Q1 & Q2 2022 Ecosystem Working Group Budget Request

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@slobo.eth

Additional clarity on how funds are handled and disbursed makes sense to have.

From this DAO-Wide guidance

@alisha.eth

Stewards will be responsible for the following:

• Draft and maintain a description of the WG that sets forth the focus and intent of the WG.
• Develop WG goals for the term.
• Submit a proposal to request funding for each working group.
• Facilitate the creation of subgroups within each WG.

Does the Ecosystem WG or subgroups have specific goals for which funds are being requested (ie: instead of a general “support hackathons” description, a specific goal would be “host ENS hackathon”)? Or is this budget designed to be mostly discretionary, with goals “to be determined”? I understand that we’re still figuring all these things out, but community members might feel more comfortable if requested funds are first attached to concrete and measurable goals.

@nick.eth

I do not think it is practical to expect stewards to avoid participating in any project that could potentially benefit from grant funding.

Instead, I would expect stewards to disclose when they have a connection to a proposed grantee, and recuse themselves from voting on anything related to it.

This is tricky. Even if a conflicted steward recuses themselves, they still exert influence via their working relationships with the other voters. If I were a steward, I might not feel comfortable voting down a colleague’s funding request, potentially poisoning the team dynamics moving forward (I wouldn’t expect a begrudged steward to sponsor my “supplemental compensation” request, for example). @slobo.eth would you be willing to forgo active solicitation of funding grants for projects you’re involved in during this first term?

@slobo.eth

Provide compensation for the stewarding and the coordination efforts of active elected stewards.

$1000/month is a solid middle-class, full-time, monthly wage in many parts of the world, but would only fund a few hours of time from a top lawyer/developer/manager. What type of time commitment can the community expect from their stewards for this compensation? Did some type of hours * rate calculation go into this $1000 figure? Would the stewards be willing to document roughly how they’re spending their time?