- 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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Key actions for this week:
- Vote on the DAO Operations Workstream Budget proposal on Tally.
- If you’re going to Schelling Point, check out the latest updates by Ben!
Meta-Governance
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Consent of the Governed (and Legitimacy by Process) in GitcoinDAO by Owocki articulates how “Legitimacy flows in GitcoinDAO - specifically ‘legitimacy by process’. eg if a process is legitimate, the outputs of that process gain legitimacy.”
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Schelling Point Updates by Ben describes all of the latest updates and details including locations and Covid-safety rules. Join the Telegram group to coordinate with other attendees!
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The response by Glen Weyl to Owocki’s “A Vision for A Pluralistic Civilizational Scale Infrastructure for funding Public Goods” thread sparked a rousing discussion on quadratic funding, with interesting points made by nollied and Ben.
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Scaling Funding for Blockchain-era Public Goods by Owocki provides some context behind barriers to high throughput public goods funding. “Funding distribution mechanisms & funding sources are two sides of the same coin. They need to grow together, and not grow too far out of balance with one another.”
GitcoinDAO Governance Overview
| Proposal Discussions | Active Proposals | Latest completed proposals |
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| dCompass Season 13 budget request | DAO Operations Workstream Budget - Q1 2022 | |
| Gitcoin Treasury Diversification | ||
| Introducing the Steward Council | ||
| 2/17 ETH DENVER event |
Workstream Discussion
Public Goods Funding
- No updates for the week! Check back next week to find out more about what we’ve been up to.
Moonshot Collective
- We’re in the middle of preparing for Schelling Point at ETHDenver. Our speakers are locked in and ready to go. Registration for Schelling Point is closed, but the greater conference is still open for new attendees to sign up until Friday, Feb 4.
Decentralize Gitcoin
- Huxwell shared a Q4 2021 retrospective going over the last 3 months of hard work and accomplishment done by the dCompass team. The Season 13 budget request for dCompass was also posted on the forum, check it out and give some feedback!
Fraud Detection & Defense (FDD)
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Check out the State of FDD Season 12 Review, a precursor to our Season 13 budget proposal which will be posted on Friday, Feb 4 according to the Workflow Accountability Flow. Danilo clarifies the use of certain KPIs to measure the performance of the FDD workstream, with notable discussion points given by Kyle, Pavel, and Joe.
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We’ve conducted almost 15 hours of strategy meetings, aligning on the essential intent in each of our focus areas and the outcomes needed during the next 3 months to help us get there. You can think of these as “What would be true if FDD is successful over the next 90 days”.
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Treasury management netted us $75k in gains. The stream will end up with $30k extra after using a portion of the gains to kickstart the FDD OS, increasing the number of human evaluations, and beginning work on a red team simulation software similar to cadCAD.
- Model and simulate collective decision outcome variations
- Contributors can easily access data without compromising security
Merch, Memes & Marketing
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The Gitcoin Primer is scheduled to go live later this week as a first touch point for new contributors joining our community. We’ve ramped up production of visuals and infographics to get integrated into the new onboarding process.
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We’ve received some great writing & design submissions on our bounties listed in the Schelling Point Virtual event. There is still a week left to turn something in, so make sure to take a look!
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Loie from the Gitcoin People Ops will be hosting ‘DAO Resolutionaries’ as a virtual roundtable event on Tuesday, Feb 8. MMM will be assisting with promotion and logistics. More details below.
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Make sure to claim your very own GitcoinDAO Contributor 2021 POAP if you contributed to any of the Workstreams last year!
Upcoming community events
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The very first Can Devs Do Something developer meet-up is happening Thursday, Feb 3 IRL at The Block in Lisbon. If you’re interested in joining please RSVP, or spread the word and share with your Lisbon frens!
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DAO Resolutionaries, an event where DAO reps can meet trained conflict facilitators, is coming up this Tuesday February 8th at 3pm ET! Quick lightning pitches will teach you about the facilitators’ different modalities, how they approach conflict in a decentralized way, and who is the best practitioner to suit your DAO. Join the livestream here.
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Drop in on our weekly DAO Vibes & Office Hours w. Kevin Owocki on Wednesdays at 12PM ET on Discord! We have been seeing great attendance and engagement and we would love for you to join us. New this year is a Gitcoin Contributors Happy-Hour starting at 13.30PM ET.
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Community Onboarding Call! New to Gitcoin? Every other Monday we’ll tell you all about how we’re organized and how you can become an active contributor. The next one is Monday, February 14, 1:00pm - 2:00pm ET. (If you haven’t applied, do this first!)
New to GitcoinDAO?
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Apply to become a member of GitcoinDAO by filling out the application form. To learn more about what the DAO onboarding experience entails, please visit our Notion page.
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Have you already applied but have yet to join a Gitcoin Workstream? Start here to learn more about where you might fit in.
Thanks for reading!