Some amazing questions here from @vgk and I would love to put forward some ideas and maybe we can even form some standards for the future re @Pop.
I personally believe the sourcing process should be open to the general community and ratifying process should be handled by the MGC. I believe the sourcing process should be open because while the stewards are fantastic and capable, most of them already have a lot on their plates. By keeping the sourcing funnel open to the greater community, we can have more diverse and dedicated candidates. I believe the ratifying process should be decided by the MGC but the selection criteria should be clearly defined and communicated. This way we can have low overhead for the general community but have transparency at the same time.
Some ideas on selection criteria:
- Time commitment.
- Understanding of Gitcoin’s and Radical’s missions and roadmaps.
On this topic, I believe periodic default offramping is important. We are in the early process of meta-governance; therefore, our selection criteria and candidate sourcing channels will be improved in the future. By introducing new talents into the system, we can expand our search space and better optimize this committee structure and processes. Also on the representatives’ side, as this might be the first time for some of them to participate in this function, their expectation and the reality might be different. By making offramping a default, it decreases their friction to move forward. However, in the event that the representatives enjoy their work and are producing meaningful results, a proposal should be put forward by the representatives to the MGC for approval.
This offramping can be done every year or six months.
Although it is important to think about these questions with rigor, I believe most learning is done through experimentation and iteration. Therefore I propose a three phase sourcing process to jumpstart the process:
- Initialization: (one technical person, one llama person, and scott), (committee ratifying), (mandatory offramping). 6 months period, starts asap.
- Experimentation: (sourcing from community), (committee ratifying), (soft offramping). 12 months period, follows the previous phase.
- Maturation: (sourcing from community), (committee ratifying), (formalized procedures)
*Kydo is a contributor at Llama.