I found out in the budget EP that the stewards have a semi-annual award (given to the lead steward) within each WG, nominated by other stewards at their discretion, amounting to 900 $ENS per six months per WG; 3600 $ENS in total every term. It makes sense to slash the steward awards and put up more capital rewarding the community of which there are more members.
Contributor Rewards
I would like to see something like this within each working group — whether it be a rewards program and/or a discretionary budget where Stewards can reward contributions during a Term.
My feeling is that the Stewards of each WG might be better placed to assess the value of contributions rather than it all coming from the Community WG. Of course, Stewards of each WG would assign grants only after consultation with the community in the form of nominations and feedback.
Steward Rewards
I don’t think we can/should reward Stewards in the same way.
Under rule 10.3 of the WG Rules:
“Stewards may not receive compensation for their role as a Steward outside of that compensation expressly provided for in a Collective Proposal submitted to the DAO in accordance with rule 10.2.”
(This rule was included to guard against Stewards using WG funds to pay themselves outside of what was approved in a previous budget.)
Stewards are already compensated and where a Steward participates in a subgroup, they can also be compensated as a contributor.
The simple solution here is to pay Lead Stewards more for their work or have an amount requested and Stewards decide amongst themselves how that is distributed, based on WG feedback. Going into the Second Term, we have a much better idea of the sort of work and commitment required from Stewards and I see no reason why that wouldn’t be fairly compensated.
If there are strong feelings about specifically creating a rewards program for Stewards, we would just need to include the program in the next Collective Proposal (WG funding requests) before it can be implemented.
Alright, voting has ended with a small but pretty clear sentiment - it seems those active here in the forum want this implemented. I request a Steward or Stewards continue developing this idea and take the next steps to make it happen. I would be happy to lead the initiative, just DM me.
No one is going to develop or implement this idea for you Daylon. Now that you have the temp check passed, you need a delegate with 10,000 $ENS tokens to initiate the Snapshot poll. I’ll recommend hijacking the delegate DMs and requesting a delegate to initiate the poll for you. If you wait for the stewards to do anything, you’ll be waiting 10 lifetimes. Remember to incorporate the comments and rearrange the amounts though.
It’s a great initiative and I’m hoping that by rewarding community members, it will make people feel a sense of belonging and that their efforts are recognised and appreciated.
I also hope you can increase the number of recipients for each award to help spread the love because as you mentioned, the DAO is not poor, especially given the recent increases in registrations and renewals.
This month’s figures are amazing, are they not? With more and more people feeling like they are part of something big, these numbers will surely grow and grow.
Feel free to write this up as a draft proposal! I’d suggest, though, that either it should be reworked as a DAO-wide proposal, with the funds coming from the DAO wallet into a newly-created multisig in charge of allocating the awards, or it the funds should be added to one WG’s budget request for the next term. Neither WG was expecting to fund this, so taking that much from them for one effort seems unlikely to pass.
@daylon.eth Sorry I didn’t respond to this thread earlier. For the record I am definitely for something like this! Please continue work on this and create a draft proposal!
I agree with Alisha though that it technically shouldn’t apply to Stewards though, since that was laid out pretty clearly in EP4.
Perhaps some clarification or amendment is required in regard to section 10 of EP4 (Creation of Foundational Working Groups and Working Group Rules) as @Alisha pointed out.
Since Stewards already have internal awards among themselves, it doesn’t make sense that they are awarded twice. That was the rationale to skip the stewards in this proposal.
love so to speak, maybe a community member could only win the monthly reward once a year.
