Hey @Ktando, thanks for the reply. I want to make sure to provide an answer that’s what you’re looking for, and I’m not 100% sure I understand the question. Let me know if this answers it or if you’re looking for something else.
Re: how the team is performing — @grin is currently on his own independent proposal (which will be up for renewal at the end of the year, and for which he will do his own retro) and @savkruger has shared many updates about her work on the accelerator and plans to spin out her own pod. I think they have both been excellent contributors this year and will leave it to them to cover their own areas in more depth. I’d also love for them to share their thoughts about my role in supporting their work via Cabin Labs.
Cabin Labs’ goal is to spin out pods when they are ready to operate independently so that we can give the DAO more granular control of proposals, and so that we can progressively decentralize our contributor network. We have 3 examples of independent proposals that have spun out (see Live Contributor Pods) and 2 examples where we brought contributors into Cabin Labs and they didn’t spin out/are no longer contributors. In all of these cases, I think our incubation and spin out process is working well for providing a strong onboarding and acceleration process for helping contributors get up to speed, figure out if there’s a good fit, and then bring their work directly to the DAO for evaluation via an independent proposal.
Even after pods spin out their own proposals, contributors continue to work closely together. We have a weekly contributor meeting, I have weekly 1:1s with each contributor, and we have constant async chat channels where we coordinate. I think that the full time contributors to the DAO over the past few seasons (@grin, @savkruger, and myself) have formed the strongest group of contributors we’ve ever had at Cabin.