GD - OLD Meeting notes
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Jan 16, 2023
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- All about the Constitution (Y)
- propose turning it into an actual constitution. It is currently a handbook. It’s embarrassing telling folks that we have a constitution but have no idea what an actual constitution is.
- Constitution update workflow
- GSE program, GSE recommendations, Next steps? (Y)
- propose dissolving the program and discord channel
- Reducing governance (bDIP) quorums
- Formula based calculation
- Epoch driven updates
- How to solve governance issues:
- Governance Department
- (Pro/Recognized/Verified) Delegation
- Governance Council
Notes
- 1. All about the Constitution (Y)
- The person that raised this concern wasn’t here to represent.
- It seems like it is a change in the formatting(?)
- If so, then they can take this to the forum to propose a change the formatting, and take that forward.
- Senad:
- The constitution is lacking things, like the code of conduct.
- 4. Governance issues - Delegation
- Jenga - We need to set up delegation to support governance moving forward - Open to discussion.
- Senad - The people that are being governed are the organizational units, and we need to make sure that our governance represents all of them.
- Iced - We need to incentivize governance to support bDIPs and governance getting done.
- The problem we have in front of is, is getting governance work done, and we need to incentivize the work getting done.
- Proposal: Governance department
- Jenga - Gov department that support bDIP hygiene
- Problems with departments are that work ends up going to a small group… (Centralization)
- Alternative
- Delegates make up the governance department, and can be paid for it.
- Challenge - If they don’t have the votes to impact what they create, they could be stymied.
- Example: https://medium.com/element-finance/the-governance-steering-council-63aea7732262
- Links - Our governance should be representative of the full stack of the DAO. (BUMP to Senads point)
- Questions - Why did he distinguish say bank holder and contributors?
- Holders and contributors CAN be different.
- They can be two separate groups, although they often overlap.
- The multisig can be a party that should steward governance and move things forward
- Iced counter point - The last thing he wants is the multisig working on things that they would then implement. Wanting to avoid exploitative opportunities.
- Cryptodad - We need to make sure that those that aren’t ‘rich’ are well represented.
- Feems
- We could do test governance with the L2 working group.
- Example, do JokeDAO on 4 themes.
- We are missing alignment at the DAO between the different org units.
- ThinkDecade
- We have to much governance at all levels, and it creates a lot of overhead.
- Proposal
- Allow people to opt into governance and give them a chance to focus ONLY on governance.
- Create governance pathways that allow people that are interested in that to focus on it.
Next Steps:
- Does anyone want to take some next steps on governance incentivization, FEEL FREE TO DO SO!
- This is funded 🙂
12 dec notes
GSE
Iced: will make a proposal for the GSE next steps (Committing to completing by 12/16)
-scope: summary of the gse program, vote for comp, initiate a discussion on next steps?
-we need a governance body to take forward the proposals
-gov education is not very advanced in the dao
senad: how can we improve the program and who tests the ideas of chorot 1?
Reducing governance (bDIP) quorums
- possible to token gate forum and collect good data
- possible to make a forumla to calculate: eg: 30d or 90d average of votes to establish a threshold
feems:
analyse forum proposals and identify the engaging ones
proposals outside of discord dont get much attention
bdip update on github
- governing body should update this
- ice is leading this atm
Next Steps:
- gse next steps proposal (ICE) which will inform next steps in governance
- (feems) will do an analysis on active proposals(ie in terms of comments) and identify the categories
19 dec notes
NOTES
- No meeting next week
- Only two types of of proposals in the constitution, so how can we fix it?
- Ice has share draft proposal for GSE part 2
- links: not everything should go into the constitution, how to delegate definitions to other groups
- jenga: consider having a constitution and a compendium
- we need a bunch of things in the constitution
- expand definition of governance proposals
- correct mistakes and loopholes in the governance proposals
- add departments to the constitution
- ice: shares proposal draft, senad wants it out asap
- what is needed to ship the draft?
- review gse
- suggestions for next steps
- GSE or another body to continue to work of the cohort
- ice: debate further to identify which governance model works
- links thinks that the proposal approach is insufficient. joe from the gse explains some of the reasons why gse members did not post a conclusion
- joe thinks justice did a great job in the gse & suggest giving bonuses individually rather than to the whole group
- reporting on failures and the reasons behind it should be in the forum post (joe)
- GSE was not empowered to any change, but only make recommendations (joe)
outputs
- GSE next steps proposal [expected shipping date: ]
- bDIP-03? with constitution updates [expected shipping date: ]
Notes:
- GSE Proposal
- General approval on the proposal
- Explained the details of the proposal:
- To wrap up the 1st cohort and finish payment that the GSE would act upon.
- Posting to the forum today to wrap up GSE cohort 1.
- NEXT STEPS:
- SHIPPING at 2pm EST
- Governance department proposal
- Jenga - What do people think about this?
- Iced would prefer to start smaller, and grow organically
- Jenga - We could ask the community to see what they agree to give
- Links - What is the role/mandate of governance department?
- Should they have teeth/power?
- Multisig - What is their mandate and responsibilities?
- This group needs to be able to shephard governance, and right now they can’t.
- Multisig is sometimes too slow, or unresponsive.
- We should make sure that the powers and responsibilities of these different groups are explicit
- They should have powers of snapshot, discord, discourse
- NEXT STEPS
- Continue working on the governance department doc
- This should highlight needs to make sure that this group actually gets what it needs to enable success.
- Compensation Workstream
- Senad: How would we like to start talking about this?
- Iced: concerned about the operational implementation. Do we have the technology to do this?
- Links: Is there a TLDR?
- Senad - Not yet
- Links - Should we mandate this DAO wide?
- Iced - This brings up a question of what to mandate DAO wide or not.
- Links - Could we generate a test for this and validate around that?
- Jenga - Bumping the testing and validation. Could we see what Olympus does in terms of compensation with best bid?
- Links - Best bid has challenges with getting high quality talent. It can be a race to the bottom
- Funding templates
- Can the grants committee dictate how funding should come in?
- Is there consensus around the funding proposals?
- Grants Funding Strategy for S7
- Project Assessment Framework
- https://forum.bankless.community/t/project-assessment-framework/4954
- Links - This assessment is a lot of work, how much should be part of the project intake?
- Paul - The project will need to provide this information to the GC.
- Jenga - Agreed, this should be part of the project funding proposal.
- Compensation structure of Grants committee
- 250k Bonus was accepted in community vote to support GC mandate and DAO as a whole.
- There was no criteria set up around this.
- Should there be a KPI that unlocks this?
- Also what is consensus within Grants committee?
Notes:
- Department Proposal
- Discussion around the rewards
- We shouldn’t create proposals for others to do.
- Instead of creating roles for people to do, lets create an organic ground up approach.
- Holidays
- Jenga - Proposing the DAO to align around gap weeks.
Todo:
Iced to flesh out the notion page
Jenga to flesh out the department proposal to be done by Jan 17th
To be reviewed by team.
Iced to do an announce on all the Forum posts that need attention.