Hi Cam! Thanks for your thoughts here.
Regarding the move to solo DAO proposal from Cabin Labs:
I just updated the post to clarify the Cabin Labs → solo proposal jump a bit more. In more depth, it’s because the original stated intention of the Cabin Labs proposal is to run experiments and incubate ideas that could 1) help us build a network city and 2) move us towards financial sustainability. See this snippet from the Cabin Labs proposal:
So this move is because it was very much the plan from the beginning.
Regarding increasing the $10k set aside for contributors:
Thanks for this. I arrived at the $10K figure based on us paying Shani $1500 as a lump sum (not hourly or monthly) to facilitate part of the NAP2 cohort, which came from the Cabin Labs budget. I appreciate your feedback that this number should be higher. My goal here was to strike the balance between there being enough to cover Shani again if need be plus some buffer, while still staying lean and not over-allocating resources. I’m going to up it to $20K in the post and would love to hear if other folks have hesitations there.
Good call on rolling over unused funds (reminds me of that surplus episode of The Office 
). I’ve changed the proposal to include that stipulation regardless of the final number.