Vote 36: Establish the Gro Podcast Network

Summary

• This proposal aims to establish a Podcast Series for Gro DAO that will either:
  • initially consist of 10 episodes requesting $3500 USDC from the DAO Treasury, or;
  • initially consist of 2 test episodes requesting $650 USDC from the DAO Treasury
• The podcast series will aim to expand awareness and education to support Gro DAO’s mission of making web3 more accessible to the masses
• It will also help validate whether the idea of the Gro Podcast Network should be something that the DAO should focus on in the medium-to-long term, or whether it should be a one-off series
  • This success can measured against data from analysis report(s) of episodes that will be launched on podcast network website (primary success metric would be to have 1000 unique listeners for the series)
• For a detailed description, refer to the GRFC Forum Post

Voting Options

• APPROVE 10 episode series: Approve the Start of the Gro Network Podcast Series (10 episodes)
• APPROVE 2 episode series: Approve the Start of the Gro Network Podcast Series Test Run (2 Episodes)
• REJECT: Reject the Start of the Gro Network Podcast Series
• ABSTAIN: No opinion on the Gro Network Podcast Series

Implementation

Option 1: 10 Episode Series

• Receive first half of funding to the Podcast Network Pod Multi-sig ($1750 USDC)
  • Multi-sig will be a 3-of-5 consisting of 2 members from the Podcast Network Pod, 1 member from People Pod, and 2 members from the Gro DAO discord community at large
• Finalise guests for the episodes and topics for the series
• Produce the 10 episodes over the course of 5 months. Topics:
  • Web3 Governance
  • A primer on Decentralized Finance
  • Luxury Media
  • How to Contribute to DAOs and Web3 Community
  • Ask the Specialists - Gro Pod Members
  • What’s new with Gro DAO
  • Explaining Vault/PWRD for the rest of us
  • The Future of DeFi
  • The Future of GroDAO
  • The Future of Gro Protocol
• After episodes are completed, rest of funding ($1750 USDC) will be received

Option 2: 2 Episode Series

• Receive $650 USDC to the Podcast Network Pod Multi-sig
  • Multi-sig will be a 3-of-5 consisting of 2 members from the Podcast Network Pod, 1 member from People Pod, and 2 members from the Gro DAO discord community at large
• Finalise guests and topic order
• Produce 2 episodes over the course of 2 months. Topics:
  • The Future of Gro Protocol versus the future of DeFi
  • Contributing to DAOs

Composition

Miss Homie

• BanklessDAO Contributor, GroDAO OG
• Produced Podcast Series in 2017 - Tech Homie and Friends
• Operations for Crypto Sapiens
• Contributor to Podcast Hatchery

Eureka John

• BanklessDAO Contribuor
• Owner - EurekaStreetCrypto
• Producer - Crypto Sapiens, Other Podcasts
• Contributor - PodsDAO

Deborah

• GroDAO OG - Marketing

Mrrpiusz

• GroDAO OG
• Creative Designer - Arenaweb3
• Twitter Operator - StafiProtocol

Pros

• Increased outreach for the web3 community at large
• Exposure to potential partnerships
• Learning opportunities for gromies and for the web3 community at large
• A new opportunities for interested community members to participate and contribute to the DAO
• A chance for members who have left the project/protocol to see the upcoming growth of the project/dao/protocol, this is a way to promote web3 citizens to join the community and build awareness about Gro DAO, which is something that is desperately needed from responses given in the GroDAO Sentiment Survey
• Aligns with the mission of Gro DAO to make Web3 more accessible

Cons

• Even though the series will have 10 episodes, this idea is a test. This series will be used to flesh out the idea of a podcast and help train members in GroDAO to produce podcasts in the community. While it is necessary to establish this process to help assist the cause, there is a potential that the test could fail to gain the traction intended for the outside community within the 10 episodes allotted.

Timeline & Voting

-Vote 36 will run for 5 days and will follow the ranked-choice voting (instant runoff voting) format as there are 3 viable options to choose from. Accordingly, users can rank their choices in order of preference. If no option receives a majority share of votes (over 50%), the option with the least amount of votes will be eliminated, and those who voted for this option will have their second choice recorded instead.

You can read more about ranked-choice voting here.

If vote 36 passes, the team will begin construction on the first episode, with a projected launch date of October 2nd.

Community Members will have the opportunity to have their say on the topics of the episodes. Suggestions are above, but you can be present your topic ideas in the ideas section of the Discord server.