P-12: Formalize External Proposals Delegate Process

Authors: josevelez.eth, rahobbs88, willblackburn.eth View Forum Vote

Summary

D_D is being entrusted to participate in external DAO proposals, whereby it will represent the interests of members belonging to those external DAOs. If D_D positions itself to be nominated as a delegate in external DAOs, it is our responsibility to be present and participate.

External DAO proposals surface often and sometimes with limited time to participate. As such, a process should be formalized that facilitates the formation and maintenance of delegate committees that can be entrusted to make an election on behalf of the D_D community in a timely manner.

Scope of Work

Below we make the following proposals to formalize an external proposals delegation process. Some of the below has already been implemented in practice.

External Proposal Delegate Committee

Membership and Composition

• The committee will begin with 5 delegates and build up over time to a maximum of 11. The initial 5 delegates will be selected through a process to be determined by the DD community, via snapshot or forum vote.
• At any time thereafter, the addition of new delegates will follow the same process determined above.
• Committee members can leave the Delegate Committee at any time, for any reason. This vacated position does not need to be immediately filled unless it drops membership to below 5 members.
• All committee members must also be members of Developer DAO.

Community Visibility

The committee formation, deliberation and decision process needs to be fully transparent. This means that from the very beginning, we need to ensure that our members can follow along or catchup easily to past or active proposals.

We propose a process that begins with a dedicated Discord channel for External DAO Proposals. It can sit under the Governance Guild but it needs to be open to all members without needing to join the guild. Additionally, a forum category or label will be created for forum posts.

A delegate can create a new thread or forum post to begin discussion about an external proposal that D_D is a delegate to. In this, the following should be included and pinned to the top:

• A link to the external vote (i.e., Snapshot) and discussion (i.e., Forum)
• The Snapshot Start and End dates
• A discord poll to allow voting among the D_D community
• A deadline for closing the discussion and moving to effect our vote on Snapshot

This would help consolidate discussions in an easy to find and consumable manner.

The Delegate Committee would propagate the proposal throughout the community using all available tools including the announcement channel and DAO newsletter (if time permits). They would also post a poll to gauge sentiment toward the proposal within the DAO.

Once a discord poll has been created and the deadline for participation has passed, a screenshot of the poll result should be saved to the proposal thread.

Once the Snapshot vote has been completed, the thread or forum post can be archived, but always available for future review and transparency.

Role of the Delegate Committee

The role of the Delegate Committee is to:

• Communicate all proposals from an external DAO to the Developer DAO community in a clear and timely manner that is sufficient to allow for community discussion before the vote is executed by the committee.
• Gauge community sentiment surrounding the proposal via discussion and polling.
• Answer questions from the community regarding the external proposals to the best of their ability.
• Execute a vote on the external DAO proposal that is consistent with community sentiment as well as Developer DAO’s values. If there is a conflict between community sentiment and Developer DAO’s values, then they must vote consistent with the DAO’s values.
• This must all be done in a way that is transparent to the Developer DAO community.

Further specifications

Further specifications can be found in the Forum vote for this proposal. All specifications are considered included in this proposal.

Vote

For - Recognize the formalization of the External Proposals Delegate Process Against - Do not recognize the formalization of the External Proposals Delegate Process