Proposal on distributing 500 CABIN among the participants of Month 1 of the Ideation Pod

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Background

In this proposal, the DAO set aside 500 CABIN for each month of the 3-month trial of the Ideation Pod to be distributed by multi-choice voting among Pod stewards and participants or returned to the treasury.

Each voter can assign a % of their votes to:

  1. Specific team member
  2. The stewards as a group
  3. Treasury (meaning that a % of tokens would be returned to the DAO Treasury)

The voting will take place on Snapshot once we put this proposal up there, similar to how it was done in this proposal on creative residents.

Supporting Materials

Throughout the first month, we’ve been posting updates and a big picture of the Pod on this handy Notion page created by Katya. At the end of the first month, we published a recap of each ideation’s goals, progress, learnings, and next steps in this forum post. We also published a Financial Report on how we distributed the 500 USDC set aside by the DAO for the first month of the Pod.

Month 1 Team Participants

@Dahveed: Planned ETH Denver/Boulder Cabin event with Savannah. Also searched for keywords/key accounts, tried recruiting squad members, and strategized approaches with JonBo for Social Scraping.

@Jonbo: Set up and troubleshooted Twitter API, formed keywords into topic groupings, set up Discord channel, and did much other technical and strategic work for Social Scraping.

@kat: As the entirety of the Cabin Productions team, created its concept and the concept of its 1-month trial at MTNHAUS, acquired and prepared video capturing and editing equipment, flew out to the location on short notice, helping with Cabin programming there along with brainstorming and recording short-form video content.

@savkruger: Planned ETH Denver/Boulder Cabin event with Dahveed and her neighbors, and created the Partiful event.

Stewards

Dahveed, Katya, and Savannah also serve as the Stewards of the Ideation Pod, discussing the three active ideations, ideations slated to join in Month 2, and internal workings of the Ideation Pod.

Dahveed is serving as the leader of the Pod, coordinating with all the teams and other stewards, keeping the teams on track, finding and onboarding future ideations, figuring out internal workings of the Pod, putting together communication with the DAO, and more.

A big part of the work in the Pod’s first month was to create and come to a consensus on internal systems of how the Pod would work and how each Steward would get their needs and preferences met.

The Voting

As such, Cabin DAO members can put a % of their vote towards:

Dahveed

JonBo

Katya

Savannah

Stewards

Treasury

Before this proposal is officially published for voting, we welcome all comments and suggestions. Thank you once again for trusting us with the creation and stewardship of the Ideation Pod.

The Stewards

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@Kat has my vote for the awesome vibes she brought to Mnt Haus and content she created :sparkles:

Somewhat bummed to see that the ideation pod has yet to recruit any new collaborators, only continuing existing ideas.

The contributor budget of $2000/month allocated to @Dahveed seems especially high for only planning some simple events at ETH Denver and working on twitter scraping that hasn’t seemed to deliver any tangible benefits.

Meanwhile, @Kat has delivered great content and helped with IRL activations at Mnt Haus, paid out of pocket for over $3K of related expenses, and only earns $1000/month as compensation from this proposal?

I wonder if contributor compensation could be adjusted for the remaining 2 months to better reward impact?

Overall I was hoping that the ideation pod would be a funnel for more people to engage with Cabin, which beyond Mnt Haus doesnt seem to be manifesting.

Any plans to increase engagement with additional people working on ideas for months 2 & 3?

Any plans for any community calls to rally engagement with the ideation pod?

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Voting is now open at:

https://snapshot.box/#/s:cabindao.eth/proposal/0xc898f7da21de13803cf7eb11602a5bf31e74ea20490df954c9af6e5114ddea88

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Hi Matai,
Katya has been kicking ass. She’s a total rockstar!

And as someone who’s been on the inside of the Ideation Pod I can say that David’s being a tad modest in presenting his efforts above. He’s been leading the team, coordinating logistics, reporting on the progress of the Ideation Pod on discord and here in the forum, reaching out to folks directly and broadly to encourage them to build in the Ideation Pod, and more.

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Thanks for the extra insight!

As there hasn’t been a public Ideation Pod call, and personally I don’t feel comfortable engaging with Dahveed given conflicting personal beliefs/values relating to the Israel - Palestine conflict, so its hard to really tell what’s going on within the inner workings of the pod beyond the routine written updates, which I agree have been helpful, but reporting for the sake of reporting doesn’t necessarily mean impact and a positive return on investment (focusing not on monetary return, but on the community impact first and foremost from my pov).

Also it seems that Cabin’s founder and largest token holder @jon also seems somewhat dissatisfied, as he voted to return 25% of the pool to the treasury.

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So far he hasn’t shared any reasoning, so I won’t jump to any conclusions… but I’m disappointed to see that Jon would rather return governance tokens to the treasury vs reward pod contributors…

Especially when Jon earns > 2000 Cabin governance tokens per month (25,000/year) with no active community oversight, simply because 5 people voted on him and @grin’s 4-year founder level vesting proposal :thought_balloon:

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