The DAO Ops WG would like to revise and submit a new Season 2 Proposal - call it Season 2.5 
Rewards WG is migrating their activities to become part of DAO Ops - check out this forum post for a wrap-up from Rewards.
What does this mean?
Most of Rewards activities remain the same, Praise will still happen and everyone keeps getting GIV for being praised! Do not panic! 
In practical terms, we will incorporate the budgeting and deliverables into the scope of DAO Ops. Given this we feel it is appropriate to inform everyone and have a proper governance process to get aligned with the DAO.
In this forum post we will reiterate our deliverables & our spending from the past season. Then we will propose our combined Rewards & DAO Ops goals & budget for Season 2.5!
If youâre not sure what DAO Ops or Rewards is about, read up on the previous season proposals:
Most of the retrospective information below is redundant from the Season 2 proposal - If you want to get into the meat of this proposal continue down to Season 2.5 Deliverables & Budgeting
Deliverables Status
This table details all of our promised deliverables according to our GROW proposal which passed on July 10, 2023.
| Deliverable | Status | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Complete subDAO Transition | DONE!  |
Working Groups & Chapters are established! We have passed all the WG proposals. Now time to refine & improve inside of WGs. |
| First Draft Leadership Agreement for WG Leaders | DONE! |
Improving the Giveth Leadership Process all published to forum for advice process. Will implement immediately following advice. |
| Deliver Buddy System Bot 1 | IN PROGRESS  |
A first version was made, dev progress has been slow and intermittent. Gathering feedback from Freshelle & Nico to deploy improved version. |
| Centralized Accounting (sending payments to Giveth contributors) | DONE! |
Yâall got paid, right? |
| Distribute Vesting | DONE! | Q2 2023 Vesting Distribution |
| Distribute nrGIV | DONE! |
Q2 2023 nrGIV Token Distribution |
| Deliver Onboarding & Offboarding Guidelines for WG | IN PROGRESS |
First draft of the offboarding guide is done and being worked on internally in DAO Ops. Onboarding guidelines were already established in HR, just need to refine & publish |
| Facilitate buddy reviews | DONE! |
Buddy reviews happened, peer review system working normally |
| Hiring for Giveth | DONE! |
Filled CTO, Marketer & devOps positions for Givethâs needs |
| Conflict Resolution Support | DONE! |
1 case facilitated & 1 follow up! Improved typeform. |
| Facilitate team bonding opportunities | FAILED  |
We didnât manage to execute or even plan any team bonding opportunities. We failed and will be removing this from our scope for next season. |
| Treasury Monitoring | DONE! |
Managed the funds from Octant |
| Fundraising Services Partnership with GM <> Giveth | DONE! |
Fundraising had a variety of successes - Gitcoin Grants rounds, Octant, Arbitrum grants round. Also winning some grants such as Solana, ETC & SuperFluid |
Spending
We spent a total of $62,874.17 during Season 1 (~June 10 - October 10) and also gained $9,534.57 in income from GM services partnership resulting in a net spend of $53,339.60
Our estimated costs for S1 $33,500 - This was including estimated revenue from Giveth contributors providing fundraising services to Giveth. Our final costs are 37% above our S1 estimate.
This was due to Giveth contributors not working so much for GM and GM providing more Fundraising services to Giveth, as well as GG18 incurred more expenses as well for fundraising work done by the Comms Chapter.
We estimated ~$15k revenue from Giveth fundraising services but the final season total only accumulated ~9.5k.
Also some GM contributors who spend most of their time working in Giveth do so at a heavy markup (+30% of their usual rate). We have negotiated transferring some work agreements (including mine) over to Giveth to bring those costs down.
Also, we didnât know we paid Griff - who comprised almost half the cost of fundraising services.
Wins
That being said, we had some incredible wins from the fundraising team during S1, these include:
Grants
- Octant (~$54k)
- GG18 (~$2.9k)
- Arbitrum Gitcoin Grant ($563 In Donations - Matching Pending)
Integrations
- SuperFluid ($20k - Development In Progress)
- ETC ($50k - Development In Progress)
- Solana ($22.5k - Pending)
Season 2.5 Deliverables and Budgeting
Our second season will have a duration of 3 months beginning when our Snapshot vote is approved.
We have provided three options - GROW, SUSTAIN, SHRINK - each with its own set of deliverables and estimated budget. Voters on Snapshot will be able to choose whichever they prefer or as a fourth option - NO - signaling they do not think the WG should continue.
Grow 
What we will do
DAO Systems
- Voting Systems & Multisig maintenance
- Report on Giveth DAO pain points & health check
- Forum post for retirement plan for nrGIV DAO
Accounting
- Centralized accounting
- Clockify PRO administration & improvement
- Distribute vesting
- Treasury management
- Clockify guide for contributors
- Fundraising services partnership with GM <> Giveth
Contributor Relations
- Conflict resolution services
- Hiring for Giveth
- Facilitate Buddy Reviews
- Deliver onboarding & offboarding guidelines for contributors
- Deliver Buddy System bot
Rewards
- Maintain Praise rounds
- Migrate Rewards to Optimism from Gnosis Chain
- Distribute GIV rewards from Praise system
- Propose new rGIV Distribution plan for Giveth using Praise & Karma
 Breakdown |
Estimated S2.5 Cost |
|---|---|
| Giveth Fundraising Costs (From GM & Giveth) | $45,000 |
| DAO Ops Contributor Costs | $19,000 |
| Rewards | $3,600 |
| Software & Subscriptions | $1400 |
| Buddy System Bot* | $200 |
| Total | $69,000 |
*Carried over unspent budget from Season 1 on buddy bot
Sustain 
What we will do
DAO Systems
- Voting Systems & Multisig maintenance
Accounting
- Centralized accounting
- Clockify PRO administration & improvement
- Distribute vesting
- Treasury management
- Clockify guide for contributors
- Fundraising services partnership with GM <> Giveth
Contributor Relations
- Conflict resolution services
- Hiring for Giveth
- Facilitate Buddy Reviews
- Deliver onboarding & offboarding guidelines for contributors
Rewards
- Maintain Praise rounds
- Migrate Rewards to Optimism from Gnosis Chain
- Distribute GIV rewards from Praise system
What we wonât do
- Propose new rGIV Distribution plan for Giveth using Praise & Karma
- Report on Giveth DAO pain points & health check
- Forum post for retirement plan for rGIV DAO
- Deliver Buddy System bot
| Breakdown |
Estimated S2.5 Cost |
|---|---|
| Giveth Fundraising Costs (From GM & Giveth) | $45,000 |
| DAO Ops Contributor Costs | $16,000 |
| Rewards | $3000 |
| Software & Subscriptions | $1400 |
| Total | $65,400 |
Shrink 
What we will do
DAO Systems
- Voting Systems & Multisig maintenance
Accounting
- Centralized accounting
- Clockify PRO administration & improvement
- Distribute vesting
- Treasury management
- Fundraising services partnership with GM <> Giveth
Contributor Relations
- Conflict resolution services
- Facilitate Buddy Reviews
Rewards
- Maintain Praise rounds
- Migrate Rewards to Optimism from Gnosis Chain
- Distribute GIV rewards from Praise system
What we wonât do
- Propose new rGIV Distribution plan for Giveth using Praise & Karma
- Report on Giveth DAO pain points & health check
- Forum post for retirement plan for rGIV DAO
- Deliver Buddy System bot
- Clockify guide for contributors
- Hiring for Giveth
- Deliver onboarding & offboarding guidelines for contributors
| Breakdown |
Estimated S2.5 Cost |
|---|---|
| Giveth Fundraising Costs | $45,000 |
| DAO Ops Contributor Costs | $16,000 |
| Rewards | $3,000 |
| Software & Subscriptions | $1,155 |
| Total | $65,155 |
This Season proposal will remain open for advice process for 7 days, after which it will move to a snapshot vote for approval.