Neighborhood Accelerator DAO Proposal

⚙️ DAO Proposals
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In response to your questions @Ktando:

Nothing changes about the way we work together. Even after pods spin out their own proposals, contributors continue to join 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, and that won’t change.

What does change is three things: (1) the DAO has direct control over approving/rejecting more granular proposals for spun-out pods, (2) as a result, the contributor(s) of those pods are more directly responsible for keeping the DAO updated on their work, and (3) that pod manages their own multi-sig and budget directly and autonomously, instead of being compensated via the Cabin Labs budget/multi-sig. This structure is designed to progressively decentralize contributions in order to provide more DAO oversight of workstreams and clearer ownership and accountability from contributors.

Ultimately, this is up to the DAO to decide. It’s an opportunity for the DAO to vote on the continued existence of the work, and to ratify budget for supporting that work directly. From Cabin Lab’s perspective, we are would like to get contributors in a position to spin out their own proposals within ~3-6 months, but some projects could have shorter or longer incubation periods.

I don’t think it’s reasonable to contributors to ask them to continue reapplying for their jobs every 3 months. When they are first starting, it makes since to operate with a 1-3 month trial, but we can’t retain top talent or do effective long-term planning if we can’t make 1 year commitments to them after they have demonstrated themselves. This is a precedent that we have followed for the several years, because we’ve found it’s untenable to have every contributor go through a full governance process every 3 months — writing all of these forum posts takes a lot of time and energy, and that is time and energy we can’t spend Doing The Thing.

In this case, I think @savkruger has provided a bunch of strong updates over time about the accelerator, including these:

Additionally, I have provided more updates contextualizing the accelerator across these posts:

I hear you on the desire to have more updates further in advance of governance proposals. I think it’s a reasonable request and it’s something we are working on (eg Cabin Labs - First Year Retrospective and Cabin Labs - First Year of Experiments, Oct 23 - Oct 24). We will continue to try to keep the DAO as informed as possible on this forum, answer any questions from the community, and provide opportunities to engage in discussion before votes. And also, we need to spend most of our time and energy focused on the work of the DAO in addition to spending some time talking about the work. Writing forum posts already takes a lot of contributor time and energy—it’s very important, but it also doesn’t directly contribute to the actual work we are trying to accomplish.

I want to understand how you think we can better strike the right balance here. I don’t want to get too off topic in this thread, but I’d love to see a new thread from you with your thoughts on the following questions:

  1. What would an ideal cadence / structure of updates would look like for you?
  2. What would an ideal cadence / structure for Cabin Labs spinning out proposals would look like for you?
  3. What would an ideal cadence / structure for the proposal/voting process would look like for you?
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