[Temp Check] Accelerating product adoption via meta-governance

[carlosjmelgar]

I’m generally in favor of this proposal.

@connor

we still have a lot to improve on coordinating governance within our own DAO, and keeping stewards engaged in general. I’m not sure we’re ready to add in governing other DAOs and vice versa.

I agree with Connor - we have lots to work on within the DAO to create more community and steward engagement.

This is why I think it’s important to tap into experienced stewards/ delegates across multiple DAOs by creating a delegate rewards program. I would much rather see a governance sub DAO, which includes dao2dao collaboration, over a new workstream.

@CoachJonathan

My main hesitation around accelerating our decentralization process is that we are still in a PMF-finding phase, and my understanding from reading time and time again is that decentralizing before finding PMF is a bad idea.

PMF and DAO structure can be developed in parallel. D2D is an opportunity to meet goals as detailed in the new EIs

@deltajuliet

Objective: To encourage active participation, effective governance, and widespread adoption of Gitcoin’s initiatives and platforms. We aim to create an environment where community members feel empowered to actively contribute to Gitcoin’s evolution

@CoachJonathan

At first glance, that seems like a pretty low target. If Gitcoin to hire a FT sales person to do the same work, I am confident that they could fulfill a much higher target than that.

Finding a sales person with knowledge of public goods funding mechanism, Gitcoin products and rapport with DAOs/ projects with treasuries we can tap into sounds like a unicorn.

@jengajojo

While the goals may seem low from a BD perspective, we have sufficient evidence from legacy governance systems that delegates who can directly influence flow of funds at the parliamentary level generate 10-100X magnitude more sales revenue than any BD/sales teams do in a corporate setting. In the same way, if we can influence the flow of funds directly from key sources such as top DeFi protocols, L2s, etc… and install aqueducts via meta-governance then we’d have an easier time implementing ‘Always on funding sources’ as mentioned in 50mm GMV to 500m GMV.

+100 to everything expressed here except the part about goals being low.