@lee0007 @fartunov @daniel-ospina - Please see the revised proposal
Summary
We are requesting from the ESD a total funding of $ 44,000 for Season 1.
We are proposing the creation of the Learning and Experimentation squad with a focus on improving and sharing the knowledge of AN DAO’s operating culture, around the use of advice processes, context sharing/switching, knowledge transfer rituals and peer-to-peer learning. For Season 1, we are proposing the following 3 objectives:
- Learning frameworks for experimenting the emergent community needs - 20 hrs
- Develop new learning content & processes: mentorship program - 20 hrs
- Maintain and evolve the Aragon Handbook - 10 hrs per week
Rationale
We are in a crucial growth phase of the AN DAO: to advance the cause of coordination, the community needs to feel the confidence to connect, collaborate and create, regardless of the hectic evolution of web3. Amongst others, the current challenges we can signal are: reduce anxiety in the proposal process and mechanism, clear access to working groups or squads to co-create, enhance governance coordination between different teams ( AA, ESD, AN DAO).
We believe DAO is not about competition but cooperation. The latter needs spaces and clear learning principles that match the experimental context in which the DAO community and network can thrive, from the bottom up, to shape a resilient organisational learning.
Part of the solution to successfully grow our community will be to ensure that our Operating Culture is clear and easily accessed. It is about how we go about business, how we interact with each other inside a squad, how squads interact with each other and their guild as well as other organisms within the DAO, such as the ESD and DAO Steward. Finally, we also need to consider how we capture the individual learnings and transform them into collective lessons for the entire DAO.
Objectives
The scope of the objectives will develop under the following areas:
- Learning frameworks for experimenting the emergent community needs - 20 hrs
- Develop new learning content & processes: mentorship program - 20 hrs
- Maintain and evolve the Aragon Handbook - 10 hrs per week
1. Learning frameworks for experimenting the emergent community needs
Time commitment: 20hrs per week
Accountability: Renzo, Fabs
Close collaboration: Ben, Michael, Renee.
Objective
Engage the community with the problem space to acquire a shared language and understanding. Reveal unforeseen issues and establish a learning environment for continuous improvements. We want to uncover learning frameworks to navigate towards a progressive decentralisation. We want to set up a transparent space to facilitate stakeholders (SubDAOs,guilds,contributors and ambassadors) alignment to overcome the challenges the whole AN DAO network is facing. E.g. what governance is and its value.
Alignment
The successful fulfilment of this objective will bring a new level of awareness, creating a valuable glue to hold the community together. We will align with the Umbrella initiative to explore how to embed the cultural impact of communication, emotional management, and governance research.
Deliverables & KPI
Month 1 - A Learning Framework for Proposal process
The objective of this period is to Connect with the Community at a deep level. We have identified ‘Proposal Process’ as the starting point. It means gathering feedback from the people who went through the Season 0 proposal journey to highlight the positive aspects and suggest how it could be made better and remove friction.
Deliverable: Depth Interviews with key individuals and groups about their experiences and a Report.
Month 2 - Investigation into Progressive Decentralisation
AN DAO Governance model: as of today this space is uncertain and significant exploration is necessary. In order to explore this topic, we need first to identify the key stakeholders and develop their ‘Entities-Role-Portrays’* and inner motivations. This will then help design supporting learning services to unlock value flows in the AN DAO by pinpointing key inter-relationships at the heart of AN DAO operation efficiency.
*‘Entity-Role-Portrait’: to investigate the motivations and challenges of key stake-holders in the execution of their responsibilities and duties.
Deliverable: a report on the ‘Entity-Role-Portraits’ as a guide to developing a robust set of Mission, Values and Vision of the AN DAO and its community.
Month 3 - Experiment in Peer-to-Peer Learning
Showcase the operating culture in the first implementations of a self-sustaining with a Decentralised Unconference: We will steward an event in which we can evolve the peer to peer learning process of how to transform individual learning into collective learning. The content will focus on the learnings from the Proposal process, AN DAO Governance, as well as the learning from the DAO Steward, AA, People Guild, Ops Guild, Finance and Tech.
Deliverable: a AN DAO Season Event, the Decentralised Unconference.
Month 4 Deliverable: Reports on all learnings of the Season’s activities
2. Develop New Learning content: Mentorship program
Time commitment: 20hrs per week
Overall Mentorship lead: Shawn, Aaron
Supported by: Renzo and Fabs
Depending on Approval of the Community Experience Proposal
Objective
For Season 1, working in collaboration with Community Experience, we will develop the Mentorship program. The role of Community Experience is to lead this objective, to kick off the process and potentially recruit mentors, while Learning and Experiments will be a resource, identifying and creating any content that will be needed for the program to succeed. This is to strengthen the operating culture around the use of advice process, knowledge transfer rituals which are all very valuable community learning.
Alignment
AN DAO cannot exist and fulfill any purpose without a thriving, informed and effective community. The Mentoring program will ensure that new contributors and members to the DAO have the support to feel welcome and to contribute to the best of their talents.
Deliverables & KPI
Month 1 - Experiential learning discussion:
With the Community & Experience, we will create a practice of initiation of learning and collect feedback. A small group of learners are to connect based on their level of knowledge. We want to offer a space for participants for their path towards self-agency.
Deliverable: Fortnightly Community call with mentees starting in June
Month 2 - Workshops as training sessions
Investigate mentees’ needs to identify topics and connect with the Mentors. We want to build confidence in learners and enable them to become self-directed. Collaborate weekly with Community Experience and the Umbrella initiative to create a series of Season 1 workshops for the community.
Deliverable: Monthly (Two workshops in total)
Month 3 - Setting up the mentors
Recruiting mentors and empowering them to develop relationships with mentees. Introducing a framework for mentors to deliver their impact with the community of learners.
Deliverable: Start of the Mentor Education Material Repository.
Month 4 - Mentorship plan ready for testing
Launch the MVP of the program while supporting the mentors more closely and finalize the information needs. Also, develop the final central location where mentors can find information and deliver against their objectives.
Deliverable: Publishing of the Mentor Education Material Repository
Please find here a detailed plan of action for the Mentoring project as a whole (Mentorship Planning - Google Docs).
3. Maintain and evolve the Aragon Handbook
Time commitment: 10 hrs per week
Accountability: Communication Squad
Objective
In the web3 world everything moves at a very fast pace which can make things quickly obsolete. In order to avoid this we should maintain learning resources we have built up to date so that they continue to provide value to the community and help all contributors to reach a desired level of agency in the DAO.
- Create a collaboration with the Growth Squad to hand over the content of an improved Handbook and setup the ongoing maintenance of this content.
Alignment
Connecting with the Growth Squad is fundamental for the future of the Handbook. This document is foundational to AN DAO, it ensures a consistently good level of knowledge for all contributors from the start, aiding in their contribution being more valuable and in delivering their best work to achieve the objectives of the AN DAO. The Handbook is needed as AN DAO is attracting an enthusiastic, yet generally inexperienced type of contributor right now.
Deliverables
Month 1 | Month 2 | Month 3 | Month 4 | |
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Handbook Maintenance v.1.1 | - editorial review of content | |||
- Capture and report all locations Handbook should be accessed | Assess document and update content to complete v1.1 | Assess & Report S1 update requirements | Completing Handbook V2 | |
And report |
Team information
Core contributors
Renzo - Learning Squad Steward
Commitment: 30 hrs per week
Launched the DAO Academy working group and delivered the Handbook Aragon in Season 0. As a strategic researcher, facilitator and designer the focus is on the adoption of Web3 impact for organizations, communities and individuals. My trajectory is to keep learning and expanding to empower the community in the AN DAO as well as in the wider ecosystem.
www.changetheriver.org
Fabs - core contributor
Commitment: 15 hours per week
Fabs’ experience and skillset with research will aid the squad with both qualitative elements as well as quantitative elements. Qualitatively Fabs will add analysis, interviews and reporting. Quantitatively, Fabs will help to develop measurements to the experiments’ success as well as finding ways to quantify the performance. https://linkedin.com/in/fabsmartins
Additional contributors
We have designed our process to welcome new contributors who will expand the team’s diversity and enhance our team deliverables.This will be done with bounties for tasks.
Foreseeable limitations and risks
The following possible limitations and risks have been identified:
- Limitation of internal resources to accomplish the deliverables on time.
- Difficulty in displaying the impact of learning metrics for individuals and the organisation.
- Lack of participation to the workshops and events due to a potential clogged Aragon calendar
Funding Information:
For static compensation, the ESD will make direct transfers to wallets of Core Members:
- $ 4,000/month split 70:30 (USDC:ANT) -
Renzo D5#3503 - 0x489aDd7680605f6Fc4806595CD75E65D7F1675Eb
- $ 2,000/month split 70:30 (USDC:ANT)
Fabs#8423 - 0xbF0f24fD34bC76CD6d8Eb37cc99d4477ed3a98FB
70% Stable / 30% ANT | Month 1 | Month 2 | Month 3 | Month 4 | Completion Bonus | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Renzo | 4,000 | 4,000 | 4,000 | 4,000 | 2,000 | 18,000 |
Fabs | 2,000 | 2,000 | 2,000 | 2,000 | 2,000 | 10,000 |
Other contributors | 3,000 | 3,000 | 3,000 | 3,000 | 12,000 | |
Tools | 1,000 | 1,000 | 1,000 | 1,000 | 4,000 | |
Total | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 44,000 |
Please see here appendix for more info: Notion page