Introducing the Collective Feedback Commission
The Optimism Foundation stewards the development of the Optimism Collective’s governance system. The process by which the Collective takes on more responsibility for the system is iterative, and facilitated by the Foundation, based on community feedback. The Collective will gradually take on more governance responsibilities over time until the full system is maintained and managed by the Collective. It is at this point that the Foundation becomes just one of many “Core Delegates” proposing design changes to the system (metagovernance).
As outlined in The Path to Open Metagovernance, the path to open metagovernance will occur gradually over multiple phases.
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To date, we’ve been primarily in Phase 0: community informed design. The Optimism Foundation open-sources our internal research and proposes designs based on active feedback from governance participants. We receive feedback on late-stage drafts from high-context stakeholders informally, usually after designs are complete.
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Now we are ready to start entering Phase 1: Community consulted design process. That means will we continue open-sourcing more of our design principles, process, and goals to the community to build shared context while also consulting community members earlier in the design process.
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We will do this via two primary mechanisms:
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Frequent polls on low-context design parameters, open to any community member’s input.
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Higher context feedback requested of an experimental Collective Feedback Commission. The Commission mostly formalizes what has, to date, been an informal process of collecting feedback from high context governance participants such as Council Leads, top delegates, engaged Citizens, external teams, and Retroactive Public Goods Funding (Retro Funding) recipients.
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Please note all existing avenues for community feedback will remain in place, allowing any member of the community to share their input for incorporation by the Foundation, as always. The goal of Phase 1 is to bring more people into the design process, not keep anybody out. The Feedback Commission is an addition to the existing feedback channels, not a replacement for any of them.
Collective Feedback Commission (CFC)
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The Collective Feedback Commission will consult the Foundation on early design drafts requiring a high degree of context.
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The Collective Feedback Commission will include 10 highly engaged Citizens and 15 high-context delegates, selected based on the qualifying criteria outlined below:
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10 highly engaged Citizens have been selected based on their contributions, specifically as they relate to governance design, in Retro Funding Rounds 2 & 3:
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All (Season 5) Council/Board/Commission Leads qualify to participate:
- Alisha.eth @alisha.eth
- Teresa @teresacd
- Brichis.eth @brichis
- Gonna.eth @Gonna.eth
- Brock @brockelmore
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The top 10 disclosed Token House delegates, as per Agora on 3/6/23 (end of Voting Cycle #19) qualify to participate:
- a16z
- L2BEATs @kaereste @Sinkas
- Linda Xie @linda
- Polynya @polynya
- Olimpio @olimpio
- GFX Labs @GFXlabs
- Lefteris @lefterisjp
- SNX Ambassadors @MattGov.eth @mastermojo @MoneyManDoug
- Scott Moore @ceresstation
- Jack Anorak @jackanorak
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How it Works
- All CFC members must opt-in to participate. Any open positions as a result of someone choosing not to opt-in will remain unfilled. There is no official resignation policy as resigning members will not be replaced. The Foundation will reach out to qualifying members with additional information. Opt-in forms must be completed by March 31st.
- We will experiment with the Commission for an initial trial period of 6 months, beginning April 1st, 2024. That means Token House delegates will consult on the design of Season 6. Citizens will consult on the design of Round 4 and Round 5.
- It is expected that CFC members will spend an average of 5 hours per Round/Season providing feedback. The CFC will be allocated 750 OP per Token House member and 1,500 OP per Citizens’ House member by the Foundation. The Feedback Commission is also a good candidate for Retro Funding in Round 6: Governance Contributions.
- Commission feedback will be shared with the Foundation and other Commission members, but may eventually become viewable by the entire community via a read-only public channel.
- Please note that the Foundation will use feedback from Commission members as an input into designs but is not obligated to incorporate any individual piece of feedback or idea.
- As outlined in The Path to Open Metagovernance, there will be multiple phases in the transition to community led metagovernance. The Commission is part of Phase 1, and may evolve into a metaNERD contribution path in later phases, open to anyone who completes the required training or steps required to participate.