Can we ask who informed and advised? I raised the question of funding terms (6months) via an ESD meeting 27 June to help prepare teams in advance of S2. And again, here However, it is only within the last month that the intention to terminate the Charter and the AN DAO has come to light - when the current governance proposal was edited (8 September) to make terminating the Charter the purpose for voting.
Call me cynical but for the record imo
We have and continue to fail the community (at all levels) on transparency - perhaps this is because everything is in flux and nothing has ever been certain - but the lack of transparency, open and honest communication about what is certain/uncertain makes it appear that there always was a centralised agenda, that is being dripfed top-down.
@Shawncubbedge I know you felt AN DAO was at some stage “extremely decentralized” but I disagree because in my centralised position within the AN DAO Executive Sub DAO (ESD) it is my repeated experience that we have always been beholden to the AA who have demanded strategic alignment (via the ESD) while withholding any strategy that could have empowered decentralisation. And we are still waiting…
If knowledge is power - voting to terminate the Charter without even a glimpse of the new Charter - then withholding key information equates to a power play, an effort to control the narrative and opportunity surrounding this Transfer of funds while maintaining the pretence of decentralisation. When the organisation building DAO infrastructure is actively centralising a DAO it doesn’t bode well for Aragon’s integrity…
Honestly, I just wonder if the plan for the future of the AN DAO community was only ever intended as a marketing front established as a “community” to buy time for product development and then slowly dismantled, reformatted steamroller style while being offered open-ended conversation to remove community side transparency from other posts and drag out the situation beyond people’s willingness to engage in the process or remain standing for the values many of us rallied to - while the planned agenda progresses
