A Foundation for the Future

Authors: @kempsterrrr, @Narb @Crypdough.eth, @mannyornothing, @Billyjitsu

Summary

This proposal seeks to create a new, leaner foundation for Developer DAO to succeed in the future by implementing the following changes:

• One aligned core team under The Foundation with a renewed focus on community, product development and sustainability.
• Streaming Governance, Operations and Finances.

Motivation

Developer DAO has been one of the most impactful communities in web3.

Contributors across the ecosystem call Developer DAO their spiritual home, and many of them took their first steps in the DAO by building tools, making friends, and securing jobs.

It was ultimately an experiment in bringing strangers together, and to this point, it has been an enormous success.

As people secured jobs, started companies and moved on, the number of contributors and active members shrunk. Today, a small group of active contributors still show up weekly to sustain the DAO, provide opportunities to the community, and value to teams looking to engage a developer audience.

That’s not to say there haven’t been mistakes; there have been, but the goal has always been to continue bringing opportunity to the community and delivering on the mission. This proposal seeks to acknowledge this, simplify the DAO structure, and empower the core contributors who remain whilst retaining high-level oversight from the DAO.

This proposal acknowledges the lessons learnt and proposes a new model that simplifies the structure of the DAO and empowers contributors to lean into investing their time to revive and re-establish it as a key contributor to the Blockchain ecosystems.

Scope of Work

Please see the forum post for the scope of work the text was too long for Snapshot.

Vote

• Yes
• No
• Abstain