Governance Squad Update #2 February
It’s already March and we’re excited to share the progress we’ve done so far during February with the DAO Governance Squad!
As you might remember from our first update, we defined three main themes to tackle during the 6-month period of this grant. Those are: Engagement, Transparency and Automation. February was the month where we worked hard on Transparency with the launch of the TransparencyOS feature set. We could say that 70% of our time was spent working on this initiative and the rest was spent on hiring the rest of the team. As a result of that effort, we’re happy to announce that the last two positions we had open were filled with two engineers. Now the team is fully functional and formed with a Product Designer, three full stack developers, Yemel acting as the Engineering Lead and me as the Product Lead. We changed our original hiring plan and decided to prioritize hiring another engineer instead of the technical copywriter position we had on the original proposal. We are still looking for ways to bridge that knowledge gap.
In other news, as we stated in our initial plans, the Governance Squad was incorporated as a Panama sole-purpose, non-for-profit Foundation. This is a huge milestone since one of the main blockers for attracting talent to the DAOs space is the legal entity of this kind of organizations. Having a legal entity is useful to have work contracts, sign-up and get billed for services and digital products and other operational purposes.
Let’s dive into the details:
Recently Shipped
- Transparency Report
We wrote an entire blogpost on this initiative that you can read here. As a high-level overview we shipped a public data set with calculated metrics and public dashboards so anyone can consume data and information straight from the sources to understand and audit our current DAO operations and status.
- Newsletter
We shipped a weekly newsletter with updates on the DAO activity. We’re still tuning the frequency and the content but we’re happy with the progress so far. At the moment we have almost 300 subscribers and the open and click rates are healthy. Subscribe using the banner on the DAO Governance dApp and if you feel something is missing or have ideas for improving it send them our way!
In Progress
- Mobile experience
30% of the Governance dApp traffic comes from mobile sources but the experience of navigating it right now is sub-optimal. We spent a couple of development cycles on improving the design and the overall UX of the application on mobile devices. Functionality wise there is more to do since we don’t yet support wallet sign-in from mobile.
- Search experience
The DAO community asked for a way to search on the Governance dApp on this proposal and we listened. We’re about to ship a search experience so anyone can find old proposals, filter the current ones and navigate easier
- Proposal Navigation
Are you an innate legislator? Do you sometimes get a governance rush and binge-vote 50 proposals? We are adding a small feature so you can navigate from one proposal to the next one without having to go back to the proposals list.
Coming up next
- Grants visibility improvements
According to our Transparency Dashboard, the DAO granted more than 2.8M USD to 47 Grants since its inception but at the moment there is no easy way to handle all those grants, make the grant owners accountable for their progress and update the overall Decentraland community on how the money is being spent. We will be shipping multiple improvements on this front in the next couple of weeks. It will be easier to see the active grant projects and updates, see how the vesting contracts are being used and relevant project milestones from a simple UI.
- VP Delegation Dashboard
An easy way to see which members of the community are proposing themselves as VP Delegates. You can read more about VP delegation here.
- Notifications
A notification system to not miss the beat of the proposals you created, the ones that you voted for and the grants that you backed.
If you have feedback about any of this initiatives or want to collaborate with us in some way find us on Discord or join the next DAO Town Hall
Finally, we would like to thank the Decentraland Foundation for inviting us to their 2022 Offsite, where we had the chance to meet a lot of amazing people we interact with online, present the work that we are doing and have insightful conversations around the project and how the DAO could help to shape the future in the upcoming years.