Season 5 Voting Time!

It’s Season Proposal time at Giveth — the time of year when Giveth working groups come together to prepare a proposal for the next three months of work.

TL;DR VOTE HERE :ballot_box: :point_left:

What Are Season Proposals and Why Do They Matter?

Working Group seasons are a governance process created by DAO Operations and managed by Giveth Stewards. This system allows us to organize and plan our goals for the next three months. It also provides a short period to reflect and review the results of the previous quarter, as well as a way to maintain our financial accountability.

Season Proposals allow the community to vote on how Giveth should prioritize working groups for the upcoming season, usually around 3 months. Prioritization is decided by the budget required to complete the deliverables and metrics proposed by the working group.

Now is the time to have your say in GIVernance!

The latest Working Group Proposals for Season 5 have been published to the forum, Snapshot voting is now underway to decide the final outcomes.

They also propose a new set of deliverables, metrics targets and budget for the coming season — Season 5 will last until the end of 2024, December 31.

Working Groups Proposals Season 5

Voting Details

Voting will be done on the Giveth Snapshot using Weighted Voting with GIVpower.

VOTE HERE :ballot_box: .

Voting Simulator

You can use this interactive spreadsheet to test out how the different scopes of each proposal fit into the total Season Budget of ~$200k.

Key Dates

  • Now — October 27: Voting with GIVpower on Snapshot

What Should You Do Now?

  • Read up on the proposed scope for each WG
  • Try this spreadsheet and choose which scope you think the WG should get for Season 5 using the drop down menu
  • See the suggested weight for voting in Snapshot
  • Compare each proposal scope, side by side right inside the spreadsheet
  • Cast your vote on the Snapshot Vote

Join us in shaping the future of Giveth! :giv:

Your participation and vote are crucial in deciding Giveth’s priorities for the next three months.

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The Snapshot vote for Season 5 wrapped up on Sunday, October 27. Here’s the final results of the weighted vote:

We had the Giveth Governance call the following day to discuss the voting outcome and ratify the scopes for Season 5 of Working Groups. The audio recording can be downloaded here. These are the final outcomes:

  • Fundraising - GROW :arrow_upper_right:
  • GIVeconomy - SUSTAIN :arrow_right:
  • Quadratic Funding - SUSTAIN :arrow_right:
  • DAO Ops - SUSTAIN :arrow_right:
  • Dapp - SHRINK* :arrow_lower_right:

However with the following changes and conditions:

Fundraising

  • Won’t send Jake to DevCon, too late of notice to make happen.
  • Will prioritize more senior leadership participation in grants review and writing.

@JakeS might have more to add on additional details I might have overlooked.

Dapp

  • Will still execute certain elements of the Sustain version’s community and communications deliverables, such as:
    • Ambassador Program S3
    • Google Ads Campaign
    • 200 Giveth Zora NFT mints (increased from 50 mints on proposal, since we’ve already surpassed that amount :dizzy_face: )

You can view the original proposal here. The changes might amount to an extra ~7k in spending on the Dapp, bringing the total estimated DAO wide spending for Season5 to be around ~$189k, under our agreed maximum budget of $200k.


Additional GIVernance changes.

This Season will last until January 1st, 2025. However moving forward we will extend the length of future season’s by 1 month, to 4 month durations. This will allow more time to execute on proposals and less yearly admin overhead. There will be then 3 Seasons a year instead of 4, Season 6 for example will last from Jan 1st - April 30th, 2025.