Another Season of DAO Ops is ready for your review! We’re excited to receive another mandate to continue serving Giveth in many critical ways such as GIVernance, Hiring, HR, Payroll, Treasury, Voting Systems, Conflict Resolution, Rewards and so much more!
You can check out our previous Season proposal here.
S2.5 Review
In this section we will break down our deliverables and provide an update on it’s status and any relevant information. We’ll also cover our spending in Season 2 and compare it to our estimated budget we covered in the previous Season proposal.
Lastly, any wins that brought revenue into the Giveth DAO from our Fundraising efforts will be mentioned.
Deliverables Status
| Deliverable | Status | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Centralized accounting | DONE!  |
Y’all got paid right? We also improved our accounting security through implementing multisigs. Thanks @freshelle @Griff @mitch |
| Clockify PRO administration & improvement | DONE! |
Several Improvements made to automate handling Allocatable Hours. Cleaning up the task list for each project & handling time-off balances |
| Distribute nrGIV | DONE! |
Last distribution finished Feb 16. Moving on to a new reputation system! |
| Distribute vesting | DONE! |
Vesting went out for Q4 on early January. Last vesting distribution begins April 1st. |
| Treasury management | DONE! |
Our Treasury strategies have yielded ~$26K for the Giveth DAO. |
| Conflict resolution services | DONE! |
No escalated feedback or case during this time period. @NikolaCreatrix provided off-boarding support and made an attempt to prevent escalation in 2 instances. |
| Hiring for Giveth | DONE! |
@hanners717 , @Nicbals, @OyeAlmond & @aabugosh facilitated hiring processes for two new contributors |
| Fundraising services partnership with GM <> Giveth | DONE! |
Giveth Fundraising efforts carried forward, also brought in Marcelo from GM to handle Giveth Fundraising Opportunities. @JakeS is also back on the Giveth team and will be leading a Fundraising WG. |
| Deliver onboarding & offboarding guidelines for contributors | DONE! |
Offboarding Guidelines post by @hanners717 here - Offboarding Guidelines. HR has already developed and uses their internal on-boarding resources. |
| Deliver Buddy System bot | DONE! |
Buddy bot works! MVP is finished and ready to be used for next round of buddy calls, tutorials in the works. |
| Forum post for retirement plan for rGIV DAO & new reputation system | DONE! |
rGIV post went up Jan 25 - New rGIV Distribution System. Work has started on the new system, some delays implementing feedback & making it work well with snapshot. |
| Report on Giveth DAO pain points & health check | DONE! |
Massive DAO Health Report published by @NikolaCreatrix - Giveth DAO Health Report - #5 by Griff. We’ll be putting these out yearly. |
| Clockify guide for contributors | DONE! |
@freshelle produced this awesome guide with videos & explanations How to Use Clockify Guideline |
| Voting Systems & Multisig maintenance | DONE! |
Implementation of Den Bot for automated multisig tx reminders (thanks @Giantkin ). Migrated Optimism Rewards to Optimism. Created new Multisigs for Treasury Management and new L2 chains! |
| Maintain Praise Rounds & Distribute Rewards | DONE! |
Praise rounds are caught up & moving to monthly quantification. Onboarded Ambassadors into quantification work. |
| Migrate Rewards to Optimism | DONE! |
Rewards DAO migrated to Optimism here - Aragon and we’ve distributed 10 rounds of praise rewards on Optimism already. |
Spending
 Breakdown |
Estimated S2.5 Cost | Actual Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Giveth Fundraising Costs (From GM & Giveth) | $45,000 | $13,400 |
| DAO Ops Contributor Costs + Rewards | $22,600 | $26,800 |
| Software & Subscriptions | $1400 | $1,127 |
| Buddy System Bot* | $200 | $350 |
| Total | $69,000 | $41,677 |
In Season 2.5 the DAO Ops WG spent an estimated $40,200 USD on contributor costs over the entire duration of the season, December 22 - March 20.
The spending is estimated as close as possible based on available data for March and the 3 months preceding it.
Fundraising spend was 70% LESS of what we estimated, this can be attributed to some contributors having been offboarded within the Galaxy Fundraising group or switching their focus to purely GMGM (General Magic Grants Management).
DAO Ops contributor costs + Rewards spent 15% OVER our estimated budget for that category, due to primarily three factors:
- Hiring tasks for filling marketing roles within Giveth
- Unforeseen challenges of reworking the reputation system for Giveth
- Underestimating the effort required for the DAO Health Check.
Our Buddy Bot spend was $350, 75% OVER the projected cost of $200.
Lastly our subscriptions only came to a final cost of $1,127, 19% LOWER than projected, since we were able to split the cost of our Clockify sub with General Magic.
Overall, DAO Ops spent 40% less than projected for the duration of Season 2.5
Wins
We had some significant wins brought in from Giveth Fundraising efforts, here’s a brief summary:
- Optimism RPGF -149,608 OP
- Optimism Growth Grant, last milestone - 24,000 OP
- Arbitrum Integration - $7,500 USD
- Octant Epoch 2 - 10.2301 ETH (50/50 split with the QF Matching Pool and Giveth Treasury)
Season 3 Deliverables & Budgeting
For Season 3, DAO Ops will no longer carry Giveth Fundraising & Partnerships as part of it’s scope. Look for a new Fundraising WG forum post where Giveth Fundraising & Partnership activities will live on!
There are 3 possible scopes that DAO Ops can take in the coming Season, each with different deliverables and budget. The Season Snapshot vote will dictate the scope of this working group, depending on it’s signaled priority amongst other working groups, as decided by the Giveth DAO.
GROW
What we will do
- Continue Improving Buddy Bot
- Onboard 1 Giveth Contributor into Gravity
- Internal DAO Ops “play book” for task knowledge sharing
- Distribute Vesting… 1 last time
- Distribute Praise Rewards & Facilitate quantification rounds
- Distribute rGIV with new reputation system
- Centralized Accounting
- Begin Distributing Equity
- Conflict Resolution
- Deliver documented plan to implement decentralized accounting for Working Groups
- Design Personal Development series for contributors
- Draft & implement a continued education program for contributors with annual stipend for courses related to their line of work
- Manage Giveth buddy system
- Manage Clockify & time reports
- Maintain Voting systems & Multisig needs
- Treasury Management
- Hiring for Giveth
- HR Contributor Support
| Breakdown |
Estimated S3 Cost |
|---|---|
| Contributor Costs | $24,416 |
| Buddy Bot | $400 |
| Software & Subscriptions | $1,127 |
| Rewards System | $800 |
| Total | $26,743 |
SUSTAIN
What we will do
- Continue Improving Buddy Bot
- Onboard 1 Giveth Contributor into Gravity
- Distribute Vesting… 1 last time
- Distribute Praise Rewards & Facilitate quantification rounds
- Distribute rGIV with new reputation system
- Centralized Accounting
- Begin Distributing Equity
- Conflict Resolution
- Manage Giveth buddy system
- Manage Clockify & time reports
- Maintain Voting systems & Multisig needs
- Treasury Management
- Hiring for Giveth
- HR Contributor Support
What we won’t do 
- Deliver documented plan to implement decentralized accounting for Working Groups
- Design Personal Development series for contributors
- Internal DAO Ops “play book” for task knowledge sharing
- Draft & implement a continued education program for contributors with annual stipend for courses related to their line of work
| Breakdown |
Estimated S3 Cost |
|---|---|
| Contributor Costs | $22,176 |
| Buddy Bot | $0 |
| Software & Subscriptions | $1,127 |
| Rewards System | $800 |
| Total | $24,103 |
SHRINK
What we will do
- Centralized Accounting
- Distribute Vesting… 1 last time
- Distributing Equity
- Conflict Resolution
- Manage Giveth buddy system
- Manage Clockify & time reports
- Maintain Voting systems & Multisig needs
- Treasury Management
- Hiring for Giveth
- HR Contributor Support
What we won’t do
- Distribute Praise Rewards & Facilitate quantification rounds
- Onboard 1 Giveth Contributor into Gravity
- Distribute rGIV with new reputation system
- Deliver documented plan to implement decentralized accounting for Working Groups
- Design Personal Development series for contributors
- Draft & implement a continued education program for contributors with annual stipend for courses related to their line of work
- Internal DAO Ops “play book” for task knowledge sharing
- Continue Improving Buddy Bot
| Breakdown |
Estimated S3 Cost |
|---|---|
| Contributor Costs | $21,280 |
| Buddy Bot | $0 |
| Software & Subscriptions | $1,127 |
| Rewards System | $0 |
| Total | $22,407 |
Next Steps
This proposal will remain for advice process until all other eligible Working Groups have posted their Working Group Proposals and minimum advice process (5 days) has been met for them.
A single Snapshot vote 
will be created to decide the final priorities and budgets for all Working Groups for Season 3. Keep an eye out for it!
EDIT 21/03/2024
Software cost was not accounting for Recruitee, our hiring platform, which we split costs with General Magic. Previous spending and projected future spending for this category have been updated.
