Workstream Name: DAO Infra
DAO Infra Purpose:
- Maintain key infrastructural mechanisms for Gitcoin (that either donāt easily fall within the current workstream structure or can be done more effectively/efficiently within a single, focused workstream)
Responsibilities
- Governance (in coordination with the CoS at the Foundation)
- Executing the S19/S20 Governance Roadmap and Timeline
- Supporting Passport and Allo in governance-related activities (if/as needed)
- Overseeing general governance functions including
- Snapshot and Tally management
- Discourse management and enforcement of code of conduct
- Acting as an ambassador for Gitcoin on the forums
- GCP management, including:
- Tracking of projects
- Creating accountability measures
- Working with WSs to create guidelines around which projects get approved
- Working with WSs to create objective decision-making criteria
- Stakeholder comms, including:
- Steward engagement
- Steward Council engagement
- Internal comms (DAO Digest, Gitcoin Pulse, and other context-building initiatives excluding the Community Calls that are being run by PGF)
- Ecosystem (aka Citizen) comms (mostly through Gitcoin Citizen Twitter)
- Will closely align with the Stakeholder Comms strategy doc
Optional initiatives (now or in the future)
- Policy drafting (recommending DAO-wide and team-based policies)
- Ex: Travel policies, parental leave, etc.
- Community management, including:
- Directing newcomersāparticularly in Discordāto the appropriate place within the Gitcoin ecosystem to get involved
- Keeping the community.gitcoin.co portal updated and relevant
- Facilitation of CSDO and team-based peer reviews
- Supporting onboarding/offboarding process, including:
- Managing job posting/monitoring
- Conducting preliminary interviews
- DAO onboarding (tooling, meeting familiarization, culturalization, etc.)
- Offboarding (exit interviews, managing severance issues, etc.)
- Conflict management, including mediation
- Discord management
- Coordinating security initiatives (already started by Umar, Mathilda, Ben)
- Multisig and financial management support, including:
- Acting as a signer on WS multisigs as needed
- Overseeing payments for WS contributors
- Bookkeeping for the DAO
- Project Management support, including:
- CSDO-level PMāing
- Deeper integration within WSs
How this workstream differs from DAO Ops (spun down in early 2023):
- Support function will not exist within this workstream
- Will not drive anything related to CSDO other than stewarding proposals first put forward by CSDO members & participating as a workstream
- Driving of CSDO will live with the Foundation and CoS role
- The primary intention of this workstream is to remain thin, with 1 PT Workstream Lead and a few part-time contributors to assist in executing tasks
- Scope of the WS will only increase based on performance of existing tasks and the identified needs of the DAO
- Litmus test for taking on tasks is:
- a) Is someone doing this and, if not, is this something that the entire DAO benefits from?
- b) Can this service be more efficiently/effectively performed as a centralized function for the DAO as a whole vs. within an individual Workstream?
Why not have this be a GCP?
- To be successful in this role, it is important that contributors of this workstream maintain a certain level of context at the DAO to properly execute on stakeholder comms
- Being a workstream allows for the Workstream Lead to be invited to key meetings & participate in key decisions
- There is also a matter of optics - GCP tend to be more external, workstreams more internal
- This is an ongoing initiative vs. one-off with the intention of having a clear end point
The Team & Qualifications
- Workstream Lead: @CoachJonathan @ 20hrs/wk
- Almost 2 years at Gitcoin, +1 years as a Workstream Lead
- 5+ years of project management experience
- Proven track record of operationalizing MMM as one of the most cost-effective workstreams at the DAO
- Additional specific role: Governance coordinator
- Additional Contributors:
- TBD Contributor @ 20hrs/wk (General execution)
- Help with stakeholder comms engagement
- Consult on governance roadmapping (TBC)
- @gaoa97 @ 10hrs/bi-weekly (DAO Digest)
- Current DAO Digest writer
- Strong track record of delivering quality work, on time
- TBD Contributor @ 20hrs/wk (General execution)
Budget
For this workstream, I am requesting a 3-month budget of $42,000 + 33% reserves @ $13,860 = $55,860 starting Nov 1 (S20). These funds will pay for:
- Wages for WS Lead + 2 contributors
- Additional (small bucket) of funds (less than $2k) for potential unforeseen expenses such as:
- Tooling (Governance, project management tracking, etc.)
- Subscriptions (Discord bots, etc.)
- Reserves will only be used in the case of GTC price slippage
- In the case DAO Infra is spun down after its first season, all the reserve funds will be returned to the DAO treasury and will not be used to maintain further work at the workstream
Optional:
- Increase budget by $X to hire a CISO consultant to deliver an information security plan for the DAO Infra WS to execute on (with support from others at the DAO)
Multisig signers will be @CoachJonathan (WS Lead) and @deltajuliet (Chief of Staff). Open to suggestions for additional signer(s).
Timelines
- Work on governance has already begun
- Governance post outlining details to be posted to the forum ASAP
- S19 (current season) - Basic setup (already underway)
- S20 - Full governance and stakeholder comms implementation
- S21 - Testing, evaluating, pivoting, new bolder experiments
Measuring Success
Note: These metrics are currently being sourced and can be added to the proposal as soon as benchmarks are established.
Key metrics to be tracked:
- Overall Steward engagement
- Engagement rates on forum
- Steward scores on delegate.gitcoin.co
- Number and amount of tokens delegated
- Number of new Stewards onboarded
- Number of DAO2DAO governance initiatives initiated (likely only in S21)