I will support this budget as is. It’s been great to see MMM evolve and see it find a balance between being strategic and objective-driven and still leaving enough room for creativity & bottom-up initiative emergence. For me S13 was a transition season and I hope S14 will be the season MMM truly shows its leadership on all things memes, merchandise & especially marketing.
A few random thoughts that pop up:
- I hope in the near future we can find some further alignment on terms used (especially you guys being MMM), let’s avoid any and all confusion. Eg the use of the term ‘community experience’ clearly is confusing. I’m down to let MMM own that term for outward facing events, but then you need to help me come up with a better term for our internal facing community experience.
As you see - even while updated, seeing Bob’s comment - this still causes confusion. Maybe just not use this term and talk about Community Events, and or merge this category with Content? Another and even more blatant example is to talk about MMM Stewards, I think there’s no doubt here that the term is claimed by well, the DAO Stewards. From the graph I understand MMM Stewards are not DAO Stewards focused on MMM but… core contributors, full time contributors? Why not just call them what they are? Same with the other terms used in that visual?
I’d say just like any other workstream you need to work on simplicity & transparency, and in a way MMM even more, as you are literally responsible for communication.
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I’d love to see more ownership on future events org, specifically Schelling Point, and hope we can have a full-time in-house events coordinator, so we can handle this less in ‘crisis mode’. On virtual events: I think Memepalooza is ‘fun’ but here as well there should be some more focused output focusing on the Public Goods cause and specifically Gitcoin’s mission. When I see what the Gitcoin Vibes account tweeted as a demonstration of created content I mainly hoped that there was other content that was not tweeted that was … better. And more value & mission aligned.
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I hope more compensation alignment will happen with people ops in DAO Ops. You guys have been running some fantastic experiments but not sure if a lot of these learnings have been shared with the people ops team. We were also severely understaffed here, so that did not help. I hope future experiments, like eg. the mentioned token vesting experiment will happen in coordination with people ops (@loie or someone in her team).