[Fehz] - DAO Council Postulation

[Fehz]

Background

I am a Political Scientist with a focus on engaging with tech-driven projects and online communities.Throughout my professional career, I have been able to interact and establish lasting and successful bonds with stakeholders from the private sector, civil society organizations, political groups, and public administration at all levels to develop and implement projects and meet the needs of the organizations which I belonged to.

For the past three years, I have been engaged in governance research and operations across various web3 projects, further deepening my expertise in scaling and advancing decentralized initiatives from an organizational point of view.

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Cover Letter & Vision

I’ve been directly involved with Decentraland for 3 years, first as a regular user and a DAO member, and then leading the Facilitation Squad for nearly 2 years.

I believe my experience in academia, public administration, and the corporate sector has given me a broad perspective, enabling me to develop robust strategies that align diverse stakeholders and their interests through various policies and mechanisms, aiming for effective representation without sacrificing efficiency.

My time participating in Decentraland DAO as its Governance Facilitator gave me the opportunity to meet different community members, Foundation teams, investors, stakeholders, creators, builders, and users, giving me the chance to deep dive into their interests, needs and expectations in regards Decentraland as a platform, as a project and as a concept.

All the mentioned above has been materialized through formal procedures, community calls, facilitation of working groups, governance proposals, enhanced transparency, and efforts to reduce information asymmetry with the Foundation, among other initiatives.

Below you’ll find some triggers and thoughts that I’d like to share about the project:

Use Cases

I firmly believe that one of the key priorities for Decentraland DAO should be to explore new use cases in a more structured and professional manner using the right frameworks. This also includes allocating resources thoughtfully and engaging with external web2 and web3 communities to better understand their needs within virtual spaces. Decentraland should be seen not only as a platform for innovation and experimentation but also as a vehicle for exploring solutions for real-world problems, avoiding the creation of solutions for non-existent issues. It’s not just about offering experiences, it’s about making those experiences genuinely valuable, useful, and enjoyable for diverse target audiences.

DAO-Foundation Balance

One of the most significant challenges Decentraland will continue to face in the short and mid-term is finding the right balance among competing priorities. I envision the DAO and its future structures serving as the primary vehicle for channeling user and DAO demands in a more organized way, while also driving the scaling and innovation of Decentraland as a protocol. A separate, yet complementary roadmap to the Foundation’s, designed to align with its goals while focusing on distinct priorities and initiatives that support the overall vision and objectives of the project, maintaining autonomy and not becoming a subsidiary, preserving its independent direction.

Incentives

IRL and virtual life share many similarities, with one of the most critical being that everything revolves around incentives. The challenge lies not only in aligning incentives among all stakeholders to ensure the protocol’s future but also in allocating resources and rewards for active contributors and engaged DAO members, among others. To find a balance and create an effective incentive structure requires a robust, inclusive, and sustainable reputation and rewards system.

Decentraland Ecosystem & Growth

Many argue that the metaverse concept is already obsolete, but I believe we are still in its very early stages. However, we must accelerate product development and experimentation across all project verticals. As I mentioned, the DAO should position itself as the most effective vehicle to drive this progress.

Many talented people have left the ecosystem due to a lack of incentives and opportunities, but many others remain, waiting for a framework that can support them. These new experimental structures will help to retain our bases and bring a more predictable and sustainable environment for those who left and those to come.

[jar0d]

Fehz would make an excellent addition to the council, and I would love to see him once again involved with the DAO.

There are few, if any, people I have met through that dao that I respect more.

At most a couple other people have put more effort into driving the dao from the vague concept of unfocused energy it started out as into a properly functioning organization.

Certainly Fehz is human, and like all humans has made some mistakes or submitted less then perfect proposals. It is unreasonable to suggest anyone else doing as much as he has in the dao wouldn’t have made as many, if not far more, mistakes.

I can only hope that my respect and endorsement does not cost Fehz the votes of those with the VP that will decide this election (you know who you are)

[Tobik]

Fehz absolutely deserves a seat on the Council—there’s no question about it. He’s one of the most experienced individuals in DAO governance, and his expertise is unmatched. Failing to include him would mean wasting an incredible amount of talent and potential.

[Ozymandias]

I have little experience with this postulant; I was in the process of obtaining guidance with starting to learn about the workings of the DCL DAO, when suddenly communication stopped altogether.
Despite the postulant clearly desiring to become active again, this communication has not been resumed, even with an attempt from my side.

What I can professionally say is that the move to the SDK7 API may be one of the initiatives which has harmed Decentraland the most.

It was not truly warranted, attempting to resolve a perceived need in a premature-optimization way, and breaking a number of existing scenes in the process.

It also was done without keeping the true marketing target in mind: the Artist Coders.

The SDK6 API is based on Obect-Oriented Design principles, which are rather easy for a visual thinker to manipulate with the mind.

The SDK7 API moved to a Funcional Programming paradigm, which is powerful, but is in fact not so easy to properly encapsulate.

As of such, the kind of thinking needed to manipulate relevant programming principles with the mind requires a lot more “human words”, and a visual thinking about it all is not nearly as easy.

In order to be able to achieve this “coding in the zone” state which Artist Coders are so fond of, and will drive them to just create content for free, in this case their own set of wrappers must first be designed, which usually end up being very much Object-Oriented.

The changes in SDK API which this postulant oversaw were not designed in a way to properly hide programming complexities from end-users, as is needed for focus to be completely maintained on content-production.

Furthermore, it cannot be stressed enough that any such an SDK API must be kept as bug-free as possible. And from my direct experience, I can affirm that it is currently far from being the case, and that it has been this way for far too long.

Artist Coders will have no interest in petitioning for funding from the DAO Treasury. Their presence can only be ascertained by deep interaction with the community.

As of such, focus has shifted on funding the much more vocal Professionals Coders, instead of fixing the tools for everyone, which has caused a flight of the Artist Coder talent, which has caused an even more pronounced need for professionally-funded content, in a feed-back-generating loop.

[Ozymandias]

While my antecedent post was more of a personal nature, and the acceptability of its censorship can be debated, in this one I have reached a formal conclusion.

It is my professional opinion that major warning signs of an account having been hacked are emanating from this one.

I was in a rather serious conversation with the postulant, in regards to how I could participate in the engineering efforts of the DAO.
Such a conversation does not just end without a warning or explanation.
No proper answer so far has been given to the question “Whatever happened to Fehz ?”

If this account is truly still under the control of its original real-life individual, I would fully expect the postulant to have resumed contact by now.

[Ozymandias]

This once again highlights the infeasibility of this whole situation. We are asked to vote on a significant change of governance proceeding, without the level of guarantee over the postulants’ identities which befalls an initiative of this nature.