatives
• Gathers and organizes raw information from multiple sources
• Acts as the primary information gatherer for the entire team
• Responsible for writing research articles on the different program outcomes, learnings and wrong doings based on the public available information.

2. Copywriter

• Receives raw data from the researcher
• Transforms raw information into engaging content
• Handles all written content across the platform
• Ensures consistent messaging and tone

3. UI/UX Designer

• Wears multiple creative hats:
  • Creates website interface designs
  • Produces all graphic designs for articles
  • Develops social media visuals
  • Designs infographics
  • Plans information architecture
  • Monitors user experience
  • Suggests UX improvements

4. Developer

• Implements all designs on ArbitrumHub
• Handles technical implementation of UX improvements
• Manages website functionality and updates
• Brings the designer's vision to life

5. Project Manager

• Coordinates between all roles and with dao
• Ensures smooth handoffs between stages
• Conducts regular check-ins
• Verifies work quality at each stage
• Maintains project timelines
• Resolves any communication gaps or misunderstandings

Linear Workflow: Researcher → Copywriter → Designer → Developer (with PM overseeing each stage)

Each role requires specialized expertise and carries full responsibility for its respective area. Project Management is crucial for maintaining smooth coordination, as each stage in the workflow builds upon the previous one.

Thanks

Kind of:

ArbitrumHub aims to enhance accessibility, understanding, and navigation across all aspects of the DAO's ongoing and past initiatives. Think of it as a centralized hub where anyone—whether deeply involved or casually interested—can easily access clear, actionable insights into everything happening within the DAO & arbitrum ecosystem.

For instance, consider GCP, a major initiative recently approved by the DAO. Currently, understanding what GCP is, its progress, its goals, the team behind it, and where it stands on its path to success requires significant effort and active involvement. This challenge is not unique to GCP; it applies broadly across workgroups, calls, initiatives, and projects. Much of this activity grows organically within the DAO, but the lack of a unified platform means many efforts remain fragmented or underappreciated.

Additionally, many valuable resources, courses, and educational initiatives developed by community members through grant programs often fade into obscurity. Without proper visibility, their impact is diminished. ArbitrumHub can play a pivotal role in addressing this gap by keeping these contributions highlighted, organized, and easily accessible, ensuring their long-term relevance and utility.

Finally, we assure the DAO of our commitment to delivering on our promises. We have the skills, expertise, and understanding to execute this vision effectively. However, should the DAO determine that we are not meeting our commitments, and a majority of delegates reach consensus, the initiative can be halted, and any unused funds will be proportionally returned to the DAO.

Thanks

thanks @cp0x for the feedback.

Here is the Role Breakdown:

1. Researcher

• Monitors all Arbitrum ecosystem developments
• Tracks DAO activities, governance proposals, and community initiatives
• Gathers and organizes raw information from multiple sources
• Acts as the primary information gatherer for the entire team
• Responsible for writing research articles on the different program outcomes, learnings and wrong doings based on the public available information.

2. Copywriter

• Receives raw data from the researcher
• Transforms raw information into engaging content
• Handles all written content across the platform
• Ensures consistent messaging and tone

3. UI/UX Designer

• Wears multiple creative hats:
  • Creates website interface designs
  • Produces all graphic designs for articles
  • Develops social media visuals
  • Designs infographics
  • Plans information architecture
  • Monitors user experience
  • Suggests UX improvements

4. Developer

• Implements all designs on ArbitrumHub
• Handles technical implementation of UX improvements
• Manages website functionality and updates
• Brings the designer's vision to life

5. Project Manager

• Coordinates between all roles and with dao
• Ensures smooth handoffs between stages
• Conducts regular check-ins
• Verifies work quality at each stage
• Maintains project timelines
• Resolves any communication gaps or misunderstandings

Linear Workflow: Researcher → Copywriter → Designer → Developer (with PM overseeing each stage)

Each role requires specialized expertise and carries full responsibility for its respective area. Project Management is crucial for maintaining smooth coordination, as each stage in the workflow builds upon the previous one.

Thanks

Kind of:

ArbitrumHub aims to enhance accessibility, understanding, and navigation across all aspects of the DAO's ongoing and past initiatives. Think of it as a centralized hub where anyone—whether deeply involved or casually interested—can easily access clear, actionable insights into everything happening within the DAO & arbitrum ecosystem.

For instance, consider GCP, a major initiative recently approved by the DAO. Currently, understanding what GCP is, its progress, its goals, the team behind it, and where it stands on its path to success requires significant effort and active involvement. This challenge is not unique to GCP; it applies broadly across workgroups, calls, initiatives, and projects. Much of this activity grows organically within the DAO, but the lack of a unified platform means many efforts remain fragmented or underappreciated.

Additionally, many valuable resources, courses, and educational initiatives developed by community members through grant programs often fade into obscurity. Without proper visibility, their impact is diminished. ArbitrumHub can play a pivotal role in addressing this gap by keeping these contributions highlighted, organized, and easily accessible, ensuring their long-term relevance and utility.

Finally, we assure the DAO of our commitment to delivering on our promises. We have the skills, expertise, and understanding to execute this vision effectively. However, should the DAO determine that we are not meeting our commitments, and a majority of delegates reach consensus, the initiative can be halted, and any unused funds will be proportionally returned to the DAO.

Thanks

Thank you, @jameskbh, for the feedback.

Regarding your concerns, every program has unique requirements, operations, and publicly available information, including timelines. Our approach here involves thorough research for each program, then design and brainstorm a dedicated section with well-structured infographics and content flow, including relevant educational articles.

Monthly review check-in: This involves following up with program managers to ensure that the design, content and infographics we created align with their program objectives, are accurate, and reduce potential miscommunication with the audience.

Feasibility: The review process is 100% feasible, as we've successfully tried it with AVI, AF, and others.

Additionally, if a program manager requests the ability to publish blogs independently under their specific hub, we have a system in place to provide them access to a custom CMS tailored to their needs.

To clarify, we do not expect program managers to create a hub, publish-info or anything themselves. Moreover, we ensure that no raw content is published; instead, we follow a refined approach featuring proper visuals, infographics, and clearly digestible objectives.

thanks

Thank you for your valuable inputs. I would like to address a few points regarding the Questbook proposal. This proposal was designed as a temporary relief measure to help us avoid burnout and secure some immediate funding to sustain our efforts but it didn't get through due to program closure. Over the past 10+ months, we have been developing ArbitrumHub entirely on a voluntary basis, dedicating a lot of time and considerable effort to bring it to its current state.

While the $50k grant we initially proposed for 2.5 months, through Questbook was not sufficient to meet the long-term requirements of the project, it was intended as a stopgap solution within the grant's limitations. Our ultimate vision is to make ArbitrumHub an integral part of the DAO, which requires a focus on long-term sustainability, consistent resources, and ongoing proper commitment.

A key challenge we face is that, the DAO typically do not compensate for past unpaid work, which creates a grey area for builders. While grants like Questbook can provide short-term support, they are not a sustainable solution for a long-term initiative like ArbitrumHub, which operates solely for the benefit of the Arbitrum DAO without external revenue streams.

We also appreciate your feedback on optimizing roles, costs, and tracking impact on a quarterly basis. These recommendations will be reflected in the final iteration of the proposal. While the budget request covers a year, it will be managed by the MSS and disbursed quarterly. Should the DAO determine that we are not delivering on our commitments, and a majority of delegates reach consensus, the initiative can be halted, and any proportional unused funds will be returned to the DAO.

Thanks

Thank you, @0xTALVO.ETH_MTY, for taking the time to review our proposal and explore ArbitrumHub. I want to emphasize that ArbitrumHub is developed with extensive research into the entire Arbitrum ecosystem, careful design, rigorous brainstorming, and meticulous execution. This effort required significant resources, time, commitment, and teamwork.

Regarding the budget, we have made every effort to keep it reasonable with a detailed breakdown. However, we will explore further optimization and consider incorporating retroactive funding or bonus elements as alternatives.

We truly appreciate your suggestions and take them very seriously.

Thank you!

Thank you @0xDonPepe for taking the time to share your thoughtful feedback and for exploring ArbitrumHub! We're delighted that you found the platform impressive and see the value it can bring to the community.

Regarding the budget, we truly appreciate your perspective. We’ve made every effort to keep it reasonable with a detailed breakdown of resources. It’s also worth noting that we haven’t factored in any bonuses or retroactive funding for the significant work we’ve contributed over the past year, using our own time and resources to lay the foundation for this platform.

That said, we take your feedback seriously and will work to consider it in the final iteration. Your support for the initiative means a lot, and we’re committed to ensuring this platform serves the Arbitrum community effectively while being mindful of resources.

Thanks!

Thank you, @jameskbh, for the feedback.

Regarding your concerns, every program has unique requirements, operations, and publicly available information, including timelines. Our approach here involves thorough research for each program, then design and brainstorm a dedicated section with well-structured infographics and content flow, including relevant educational articles.

Monthly review check-in: This involves following up with program managers to ensure that the design, content and infographics we created align with their program objectives, are accurate, and reduce potential miscommunication with the audience.

Feasibility: The review process is 100% feasible, as we've successfully tried it with AVI, AF, and others.

Additionally, if a program manager requests the ability to publish blogs independently under their specific hub, we have a system in place to provide them access to a custom CMS tailored to their needs.

To clarify, we do not expect program managers to create a hub, publish-info or anything themselves. Moreover, we ensure that no raw content is published; instead, we follow a refined approach featuring proper visuals, infographics, and clearly digestible objectives.

thanks

Thank you for your valuable inputs. I would like to address a few points regarding the Questbook proposal. This proposal was designed as a temporary relief measure to help us avoid burnout and secure some immediate funding to sustain our efforts but it didn't get through due to program closure. Over the past 10+ months, we have been developing ArbitrumHub entirely on a voluntary basis, dedicating a lot of time and considerable effort to bring it to its current state.

While the $50k grant we initially proposed for 2.5 months, through Questbook was not sufficient to meet the long-term requirements of the project, it was intended as a stopgap solution within the grant's limitations. Our ultimate vision is to make ArbitrumHub an integral part of the DAO, which requires a focus on long-term sustainability, consistent resources, and ongoing proper commitment.

A key challenge we face is that, the DAO typically do not compensate for past unpaid work, which creates a grey area for builders. While grants like Questbook can provide short-term support, they are not a sustainable solution for a long-term initiative like ArbitrumHub, which operates solely for the benefit of the Arbitrum DAO without external revenue streams.

We also appreciate your feedback on optimizing roles, costs, and tracking impact on a quarterly basis. These recommendations will be reflected in the final iteration of the proposal. While the budget request covers a year, it will be managed by the MSS and disbursed quarterly. Should the DAO determine that we are not delivering on our commitments, and a majority of delegates reach consensus, the initiative can be halted, and any proportional unused funds will be returned to the DAO.

Thanks

Thank you, @0xTALVO.ETH_MTY, for taking the time to review our proposal and explore ArbitrumHub. I want to emphasize that ArbitrumHub is developed with extensive research into the entire Arbitrum ecosystem, careful design, rigorous brainstorming, and meticulous execution. This effort required significant resources, time, commitment, and teamwork.

Regarding the budget, we have made every effort to keep it reasonable with a detailed breakdown. However, we will explore further optimization and consider incorporating retroactive funding or bonus elements as alternatives.

We truly appreciate your suggestions and take them very seriously.

Thank you!

Thank you @0xDonPepe for taking the time to share your thoughtful feedback and for exploring ArbitrumHub! We're delighted that you found the platform impressive and see the value it can bring to the community.

Regarding the budget, we truly appreciate your perspective. We’ve made every effort to keep it reasonable with a detailed breakdown of resources. It’s also worth noting that we haven’t factored in any bonuses or retroactive funding for the significant work we’ve contributed over the past year, using our own time and resources to lay the foundation for this platform.

That said, we take your feedback seriously and will work to consider it in the final iteration. Your support for the initiative means a lot, and we’re committed to ensuring this platform serves the Arbitrum community effectively while being mindful of resources.

Thanks!

Thank you @duokongcrypto for reviewing our proposal and platform, and for finding it impactful. We appreciate the time you've taken to provide your feedback and suggestions.

Regarding your first point, we understand your concern about the frequency of our publications. We have Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) in place to implement and remove strategies that are not working out, which will enable us to adjust our schedule as needed. We're committed to delivering the promised frequency, but we're also realistic about what we can handle. We'll definitely take a closer look at our schedule and see if there are ways to optimize it further in the final proposal.

Regarding your second point, we completely agree that user retention rate and community engagement are critical indicators for evaluating the platform's impact. In fact, we've stressed on these aspects in our proposal and have created a Google Analytics and Looker Studio setup to track user behaviors and visits in real-time. This will allow us to gauge interest and understand how and from where traffic is coming. Additionally, we plan to collaborate with different initiatives and Arbitrum socials to raise awareness about arbitrumhub and onboard more users. By maintaining the proper relevance of arbitrumhub platform, we'll be able to create a seamless experience for users and encourage community engagement.

We appreciate your suggestion about gradual implementation with phased reviews. This is a solid approach that will enable us to assess actual outcomes and adjust our strategy accordingly. We will definitely consider dividing our tasks and goals into quarterly fashion, and you will see this reflected in the final iteration of our proposal.

Our primary focus is on ensuring the operational efficiency and growth of the platform. Over the past year, we have built and maintained it independently without any compensation. With proper support and resources from the DAO, we are confident that we can significantly enhance its utility and impact.

To address any concerns, the proposed budget will be released to us quarterly through MSS. If the DAO feels that we are not delivering on our promises, and a majority consensus among DAO Delegates agrees, the initiative can be halted, and proportional funds will be returned to the DAO.

Thank you again for your feedback and suggestions - we look forward to incorporating them into our proposal.

Thank you so much, @Ignas, for reviewing and sharing your ideas—that’s exactly the kind of collaboration we’re here for!

Regarding your thoughts on the 'ArbitrumHub Academy,' we will definitely brainstorm ways to incorporate this into the hub we’ve built. Implementing such an initiative would likely involve partnering with exceptional educators and could bring a valuable influx of builders through our combined audiences.

Thank you again for your support and feedback—it’s truly appreciated!

Thank you @duokongcrypto for reviewing our proposal and platform, and for finding it impactful. We appreciate the time you've taken to provide your feedback and suggestions.

Regarding your first point, we understand your concern about the frequency of our publications. We have Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) in place to implement and remove strategies that are not working out, which will enable us to adjust our schedule as needed. We're committed to delivering the promised frequency, but we're also realistic about what we can handle. We'll definitely take a closer look at our schedule and see if there are ways to optimize it further in the final proposal.

Regarding your second point, we completely agree that user retention rate and community engagement are critical indicators for evaluating the platform's impact. In fact, we've stressed on these aspects in our proposal and have created a Google Analytics and Looker Studio setup to track user behaviors and visits in real-time. This will allow us to gauge interest and understand how and from where traffic is coming. Additionally, we plan to collaborate with different initiatives and Arbitrum socials to raise awareness about arbitrumhub and onboard more users. By maintaining the proper relevance of arbitrumhub platform, we'll be able to create a seamless experience for users and encourage community engagement.

We appreciate your suggestion about gradual implementation with phased reviews. This is a solid approach that will enable us to assess actual outcomes and adjust our strategy accordingly. We will definitely consider dividing our tasks and goals into quarterly fashion, and you will see this reflected in the final iteration of our proposal.

Our primary focus is on ensuring the operational efficiency and growth of the platform. Over the past year, we have built and maintained it independently without any compensation. With proper support and resources from the DAO, we are confident that we can significantly enhance its utility and impact.

To address any concerns, the proposed budget will be released to us quarterly through MSS. If the DAO feels that we are not delivering on our promises, and a majority consensus among DAO Delegates agrees, the initiative can be halted, and proportional funds will be returned to the DAO.

Thank you again for your feedback and suggestions - we look forward to incorporating them into our proposal.

Thank you so much, @Ignas, for reviewing and sharing your ideas—that’s exactly the kind of collaboration we’re here for!

Regarding your thoughts on the 'ArbitrumHub Academy,' we will definitely brainstorm ways to incorporate this into the hub we’ve built. Implementing such an initiative would likely involve partnering with exceptional educators and could bring a valuable influx of builders through our combined audiences.

Thank you again for your support and feedback—it’s truly appreciated!

I voted Abstain from this proposal as it could be considered as competing to a similar proposal that I previously submitted.

That said, I believe neither proposal really hit the mark. More than a Hub, Arbitrum needs better communication dissemination between delegates and initiatives - both in the definition of the requirements and communication of why decisions were made.

I believe something like the Arbitrum Hub (or Makers' Dashboards) is eventually needed but only after we better map the current flow of information and manually improve that flow.

I look forward to working with @0x_Buidler in improving the DAO's information flow.

I want to post to signal that I have similar concerns that others have expressed regarding budget. I believe in funding people for work, but I think we also need to be prudent. The $ cost of this for 1 year is very expensive, and breaking down the costs there seem to be budgeting for repeating hourly costs for things that don't seem to need to be worked on so frequently (UI/UX come to mind, as well as paying someone to manage a small team like this - is it really reasonable to expect a these roles to be working 100 hours a month for 12 months straight?).

The cost seems like an amount that you would expect this to be each persons full time, solo-income job and I don't think the scope justifies that type of time commitment across a team of this size.

The duplicate work issue factors in here as well. In a vacuum, if we have multiple sites to reference it's not a big deal... but the budget then becomes even more important to focus on. As now we're getting into how much we are valuing having multiple sites for similar info. If there wasn't a source already available the larger cost may be more justified, but as it stands this is a big cost for this type of project.

Its unfortunately retroactive grants aren't more popular, because this seems like a good usecase for one to be honest.

You have shown everything very clearly and I see exactly the tasks of the employees. But I was talking specifically about the volume of work. I perfectly understand the desire to hire employees for a full working day, but I cannot yet imagine what the researcher will do so much time and the rest accordingly, since it is he who provides new information.

As a delegate, I look through all the information on the forum, monitor the voting - in fact, all the delegates do the work of the researcher, and also additionally watch the voting, write comments and participate in working groups. And this does not take up all the working time. Other participants have an even smaller volume of work.

I really like the site, everything is conveniently organized (even though I rarely use it), but almost half a million dollars is a significant amount for the support and development of the site. Large expenses may lead to a lack of funding from the community, I will additionally consult with specialists on this issue.

We agree with the motivations behind this proposal, but we have some observations that prevent us from supporting it in its current form.

First, we want to highlight that we share the opinion of other delegates regarding the budget breakdown, which seems somewhat excessive, as well as the workload assigned to certain roles.

Additionally, we believe that the proposed page could serve as a good update to the Arbitrum Foundation’s current website. While there are noticeable differences, we also see similarities, leading us to think that duplication of content could be avoided and costs potentially reduced.

Has integrating all these ideas into the foundation’s existing website been considered?

Thank you for a very detailed description of the work. On the one hand, $417,000 is not too much compared to other proposals, but for a site with information, it is a bit overpriced. Given the volume of work that you plan to do, I have questions and I would like to reduce the Arbitration costs:

1. What does a researcher do? I see that he apparently collects requests for improvement, but I have no idea what he will do for 100 hours a month. I believe that his workload should be several times less.

2. It is also unclear what a UI/UX designer should do full-time. The main job of the site is to fill it with relevant information. New parts of the site with a designer are needed, but not on a permanent basis. New initiatives or grants, working groups appear once every few months. Accordingly, such a large volume is not required (by the way, I would advise the designer to make a dark theme on the site). I believe that his work can be significantly reduced.

In addition, I would like to understand how many users the site has. This is important in terms of costs per person. If only top delegates use this, then for 50 people this is too much of an expense.

Hi @0x_Buidler, thank you for the proposal. The concept of Arbitrum Hub is enticing, and we agree with your assessment that more needs to be done to consolidate information and resources to allow for easier access to information, programs, etc…

However, at this point, we feel that there is too much fragmentation in the overall Arbitrum communication touch points, and while the idea of an Arbitrum Hub is interesting, we feel it will further exacerbate this issue.

We also agree with @0xDonPepe, @0xTALVO.ETH_MTY, @Euphoria, and @GensDAO on the cost proposed.

The budget for the proposed site is excessive, and it doesn’t require a developer and researcher to be assigned to it monthly. A Copywriter and Designer (definitely doesn’t require a UI/UX Designer) are needed for the weekly newsletter, with more weight on the Copywriter than the Designer. This has a similar weightage to your planned social media posts (which have not been defined).

There are also too many hours allocated for the Project Manager because, at the most, the monthly tasks will be a weekly newsletter, 5x weekly social posts, and some updates to the site that need to be managed.

The chatbot is also unnecessary if the information sections are clearly defined.

In summary, we are not agreeable to this proposal based on our reasons and explanation above.

I voted Abstain from this proposal as it could be considered as competing to a similar proposal that I previously submitted.

That said, I believe neither proposal really hit the mark. More than a Hub, Arbitrum needs better communication dissemination between delegates and initiatives - both in the definition of the requirements and communication of why decisions were made.

I believe something like the Arbitrum Hub (or Makers' Dashboards) is eventually needed but only after we better map the current flow of information and manually improve that flow.

I look forward to working with @0x_Buidler in improving the DAO's information flow.

I want to post to signal that I have similar concerns that others have expressed regarding budget. I believe in funding people for work, but I think we also need to be prudent. The $ cost of this for 1 year is very expensive, and breaking down the costs there seem to be budgeting for repeating hourly costs for things that don't seem to need to be worked on so frequently (UI/UX come to mind, as well as paying someone to manage a small team like this - is it really reasonable to expect a these roles to be working 100 hours a month for 12 months straight?).

The cost seems like an amount that you would expect this to be each persons full time, solo-income job and I don't think the scope justifies that type of time commitment across a team of this size.

The duplicate work issue factors in here as well. In a vacuum, if we have multiple sites to reference it's not a big deal... but the budget then becomes even more important to focus on. As now we're getting into how much we are valuing having multiple sites for similar info. If there wasn't a source already available the larger cost may be more justified, but as it stands this is a big cost for this type of project.

Its unfortunately retroactive grants aren't more popular, because this seems like a good usecase for one to be honest.

You have shown everything very clearly and I see exactly the tasks of the employees. But I was talking specifically about the volume of work. I perfectly understand the desire to hire employees for a full working day, but I cannot yet imagine what the researcher will do so much time and the rest accordingly, since it is he who provides new information.

As a delegate, I look through all the information on the forum, monitor the voting - in fact, all the delegates do the work of the researcher, and also additionally watch the voting, write comments and participate in working groups. And this does not take up all the working time. Other participants have an even smaller volume of work.

I really like the site, everything is conveniently organized (even though I rarely use it), but almost half a million dollars is a significant amount for the support and development of the site. Large expenses may lead to a lack of funding from the community, I will additionally consult with specialists on this issue.

We agree with the motivations behind this proposal, but we have some observations that prevent us from supporting it in its current form.

First, we want to highlight that we share the opinion of other delegates regarding the budget breakdown, which seems somewhat excessive, as well as the workload assigned to certain roles.

Additionally, we believe that the proposed page could serve as a good update to the Arbitrum Foundation’s current website. While there are noticeable differences, we also see similarities, leading us to think that duplication of content could be avoided and costs potentially reduced.

Has integrating all these ideas into the foundation’s existing website been considered?

Thank you for a very detailed description of the work. On the one hand, $417,000 is not too much compared to other proposals, but for a site with information, it is a bit overpriced. Given the volume of work that you plan to do, I have questions and I would like to reduce the Arbitration costs:

1. What does a researcher do? I see that he apparently collects requests for improvement, but I have no idea what he will do for 100 hours a month. I believe that his workload should be several times less.

2. It is also unclear what a UI/UX designer should do full-time. The main job of the site is to fill it with relevant information. New parts of the site with a designer are needed, but not on a permanent basis. New initiatives or grants, working groups appear once every few months. Accordingly, such a large volume is not required (by the way, I would advise the designer to make a dark theme on the site). I believe that his work can be significantly reduced.

In addition, I would like to understand how many users the site has. This is important in terms of costs per person. If only top delegates use this, then for 50 people this is too much of an expense.

Hi @0x_Buidler, thank you for the proposal. The concept of Arbitrum Hub is enticing, and we agree with your assessment that more needs to be done to consolidate information and resources to allow for easier access to information, programs, etc…

However, at this point, we feel that there is too much fragmentation in the overall Arbitrum communication touch points, and while the idea of an Arbitrum Hub is interesting, we feel it will further exacerbate this issue.

We also agree with @0xDonPepe, @0xTALVO.ETH_MTY, @Euphoria, and @GensDAO on the cost proposed.

The budget for the proposed site is excessive, and it doesn’t require a developer and researcher to be assigned to it monthly. A Copywriter and Designer (definitely doesn’t require a UI/UX Designer) are needed for the weekly newsletter, with more weight on the Copywriter than the Designer. This has a similar weightage to your planned social media posts (which have not been defined).

There are also too many hours allocated for the Project Manager because, at the most, the monthly tasks will be a weekly newsletter, 5x weekly social posts, and some updates to the site that need to be managed.

The chatbot is also unnecessary if the information sections are clearly defined.

In summary, we are not agreeable to this proposal based on our reasons and explanation above.