Hey all, here to provide feedback on this retro as part of my duties with the Collective Feedback Commission.
First, I personally want to share my emphatic agreemeng with much of what Zach’s said here. The DAB’s been a huge gift to the Grant Council and the Collective, and we’ve got to find more ways to plug them in and get their candid opinions on proposed Missions.
With respect to process, I’ll share a few observations:
This is itself a tell: either there was abysmal engagement from the Citizens (this is approx. 10%? of total Citizens), or the DAB’s work wasn’t fully exposed to them. I think this is a thread for the DAB, the Foundation, and the CFC to pull on.
Need to have a defined process for somebody to eventually report on this; the retrospectives clearly don’t capture it. My suggestion is for Milestones & Metrics (or whatever equivalent exists in future Seasons) to report back here and in a new thread summarizing results in ~3 months.
This is a good question that is evidently difficult to chase OP Labs team down to answer. So do we get OP Labs to answer this, or do we have the DAB themselves assess this? I recognize the desire to have an impartial body evaluate this, but I think it’s probably fair for the DAB to self-report if it means we’ll be able to get immediate feedback.
Would be helpful to get direct links here.
This is probably another one for the CFC to explore a bit more.
Agree with much of this. Something I’d like to hear from the DAB themselves to this end: how do they ultimately view their roles within the Collective? I think part of the brainstorming to be done around their work could follow from their beliefs on what values they bring.