Hey all,
To increase the sovereignty of the community and lower the barrier to creating and submitting proposals live on Snapshot, I hereby share a quick tutorial on how to create a raw Markdown file for a new DAO proposal. Panther Protocol has been decentralized since the beginning, and we aim to support the community the best way we can to make sure that it’s well-equipped to launch the Panther Protocol mainnet in a decentralized way.
- After a DAO proposal draft has been completed on the Panther forum, it also has to be converted into a markdown file for Snapshot. The first step would be to export the document in the docx format by selecting File → Download → Microsoft Word (.docx) if one’s using Google Docs (recommended).
- Then upload the docx file to word2md.com, a free Microsoft Word to markdown converter. After the conversion is done, word2md will display the raw markdown alongside its formatted version.
- We would recommend double-checking the rendered version to make sure that the complex elements of a proposal draft, such as tables and hierarchical lists or code, are displayed correctly. Then, copy and paste the raw markdown onto dillinger.io. In this platform you will do any formatting corrections, with visual feedback. Images need to be externally uploaded (ideally to an IPFS gateway such as Pinata Cloud) and, using their link, embedded into the markdown file.
- When you finally have a ready-to-go raw markdown text, it’s finally time to upload it to IPFS. Give the markdown file a name, then click “Export as” and “Markdown” in the upper right menu.
Congrats - you have now turned your DAO proposal into a markdown file which can be added by one of the Snapshot authors when a proposal is being published!
