Thanks for the feedback! Weâre aligned on moving fast to solve this pain point and I will adjust the language to clarify our intent in the integrated budget proposal.
I can testify to the effectiveness of the audit! I removed my permissions and somehow I had them since last year, they were removed, came back, etc. Great work with this one! 
At long last my godlike DIscord powers have been destroyed 
Maybe Iâm not knowledgeable around this, but I am quite surprised to see that Gitcoin DAO still doesnât have a HR department. Or is each WS supposed to have it? I honestly donât know, sorry!
GL in season 16 
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Hey Zer8, happy to hear the roles powers are fixed for you 
We do have an âHR departmentâ in a way, in the sense that we have People Ops as an initiative within DAO Ops. Next to this each workstream also has a talent coordinator who syncs with the People Ops team. Itâs a smaller âcentralizedâ team within daoops, but we support all needs within each workstream as good as we can and based on feedback we adapt what people ops means exactly for Gitcoin. Hope this helps!
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As just mentioned on the Stewards Call: I d love to see an extension of your perspective on meetings to the whole workflow.
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This is a great call out. Recent OS insights extend well beyond the facilitation of meetings, and Kris and I sense the need for DAO Ops to take lead prioritizing how we build the overall canvas, document agreements, and implement any changes that come out of these conversations.
Weâll work to refine this language to better reflect the need.
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Hi Jodi - again thank you for our conversations and for educating me about DAO ops and about Gitcoin itself. It was a pleasure working with you on this budget review. Thank you for your patience with me.
On the whole - at the risk of being a lonely voice in the wilderness - I think we should consider whether the DAO is leaning forward too aggressively given unavoidable risks.
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Had a chance to read through and it has my full support. Very excited that there continues to be many improvements and continued planning around increasing Steward engagement and the simplification of key processes. I see that $20,000 is marked for professional development. What sort of continued education is planned for DAO contributors? Or does everyone choose what they want to do individually on their own?
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Each contributor decides their own professional development path 
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It was great connecting! I read the considerations you laid out in your governance post and agree to a degree that coordinating our resources and developing metrics to track our progress are essential to a successful transition.
For our part our budget is flat with exception for one hire to support our protocol work. Weâre starting the process now to keep pace with the DevRel initiative and Design Partner launches happening this season.
I also see cause optimism. As I shared in our 1:1, the workstream coordination continues to improve â weâre asking each other better questions, which in turn is building our strategy muscles. The risks you lay out are good call outs, and ones weâre all thinking about.
Either way, I hope we can count on your support this budget cycle.
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@SLBK123 appreciate your support!
To add to @sandy_gitcoinDAOâs response, last season many contributors used the professional development funds to reimburse costs related to ongoing coaching or classes to level-up in their functional areas. Examples of approved reimbursements include a content writing, agile project management, and full stack engineering courses; we also reimbursed ongoing coaching to improve communication, time management and leadership skills.
We are asking for the same funding amount as last season, which was fully utilized.
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Thank you Jodi and Shawn for taking the time to chat with me this week â the time youâve given to help with onboarding has been amazing and is much appreciated! Iâm curious what data you typically use to determine salary range, i.e. for the technical support new role?
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Hi Rachel! We have been using OpenComp as a standard and combine this with insights across other DAOs. Hope this helps!
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Hi Rachel! We have been using OpenComp as a standard and combine this with insights across other DAOs. Hope this helps!
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Hi! Thank you for the clarification â much appreciated!
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To note - This proposal is now live on Snapshot and will be open for your vote through Nov 23, 2022, 6:00 AM EST
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Why I have $gtc but canât vote
Brand new Steward, lacking context. Apologies if questions and comments are naive while I get my footing
- The previous budget requests and Season Reserves caught my eyeâwhat was going on between S13 & S14 that led to dramatically large jumps in % unspent?
- Saw that you had trouble tracking engagement in Discord. Not certain of your needs, but I think there are several bots or custom integrations you can implement that will help track your most engaged contributors! Check out https://statbot.net/
and some of the documentation here: Understanding Server Insights
If not, maybe its something that could be builtâwould be a valuable tool for any community and Gitcoin grantee!
- I am a brand new steward and have not seen anything about the Steward Council calls or steward-specific channel yet!
- The S16 goals around CSDO sound important! However the outcomes/likely projects seem a bit more vague than what I have seen in other workstream budget proposals. Are there specific KPIs you are trying to meet? Is there existing data on where bottlenecks exist, where contributors fall off, where onboarding stalls, topics that get lost between workstreams etc etc?
Thanks for the time & effort everyone put into this proposalâwas very detailed and helpful
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hi @mingyuezong can you DM me and I can help?
discord: shawn16400#5507
twitter: @shawnlgrubb
or here via discourse mail
Hey thanks a lot for the proposal.
I have some comments here. I am not really convinced in how important this workstreamâs work is for the operation of the DAO which is bleeding a very big amount of funds in the most severe bear market we have seen in years.
I am happy to see that you have unspent reserves from S15.
I am not happy to see an increase in budget request during such market conditions. If I compare the salaries you guys pay they are higher than I have ever made as an opensource developer, even in good market times.
I am also trying to understand and judge what exactly does the DAO gain from this workstream. Looking at the S16 commitments and the outcomes and initiatives I just donât see any of these as actually important, except perhaps the Support section which is indeed something Gitcoin should have.
As things currently stand I will have to vote No in this proposal with the feedback being to recognize the terrible state of the market and the industry and adjust the budget accordingly. And to also keep only the stuff that is absolutely essential to the DAO and shed everything else.
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I agree with Lefteris. Though I am going to make a harder stand and vote no on this budget request and every other one as well.
We need to make cuts and the only way the stewards can signal it is by voting no.
Voting no on all work streams until we get our spending under control is the only thing I can do at this point, and I hope other Stewards will follow suit. We have given strong warnings over the last few seasons and they donât seem to be enough.
We cannot spend this much money in this market, it is a bad strategy.
I am happy to work with the Gitcoin Hiring team to explain how Giveth finds intrinsically motivated high caliber contributors in lower income countries to keep our budget at 1/10th of the cost.
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