June 26 update:
Governance focus last week was narrowing down the 60+ nominees to those who are ready to step up and receive a nomination for the Gitcoin Steward Council elections. This week brings a number of proposals which could go to vote shortly, carve out a few minutes and get your weekly Governance update.
Last week
Voting:
Last week we saw the passage of Gating who can make Gitcoin proposals on Snapshot. This proposal was a clean up effort to retroactively approve the gating of snapshot proposals using Gitcoin Passport.
Voting underway:
there are no votes currently underway.
Proposals under discussion
[GCP-009] - Upgrading Gitcoin’s Governance Contracts
[Proposal] DeSci “recognized subDAO” framework development
[Proposal] Withdraw and leverage (partial) USDC balance in treasury
[Discussion & Proposal] Ratify the Results of Gitcoin’s Beta Round
[GCP-011] - Support the Funding the Commons Hackathon, Residency
[Proposal] Seed Universal Impact Pools
Notable forum posts
GTC - After 2 years
How to Expand Matching Pools with More Sponsors
Insights from a Gitcoin Grants Citizens Round Project: Archimedes’ Lever
Steward Council Elections:
We continue to narrow down the list of potential nominees across workstreams and although we have a lot of strong candidates, we do not yet have a final list of nominees. Here is a visual on progress by workstream:
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MMM & PGF are very close to locking down nominees and and Passport is close as well. Allo / Grants stack have plenty of good candidates, but need to continue working to lock up nominees.
Based on this - a general consensus from workstream contacts is to push back the elections one week to make sure we have time to lock in the right web 3 leaders. The new schedule looks like this:
Complete list of Governance action items are listed here
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