Title: 220404- Specific Architectures (Ross) contributor compensation request
Rate: Monthly Rate is $7000 in USDC with 5,952 YAM Streamed Per Month. YAM is included in stream to be stopped this month.
USDC Amount Backup: Snapshot
Yam Amount Backup: Snapshot
Time-frame: Month of March
Hours Worked: 8hrs x 23 days = 184 hrs
Wallet for payment: 0x88c868B1024ECAefDc648eb152e91C57DeA984d0
Background
I am a full time contributor who has been working on improving the operations, organizational structure, and efficiency of YAM. I have also been contributing design work for YAM Synths, both conceptual and front end. My original employment proposal is located here: Full-time contributor request for Ross
Goals
I have been working on redefining and specifying a structure for YAM that allows for more accountability and flexibility around how work gets done. This entails changes to project structure as well as the structure for the day to day functioning of YAM. My goal is to turn YAM into a truly decentralized organization that does not rely on any specific group of contributors to succeed.
Work Done
YAM Reorg
- Worked on new Governance process clarification: Notion – The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.
- Guardian Council Pre-Proposal:Notion – The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.
- Gov-Ops Council Pre-Proposal: Notion – The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.
- Worked on new Notion portal: Notion – The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.
- Worked on process flows for grant applications: Figma
- Worked on template for grant applications:Template post (WIP)
- Research and Testing of Coordinape as a compensation structure.
- Roadmap development: Figma and Notion – The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.
Yam Synths
YAM synths is in a holding pattern right now. I had some discussions with Snake about it and will focus on it again after the re-org work.
Misc. Other
- Coordination and strategy around solving the issues with the Vesting pool, including YIP-107
- Treasury management research. Research into Gelato and Element as options for using the treasury to earn and distribute yield. Summary here
- Moderation of Discord and Forum
- Business Development as it presents itself.
- Review of proposals and on-chain transactions.
Lessons Learned
The changes that we are trying to make to the DAO are broad and wide reaching. It is easy to get lost in the small details, which slows things down. It is also easy to get stuck in a state of indecisiveness when there is minimal feedback on proposals. In the next month, I plan to work with @designer and @chilly to push the proposal forward and set and end of month deadline to do so.
I hope that this will push us to make sure that the work we are doing is understandable and push the conversation out to a wider audience. It will also hopefully force us to look at the parts of the change that have not been fully fleshed out and try to do so.