**May 15 update: updated Gitcoin Vision MIssion and Purpose, governance proposals, and forum noise.
Stewards, contributors and citizens, here is your governance update for the week of May 15th. We are playing with the format of this newsletter to make is easy to navigate and consume:
Last week
Last week we saw the passage of all four workstream budgets, in addition to three GCPs for a total spending of ~$6.57M in spending over Season 18 and 19, not including reserves or treasury carryover. While this number might seem high, recall most of this spending is driven by the move to a 2x per year budgeting cycle.
Note, last week we also saw a spike in new signups mostly attributed to a spam attack. We squelched about 300 accounts in a 5 day period but we ask for your continued diligence to report suspected spam comments and accounts.
Voting underway:
S18 Gitcoin Allo Budget on Tally (link)
S18 Gitcoin Passport Workstream Budget (link)
This week we will likely see tally votes for the GCPs as well as the other budgets. Recall this is a procedural vote as decisions have already been made in snapshot.
Proposals under discussion
[GCP-009] - Upgrading Gitcoin’s Governance Contracts
[Proposal] - Support the Funding the Commons Hackathon, Residency
[Discussion and Feedback Request] Impact Market Workstream
Temp check for work-stream (grant review workstream)
Notable forum posts
[Update] Gitcoin’s Adopted Mission and Vision Statements @Viriya posts an update to the Gitcoin Vision, Mission and Purpose - this is a must read
Rewarding the Community - Gitcoin Citizen Round #1 @krrisis updates status on the Gitcoin Community round
Gitcoin: who makes the decisions anyway?
Request for feedback - Conflict of interest with Steward voting
Planned governance efforts for the week
- S18 snapshot + passport gating (GCP-007)
- S18 Tally Delegation week (GCP-007)
- S18 Steward council elections (GCP-007)
- S17 DACI chart + CSDO charter refinement
complete list here
folks - have an awesome week and lfg!!!