GitcoinDAO Digest Edition #10 2022

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- Weekly highlights and hot topics from the GitcoinDAO community

Welcome to the GitcoinDAO Digest, a community-led publication with TLDR-summaries of the most important discussions and proposals in the GitcoinDAO, along with relevant links for further reading. Without further ado, let’s dive in!

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:point_right: Key actions for this week:

  1. Gitcoin GR13 has only hours left! Donate to your favorite Grants across the 13 Match Rounds!
  2. Join us for the GR13 Finale event on Youtube this Friday at 11am-12:30pm PT!

:robot: Meta-Governance

  • Grants Policy Update: Projects with Tokens by Annika is intended to “provide context on, and guide the community to a decision around, grant eligibility criteria as it pertains to projects with tokens.” The post is a follow-up & summary of the existing discussions outlined in Novel Situation #1, and Proposed Revision to Grant Eligibility Criteria 1.

  • Partnership & Mutual Grant with Wonder by Andros is a proposal that “if passed, would issue 100,000 GTC for governance rights equating to 2,500,000 $WONDER tokens (2.5% of total supply) when Wonder’s token is live.”

  • Decentralizing Public Speaking about Gitcoin by Owocki is a call for DAO contributors to join a working group that will diversify the voices that are public speaking about Gitcoin, our mission, impact, philosophy, etc.

  • Minimum Viable Product by Owocki is an invitation to apply Web 2 product philosophy to Web 3 by building, designing, and testing usable, reliable, and functional products.

  • Minimum Shippable Increments by Owocki expands on the idea of the MVP with open source software principles to discuss how products can/should be built in public!

  • Its time to level up our emails by jahnsson reflects on the tools we’ve been using to manage our email campaigns and suggests a path forward to improve our data insights, growth, and impact.

  • Treasury Diversification Working Group Update by schlabach provided an update on the Treasury Diversification Working Group. If you’d like to recommend a strategic partner, please leave a comment on the second forum post or contact a member of the working group.

  • Ether’s Phoenix Game [Version 0] by Colton introduces Ether’s Phoenix (EP) – an exciting gamification of the process of supporting public goods. Your actions shape a constantly evolving PFP and increase (or decrease) your Regen Score. EP proliferates coordination lore, unifies impactDAOs through a shared game experience, and provides a trackable metric of greenpilled people (Regen Score).

  • Elliot published an update from Llama on Gitcoin Financial Reporting for February 2022. The report now includes a “consolidated profit/(loss) account that translates the GTC transactions into $USD”.

  • Why I am a Holon maximalist by Owocki introduces Holons as “Greek for “whole/parts” meaning literally the whole that is simultaneously a part, and vice versa. Holons are the circles that we live in.” “What I think is cool about a holonic point of view of Gitcoin Grants is that each of the grants in Gitcoin has a lot to gain from the multiple holons (grants rounds) it is in.”

  • Can Gitcoin be doing more to support Ethereum Protocol Devs? by Owocki is an invitation to the Gitcoin community to participate in the recent debate on Twitter regarding funding Ethereum protocol developers. “Ethereum Protocol Development is a public good, and it’s possibly the closest one to the ecosystem that gave Gitcoin life. Can Gitcoin be doing more to support Ethereum Protocol Devs?”

  • Proof Of Impact seedling [Proposals Wanted] by Owocki is an extension of the ImpactDAO Cartographers initiative - with the ambition to create a ImpactDAO RatingsDAO emerge. “Such a DAO would maintain an on-chain registry of which ImpactDAOs have what Impact”.

  • DevRel @ GitcoinDAO by Owocki has the objective to start a conversation around what the developer relations practice at Gitcoin should look like.

:ballot_box: GitcoinDAO Governance Overview

Proposal Discussions Active Proposals Latest completed proposals
Partnership & Mutual Grant with Wonder Should we adopt the Gitcoin Foundation and take legal possession of philanthropic assets from Gitcoin Holdings Result: Yes
Proof Of Impact seedling Steward Council Term Allocation Result: 5k GTC
Grants Policy Update: Projects with Tokens
Grants Policy Update: Projects with Tokens
Data Science @ Gitcoin DAO
Treasury Diversification Part II - Welcoming Strategic Partners
Introducing the Steward Council

:man_mage::woman_mage: Workstream Discussion

:seedling: Public Goods Funding

  • We’re only a couple of hours away from wrapping up Grants Round 13. There’s still time to support public goods and get your donations matched from the matching pool(s)!

  • Our partner Verses (a collective of writers, researchers, technologists) have some of the best writing in the ecosystem about what it means to be a pluriverse. Stay tuned in for their next drop

  • GR13 may not be over yet but the work is already beginning on GR14! We are evaluating our partnerships and upcoming cause rounds.

:rocket: Moonshot Collective

  • Green Pill Podcast Episode 5 hosted by Owocki is live on Spotify, Apple, and wherever you like to listen to podcasts. In this episode Kevin speaks with Coordinape founder Tracheopteryx about the alignment of ownership, value, and merit to achieve Fractal Sovereignty.

  • Schelling Point Amsterdam registration is live! Schelling Point is a one day celebration of coordination, public goods, and regenerative finance — what Moonshot Collective is all about. Schelling Point Amsterdam will take place on April 21, as part of the week-long Devconnect event. Tickets are limited, so be sure to get signed up right away!

:blue_heart: Fraud Detection & Defense (FDD)

  • We’re working on a model within Ethelo (a decentralized decision-making tool for e-democracy) to improve our grants review process. Our goal is to focus on maximizing trust in the system

  • Our sybil resistance tooling is increasingly battle-tested and our community review model is working well. We will continue to improve our anti-sybil operational process (ASOP) with a combination of machine learning and human evaluation

  • We are running a Contributor Experience (CX) survey and need your feedback!

:art: Merch, Memes & Marketing

  • Organization:

    • The RadicalxChange Voice experiment has now progressed into Stage 2 where contributors of MMM are asked to add comments and vote on Pol.is. The experiment ends next week with a final round of quadratic voting as we collectively determine our ambitions and goals for the upcoming Season 14.

  • Events:

    • We’re preparing for the upcoming Memepalooza 7 which will be hosted in Discord on the OG meme day of the year: April 1st. This month we are inviting our frens from 1Hive to meme and have fun with us, come join!
    • If you’ve attended DAO Vibes lately you’re eligible for POAPs! Contact bfa#7705 in Discord for assistance.
    • Planning is happening for the next Can Devs Do Something developer meetups that will take place in Barcelona, Amsterdam & Toronto. More information will be shared soon.

  • Brand & Comms:

    • We’re working on final steps of negotiation with PR agency YAP Global. Aiming for April 1, 2022 start.
    • We will be meeting with Wednesday Studio on 3/29 to discuss a new brand vision.

  • Growth:

    • We’re evaluating new software providers to replace Acquia. In conversations with Hubspot for email & CMS, likely will undergo a broader evaluation for marketing automation platforms.
    • GR13: Marketing plan. Seeing good upswing at the end of the round, as we have seen in the past 3 rounds. In the past 3 grants rounds, an average of 61% of the round’s total # of contributions and 53% of the round’s community funding has come in the last 5 days.

:sunny: DAO Operations

  • We’re determining the best way to manage payment and accounting across DAO workstreams. We’re excited about the potential for some DAO-native tools (such as those being built by Utopia Labs)

  • We’re upgrading our treasury management through diversification and key partnerships.

  • We’re making sure we provide support to GR13 funders and help them navigate getting verified to increase their trust bonus, grant appeals, and any issues they may face

:date: Upcoming community events

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