Governance proposal: Expand Phil’s role

This is an addendum to my current role as Placemaker.

I am proposing a full-time (100%) role at Cabin joining Zakk and Jon in the Meta Guild.

This whole experience has opened my eyes as to how organizations could run in an abundant, open, autonomous, and decentralized world. And I want to make a bigger commitment to it.

I would continue my role as Placemaker (40%) and add an additional 3 days per week of work within the Meta Guild (60%).

== Placemaker (existing - 2 days per week) == My role as the delegate of the Placemaker Guild would continue as is.

== Meta Guild work (new - 3 days per week) ==

My goal within the Meta Guild will be making Cabin the most effective, joyous, and rewarding DAO in the Web3 ecosystem. This includes a) the DAO attracting, retaining, and getting the best work out of contributors b) the DAO setting an example for how a high-performing decentralized organization can function c) setting up the organization to best serve our mission of building a decentralized city.

The trad analog might be something along the lines of “COO.”

What I’d try to tackle this Season in the Meta Guild:

1. Discord structure & norms: How do we maintain a joyous and productive Discord filled with juicy warm Cabin vibes?
2. Compensation: How do people earn in the DAO? How do we get more people making a living independently online? How do we award outsized contributions? How do we evolve the bounty system so that it's a fair and consistent way to earn?
3. Prepping for the onslaught: What do we do when we have our “Vitalik wrote about us” moment and people come streaming into the Discord? What switch do we need to hit to batten the hatches and have this be a positive rather than negative event within the DAO?
4. DAO Participation Dashboard: How do we measure whether we are succeeding in being an open, welcoming community that people want to be a part of? How do we measure the funnel of people coming into the Cabin Discord? As part of this, I’d like to build a contribution/engagement analytics system (i.e. people analytics). I’d like to create systems that hold us accountable toward improving these metrics every week/month/year.
5. Governance thresholds: How do we put the appropriate level of governance against any given decision? What types of decisions should be Snapshot governance proposals? What type of decisions should be less severe? How can people know the difference to empower them to get the right amount of buy-in to move forward? [and how do we allow for legitimate dissent...]
6. Budget process: How do we assign budget (Cabin + USDC) to the various Guilds or other efforts? How do we give community members tools and voice to hold the budget recipients accountable?
7. Progressive decentralization: How do we progressively empower Guilds and Sub-Guilds? How do we create an ecology of internal cultures at Cabin?

== Qualifications ==

=Experience within Cabin=

• Cabin’s first core contributor and Guild delegate.
• Created and grew the Placemakers Guild, which is central to Cabin’s vision to be an Embassy for DAOs.
• Designed the existing bounty system within the DAO.

=Experience starting and caretaking decentralized organizations=

• Have founded three intentional communities (2 purchased, 1 leased) - RGB, Radish, and Duck Cloud.
• Helped start and grow Preservation Society - a Burning Man camp with over 300 members
• Write Supernuclear a blog on how to create and manage intentional community

=Experience with the future of cities=

• Founding team of Culdesac - building the first post-car neighborhood in the US.
  • Drove financing, legal structuring, and brand for $170m, 1,000 person ground-up development in Tempe AZ.
• Advisor/consultant to Kift
  • Created the business model and go to market plan for Kift's "decentralized city" based on camper vans

== Position length ==

I am requesting this as a 1-year position (Feb 1 2022 - Jan 31 2023) broken up by a 2-month paternity leave (uncompensated) in the May - September timeframe.  (note: This is not meant to be a precedent on leave, others may make different requests).

There will be a DAO-wide review at 4 months to ensure everyone is satisfied with the arrangement and if there are any adjustments needed. At this point, the DAO could vote to pause the agreement.

=Compensation=

I am requesting 500 Cabin per month direct compensation. I would like to take up to 50% in USDC.

In addition, I am requesting a time-locked token grant of 750 Cabin per month.  Here’s how the time-locked grant would work: 

• The token grant would vest each month (750 Cabin) that I continue to be in a full-time role with Cabin.
• This token grant is meant to reflect a role alongside Zakk and Jon in the Meta Guild helping to coordinate the activities of the DAO as a whole.  
• The tokens would be time-locked and unlock on a rolling basis 2 years after being issued. While they are locked, I can’t transfer them or sell them. The time-locked incentivizes me to create long-term value in the DAO and stay heavily involved. 
• The Meta Guild (with me recused) would decide on behalf of the DAO whether I am still sufficiently active to justify vesting the grant each month. Members of the DAO can share concerns privately with any member of the Meta Guild if they think the grant should not vest based on my contributions.