LIP77: LXDAO Season 15 Plan (Republish)

Authors: Marcus Date Created: 2026.01.07

TL;DR

Core Objective: Converge focus, shifting from "doing more things" to "deepening core value," addressing the systemic bottleneck of "usage → reflux."

Work Focus: Concentrate resources on the mainline of open-source education / Builder Onboarding. Convert event participants into stable contributors through the productization of LXBuildPath and a clear contribution path.

Budget Control: Strictly adhere to the principle of balancing revenue and expenditure. The total monthly budget is capped at 6000 U, prioritizing core operations and mainline projects.

Organizational Model: Adopt a "Public Services + Pod Special Projects" model. Fixed roles ensure foundational community operation, while a dynamic Pod funding pool supports specific roadmap tasks.

Proposal Description

Background

Based on an in-depth diagnosis from the S14 quarterly meetings, LXDAO has successfully built an active community ecosystem (input → output → usage). However, the failure to effectively convert community outputs (projects, events, influence) into sustainable funding, project accumulation, and long-term contributor reflux remains the most significant systemic challenge.

The core driving force for S15 is this: We must dare to "do subtraction," reining in limited resources and attention from scattered experiments to focus on the mainline that best serves newcomer growth, real project practice, and community value accumulation simultaneously — open-source education and the Builder ecosystem. The goal this quarter is not expansion, but to run a minimal, replicable "participation → contribution → reflux" loop by deepening 1-2 core directions.

Details

We will carry out specific work around the following S15 Main Roadmap Focuses:

Open-Source Education Mainline (Focus on Conversion): Conduct activities such as "intensivecolearn" and the "Internship Program," designing clear follow-up contribution ladders to ensure the end of an activity marks the beginning of project contribution.

Newcomer Onboarding & Contribution Path Productization: Elevate LXBuildPath from a concept to a usable internal product, providing new members with a visual growth map and task-matching portal.

Public Goods Sustainability Experiments: Select 1-2 existing or newly launched public goods projects to systematically experiment with and document the entire process from funding and collaboration to revenue/reflux, forming a reusable case study.

Supportive System Construction: Optimize governance, financial, and collaboration processes to provide clear, efficient systems and tool support for the above mainline work.

Team Settings

We will adopt a "Core Public Service Team + Task-based Pods" structure.

Public Service Team (Budget 3000U) Community Operations Lead (1): Responsible for overall coordination. Requires deep understanding of the community and strong operational planning/execution capabilities.

Operations Assistants (2): Execute specific operational tasks, support newcomer onboarding and Pod liaison.

Content Operations (1): Responsible for content creation and dissemination related to the main roadmap and core achievements.

Design Support (1): Provides UI/UX and branding design support for core projects on a task-based model.

Finance & System Administrators (1 each): Responsible for treasury management, incentive distribution, and maintenance of core community tools.

Business Development (BD) Coordinator (1) A base role with a budget: 1000U fixed stipend + performance share, focused on securing funding and partnerships for the main roadmap.

Pods Special Incentive Funding Pool (Budget 2000U) Used to dynamically incentivize temporary task forces (Pods) formed around the main roadmap, allocated based on objectives and outcomes.

Duration and Milestones

Total Duration: One quarter (approximately 3 months).

Milestones:

Month 1: Complete the S15 main roadmap and task breakdown for each Pod; launch the preliminary framework of LXBuildPath; initiate the first sustainability experiment project.

Month 2: Complete at least one mainline event (e.g., co-learn) and guide the first batch of participants into the project contribution phase; BD secures the first partnership/resource introduction.

Month 3: Evaluate and iterate on the contribution path; complete the sustainability experiment case report; conduct the S15 quarterly results summary.

Budgets and Distribution

Monthly Total Budget Cap: 6000 U

Community Operations & Public Services: 3000 U

Community Operations Lead: 1000 U

Community Operations Assistants: 600 U (for 2 persons)

Content Operations: 450 U

Design Support: 450 U

Finance & System Management: 500 U

Business Development (BD) Coordinator Fixed Stipend: 1000 U

Pods Special Incentive Funding Pool: 2000 U

Total: 6000 U/month. (Note: The BD performance share is paid from the additional funds successfully introduced by the projects and does not consume this fixed budget.)

Revenue Distribution

Direct Revenue (e.g., corporate partnerships, paid education, etc.): After covering related costs, no less than 20% of the revenue flows back to the community treasury.

Grants & Sponsorships: Enter the community treasury in full to support overall operations and public goods projects according to the budget.

Pod Project Revenue: Executed according to the distribution plan agreed upon before the project starts, which should include allocations to both the community treasury and project contributors.

Key Results

Conversion Rate: Of newcomers from mainline activities like "intensivecolearn," no less than 10% have a clear record of entering the project contribution phase.

Sustainability Verification: Produce at least 1 detailed public goods project sustainability experiment case report.

Financial Health: Monthly total expenditure is strictly controlled within the 6000 U budget, and through efforts like BD, strive to achieve quarterly revenue-expenditure balance.

Partnership Introduction: BD successfully introduces at least 1 strategic partnership or funding support for the community.