☎️ Public Goods Working Group – Weekly Meeting: 12pm ET, Tuesdays

🏛️ Public Goods Meetings
29

August 8th, 2023

Details

Time/Day – 12pm ET, Tuesdays.
Google Meet Link – https://meet.google.com/iko-moej-rxc

Agenda

  1. General DAO Updates
  2. Small Grants Voting Strategy Discussion
    • Poll on preferred voting method
  3. Public Goods Event involvement. (Funding the Commons)
    • What PG specific bounties would you like to see from the WG?
  4. Open space for additional topics

Minutes

Attendance

coltron.eth, vegapy.eth, simona.eth, 5pence, alisha.eth, daniel hannum, evan moyer, greg skriloff, limes.eth, marcus estmcmxci, maintainer, senad dilji, yuungsb, 184.eth

1. General DAO Updates

Security Advisory Discussion

  • Read the forum post by Nick.eth – Security advisory: A malicious DAO update could reduce the registration duration of registered .eth 2LDs.
  • The technical issue is in the ethregistrar controller [& affects namewrapper] and poses two main risks:
    • Accidental release of an update that might make the bug exploitable.
    • Deliberate release of an update that could potentially lead to misuse.
  • Two solutions presented: do nothing or deploy a preventive patch.
    • Taking no action assumes trusting that the DAO wouldn’t maliciously exploit the bug.
    • Nick has written a patch to deploy a new admin contract as a way to prevent any potential exploitation.
      • The proposed patch adds a complexity to contracts. Gregskril gave context to 3k gas increase being +28c @ 50gwei.
        * [review variables with this handy tool ethgasalerts.xyz/transaction-builder].
  • Community are urged to attend meetings, read notes, and share their opinions, especially those who might have missed prior conversations.
    • The goal is to encourage deeper and more frequent conversations around this topic prior to social vote.

Passed - [EP 4.1] [Executable] Approve further actions and strategies for the Endowment

ens.canny.io

  • ens.canny.io is a feedback platform for feature requests, integrations, and bug reports.
  • Read the forum post: Share Feedback and Feature Requests related to ENS.
  • This tool allows for upvoting, and, when adopted, can be powerful for community involvement and building.
    • Designed to be an easily accessible platform for non-technical users [unlike submitting GitHub issues] you can sign up with your email.
    • Feedback collected here gives direct insights to Stewards, ENS Labs and plays a role in decision-making.
    • The ideal outcome is for the community to use Canny as a primary means of engagement.

2. Small Grants Voting Strategy Discussion

Small grants have required a lot of attention from delegates in the past. The intention is to explore approaches to small grant voting which dont rely on delegates who have already voted on the spending of WG funding at the beginning of Term.

Discussion & Ideas

  • Consider a voting mechanism that doesn’t rely on the ENS token.
  • Use Gitcoin passport for sybil resistance.
    • Integrate with snapshot.
    • Ensure some ENS records are set.
    • Add multiple sybil resistance layers
  • Select groups to participate in voting.
    • e.g builders, prior grant winners, those attending calls, voting on small grants, delegates, community, developers, etc.
  • Utilise snapshot with weighted POAP strategy.
  • Apply voting power multiplers based on various activities.
  • Curated lists: e.g. 100 people curated by stewards & labs, comprising call attendees, past voters, winners, ENS community, etc.
    • Utilise Snapshot strategy, weighted POAPs and approval voting.
    • Limit the number of POAP classes to 2-3.

Timeline Considerations for Small Grants Q3

  • Target month is September.
  • POAP-strategy might be possible by September.

Reflections & Next Steps

  • Assess if past rounds were successful, and what any new strategy may be aiming to replicate or avoid.
  • Aim for a voting mechanism without ENS token that is sybil resistant.
  • Snapshot has integration which supports POAP strategy.
  • Ensure a predictable timeline for grantees that isn’t overly complicated.

:exclamation: Go to the discussion space: Rethinking ENS Small Grants

3. Public Goods Event involvement. (Funding the Commons)

  • PG WG is sponsoring the ‘Funding The Commons’ event in Berlin. This followsa similar event they sponsored in Paris.
  • This is a virtual hackathon
  • Hackers who successfully tackle the challenge can earn a bounty.
  • Looking to collab for specific PG related bounty to fund.

Due to running over time, this topic will be covered again in the next call.

:exclamation: What PG specific bounties would you like to see from the WG?

4. Open space for additional topics

Over time.

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