[Proposal] October Funding Proposal GWG to HOM and CoA
- KazanderOP
Please find attached a tentative funding proposal for October, for community review and feedback. Total funds requested amounts to 107,670 but is subject to change pending input from the community in general and from HoM in particular. As per standard practice in GWG, we have included some contingency in this proposal. The largest reason for contingency is to cover future FX fluctuations, but also for any potential retroactive requests that are currently unknown.
The largest unknown at this point is expenses relative to NearCon. We have asked for input from HoM but not yet received any clear guidance. This proposal therefore includes a proposed $13.6k related to NearCon activations from the events WG. In case these expenses are covered through CDAO or MDAO then this cost can be removed from this budget. Similarly, this budget makes a generic proposal to cover travel stipend for up to 10 individuals that are not otherwise covered by other stipends. This stipend is proposed to be made available to NDC devs who were not eligible for the Harckathon and for elected candidates with speaking slots at NearCon. This stipend could also very well be covered by CDAO or MDAO instead, or not be included at all, in which case we would simply remove it from this budget.
As per usual, any funds not spent will be returned to the Community Treasury. An updated version of this budget can be found here.
Please discuss!
Area Type Category Who/What Oct Budget Sept Actual Diff HoM Request Descriptions / Comments MarCom Expenses Product Marketing: Marcom 0 0 0 MarCom Gigs & Bounties Marcom: Bounties Various 0 25,000 -25,000 MarCom Gigs & Bounties Marcom: Community Events (Near Con) NearCon 13,600 0 See proposal from Russ MarCom Gigs & Bounties Marcom: Community Events (Near Con) [TBD] 7,500 0 TBD. Example: 5 short distance @ $500 + 5 long distance @$1,000 = $7,500 MarCom Recurring Contributor Community Mods, Lead Rahul 0 800 -800 MarCom Recurring Contributor Community Mods Vikash 600 600 0 TG Moderator MarCom Recurring Contributor Community Mods Psalm 600 600 0 TG Moderator MarCom Recurring Contributor Community Mods Aescobar 0 600 -600 MarCom Recurring Contributor Social Media Management Rahul 2,500 2,000 500 Rahul Social Media, Announcements MarCom Recurring Contributor Social Media Management Vikash 2,500 2,000 500 Vikash Social Media, Announcements MarCom Recurring Contributor Social Media Management Wax 2,500 2,000 500 Wax AMA, Social Media, Announcements MarCom Recurring Contributor Community Lead Russ 0 6,000 -6,000 MarCom Recurring Contributor Marketing Lead Ant 0 6,000 -6,000 MarCom Recurring Contributor Graphics design & NDC Brand Ihor 2,500 2,000 500 Ihor NDC Brand, Graphics, Banners MarCom Retained Contributor Graphics design & NDC Brand Lex 200 700 -500 NDC Brand, Graphics, Banners Total, Oct, Marcom WG 32,500 48,300 -36,900 Tech Expenses Smart contract costs 100 500 -400 Storage / deployment costs for NDC toolings / contracts Tech Gigs & Bounties General Grants & Bounties: Tech WG Various 1,500 5,000 -3,500 ComunityVoice Buildout Tech Gigs & Bounties SBT Designs Curmello 225 0 0 SBT Designs for NDC Houses Tech Gigs & Bounties Indexer build for Astra++ 0 2,000 -2,000 Indexers for Voting Body Contract, House Contract, Sputnik Contract Tech Recurring Contributor Core Contributor: Product Lead Jane 9,000 13,000 -4,000 Astra++, CommunityFund, IAH KYC Tech Recurring Contributor Core Contributor: Tech Architect Rob 9,000 9,000 0 Astra++, CommunityFund, IAH KYC Tech Retained Contributor UX Design LIT Collective 2,000 4,000 -2,000 Astra++, CommunityFund, IAH KYC Tech Retained Contributor Tech WG: in house engineers, QA Megha 2,200 1,900 300 Astra++, CommunityFund, IAH KYC Tech Retained Contributor Tech WG: in house engineers, BackEnd Andrii 4,000 4,000 0 Astra++, CommunityFund, IAH KYC Tech Retained Contributor Tech WG: in house engineers, Smart Contracts Stan 2,200 2,200 0 Astra++, CommunityFund, IAH KYC Tech Retained Contributor Tech WG: in house engineers, Front End Amit 4,000 5,000 -1,000 Astra++, CommunityFund, IAH KYC Total, Oct, Tech WG 34,225 46,600 -12,600 Legal Expenses Expenses: Corporate fees 0 0 0 Legal Recurring Contributor Core Contributor: Legal Atrox 4,500 4,500 0 Setting up new legal entity for NDC. General counsel Total, Oct, Legal WG 4,500 4,500 0 Admin Expenses Read.ai subscription 75 0 75 Admin Expenses Notion subscriptoin 500 0 500 Admin Expenses Google Cloud subscription 100 0 100 Admin Expenses Google Domains 250 0 250 Admin Expenses Supabase subscription 200 0 200 Admin Expenses Netlify subscription 150 0 150 Admin Expenses Heroku server 20 0 20 Admin Expenses GitBook 50 0 50 Admin Expenses Zoom 100 0 100 Admin Expenses Trello 200 0 200 Admin Expenses Miro 150 0 150 Admin Expenses Canny 400 0 400 Admin Expenses Airtable 150 0 150 Admin Expenses Contingency 1,000 4,500 -3,500 For trailing expenses in case people might have forgotten to claim in previous months Admin Recurring Contributor Core Contributor: Budget, Bounties & KYC Kaz 5,000 10,000 -5,000 Unified funding process. Transition plan for operations of KYC & Bounties Admin Recurring Contributor Core Contributor: Goverance Co-ordinator Yuen 5,000 6,000 -1,000 Handing over transition of the working groups adminstration, syncing each houses with GWG for transition, final month moderation Admin Recurring Contributor Core Contributor: Operations Lead Illu 6,000 10,000 -4,000 Notion – The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases. Admin Retained Contributor Core Contributor, Pollster Chloe 0 4,500 -4,500 Admin Gigs & Bounties Whistleblower bounty - 3,000 0 0 Bounty for whistleblowers in the NDC September election Total, Oct, Ops WG 22,345 35,000 -15,655 Total excl Contingency 93,570 134,400 -40,830 Contingency Funds, 15% 15.00% 14,100 22,500 -8,400 To cover FX variations and unforseen expenses Total incl. Contingency 107,670 156,900 -49,230 - Illuminfti
As Requested by the HoM, but can also be found in the sheet above.
Monthly Activity Overview
S.No Activity Link Remarks Status 1 Election Integrity Council Transparency Report Link The Election Integrity Council Transparency Report has been successfully concluded. Completed 2 NDC V1 Framework V3.2 Link The NDC V1 Framework V3.2 has been finalized. Completed 3 Introductory Workshop with NDC Representatives Link A Introductory workshop with all NDC representatives outlining next steps. Completed 4 HoM Workshop Link A comprehensive workshop was conducted for HoM. Completed 5 CoA Workshop Link The CoA workshop was successfully held. Completed 6 TC Workshop Link A thorough workshop for TC members took place. Completed 7 Running individual sessions with members - Various in-depth calls and communications have been made with individual members from the HoM, CoA, & TC. Completed & On-going 8 Gaming Dao Proposal Link The Gaming DAO proposal has been prepared. Completed 9 Startup DAO Proposal Link A comprehensive proposal for the start-up DAO to amend once they complete their budget and KPIs. Completed 10 Updating the ops manual - The ops manual update is in progress. In-Progress 11 Updating the HoM docs - The update for the HoM docs is underway. In-Progress 12 Updating the TC docs - The TC docs are being updated. In-Progress 13 Updating the CoA docs - The CoA docs update is in progress. In-Progress 14 Getting the gov 3.2 onto GitHub - The gov 3.2 is being prepared for GitHub. In-Progress - Dacha
Hello @Kazander @Illuminfti
Thank you for your proposal. A couple of questions:
- Will the requested amount be paid from GWG treasure 215 164 N, and rest of the fund will be returned to NDC treasure?
- Marcom: Community Events (Near Con) $13600 can be a part of the MDAO budget, but I am ok with GWG. So, let’s see comments from other HOM members
- Thanks, @Psalmy @Kv9990 @waxnear @rahulgoel007 Ihor Lex for great job. Fully support Mods and SSM team’s renumeration.
- Question to Tech team lead: since we need HOM to vote for the budget, Is it possible to add an option to create Polls here Astra++ (under development) by astraplusplus.ndctools.near | Near Social ? And the second question, does tech infrastructure ready to make a voting by VB?
- Who and when can take over GWG tools to HOM
Read.ai subscription
Notion subscription
Google Cloud subscription
Google Domains
Supabase subscription
Netlify subscription
Heroku server
GitBook
Zoom
Trello
Miro
Canny
Airtable - Kazander
Dacha:- Will the requested amount be paid from GWG treasure 215 164 N, and rest of the fund will be returned to NDC treasure?
- Marcom: Community Events (Near Con) $13600 can be a part of the MDAO budget, but I am ok with GWG. So, let’s see comments from other HOM members
- Thanks, @Psalmy @Kv9990 @waxnear @rahulgoel007 Ihor Lex for great job. Fully support Mods and SSM team’s renumeration.
- Question to Tech team lead: since we need HOM to vote for the budget, Is it possible to add an option to create Polls here Astra++ (under development) by astraplusplus.ndctools.near | Near Social ? And the second question, does tech infrastructure ready to make a voting by VB?
- Who and when can take over GWG tools to HOM
- We will request from the Community Treasury, yes. But I don’t know where you got that number from. It will be closer to 100k Near, not 200k. What ever isn’t spent will be sent back, yes, in principle. We obviously can’t commit to a specific amount until after the fact.
- Yes the NearCon activation proposal can be funded from any of the three DAOs. We don’t have a preference who to pay it. If HoM recommends it to be funded through CDAO or MDAO then we would remove this line item from GWG.
- It is not urgent to move ownership of the subscription costs. I can keep paying for those that are on my credit card and probably Blaze will say the same, assuming HoM will agree to continue reimbursing the costs going forward. When and if HoM appoints an operations lead, then we can transition the credit cards.
- Dacha
Kazander:We will request from the Community Treasury, yes. But I don’t know where you got that number from. It will be closer to 100k Near, not 200k. What ever isn’t spent will be sent back, yes, in principle. We obviously can’t commit to a specific amount until after the fact.
Oh, sorry. Probably glitch https://app.astrodao.com/dao/gwg.sputnik-dao.near/treasury/tokens
I see 80.74K Near tokens in GWG treasure on Pikespeak
So should you reduce requested amount on 80.74K N Nears?
- Dacha
Kazander:It is not urgent to move ownership of the subscription costs. I can keep paying for those that are on my credit card and probably Blaze will say the same, assuming HoM will agree to continue reimbursing the costs going forward. When and if HoM appoints an operations lead, then we can transition the credit cards.
Thank you for the statement.
- Dacha Kazander:
Marcom: Community Events (Near Con)
Also, requested by HOM members could please share:
- reports from Kaz, Yuen, Atrox, Tech teams
- 3 social media contributors reports,
- 2 mods team reports,
- Link on proposal from Russ,
- Breakdown for Whistleblower bounty (names could be hidden),
- Breakdown for $7500 (Marcom: Community Events (Near Con))
Kazander:Atrox
@Atrox could you please disclose information about
Setting up new legal entity for NDC. Share paperworks.
And, it would be great if you could work on Public speaking in social media (X, Telegram, etc.) guidelines for Congress members.
- Psalmy Dacha:
Thanks, @Psalmy @Kv9990 @waxnear @rahulgoel007 Ihor Lex for great job. Fully support Mods and SSM team’s renumeration.
Thanks @Dacha it’s been awesome having you around.
You’ve really taken the ecosystem as your top priority and you’ve shown so much concern and hard-work appreciate your time and effective effort. With you around we are going to grow bigger and better thanks for your benevolent words and thanks also to all the contributors for making this a success kudos to y’all….
Lets keep building
- Kazander
Yeah, AstroDAO is not reliable. The $80k you’re looking at is funds we have left for remaining outstanding payments for September.
The budget requested in this post is net new for October and different from September.
What you’re asking is related to cash flow, not budget approval. Either A) we pay back the remainder and then request October in full. Or what’s more likely to happen is that B) we subtract the September remainder from the October total and only ask for the difference. The reason for doing it this way would be that it allows us to speed things up and process the October payments in October. The choice on which way we decide to handle it will depend mostly on the speed of getting this October ask approved and processed.
Ultimately both approaches will result in the same net cost for NDC.
- Dacha Kazander:
The $80k you’re looking at is funds we have left for remaining outstanding payments for September.
Could you please share the list if
outstanding for September and why they haven’t been executed yet?Thank You!
- Kv9990
Here’s SMM Report for October. Read here: NDC SMM Report & Future Plans [October]
- Dacha
Thank you very much!
- Yuen
Here is what I’ve done for Oct
- EIC committee (scheduling, interview, research, info distribution, and announcements)
- WG guide
- GWG council (Astro Dao)
- calendar and meeting scheduler (NDC calendar and WG meeting notes)
- Coordinate between the different groups in NDC (GWG, Tech, Marketing, Mods, WGs and governing bodies)
- Transitioning of resources and documents
- helping events WG with NearCon
- odin
GWG members, in an effort to provide a fair and complete evaluation of the October budget request, we are delaying our final decision until the following individual contributor reports are received. To those who have already provided their reports, thank you. In order to provide transparency in our decision making, we request that the contributor reports be posted as replies to the original post here in the governance forum.
The House of Merit has also voted internally and reached a quorum in favor of deleting lines 47 & 55 which total $12,100 in contingency allowance. Any oversight/contingency requests shall be submitted retroactively in v1. Thank you in advance for making this adjustment.
• MARCOM Team - each contributor requesting over $1000 renumeration shall provide an individual report of work completed in October and what tasks are planned for the remainder of the month.
• TECH Team - Jane, Robert, Megha, Andrii, Stan, Amit, please post the reports you provided here in the gov forum.
- Please provide a report for LIT Collective outlining October work completed/scheduled for completion by EOM.• LEGAL - Atrox, please provide report including any work completed in October and outline for turnover to Congress - we will provide POCs to work with you on turnover.
ADMIN - Kaz, please provide report of work completed, and remaining duties that you are responsible for. Please make specific notes to call out any/all work (unpaid bounties, KYC, etc.) the has carried over from months prior to October.
Thank you!
- Kazander
The report on work done by the Tech WG team members can be found in this spreadsheet
The work done to date and outstanding by Illu and myself Kaz is continuously updated on the second tab of the budget file. As of current, this is my October report:
Activity Remarks Status NDC V1 Framework V3.2 The NDC V1 Framework V3.2 has been finalized. Completed Introductory Workshop with NDC Representatives A Introductory workshop with all NDC representatives outlining next steps. Completed HoM Workshop A comprehensive workshop was conducted for HoM. Completed CoA Workshop The CoA workshop was successfully held. Completed Updating the ops manual The ops manual update is in progress. In-Progress Getting the gov 3.2 onto GitHub The gov 3.2 is being prepared for GitHub. In-Progress Processed KYC applications 9 applications received during October, significant slowdown in volume, of which 5 has been approved, 1 rejected and remaining are still pending user inputs In-Progress Paid out September bounties as requested by the community 23 payments for Sept sent out in Oct to date, representing 33 separate bounties. There are 7 further bounties plus a number of expense reimbursement still waiting to get paid for September. In-Progress Proposed October budget Coordinated the estimate, breaking down line items, responding to questions and suggestions from Trustees, HoM, and the community In-Progress Created unified funding process, Miro Created two versions of the funding process, one mid-level and one detailed version of the same process Completed Created unified funding process, Slides Created a summary of the Miro processes and used it during the workshops mentioned above. Completed Created GWG spend reports for Sept TBD Not started Pay out October bounties as requested by the community TBD Not started - Kazander
The budget tab has been updated accordingly as well.
- Two devs working more than originally estimated. Budget increased from $2,200 to $2,400 each. Previous monthly budget allocation for junior devs was $2.5k so it’s still within the orig budget.
- Original reduction from $5k to $4k was wrong. Reduction should only be $800. Increased from $4k to $4,200
- Travel stipend rejected by HoM with one exception for Stan, conditional on hackathon submission. Request reduced from $7,500 to $500
- $13.6k emoved from budget, to be paid by MDAO instead at the request of Odin / HoM
- Contingency line items removed on request of HoM
The total budget request for October is now down from $107,670 to $72,570.
The best view is in the spreadsheet, but here is a snapshot of the current updated budget, as per requests from HoM.
Area Type Category Who/What Oct Budget MarCom Gigs & Bounties Marcom: Community Events (Near Con) **** NearCon 500 MarCom Recurring Contributor Community Mods Vikash 600 MarCom Recurring Contributor Community Mods Psalm 600 MarCom Recurring Contributor Social Media Management Rahul 2,500 MarCom Recurring Contributor Social Media Management Vikash 2,500 MarCom Recurring Contributor Social Media Management Wax 2,500 MarCom Recurring Contributor Graphics design & NDC Brand Ihor 2,500 MarCom Retained Contributor Graphics design & NDC Brand Lex 200 Total, Oct, Marcom WG 11,900 Tech Expenses Smart contract costs 100 Tech Gigs & Bounties General Grants & Bounties: Tech WG Various 1,500 Tech Gigs & Bounties SBT Designs Curmello 225 Tech Recurring Contributor Core Contributor: Product Lead Jane 9,000 Tech Recurring Contributor Core Contributor: Tech Architect Rob 9,000 Tech Retained Contributor UX Design LIT Collective 2,000 Tech Retained Contributor Tech WG: in house engineers, QA* Megha 2,400 Tech Retained Contributor Tech WG: in house engineers, BackEnd Andrii 4,000 Tech Retained Contributor Tech WG: in house engineers, Smart Contracts* Stan 2,400 Tech Retained Contributor Tech WG: in house engineers, Front End** Amit 4,200 Total, Oct, Tech WG 34,825 Legal Recurring Contributor Core Contributor: Legal Atrox 4,500 Total, Oct, Legal WG 4,500 Admin Expenses Read.ai subscription 75 Admin Expenses Notion subscriptoin 500 Admin Expenses Google Cloud subscription 100 Admin Expenses Google Domains 250 Admin Expenses Supabase subscription 200 Admin Expenses Netlify subscription 150 Admin Expenses Heroku server 20 Admin Expenses GitBook 50 Admin Expenses Zoom 100 Admin Expenses Trello 200 Admin Expenses Miro 150 Admin Expenses Canny 400 Admin Expenses Airtable 150 Admin Recurring Contributor Core Contributor: Budget, Bounties & KYC Kaz 5,000 Admin Recurring Contributor Core Contributor: Goverance Co-ordinator Yuen 5,000 Admin Recurring Contributor Core Contributor: Operations Lead Illu 6,000 Admin Gigs & Bounties Whistleblower bounty - 3,000 Total, Oct, Ops WG 21,345 Total excl Contingency 72,570 Total incl. Contingency 72,570 - DDeAlmeida
Thank you for the update.
- robert
TechWG tasks:
docs.google.comNDC TechWG Oct 2023
Sheet1 Work done in Oct 2023 See Sheet per contributor
- Danielzo
How is it justified that two people get paid $9k each for a single month?
This doesn’t look like fair in comparison and also for itself as a community member I can’t comprehend why such high salaries are paid to single persons while general budgeting is very limited and a big concern for NDC.
These two salaries are basically 25%! of the whole GWG budget.
- Dacha
Hello GWG team. HOM created a poll
near.social
DAO.Page by sking.near | Near Social
Component DAO.Page created by sking.near
to vote for the budget in last edition
The budget tab has been updated accordingly as well. Two devs working more than originally estimated. Budget increased from $2,200 to $2,400 each. Previous monthly budget allocation for junior devs was $2.5k so it’s still within the orig budget. Original reduction from $5k to $4k was wrong. Reduction should only be $800. Increased from $4k to $4,200 Travel stipend rejected by HoM with one exception for Stan, conditional on hackathon submission. Request reduced from $7,500 to $500 $13.6k emoved…
