Title: Developer DAO Season 0 Authors: kempsterrrr Created Date: November 7, 2021

Summary:

Our community has grown fast.

We’re now counting ~2900 genesis NFT holders (4600+ minted) and > 1700 passionate builders have joined the DAO discord server.

This includes multiple Protocol Foundation team members, Web3 Founders, major open-source project maintainers, Web2 community leaders, and many more other talented and passionate people excited by learning about, and building on, Web3.

Teams have formed around projects, individuals have launched something like 10 different tools for the community and the support we’re giving each other, re: learning and collaboration, is invaluable.

We’re already in discussions regarding collaborations and potential treasury allocations with a few other DAOs and organizations, including Gitcoin and a new DAO being formed by the founders of Decrypt, among others.

It’s exciting and the potential is obvious to see, but how do we move forward from here?

This proposal provides full scope for the idea of Seasons, establishing our initial DAO Structure and provides guidelines for Governance.

Developer DAO Season 0

What is a Season?

A discrete period of time for DAO members to come together to align on projects and initiatives that help us deliver on our mission, values, and goals.

Objectives for each future Season must be defined up front (process TBD) and, prior to ending a Season, a retrospective must be carried out to ensure we can learn and improve (process TBD).

Details for Developer DAO Season 0

The Developer DAO Season 0 vote will be done using Snapshot with each Ethereum wallet that holds any number of DEVS tokens receiving one vote. Season 0 will start on the passing of this Snapshot vote by majority and last for two months with the option to extend for one further month via another Snapshot vote.

Objectives for Season 0

• Ratify our mission, values, and goals. [completed]
• Implement and refine the DAO Structure and improve external and internal on-boarding processes for joining the DAO and contributing.
• Implement and refine the Governance process and guidelines for community decision making.
• Research and propose options for governance token issue & DAO legal structure (if required).
• Create space for bigger picture conversations about the DAO and identify Core Projects we want to back as a community through into Season 1.
• Plan Season 1 launch event with partners.

DAO Structure & Guilds

The DAO structure consists of a governance layer, a core team, and our guilds. The core team being initially staffed by Guild “Leaders”. Projects are worked on by pulling resources from guilds.

For Season 0 we have a proposed 6 Guilds and Leaders (below) based on existing contributions to the DAO. This suggestion is not a permanent setup but allows us to move forward. Core Team roles, how Guilds are established and how Leaders are “elected” will be refined in the community via our Governance process during Season 0.

Core team Season 0 Objectives:

• Deploy DAO Treasury, fund with initial capital and produce proposals for further funding (internal/external).
• Implement DAO Structure for Season 0. This will be refined moving forward by the Community Guild moving forward based on feedback from members.
• Implement Governance for Season 0: to be refined during going forward by the Governance Guild.

Guild	Leader
Community & Ops	kempsterrrr
Design	Eknobl
Developer	Mark (with-heart)
Writers/Editorial	marc
Governance	willblackburn
Marketing/Biz Dev	Nader

Full Season 0 Specification

You can read the full specification here, where it was discussed and approved on our forum.