Thanks for this @wasabi - I think weāre down to figure out ways to incentivize this better. We had initially budgeted the council out of the DAO and can turn this into a proper proposal from the treasury with community alignment, so this is healthy discourse.
In regards to a few points:
As you can see, none of them demand this level of performance, while incentivising on average 6x more than what is being offered in this proposal.
Quite a few demand much more than this proposal in much more active forums. Historically weāve jumped into governance improvements as an āall or nothingā approach and it hasnāt moved the needle much. As you can see in our Gov 2025 Strategy weāre starting from first principles and improvements AND a holistic approach to make governance approachable and useful for the community.
Iād recommend providing a bonus for āproposing 1-2 system improvementsā instead of includeding it in the mandatory KPIs and bumping up the quarterly comp to atleast match what the rest of the ecosystem offers.
Can you elaborate here? I hardly think making a useful suggestion is worth a bonus, and in fact should be a key trait of council member weāre looking for (something like @owocki 's comment above).
Compensation realistically canāt match what the ecosystem offers, nor should it as this a) isnāt an apples to apples comparison and b) doesnāt have consideration for treasury size. I think the community would be open to something more realistic.
Last point(s) Iāll make are that while the Stablelabs deck is informative it isnāt a useful artifact in this conversation because what it doesnāt outline is the pros/cons of each program or the activity. Most of the programs I looked at had 40-50+ active topics a month. We simply donāt have that volume.
I also want to say that this isnāt a critique, I think your notes are highly valuable. Itās prudent for us to develop this program and our governance in a mindful and intentional way in order for it to be successful, enjoyable and useful for both Gitcoin and its community members.