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Grants Comittee Apr 26, 2022

Attendance
Date
Apr 26, 2022
Last Edited Time
Jun 3, 2022
Last edited by
Note-taker
Recording
Multi-select
Action Items from Previous Meeting:
 
Attendance: Kouros, Icedcool, links, Jameswmontgomery, Chuck
 
Agenda:
Accounting:
  • Bank for the remaining of the season:
  • Average BANK per week left :
  • Grants Committee Funding tracking
 
Project Review:
Bankless Academy
representing: tetranome, didierkrux, iSpeaknerd, ivanpomidoro
 
Season 3 question: have you achieved the KPIs for the original agreement for S3?
  • no, they didn’t achieve the KPIs that were mentioned - shipping lessons to production
    • they shipped lesson 1 and 2, but not 3-5
    • After releasing 1 and 2, they decided they had other work to do (project restructuring, brand, product market fit, understanding roadmap, building core team)
  • so the ask: they’d like retro funding for what they HAVE accomplished (in the forum post)
 
What’s standing in your way to do Lessons 3-5?
  • nothing, now - the groundwork they did has laid the groundwork to execute on these lessons confidently
 
IDEA: how about reducing the level of granularity for S4 KPIs and then keeping the S3 KPIs as-is?
    KPIs
    • # of people who have gone through lessons
    • # of white-label leads
    ACTION: Bankless Academy to report on these metrics today, and then again in 6 weeks
    DECISION: for retrofunding - release S3-5 and the original agreement will be honored
     
    Retroactive Funding VOTE
    • Approve:
    • Dispute:
    • Abstain:
     
     
     
    DECISION: retroactive funding to be disbursed
     
    • Chuck is concerned that there is no facility to increase the value of BANK
    • Icedcool states that guilds perhaps shouldnt have to worry about being revenue positive
      • Value accrual isn’t ALWAYS revenue, sometimes indirect value, services to the DAO, etc.
    • roles?
      • education and talent workstream coordinator + guild coordinator
      • talent = finding and allocating talent
      • education = upskilling talent
      • 3 hours a week for each of 3 roles
    • will work to be funded by projects as much as possisble
      • projects are paying 6k BANK/retrospective
      • projects will pay for project managers that we allocate them
     
    VOTE
    • Approve: Icedcool, Kouros, jameswmontgomery
    • Dispute: Chuck
    • Abstain: Links
     
     
    Discussion:
    Setting meetings for all seasonal projects
    • To set KPIs for all projects, we need to sync with each project
    • To release next 50% of funds, we need to sync again to ensure
      • that they are actually tracking the KPIs
      • that they are actively working on the KPIs
    • 15 projects x 2 syncs = 30 syncs in the next 6 weeks
      • idea: decide on KPIs asynchronously
      • idea: temporarily increase grant meetings 2x/wk
      •  
    As much as we can async the better
    • give a form to the projects, ask them to pick KPIs
    • then the Grant Committee members can be deployed across the projects to decide and share with the group
    • then if we have questions with projects - we can ask them to come to our weekly meet
     
    We need more time to review projects and proposals
    • so maybe ask for proposals ahead of time
     
    ACTION: Icedcool to spearhead the async KPI workfloww
     
     
    Notes:
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    Grants Comittee Apr 26, 2022

    Attendance
    Date
    Apr 26, 2022
    Last Edited Time
    Jun 3, 2022
    Last edited by
    Note-taker
    Recording
    Multi-select
    Action Items from Previous Meeting:
     
    Attendance: Kouros, Icedcool, links, Jameswmontgomery, Chuck
     
    Agenda:
    Accounting:
    • Bank for the remaining of the season:
    • Average BANK per week left :
    • Grants Committee Funding tracking
     
    Project Review:
    Bankless Academy
    representing: tetranome, didierkrux, iSpeaknerd, ivanpomidoro
     
    Season 3 question: have you achieved the KPIs for the original agreement for S3?
    • no, they didn’t achieve the KPIs that were mentioned - shipping lessons to production
      • they shipped lesson 1 and 2, but not 3-5
      • After releasing 1 and 2, they decided they had other work to do (project restructuring, brand, product market fit, understanding roadmap, building core team)
    • so the ask: they’d like retro funding for what they HAVE accomplished (in the forum post)
     
    What’s standing in your way to do Lessons 3-5?
    • nothing, now - the groundwork they did has laid the groundwork to execute on these lessons confidently
     
    IDEA: how about reducing the level of granularity for S4 KPIs and then keeping the S3 KPIs as-is?
      KPIs
      • # of people who have gone through lessons
      • # of white-label leads
      ACTION: Bankless Academy to report on these metrics today, and then again in 6 weeks
      DECISION: for retrofunding - release S3-5 and the original agreement will be honored
       
      Retroactive Funding VOTE
      • Approve:
      • Dispute:
      • Abstain:
       
       
       
      DECISION: retroactive funding to be disbursed
       
      • Chuck is concerned that there is no facility to increase the value of BANK
      • Icedcool states that guilds perhaps shouldnt have to worry about being revenue positive
        • Value accrual isn’t ALWAYS revenue, sometimes indirect value, services to the DAO, etc.
      • roles?
        • education and talent workstream coordinator + guild coordinator
        • talent = finding and allocating talent
        • education = upskilling talent
        • 3 hours a week for each of 3 roles
      • will work to be funded by projects as much as possisble
        • projects are paying 6k BANK/retrospective
        • projects will pay for project managers that we allocate them
       
      VOTE
      • Approve: Icedcool, Kouros, jameswmontgomery
      • Dispute: Chuck
      • Abstain: Links
       
       
      Discussion:
      Setting meetings for all seasonal projects
      • To set KPIs for all projects, we need to sync with each project
      • To release next 50% of funds, we need to sync again to ensure
        • that they are actually tracking the KPIs
        • that they are actively working on the KPIs
      • 15 projects x 2 syncs = 30 syncs in the next 6 weeks
        • idea: decide on KPIs asynchronously
        • idea: temporarily increase grant meetings 2x/wk
        •  
      As much as we can async the better
      • give a form to the projects, ask them to pick KPIs
      • then the Grant Committee members can be deployed across the projects to decide and share with the group
      • then if we have questions with projects - we can ask them to come to our weekly meet
       
      We need more time to review projects and proposals
      • so maybe ask for proposals ahead of time
       
      ACTION: Icedcool to spearhead the async KPI workfloww
       
       
      Notes: