This weekly post has the ambition to summarize what’s been going on in the Gitcoin DAO Governance. Topics, ideas, proposals, and votes will be listed with links for further reading and discussion. If there’s anything missing please reach out! 
Meta-Governance
- The discussion on the proposal to issue CLR.Fund a 40k GTC Grant is ongoing with questions and answers by both the authors @lefterisjp and @auryn providing further details (1, 2, 3) on how the funding will be used.
- After an inflow of users demanding GTC airdrops on Discord @owocki authored a thread to adjust the Gitcoin Code of Conduct WRT Airdrops. The discussion is active in the thread with arguments on both sides, @tra38 argued for banning airdrops entirely.
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@james authored a proposal on the behalf of
_​:fire: to “discuss and finalize how funding allocations from the Gitcoin Grants Round 11 Matching Pool are distributed. After a successful Grants Round 10 proposal this proposal aims to continue to drive forward community-owned decisions on Gitcoin Grants rounds.” - @krrisis made a few suggestions on how we can optimize meetings by adding some structure and transparency, all feedback very welcome.
- A call for review of the initial treasury management strategy was put forward by @HelloShreyas
🧙‍♂️🧙‍♀️ Workstream Discussion
Public Goods Funding / Treasury Management
- The proposal to execute and distribute 45,000 GTC to the Public Goods Funding workstream multisig according to the budget request for Q3 2021 has passed.
- An initial discussion around workstream bountieswas held, Jihad is working on a strategic note to propose to the community in the near future, as a way to reward current and future contributors.
- Public library participants were invited to join an introductory call to the Public Goods Funding Workstream, where we also discussed how the group can co-evolve post-RFP.
Public Goods Prototyping (Moonshot Collective)
- The vote to ratify the Fraud Detection & Defense - Workstream budget request for Q3 2021 is now on Tally with voting to begin 8/29.
- MoonshotBots was launched with 100% of MoonshotBot Minting Fees going to fund Ethereum Public Goods on Gitcoin Grants.
- Season 0 daily dogfooding cycle launched in lead-up to first mainnet deployments.
- The proposal to execute and distribute 41,300 GTC to the Decentralize Gitcoin workstream multisig according to the budget request for Q3 2021 has passed.
Fraud Detection & Defense (FDD-WG)
- The vote to ratify the Fraud Detection & Defense - Workstream budget request for Q3 2021 is now on Tally with voting to begin 8/28.
- Coordination
- Contributors
- Armand Brunelle to coordinate Anti-Sybil substream community involvement.
- Task claim system showcased in Monthly Community Call (See Video)
- Onboarding flow has been automated and we have sent invitations to 112 applicants to begin onboarding calls on 8/30
- Accounting
- dRewards started accruing 8/23 pending budget passing vote
- dRewards mechanism design spreadsheet to be finalized this week
- Contributors
- Anti-Sybil ML
- Model Training
- Model Supervision
- Feature Pipeline
- Human Evaluation
- Recruiting contributors for three squads
- Data & DevOps
- Data Operations
- Dev Ops Management
- Github & GCP orgs started for the DAO - All workstreams can participate
- Reporting & Analytics
- Research & Policy
- Open Science Program
- Grant Approvals & Disputes
- Appeals & Sanctions
- Legal
- User Support
- Knowledge Base
- Discord Support
- Localizations
- Ambassador Program
Merch, Memes, Marketing Workstream
- Preparations for the upcoming Memapalooza, that will be held on Aug 31th, are taking place. The event will be a cross-workstream collaboration between MMM and Moonshot Collective early beta testers of MC’s Season Zero projects and tools.
- A new developer group from the Moonshot Collective Workstream has been formalized to implement the Steward health cards. The cards will display valuable information on engagement and interactions from each Steward with the DAO and assist delegators make informed decisions.
That’s it for this week in Gitcoin DAO governance. Feel free to join the discussions via the links above and on Discord, and visit the Gitcoin DAO Event calendar to keep yourself updated on what’s to come!
