DAO Ops Season 2 Proposal
Edit Oct 18/2023
We need to increase the estimated budget to deliver the buddy system bot - it has increased from a cost of 200 → 800 and has been reflected below in our S2 Budget.
The DAO Ops WG is ready to begin another season of doing that DAO thing.
In this forum post we will cover our deliverables from the past season, what we spent and propose our goals & budget for Season 2!
If you’re not sure what DAO Ops is about, read up in our Working Group & Season 1 proposal.
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! |
Leadership agreement, leadership self-review & peer review forms all published to forum for advice process. Will implement immediately following advice. |
| Deliver Buddy System Bot | 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! |
Y’all got paid, right? |
| Distribute Vesting | DONE! | Completed Q2 2023 vesting distribution |
| Distribute nrGIV | DONE! |
Completed Q2 2023 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 Giveth’s needs |
| Conflict Resolution Support | DONE! |
1 case facilitated & 1 follow up! Improved typeform. |
| Facilitate team bonding opportunities | FAILED  |
We didn’t 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 & RPGF - Earned +$3k from yields |
| 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 also, we didn’t 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 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
- Centralized accounting
- Clockify PRO administration & improvement
- Distribute nrGIV
- Distribute vesting
- Treasury management
- Conflict resolution services
- Hiring for Giveth
- Fundraising services partnership with GM <> Giveth
- Deliver onboarding & offboarding guidelines for contributors
- Deliver Buddy System bot
- Forum post for retirement plan for rGIV DAO
- Report on Giveth DAO pain points & health check
- Clockify guide for contributors
- Voting Systems & Multisig maintenance
 Breakdown |
Estimated S2 Cost |
|---|---|
| Giveth Fundraising Costs (From GM & Giveth) | $45,000 |
| DAO Ops Contributor Costs | $19,000 |
| Software & Subscriptions | $1,400 |
| Buddy System Bot* | $800 |
| Total | $65,600 |
*Carried over unspent budget from Season 1 on buddy bot
Sustain 
What we will do
- Centralized accounting
- Clockify PRO administration & improvement
- Distribute nrGIV
- Distribute vesting
- Treasury management
- Conflict resolution support
- Hiring for Giveth
- Fundraising services partnership with GM <> Giveth
- Deliver onboarding & offboarding guidelines for contributors
- Clockify guide for contributors
- Voting Systems & Multisig maintenance
What we won’t do
- Report on Giveth DAO pain points & health check
- Forum post for retirement plan for rGIV DAO
- Deliver Buddy System bot
| Breakdown |
Estimated S2 Cost |
|---|---|
| Giveth Fundraising Costs (From GM & Giveth) | $45,000 |
| DAO Ops Contributor Costs | $16,000 |
| Software & Subscriptions | $1,400 |
| Total | $62,400 |
Shrink 
What we will do
- Centralized accounting
- Clockify PRO administration & improvement
- Distribute nrGIV
- Distribute vesting
- Treasury management
- Conflict resolution support
- Voting Systems & Multisig maintenance
- Fundraising services partnership with GM <> Giveth
What we won’t do
- Report on Giveth DAO pain points & health check
- Retirement plan for nrGIV DAO
- Deliver Buddy System bot
- Clockify guide for contributors
- Hiring for Giveth
- Deliver onboarding & offboarding guidelines for contributors
| Breakdown |
Estimated S2 Cost |
|---|---|
| Giveth Fundraising Costs | $45,000 |
| DAO Ops Contributor Costs | $13,000 |
| Software & Subscriptions | $1155 |
| Total | $59,155 |
This Season proposal will remain open for advice process for 7 days, after which it will move to a snapshot vote for approval.
Props to @freshelle @Nicbals @NikolaCreatrix @hanners717 for collaborating on this season proposal!
