1. Presentation
We are an officially recognized Tooling Governance Committee, responsible for assessing proposals related to tooling and infrastructure (wallets, bridges etc.).
2. About the project
Karma is a reputation system to show DAO delegate activity and rank them by that activity. They are already being used by other DAOs, notably the gitcoin DAO to help token holders decide on who to delegate their tokens.
The proposal is for the project to enhance an already created discourse forum plugin that provides delegations/activity stats for users.
3. About the following
Karma submitted a proposal on the 6th of September: https://gov.optimism.io/t/review-gf-phase-1-proposal-karma-delegate-dashboard/3411. Various delegates interacted with the proposal including a committee member (@lefterisjp).
4. About the proposal valuation
In this part, we focus on the following aspects:
- Added value (good to bad): neutral**.** Having a discourse plugin designed to help with delegates and how they review proposals may be helpful but hard to quantify.
- Impact or expected usage (high to low) low: This proposal will only work for people who use discourse and use the plugin
- Current Status [Development stage/¿Open Source?] (early to ready) ready: The project already has a plugin. The proposal is to do a few enhancements on top.
- Expenditure plan and distribution (appropriate to inappropriate) appropriate: After a query from our committee member the team provided a budget breakdown that makes sense.
- Amount requested (high to low) low: The amount seems good for the effort needed
5. KPIs and impact tracking
The best way to track the impact of this proposal would be to:
- Have the enhancements implemented.
- Perform a user survey to the optimism community to provide feedback on the plugin and how they use it in the governance forums to determine whether such an experiment is a good idea or not.
- Depending on the feedback given by the users continue with another small grant based on the results of that feedback