Grants Committee Weekly Aug 9, 2022
Attendance
links, p8ul.eth, ap0ll0517, jengajojo.eth, lion917, jameswmontgomery.eth
Date
Aug 9, 2022
Last Edited Time
Aug 25, 2022
Last edited by
Note-taker
Recording
Multi-select
Action Items
Accounting
- Bank for the remaining of the season:
- Average BANK per week left :
- Grants Committee Funding tracking
Discussion
Discussion Item 1 - Grants Committee Seasonal Role Vote
Proposal: we need to elect our GC leads and talk about our processes this season
who is interested in being a grants lead?
- ap0ll0917
- jengajojo.eth
- links
- p8ul.eth
ACTION: links will create an async vote for this
VOTE: Do you agree to x as stated in the above proposal?
- Yes:
- No:
- Abstain:
THE MOTION PASSES/FAILs
Discussion Item 2 - Forum quorum adjustment
- Has everyone seen this?
ACTION: links to update the grants committee procedures page and archive the old values
ACTION: jameswmontgomery to make recommendations on how we can “end” async votes
- i.e. time-based?
THE MOTION PASSES (async vote): https://discord.com/channels/834499078434979890/996478071353909279/1005128811823775845
Project: Bounty Hunter
Speaker: Brandon Nolte#6238
Ask: 358,000 BANK
Started at podcast hatchery, but wants to make a request specific to their needs
- Asking for 358K BANK for 13 episodes and associated marketing
Are you planning on looking for a way to be able to support yourselves?
- options for revenue:
- could look for sponsorships
- could do more web3-related stuff (juicebox)
- juicebox actually has an upcoming episode on Bounty Hunter
- last season, was concentrating on having the highest-quality product possible
- editing, copy, mechanics in the process, etc
- this season, potentially looking at sponsorship/revenue opportunities
- opportunities with marketing and AMA, and other sponsorships
- Anthony ZimTeemo is part of the relationships/sponsorships in Podcast Hatchery
Project has “graduated” from Podcast Hatchery (with own funding request, etc)
- but you still have ties that you have mentioned
- this is common around the DAO (crypto sapiens, etc)
- As a DAO - we have a lot of emphasis around education, introduction to web3, etc
- is there a better way to coordinate all of these similar streams?
- As a grants committee - it’s difficult to look at all these projects in isolation
- can we do something to better understand and evaluate all projects of similar situations
So far, 2K downloads for 13 episodes
- other projects have downloads/episodes - can we compare?
- what is a download? is it a listen, or did they download a file?
- this is a standard measure, proxy for subscribers
- does this mean you have roughly 100 subscribers?
- yes
ACTION: create a discussion item for comparing similar projects (i.e. podcasts, media nodes, newsletters, social pages)
KPIs
- # podcast downloads
- # revenue ideas evaluated
VOTE: Do you agree to fund 358,000 BANK as stated in the above proposal with the KPIs mentioned above?
- Yes: ap0ll0517, jengajojo.eth, lion917, jameswmontgomery, p8ul.eth, links
- No:
- Abstain:
THIS MOTION PASSES
Project: bDAO-Glossary
Speaker: taylans.eth🏴#2408
Ask: 176,240 BANK
like the ability to have reference points
- like also making this extremely public
- right now it’s a google sheet, and as they translate, new tabs will be open. That’s cool, makes sense to build
- in the future, would like to see some work with website team or another team to PUBLISH this in an easy-to-use and accessible web application
- this will allow the community-at-large, beyond the translator’s guild, to consume this useful info
could eventually be a revenue generator, when they get to a minimal viable product
- could be an encyclopedia - web3 encyclopedia
- they never considered this project a revenue-generator in the past, but in this season they will be looking for opportunities
- will get in touch with other DAOs through DAOlationships to use their product
- in general, they have been looking at this short-term, so they would like to get the product out first, and see if there
how will you determine when to update/revise the glossary (update/add/remove)
- this will happen during the season using bounties
- how do you determine which words to include? are you looking for frequency of words?
- this is talked about in phase #1 of the proposal
KPIs
- # glossary languages published
- self-sovereignty_KPI? (none - not a long-term project at this time)
VOTE: Do you agree to fund 176,240 BANK as stated in the above proposal with the KPIs mentioned above?
- Yes: ap0ll0517, lion917, jameswmontgomery, p8ul.eth, jengajojo.eth, links
- No:
- Abstain:
THIS MOTION PASSES