Update 04/28/2020

hey everybody its Charles Hoskinson broadcasting live from warm sunny Colorado I wanted to give you guys an update on a few things just had a great meeting with me working on the brand refresh the vision statement and a litany of other initiatives and it's really a a cross organizational initiative so I figured I should talk a little bit about it and explain the context so we've always cared a lot about brand and visualization we've always cared a lot to try to represent the the mission of Cardno in ways that are not only creative but also beautiful and it's always nice to bring an external party and teach them what we're trying to do and then have them provide an independent opinion of ways we can improve how we tell that story and how we visualize things and the initial relationship was a little rocky because it took them a bit of time to get over that learning curve but when we got through it they finally broke through and started making very meaningful and significant contributions so I get asked a lot in my mas well when are we going to see something from McCann what's the output of this process the output will be initially the cardinal org website we're completely reconstructing the Cardinal org website so that it has both role and behavioral navigation so role developers and up Rises people who want to use the protocol and then behavioral navigation so behavioral navigation and things you want to govern you so voting you want to develop on the platform you want to operate the platform things like stake pull operators and so forth and we're finding a beautiful synthesis in all of that and we're trying to put everything we can into creating a great beautiful simplistic yet elegant experience for everybody including a lot of dynamicism so we're trying to put that Flair that scott Darby's it's famous for and those 3gs animations in addition to good old-fashioned good information architecture so once that's been set in stone the next step will be to propagate that throughout all other Cardinal assets the reddit and other things that can be brandable and so make sure that there's consistency and the text the colors the fonts and so forth and the goal is conciseness so it's good to have an elevator pitch good to have a 30 second and vision statement it's good to have these assets ready to go and socialized throughout the ambassadors and so forth as with all things we do as we get closer to a finished product there we're gonna bring on the ambassadors and the state pull operators first to these experiences and just to get their feedback almost a focus group and it gives us a chance to make some last-minute changes and the card org asset will be released on par with with the release of Shelley so we're all kind of converging in that point and we'll probably showcase it at the virtual summit when we do the virtual summit the launch of Shelley so that's what's going on with McCann it's a it's a lot of work there's a very big team in fact that call had over 20 people in it and it's it's like herding cats in some cases and there's a lot of difficult conversations because there aren't clear answers on whether we should go with a or B I mean this color palette versus this color palette we have to just kind of think around and it's not going to be pleasing to every single person because design is is like art everybody has an opinion but we hope that for the mainstream it's something that most people are very happy about second documentation you may have noticed I tweeted today some documentation there's about 176 pages of documentation for the benchmarking frameworks we've constructed documentation is another huge overall effort that we're pushing very hard for the release of Shelley and namely we think that if there's code it needs to be documented if there's architecture it needs to be documented and if you want to build something with this you need proper documentation to build something so we have very high standards and we are aggressively pushing our developers and technical writers to backfill and update the documentation to be correct relevant and current as well as understandable this is a less a less subjective thing design we can all have an opinion on a color palette documentation it has to be useful and so our users are going to use it and we're gonna get a lot of feedback it's kind of a Blue Team Red Team model Black team red team model where you have a team produce it and then a team consume it and the team that consumes it consumes it with a skeptical and critical and tries to actually do things and they let if you've actually hit the mark or not but that will also be released with the release of Shelley and we have a lot of people not sleeping right now trying to get all that done because there's just so much to document so many things to think about and it also has to be understandable so so that says something you should look for a card on our website will reference the documentation and and there's gonna be a dedicated website forward probably something like documentation cardano's org or domain like that likely a sub domain and then i which k of course will maintain relevant documentation there's probably still going to be some github based documentation source management is a very delicate topic and where should all this stuff live there's a lot of open questions about that i and in fact even the balance between the help desk and get issues is a big conversation speaking of helpdesk moving to that topic real briefly we have gotten probably about 100 so tickets give or take on Dedalus 1.0 a big chunk of them came from people using unsupported operating systems namely windows 7 or below and they said hey we're having problems and i said well what OS are you using and it turned out was windows 7 ok well we don't support that and i said well that's not fair and I say well Microsoft stops supporting Windows 7 January of to 2020 so if Microsoft is no longer supporting the software I think it's pretty fair for us to say that we're not going to support that we do support Windows 8.1 and above so likely what we'll do is make it difficult to install Dedalus 1.0 on older versions of Windows and your options start to either upgrade your version of windows or to use your ROI if you have an unsupported OS in that respect we have noticed another problem in particular on Mac for a certain set of users a very high CPU utilization likely what's occurring is there's some issue with logs or some issue with network interaction that's causing a lot of unnecessary CPU utilization that that shouldn't be so high so we are looking into it and a later version of Daedalus will Hachette for that user set but overall we've gotten overwhelmingly positive feedback about Dedalus 1.