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Colony Hackathon/OfficeHours

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zillerium

@zillerium

I guess no one is here

JR Moreau

@jrmoreau

@zillerium we had a few folks on here earlier - feel free to leave your questions and someone will get back to you soon

Griffin Ichiba Hotchkiss

@gichiba

@camwhite >What goes inside that json string?
So in JSON.stringify(spec) the spec is an object that you can define elsewhere in your code.

Griffin Ichiba Hotchkiss

@gichiba

Unfortunately IPFS can't accept that object directly. It needs a Buffer (a binary representation of the data). The stringify-ed JSON is deterministic way to get your object (which could be many possible things) converted to a Buffer. So it could be something as simple as some plaintext description of work to be done.

Joseph Schiarizzi

@jschiarizzi

Policy on multiple submissions?

Ânderson Q.

@42piratas

@collinvine Hey Collin! May I have access to the beta as well, just to feel what you were working on?

Griffin Ichiba Hotchkiss

@gichiba

@jschiarizzi If you're intending to actually complete and submit two separate projects, I suppose that's fine... but otherwise you should probably close the issue that you're not going to work on.

Collin Vine

@collinvine

@42piratas yessir, can you DM me your email and I'll send one over

KCWx9

@KCWx9

@collinvine Could I have access to the beta as well? For a visual reference to your implementation.

I've dm'd you

Collin Vine

@collinvine

Sure @KCWx9 dm me your email

KCWx9

@KCWx9

Thanks!

Griffin Ichiba Hotchkiss

@gichiba

Hello! So as it's been for the past few times, you can ask your questions here! feel free to ask both technical and general questions

Christian Maniewski

@chmanie

👋

Griffin Ichiba Hotchkiss

@gichiba

Also, if anyone happens to be at the CogX conference in London today, come say hi!

KCWx9

@KCWx9

Is there a best practice for using Colonies instead of Domains?

Griffin Ichiba Hotchkiss

@gichiba

Hey @KCWx9 I don't think there are any 'best practices' yet! what are you thinking?

KCWx9

@KCWx9

@gichiba
So TrueGift has 2 core elements:

A collaboration platform for crowdsourcing solutions to 21st century challenges.
Domain structure: context -> challenges -> solutions -> blueprints -> courses // may require more granularity
Example: industry -> collaboration -> Colony.io -> colonyJS -> 'Learn colonyJS course'
Decentralised operations based on location for the co-creation of unique products by upcycling unwanted / unused materials through crowdsourced donations of time and skill.
Use case: A family (could be a business, individual, govt, etc) in location X buys a new table, and call their local TrueGift node for collection / delivery of the unwanted wooden table (could be any resource or service). The table is added to a domain based on location and a new task is created with specific reputation and token (could be an auction for the opportunity) requirements depending on the quality of the materials and work (skills) required. User 1 fixes a wonky leg and sands down the rough edges, etc. User 2 adds some extra drawers and some secret compartments. User 3 paints the table and adds a protective varnish. The 3 contributing users decide (a local vote could be a fallback if undecided) whether they want to direct the funds to predefined pots (in Element 1) or let the buyer decide. The unique product is then set for auction and sold.
Domain structure: layers of location -> Decentralised operations
Example: Europe -> Netherlands -> Amsterdam -> TrueGift Ops 1

I could use 2 parent domains or I could set up another colony. I'm wondering whether you have any thoughts of what works best in these kind of situations?

Christian Maniewski

@chmanie

@KCWx9 currently the contracts only support domains of one level depth

So in general I’d suggest to use nested domains for that because you might need to use the concept of reputation at some point

BUT we don’t support that, yet

KCWx9

@KCWx9

@chmanie Okay, so 1 Colony split into 2 main Domains with everything else nested within each of them?

My focus is on architecture design right now and then getting a prototype UI complete before I begin the heavy lifting with Colony

Christian Maniewski

@chmanie

Architecture wise that might be sensible, but I don’t know when we will be supporting nested domains

KCWx9

@KCWx9

Okay, this is the end goal right? https://joincolony.github.io/colonynetwork/docs-domains-and-skills/#domains

Christian Maniewski

@chmanie

Yes

KCWx9

@KCWx9

I could create many domains but only apply the contracts to the top level domain?

KCWx9

@KCWx9

Okay, I know what I have to do. Thanks!

KCWx9

@KCWx9

@chmanie Is there a limit to the depth of tasks at the moment?

Christian Maniewski

@chmanie

We don’t support sub tasks if that’s what you’re looking for

So just one level deep

Siddhartha Sahai

@sidthekidder

@KCWx9 currently the contracts only support domains of one level depth

Just clarifying, you mean 1 domain -> x subdomains -> y tasks right? Or 1 domain -> x tasks

John Grant

@johngrantuk

Hi, quick question - if I used ColonyNetworkClient.getColony.call({ id:i }); how would I then use the address to find the colony token name/symbol?

Griffin Ichiba Hotchkiss

@gichiba

Hey, there is also a getToken.call() which might be helpful there

it will, however just return the address of the token

getToken is a colonyClient method, not a colonyNetworkClient method

https://joincolony.github.io/colonyjs/api-colonyclient/#gettokencall

@johngrantuk

Christian Maniewski

@chmanie

@sidthekidder 1 domain -> x tasks

John Grant

@johngrantuk

thanks @gichiba. so it seems like we'd need to store the token name/symbol somewhere centrally and reference it to the address

Griffin Ichiba Hotchkiss

@gichiba

@johngrantuk yeah, you could do that, but many tokens also choose to have that available on chain, as in here: https://github.com/OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-solidity/blob/master/contracts/token/ERC20/DetailedERC20.sol

But yeah, there's no colonyJS caller to grab a colony's token symbol at the moment

John Grant

@johngrantuk

ok, thanks

Kevin Lu

@KevinLiLu

Are the special reward pot (pot[0]) and working capital pot (pot[1]) restricted to the colony token type? I remember reading that colonies can pay out in ether, CLNY, the colony token, or any whitelisted erc20 token.

If they can be any of the above, then how can I get the ether pot balance for example? There is a getPotBalance.call({ potId, token }) but what address would I use to get the ether balance?

Christian Maniewski

@chmanie

@KevinLiLu naturally I’d think that you could get the ether balance by using 0x0 for the token address.

But I’ll double check

Christian Maniewski

@chmanie

Confirmed. We will add it to the docs!

@gichiba ☝️