DAO Ops is BACK for its 5th Season to keep the Giveth DAO healthy and operational. On top of our critical operations role such as payroll and contributor support, we hope to spend some time this season injecting some fun and opportunities for contributor bonding as we close out the year 2024.
Season 4 Review
We’ll cover in this section an update on each of our deliverables as well as our final spending breakdown for the previous season.
Deliverables Retrospective
| Deliverable | Status | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Catch up on Praise Rewards & Quantification | DONE ✅ | Caught up on Praise Rewards in Round 42 & 43. Distributed 232,159 GIV from Praise dished March 1st - June 30th 2024. |
| Continue and maintain quantification & distribution of Praise Rewards | DONE ✅ | Continuing monthly praise distributions, with Round 44 distributed and Round 45 in progress. Distributing 40-50k GIV per month from praise rewards. |
| Leadership Review & Follow-ups* | DONE ✅ | Loom video summary links: Part 1, Part 2 and the supporting PP. |
| Centralized Accounting & Equity Distribution | DONE ✅ | Distributed payments on a monthly basis, processed equity payment requests, and distributed GIV to contributors. |
| HR Contributor Support | DONE ✅ | Visa documentation support, onboarding, continued conflict transformation, and offboarding. |
| Maintain Voting Systems & Multisig Needs | DONE ✅ | Deployed new multisigs to handle needs for Base and zkEVM chain integrations. We also upgraded Snapshot to consider only GIVpower and switched to Shutterized Voting. |
| Manage Clockify & Time Reports | DONE ✅ | Handled Clockify permissions requests. General review on accuracy of project/WG tagging of entries. Processed expense reimbursements. Created reports for leads to review hours. Created WG spending review based on Clockify data. Handled redistribution of allocatable hours and time-off requests. |
| Manage Giveth Buddy System | DONE ✅ | We successfully facilitated 10 buddy review calls and implemented newly developed review forms, which now include more quantitative questions for enhanced effectiveness. Additionally, we maintained an up-to-date buddy review call tracker to ensure accurate monitoring throughout the quarter. |
| Treasury Management | DONE ✅ | Held out in Stake Together pool with our ETH until the bitter end, needed to sell near 100% of treasury assets to cover ongoing costs of organization. |
Spending 
In the table below we compared the forecasted Season spending with the actual funding based on available data in Clockify. Since we adjusted our Working Group Season calendar to prevent any gaps in our Clockify accounting we can assume numbers here are correct:
| Item | Estimated S4 Cost | Actual S4 Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Rewards & Reputation | $900 | $721 |
| Accounting & Treasury mgmt. | $8,000 | $5,190 |
| HR & Conflict res. | $8,000 | $7,894 |
| Software & Subscriptions | $1,127 | $1127 |
| Lead Admin & Contributor Calls | $3,000 | $2,407 |
| Multisig & Voting Maintenance | $1,200 | $346 |
| Partnerships Admin | $1,000 | $108 |
| Total | $23,227 | $17,793 |
DAO Quality Score (DQS)
The DAO Quality Score is an aggregated measure of how we’re doing as a DAO, based on contributor feedback. This quality score is measured across an average of ~6 months worth of responses, the duration of the given season plus the 3 months that preceded it
This metric is a useful “vibe check” on how we’re DAOing. We’ve taken this information based on quantitative data received from the self-review form, typically filled out before a buddy call. You can see the full data set of anonymous information here.
| Season | S1 DQS | S2 DQS | S3 DQS | S4 DQS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dates | March 10 - Oct. 10, 2023 | Sept 22 - March 22, 2024 | January 5 - June 30 | April 1 - to present |
| Score | 8.23 | 8.06 | 9.08 | 8.98 |
Season 5 Overview
This section will outline our initiatives, deliverables and estimated budget for Season 5.
Make Giveth Fun Again (MGFA)
We took a new approach to season planning for DAO Ops this time around. We reviewed all feedback given to the Giveth organization from the self-review forms and extracted all the points that would be within our grasp in DAO Ops to act upon.
The #1 feedback we received as an organization was to improve our culture, provide opportunities for contributors to connect and foster a fun work environment.
While maintaining our critical tasks to keep the DAO running and healthy we also will experiment with ways to Make Giveth Fun Again! For Season 5 this is our motto.
Proposed Scopes
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 
MGFA
- Curate & Publish a digest of articles for Crypto Related or Domain related learning for contributors
- Host End of Year Galaxy Trivia games
- Bi-weekly Friday Discord Games
- Active Experimentation with Contributor “Hang-outs”
- e.g. “Snack and Tea” show & tell hang-out
- e.g. Bi-weekly social co-working calls with contributor chosen playlists
- e.g. Being more engaged in the “daily happiness” Discord channel with prompts and questions
Rewards
- Continue Praise Quantification and rewards distribution
- Monthly Top Praise Giver Awards
Human Resources
- Manage Giveth Buddy System
- HR Contributor support
- Leadership Review Internal Retrospective
- Create a contributor data base with the “Manual of Me” methodology
Operations
- Treasury Management
- Centralized Accounting, Payroll & Equity Distribution
- Manage Clockify & Time Reports
- Maintain Voting Systems & Multisig Needs
Season Goals
- 25 unique contributors from Giveth participate in 3 “MGFA” activities organized by DAO Ops
- Achieve a DQS above 9.1 through providing more opportunities for contributor to socialize, providing resources for professional learning and HR engagement.
Budget 
| Item | Estimated S5 Cost |
|---|---|
| MGFA | $2700 |
| Human Resources | $8500 |
| Operations | $6500 |
| Software & Subscriptions | $1127 |
| Rewards | $900 |
| Total | $19,727 |
Sustain 
What we will do
MGFA
- Host End of Year Galaxy Trivia games
- Active Experimentation with Contributor “Hang-outs”
- e.g. “Snack and Tea” show & tell hang-out
- e.g. Being more engaged in the “daily happiness” Discord channel with prompts and questions
Human Resources
- Manage Giveth Buddy System
- HR Contributor support
- Leadership Review Internal Retrospective
- Create a contributor data base with the “Manual of Me” methodology
Rewards
- Continue Praise Quantification and rewards distribution
Operations
- Treasury Management
- Centralized Accounting, Payroll & Equity Distribution
- Manage Clockify & Time Reports
- Maintain Voting Systems & Multisig Needs
What we won’t do 
- Bi-weekly Friday Discord Games
- Bi-weekly social co-working calls with contributor chosen playlists
- Curate & Publish a digest of articles for Crypto Related or Domain related learning for contributors
- Monthly Top Praise Giver Awards
Budget
| Item | Estimated S5 Cost |
|---|---|
| MGFA | $1650 |
| Human Resources | $8500 |
| Operations | $6500 |
| Software & Subscriptions | $1127 |
| Rewards | $650 |
| Total | $18,427 |
Season Goals 
- 18 unique contributors from Giveth participate in 2 “MGFA” activities organized by DAO Ops
- Achieve a DQS of at least 8.9 through providing more opportunities for contributor to socialize and HR engagement.
Shrink 
What we will do
MGFA
- Host End of Year Galaxy Trivia games
Human Resources
- Manage Giveth Buddy System
- HR Contributor support
Operations
- Treasury Management
- Centralized Accounting, Payroll & Equity Distribution
- Manage Clockify & Time Reports
- Maintain Voting Systems & Multisig Needs
What we won’t do
- Bi-weekly Friday Discord Games
- Bi-weekly social co-working calls with contributor chosen playlists
- Curate & Publish a digest of articles for Crypto Related or Domain related learning for contributors
- Monthly Top Praise Giver Awards
- Active Experimentation with Contributor “Hang-outs”
- e.g. “Snack and Tea” show & tell hang-out
- Continue Praise Quantification and rewards distribution
- Leadership Review Internal Retrospective
- Create a contributor data base with the “Manual of Me” methodology
Season Goals
- 18 unique contributors from Giveth participate in 1 “MGFA” activities organized by DAO Ops
- Achieve a DQS of at least 8.2 through providing opportunities for contributor to socialize.
Budget
| Item | Estimated S5 Cost |
|---|---|
| MGFA | $350 |
| Human Resources | $8000 |
| Operations | $6500 |
| Software & Subscriptions | $1127 |
| Rewards | $0 |
| Total | $15,977 |
Next Steps
This forum post will remain up and open for advice until all other Working Groups Proposals entering this Season have met minimum advice process. After that we will move to a Snapshot vote to decide the priorities of the Giveth DAO for the next 3 months.
When we have the outcome of the Snapshot vote we will meet as DAO Stewards to finalize the scopes of all WGs based on the available Season budget.