There’s still not a single clear, concise deliverable in this entire proposal let alone Specific Measurable Achievable Relevant Time Bound (SMART) deliverables. @Anthony.Leuts@ramon@fartunov@daniel-ospina all people I know that typically care about deliverables…
Without deliverables how does Eagle Ops expect to hold any individual or team accountable for the 492k spend? I don’t even see a commitment from this team to report on all these “activities” (searched topic for “report”, no results in the proposal)
I’m sorry I do not understand the aversion to my several requests for transparency and accountability? Operations should be setting the example for coordinated planning to ensure efficiency and effectiveness. We have to date held the DAO to a much higher standards of transparency, accountability and responsibility. …
Disappointed that a proposal of this calibre is being progressed “on behalf” of the DAO contributors named. @Ricktik6@Fabs@anukriti10@lion917 is this what you want delegates to read of your ability to plan, propose and operate?
Seriously imo, this proposal undermines the professionalism of everyone named for funding and I would one last time recommend that the teams involved here, take charge of their own future and present proposals worthy of the funding requested. Here’s a couple examples of proposals I have helped set clear deliverables in collaboration with
Can you see the difference? Guys you have everything you need for a great proposal. It is simply a matter of structure and clear communication. Best foot forward people, I do not believe this proposal fairly represents your talent, commitment and contributions to the DAO.
Ive got to agree with Renee on this one. Im not saying this guild isnt needed. We can all agree it is. But this proposal is sub par at best. If any other proposal were delivered in this state it would be absolutely torn apart in this forum. Honestly i feel like some parts of this proposal are riding on the fact that ops is necessary in the dao. Which is resulting in the lack of clarity and quality that others have upheld for the past 9 months. Even after the edits in the links to notion (which is another thing that is in only this proposal, which leads to issues around versioning that havent been pointed out yet) there are still sections that are completely vague. Talking around what needs to be done without actually stating what is going to be done.
I appreciate the effort that has been put in to the proposal by everyone involved. However, I have also reached out to help and even held a proposal workshop that noone from ops came to or participated in async. Which i made available as well. These are things that would have directly assisted with the issues that are being stated here and I dont understand why these tools havent been utilized…
Correction reporting was always included from the beginning of the proposal “We will also continue to report monthly using the ESD template report.” Another paragraph on reporting was added as well. We have also built the tracker that we will be using throughout the season’s for live reporting on progress. This will be the source of truth alongside dework for individual task tracking for the coming seasons: Notion – The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.
Fundamentally the scope of Ops is very large and agree that any of these proposals could be standalone and request a similar amount of funds to other teams, I would anticipate the cost would increase if this was to occur and provide poor value to the DAO along with increased coordination burden. This is why the KPIs were linked in separate notion pages as each of these could be stand alone proposals in there own rights.
I would like the measurement of success to move towards an OKR system where we aspire to reach high-level goals, rather than set granular tasks which are set to the lowest level where funding is attached.
As a group, we should be aspiring for more and to be trying to reach high-end goals thus the high level goals are highlighted hopefully the table makes that clearer.
Regardsless of the level of the goal, people still need to be able to express how/what they intend to deliver to achieve those goals in order to be accountable and my repeated request for deliverables within the proposal (vs outside documents subject to change) is about accountability.
Deliverables are more directly relevant to effective and efficient planning and process, than funding and I may have incorrectly believed Eagle Ops would continue to build upon season 1 proposal to “… maintain operational efficiency across the DAO…” and
Had Ops collaborated in the dGov S2 Proposal Workshop lead by @Shawncubbedge we could have addressed concerns back in July, prior to forum because I am well aware that this 90’s communication method fails to convey that I am in fact a stronger supporter of the proposed team. I have no doubt they do and will continue to deliver. I simply do not believe that this proposal does them justice. More than that, I think the proposal has jeapodised the team’s ability to secure funding and I hope to be proven wrong on this point.
I have just seen that the DAO Ops proposal includes the option to abstain. I have actively sort compliance advice on this matters several times in the past and a vote to abstain counts for neither quorum nor outcome, it is a wasted vote and no advice was provided to advise this fact in your proposal
The Charter is intended for yes no votes only. A position communicated repeatedly in multiple places on the forum by @Compliance Committee Members of which @AClay would be aware
@eaglelexhere reasonable means, abstain and majority votes
This proposal meets none of the standards established and required of every other team to date including dTech, Community Guild and Executive Sub DAO Members. You are establishing a very clear double stand between what the AA can propose vs what is required of the DAO.
Lack of compliance is not my call to make but I am requesting a veto of this proposal by the @eaglelex@Tayy@ronald_k and if veto’d I hope you will take the opportunity to address the clear double standard and present a proposal to the equal standard required of everyone else, one to which people can be held accountable for the 420k funding requested.
Sorry but I’m not the only person that sees the double-standard I’m just in the shit position of voicing widely held concerns on behalf of DAO contributors.
Welcome to Month 1 of Ops report, this report will evolve going forwards. We will also share some finance dashboards and other more detailed information going forwards.
100% timeliness to compile AN DAO payments: prepare, sign and execute routine financial transactions within 10 days after voting is done - Completed (recurring)
100% timeliness to compile core contributor payments: prepare, sign and execute routine financial transactions by the 15th of the month - Completed (recurring)
100% timeliness to compile creator payments (bounties): prepare, sign and execute on a weekly basis - Completed (recurring)
Concrete:
31st of August, building an expected treasury stream overview for ESD & AN DAO (and maintain it for the rest of the season) - Completed
30th of Nov, having a concrete wBTC plan (to execute) - Completed
30th of December, Make a yearly budgeting plan - In progress
Additional Deliverables
Help delivering the Wildfire proposal - Completed
Help delivering the stable coin diversity strategy - In progress
Set-up Opolis partnership & get the first contributor onboarded - In progress
Set-up a new treasury architecture for S2 - In progress
Amended Necessary Contributor Agreements for Forward Compatibility with DAO Transition- Completed (100%)
Assisted in completing Compliance Forms for an Aragon Vendor - Completed (100%)
Editing and Updating Aragon Terms of Service - In Progress (80%)
Editing and Updating Aragon Privacy Policy - In Progress (80%)
Aragon Trademarks and Intellectual Asset Review and Strategy - In Progress (15%)
Data Management and Privacy Standards Implementation - In Progress (30%)
Legal Wrapper Research/Support and DAO Structuring - In Progress (10%)
Additional Deliverables
Coordinated and Assisted in Filing Declaration of Use in Necessary Jurisdictions under the required Classes (Deadline - 30 August 2022) - Completed (100%)
Private Transactions, OFAC and US Sanctions Research and Strategy - In Progress (70%)
This was a dGov role, paid for in July from S1 dGov approved funding (additional to Eagle ops funding) as part of the stated deliverables to baseline and measure increased governance participation S1.
For transparency and accountability can this dGov deliverable be removed from Ops reporting please and the 10% progress edited to more accurately reflect progress specific to Ops deliverables
Please see Governance Analyst DeWork for Baselines (June/July) and Performance Comparison (August). The final report was paid in July as per finance team advice because this dGov core support bounty was completed before 15 August.
100% timeliness to compile AN DAO payments: prepare, sign and execute routine financial transactions within 10 days after voting is done - Completed (recurring)
100% timeliness to compile core contributor payments: prepare, sign and execute routine financial transactions by the 15th of the month - Completed (recurring)
100% timeliness to compile creator payments (bounties): prepare, sign and execute on a weekly basis - Completed (recurring)
100% timeliness of monthly income/expense report & contributor rewards report posted on the forum by the 15th of the Month 21:00 UTC +0 - Completed (recurring)
Concrete:
30th of December, Make a yearly budgeting plan - In Progress (80%)
30th of November, Compose the treasury policy statement - In Progress (60%)
Additional Deliverables
Set-up a new treasury architecture for S2 - Complete
Deliverable 3 RMR Framework: 30% completed, on HOLD
Given the new strategy at Aragon, the OKR implementation at all guilds and squads, the potential end of AN DAO and the pivoting of many squads this has caused a need to re-evaluating this initiative.
After completing phase 2: Ops data collection and evaluation, there is also a need to pause efforts to review what Objectives can be automated versus not.
We are awaiting developments to decide not the next steps of this initiative.
Deliverable 4 Data for other Squads: 25% completed, on target
DeWork and Parcel Data merger project started
Community Experience Guild project for triaging new community members started
Project specification, newsletter data, youtube API setup
100% timeliness to compile AN DAO payments: prepare, sign and execute routine financial transactions within 10 days after voting is done - Completed (recurring)
100% timeliness to compile core contributor payments: prepare, sign and execute routine financial transactions by the 15th of the month - Completed (recurring)
100% timeliness to compile creator payments (bounties): prepare, sign and execute on a weekly basis - Completed (recurring)
100% timeliness of monthly income/expense report & contributor rewards report posted on the forum before the 5th of next month - Completed (recurring)
Concrete:
30th of December, Make a yearly budgeting plan - In Progress (80%)
30th of November, Compose the treasury policy statement - In Progress (60%)
30th of November, DEX & CEX updates - In progress (50%)
Additional Deliverables
Co-Writing GM Bus proposal - Complete
Co-Writing PrimeDAO proposal - Complete
Token vesting analyses - In Progress (90%)
Compose overarching treasury management principles - In Progress (60%)
How to vote on a proposal on Aragon Voice (100%, Complete)
How to navigate Aragon Forum (100%, Complete)
How to add Aragon Sesh events to your google calendar (100%, Complete)
Ops Creator Onboarding (50% complete for October. Engaged two creators through bounties)
Who’s Who of AA and AN DAO Sobol (40%, in progress)
Additional Deliverables
Tool Management:
Internal Tooling POC - Degen Bot to automate POAP Distribution (80%, Completion expected S2) - We will have an automated way to distribute POAPs by end of S2 and will aim to fully implement in S3.
Eagle Ops can reflect back on a successful first season as a guild, since almost all previous set deliverables were delivered and a significant amount of 17 additional deliverables were produced by the different squads. Therefore, Eagle Ops is happy to continue with all squads and their newly formed KPIs for S3 (shared early December).
The guild will assess the budget and share an update for S3 in the coming weeks.
Eagle Ops is looking forward to proceeding with the collaboration with Community Guild & dTech.
Legal Squad
Recurring Deliverables
Amended Necessary Contributor Agreements in order to provide Forward Compatibility with DAO Transition
Assisting HR in reviewing and issuing letters for different purposes to contributors
Assisted in reviewing and Negotiating multiple Agreements with Aragon Vendors (AMMs, Exchanges, Smart Contact Auditors, External Advisors, Clients etc.)
Aragon Trademarks and Intellectual Asset Review and Strategy for DAO Transition
Assisted in Drafting Aragon Trademarks Strategy Proposal - Completed
100% timeliness to compile AN DAO payments: prepare, sign and execute routine financial transactions within 10 days after voting is done - Completed (recurring)
100% timeliness to compile core contributor payments: prepare, sign and execute routine financial transactions by the 15th of the month - Completed (recurring)
100% timeliness to compile creator payments (bounties): prepare, sign and execute on a weekly basis - Completed (recurring)
100% timeliness of monthly income/expense report & contributor rewards report posted on the forum before the 5th of next month - Completed (recurring)
Concrete Deliverables
Building an expected treasury stream overview for AN DAO
Completed
Conducting CEX data updates - Completed (CoinGecko + CoinMarketCap)
Set-up Self Reporting Dashboard for CMC
Having a concrete wBTC plan - Completed (shared internally with AA Finance team)
Have a set up for salary guidelines within the DAO - Completed (will be shared in the Finance Operating Model - before end of December)
Set up a legal wrapper for the new DAO - 90% done - will be completed in first week of December
Eagle Farming
30th of Nov, Write a treasury policy statement - 80% complete as first draft is current under discussion with the AA Finance team
Composing the overarching Aragon DAO treasury management policy
Composing the Reserve vault policy
Composing the Yield vault policy
Composing the budget vault policy
Additional Deliverables
Help delivering the stable coin diversity strategy - Completed
Analysis of the different token vesting solutions - Completed
Benchmarking Fiat offramping payment providers - Completed
Deliverables Not Executed
30th of November, Build an Eagle farming team - not completed as the expectation is to start with a Request For Proposal (RFP) structure in the new DAO
Deliverable 1, Led by Fabs and supported by nocibambi End of Season Surveys: 10% Completed, Waiting on conversation with AA HR so that we can make the survey the most useful for the new DAO
Deliverable 2, Led by Henrystats and Supported by Fabs Product Dashboard: 100% Completed, Done
Delivered Dashboard with DAO creation and DAO activity
A lot more work to be done to maintain Dashboard and created articles.
Articles: Objective is to position Aragon as a Thought Leader on DAO creation. Therefore we will create articles during Season 3 to showcase:
Article 1 [WIP], Led by Fabs Supported by Henrystats: Delivery of Dashboard containing DAO creation vs. DAO Activity vs. Chain creation & activity. — currently being worked on with COMMS
Article 2 Led by Fabs Supported by Henrystats: Nuance of DAO Activity, limitations and opportunities
Article 3 Led by nocibambi and Supported by Henrystats: How does DAO creation look like on-chain in different ecosystems? What does this tell us about the technical aspects of DAOs under different platforms? What does this imply for the concept of “DAO”?
Article 4 Led by Fabs and Supported by Henrystats: The values of DAO activity, exploring what the data can show us for values of DAO activity across ecosystems and chains
Article 5 Led by nocibambi and Supported by Henrystats: Frequency of DAO activity: exploring how often DAOs execute transactions, trends, seasonalities, and special events.
Article 6 Led by Fabs and Supported by Henrystats: DAO Value, how valuable are transactions? Where are the most valuable active DAOs?n
Article 7 Led by Sammie: Product overview, feature comparisons, roadmap analysis on DAO platforms in current competitor analysis scope, i.e., Syndicate, Colony, DAO Haus, Zodiac vs. Aragon
Deliverable 4 Data for other Squads: 50% completed, on target
DeWork and Parcel Data merger project Led by Sammie — On Hold pending conversations between DeWork and Parcel
Community Experience Outreach Qualitative report, Led by Fabs
Consulting on how to best capture community outreach data delivered
Work started to produce a qualitative report for Community experience
Draft report 0.1 delivered
Deliverables Not Executed
Deliverable 3 RMR Framework: 30% completed, Cancelled due to new strategic priorities
The governance SubDAOs were not reelected and ceased 21 October 2022. Sobol needs correcting
100% complete, up from 40% at the beginning of the month? yet there’s still more work to be done? You’re referencing two “concrete deliverables” that were not shared in the original proposal and there’s no obvious or transparent point of reference on what was planned or delivered. To clarify deliverable 2 100% Completed, Done could you guys provide a link, please.
Cool.Nice work on pulling together that industry data. Was there any further analysis of those growth trends, especially re:syndicate. Be interesting to understand the size of DAO membership (mean/median/mode) across the different creator tools.
Thank you. It was not simple, but I feel we have created something that has never existed before and provided amazing insight to how to achieve the objective of more active DAOs.
Expect the articles outlined above to focus on the topics you mentioned and more
Agree with Renee that some more insight would be great! Getting Henry to dive deeper into Syndicate would be worth it. Copying @mroldann since we spoke last week that Syndicate specifically is tricky to gain insight into as the contracts are not open source. A few specific comments:
Adding 12k+ wallets in two weeks in July is an outlier worth looking into. Yes, it is around the time Syndicate launched on Polygon, but this looks a whole lot like airdrop hunting
Classifying a DAO as “active” if the only activity is the DAO being deployed might be worth refining
Cumulative active DAOs as a metric does not make sense since “active is defined by a time frame”
Maybe we can add some activity metrics - the industry standard (TVL) as well as the number of transactions
I love it that more and more people are excited about the insights we are creating. This is just the start
We have indeed been working closely with @mroldann and he has been really really helpful!
I wanted to add some comments to the points you made below:
It seems to me that the fact that Syndicate advertised a legal wrapper to their “investment clubs” was the cause of the the biggest spikes (and lots of publicity). Their definition of what an “investment club” is or is not, their definition of custodial vs. non-custodial and how they deal with an entity’s funds are all peculiar. We are looking to write an article and shed some light into all of this next season. If you would like to help we would love your contribution!
The dashboard linked in v1… more like a beta version as we just managed to get everything hooked up (including the use of just released features) to make it work. We are working on a new version for season 3 which will delve deeper exactly at the points you mentioned, and maybe more too.
2.1) For example, our current definition of activity was a compromise to get us a number. Today it is an activity (inflow or outflow) of the registered wallet of the organism within the timeframe (1 week or a quarter). We are looking to dive deeper into this metric to better understand DAO creation and activity.
2.2) We have just today been able to get a better list of token values so that we can get closer to TVL – it has not been easy and i do not want to over promise, but we are working towards this number too.
2.3) we have just today flagged the cumulative active metric as incorrect and we are going to update the dashboard in the coming days to reflect a more meaningful and useful number.
Having said all that. If you would like to offer more support and ideas, share what else you would like to see, lets get in touch
