Season 6 Elections: Grants Council

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Season 6 Election: Grants Council

Grants Council Reviewers will be elected by the Token House in Special Voting Cycle #23b, which runs from June 13th - June 19th at 19:00 GMT.

Those that would like to nominate themselves for these roles must fill out the below template and post here by June 5th at 19:00 GMT.

Anyone is able to self-nominate at any point, but there is no guarantee to be an election until a budget renewal proposal passes a Token House vote on May 29th.

The Foundation will facilitate a town hall with all eligible candidates the following week, before elections take place.

Representatives should only serve in one elected position per Season. There are no term limits for representatives, but they may be implemented in the future if the need arises.

There is no minimum voting power requirement to be a Member but the Foundation has recommended the following considerations:

  • There is strategic value in there being a Reviewer that has expertise in DeFi and that is able to advise the Grants Council on the emerging trends within DeFi
  • There is strategic value in there being a Reviewer that has expertise and connections in Gaming

Here you’ll find the governance-approved Season 6 Grants Council Operating Budget.

Grants Council Self-Nomination Template

Please keep your answers as concise as possible while conveying all relevant information.

Council sub-committee: (if applicable)

In Season 6, per the approved Grants Council operating budget, there will be 18 spots in the council - 12 reviewers, 3 Milestones and Metrics subcommittee members, 2 Audits reviewers and the Grants Council Lead. The Lead was already elected via the operating budget passing, so there are 17 spots remaining to be elected.

If you are a delegate, please provide the link to your delegate profile:

If you are a delegate, please indicate what % of votable supply is delegated to you: (voting power can be referenced here)

If you are a delegate, please indicate your voting participation rate in OP governance to date: (You may link to your profile on Karma 7, if applicable.)

Please link to your voting history and any voting rationale you’ve shared: (You may link to your Snapshot and/or Agora profile for voting history. You may link to your delegate communication thread, or any other medium you use to communicate with your delegators, to share your voting rationale.)

Do you have a technical background?: If so, please elaborate

Please demonstrate any non-Optimism experience you believe is relevant to this role and/or your sub-committee:

Have you previously served in a representative (appointed or elected) role in the Collective? If so, please specify which:

Please outline your contributions, and their impact, to the Optimism ecosystem to date:

Please describe your philosophy on what makes a good Mission Application:

What types of Mission Requests do you think will help achieve the Season 6 Intents?:

Please disclose any anticipated conflicts of interest: If you are a top 25 delegate in another ecosystem, hold an elected position in another DAO, and/or are a multisig signer in another community please disclose here.

Please verify that you understand you may be removed from this role via the Representative Removal proposal type in the Operating Manual:

Please verify that you understand KYC will be required to receive Council rewards at the end of Season 6:

Please verify that you are able to commit ~20 hours / week to reviewing grant applications and other Council operations:

What Does This Mean for Delegates?

Reviewers will be elected via approval voting in Special Voting Cycle #23b. Approval voting is a mechanism that allows each delegate to vote for as many nominees as they choose with equal voting power. The nominees with the highest percentage of approval votes will be elected to the Council. Please note this policy in Optimist Expectations:

In the case of approval/ranked choice elections, delegates may vote for themselves, so long as they also cast votes for the remaining elected positions.

Example: I can vote for my own candidacy on the Growth Experiments committee, so long as I also cast 4 additional votes (a total of 5 votes, as there are 5 open positions on the sub-committee.)

Please note the above outlined voting mechanism is subject to change depending on Council structure and number of eligible candidates.

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Hey @Derbygold.eth exciting that you’re self-nominating. Could you please move your self-nomination to the Grants Council Self-Nomination thread? Thank you!

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Grants Council Self-Nomination

Alex Soto / @alexsotodigital

Council sub-committee: N/A
If you are a delegate, please provide the link to your delegate profile: N/A
If you are a delegate, please indicate what % of votable supply is delegated to you: N/A
If you are a delegate, please indicate your voting participation rate in OP governance to date: N/A

Please link to your voting history and any voting rationale you’ve shared: I have no history of voting on OP, but my rationale would be to pay attention to the opposing opinions and dig deeper to understand which of the criticisms can be integrated into the proposal to make it even better. I also think it is important to analyze which initiatives need a grant and which would benefit but can still happen without it.

Do you have a technical background?: I do not have a technical background but rather a more human approach (social sciences, communication, governance, etc.).

Please demonstrate any non-Optimism experience you believe is relevant to this role and/or your sub-committee:

  • I worked at Socialab, a social innovation incubator where I analyzed the impact potential of early stage projects.
  • I worked as a facilitator in organizational development, with a focus on dynamic governance in DAOs.
  • I worked as a consultant in impact measurement and social entrepreneurship.
  • I co-founded a consulting unit at RnDAO where we offer support to DAOs in processing tensions, solving growth problems and building a culture of well-being.
  • My experience leads me to look for common points, and win-win-win scenarios, that contribute to systemic changes and address the needs of stakeholders.

Have you previously served in a representative (appointed or elected) role in the Collective? No, I haven’t.

Please outline your contributions, and their impact, to the Optimism ecosystem to date:

  • My contributions to the ecosystem have been indirect, but come from:
  • Generating content in Spanish about governance.
  • Designing induction processes for DAOs.
  • Co-creating collaboration tools.
  • Promoting care work in the community.

Please describe your philosophy on what makes a good Mission Application:
I believe that a good mission application requires to:

  • Understand the context of those who apply for the grant
  • List the underlying needs that are required for the initiative to be successful.
  • Define metrics that can be used to keep the project on track.
  • Promote team accountability during and at the end of the process.

What types of Mission Requests do you think will help achieve the Season 6 Intents?:
I think that the mission requests will be those that:

  • Understand decentralization as both a social and technological process.
  • That they seek to strengthen relationships with a long-term perspective rather than achieving superficial and short-term numbers.
  • That promote the induction of users, developers and allies from a perspective of diversity and inclusion.
  • That they exemplify the vision of the collective, inspiring people outside the ecosystem.

Please disclose any anticipated conflicts of interest: I don’t think there is

Please verify that you understand you may be removed from this role via the Representative Removal proposal type in the Operating Manual : Yes, I understand.

Please verify that you understand KYC will be required to receive Council rewards at the end of Season 6: Yes, I understand.

Please verify that you are able to commit ~20 hours / week to reviewing grant applications and other Council operations: Yes, I am able.

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Hey Alex, the Grants Council budget is still being voted on, there are a few subcommittees to apply and you need to specify which one do you want to participate in. Please post your nomination here

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Hey guys! Have a nice day.

  1. Council sub-committee:
    Milestones and Metrics subcommittee

  2. If you are a delegate, please provide the link to your delegate profile: https://vote.optimism.io/delegates/suckmydiscoteque.eth

  3. If you are a delegate, please indicate what % of votable supply is delegated to you: 0,02%

  4. you are a delegate, please indicate your voting participation rate in OP governance to date: 88%

  5. Please link to your voting history and any voting rationale you’ve shared: none

  6. Do you have a technical background?: I don’t have technical background, yet extensive experience in tokenomics and cost estimation.

  7. Please demonstrate any non-Optimism experience you believe is relevant to this role and/or your sub-committee:
    Done internship in GP Morgan in portfolio and risk management
    Have been working for tree years in Black Sea Trade and Development Bank in Accounting planning and budget roles.
    Thus working with numbers and cost estimation is something I’m experienced with.

  8. Have you previously served in a representative (appointed or elected) role in the Collective?:
    Delegate since OP governance inception
    Optimism super ambassador role holder in discord
    Support-Nerd on Optimism discord
    ThriveCoin Optimism Season 1 moderator
    Participant of RetroPGF (rewarded)
    Participant and winner of RetroPGF2 (rewarded like individual)
    Active citizen on RPGF3

  9. Please outline your contributions, and their impact, to the Optimism ecosystem to date:
    My contributions are listed above and have helped Optimism shape the ecosystem that we currently see. Also I would like to mention that I am in the process of creating a training site for new OP mainet users - https://opnewbies.space/

  10. Please describe your philosophy on what makes a good Mission Application:
    Not sure how a good mission application looks like, but I’m certainly aware of a bad one:

  • numbers do not add up
  • no clear vision on the next step after the incentivized period
  • same grand proposal in different ecosystems
  • team members not related to what they do (they simply cash grab)
  • unclear distribution plans
  • main focus is the grand with no further ideas of user acquisition and engagement maintenance w/o incentives
  1. What types of Mission Requests do you think will help achieve the Season 6 Intents?:
    RWA/DePIN, gaming and social
  2. Please disclose any anticipated conflicts of interest: none
  3. Please verify that you understand you may be removed from this role via the Representative Removal proposal type in the Operating Manual: I understand, yes
  4. Please verify that you understand KYC will be required to receive Council rewards at the end of Season 6: I understand, yes
  5. Please verify that you are able to commit ~20 hours / week to reviewing grant applications and other Council operations :Yes, I do verify that I will be able to commit ~ 20 hours / week to reviewing grant applications and other Council operations
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Grants council self-nomination
Council sub-committee: Reviewer

If you are a delegate, please provide the link to your delegate profile:

If you are a delegate, please indicate what % of votable supply is delegated to you: (voting power can be referenced here 2)

That would be painfull :blush: Let’s say that I start my journey.

If you are a delegate, please indicate your voting participation rate in OP governance to date: (You may link to your profile on Karma 7 3, if applicable.)

Same here: Not really active with this doxed Addy. I start my journey.

Please link to your voting history and any voting rationale you’ve shared: (You may link to your Snapshot and/or Agora profile for voting history. You may link to your delegate communication thread, or any other medium you use to communicate with your delegators, to share your voting rationale.)

My rationale are actually that we need to improve governance in the collective and leverage deliberative processes to do so.

See here particularly: https://mirror.xyz/antoinevergne.eth/3eqlNCnNsj-2ZeD9XsUdqe0_D5lnX-DZWuEh6IcUrzQ

And here: A Citizens' Assembly for RPGF4 — Antoine Vergne

Do you have a technical background?: If so, please elaborate

Not really. I used to code in HTML2 and 3 …. My technical background is in social technologies of collective decision making.

But: I mined BTC in 2011 (lost the computer), validate/d on 10+ chains among which are Cosmos, Matic, Presearch, Gnosis, Celestia, Near, Casper, etc.

Also I am regularly in the top 100 Debank profile and top 50 Degenscore (non-doxed addy). I use 50+ chains, my Nonce on Optimism in the in the thousands.

Please demonstrate any non-Optimism experience you believe is relevant to this role and/or your sub-committee:

I’m a seasoned project manager, and co-director of a company, I coordinated multiple complex projects reaching 10K+ citizens, leveraging 5M€ budgets, designing decision making.

I am also used to myself apply to grants on a regular basis so I know the drill from the user perspective.

Have you previously served in a representative (appointed or elected) role in the Collective? If so, please specify which:

Nope!

Please outline your contributions, and their impact, to the Optimism ecosystem to date:

I have started to work on the question of governance and its improvement. Particularly I am now working with the OP foundation on the first pilot of deliberative governance: Experimenting with Deliberative Processes in the Collective - #2 by abcoathup

Generally, I am contributing to the thinking and practice on how we manage to avoid falling in the same pitfalls as we have done in large sized representative governments. I think that Web3 can bring a lot to improve human collaboration at scale, but the risk is looming to fall back to nepotism, factions and apathy.

Please describe your philosophy on what makes a good Mission Application:

A good Missions application is not only about metrics, milestones, budget. It is about the mission and spirit of the team, about its mindset and alignment with the vision of the collective. You can have applications that are perfect on the paper but are extractive of the collective.

What types of Mission Requests do you think will help achieve the Season 6 Intents?:

I think that season 6 intent on the superchain will demand a high level of consensus finding and collaboration. Having mission requests around finding the best processes to do so is a necessity.

Please disclose any anticipated conflicts of interest: If you are a top 25 delegate in another ecosystem, hold an elected position in another DAO, and/or are a multisig signer in another community please disclose here.

Nope

Please verify that you understand you may be removed from this role via the Representative Removal proposal type in the Operating Manual 1 :

I understand

Please verify that you understand KYC will be required to receive Council rewards at the end of Season 6:

I understand

Please verify that you are able to commit ~20 hours / week to reviewing grant applications and other Council operations :

I am able but not over extended period of times.

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@Antoine and @suckmydiscoteque.eth - exciting that you’re self-nominating! Could you please move your self-nomination to the Grants Council Self-Nomination thread by the deadline ~3 hours from now (June 5th, 19:00 GMT)? Thank you!

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Zeugh.eth Grants Council Self-Nomination

Council sub-committee:
Mission Reviewer

If you are a delegate, please provide the link to your delegate profile:
Zeugh’s Delegate Profile

If you are a delegate, please indicate what % of votable supply is delegated to you:
0,00% (my own little 785 OP)

If you are a delegate, please indicate your voting participation rate in OP governance to date:
I’ve become a delegate quite recently. I have taken part in all proposals since, but that is only a total of 8.

Please link to your voting history and any voting rationale you’ve shared:
Haven’t shared any voting rationale, it will be here when I have something relevant to say about a vote.

Do you have a technical background?: If so, please elaborate

Yes, I studied Computer Science in college at UFSC - for 3 years out of a 4 total and then dropped out.

I did a 2-year research internship on memory access optimization during that time and worked for a year after that as a developer with C++ and Python.

I haven’t developed professionally since 2017. I currently work with product teams where I’m constantly reading documentation, reading code, and supporting with technical architecture and logic, but I don’t code anymore.

Please demonstrate any non-Optimism experience you believe is relevant to this role and/or your sub-committee:

I was an early contributor to JuiceboxDAO, working with community and governance design. I am still a big holder and voter there. It was a great experience as a contributor to follow up on the growth in community size and complexity of the protocol. I think I can evaluate proposals and missions very well from the amount of time I’ve spent discussing, onboarding, and voting there, as well as helping build Nance - the current governance platform the DAO adopts, which was developed internally and then branched to its own thing.

I was a founder for CanuDAO, a community manager DAO where we looked for issues to solve in our communities and developed tools to solve those. I think I have a good background in understanding tooling and its relevance from my experience there. As part of this journey, I also co-hosted a twitter spaces series with Reka.eth, interviewing founders of web3 tools, which also helped to learn a lot of challenges for building on Eth Mainnet 2021-2022.

I worked for 1 year for the DAO framework startup Origami, where I helped communities create their DAOs and enable their members and governance to work. Out of the DAOs we created, Collab.Land DAO is likely the most relevant still, and it was the first one I launched on Optimism.
I have been researching a lot around coordination and governance, I’ve been conferencing quite a bit over the past 3 years which created a habit of exploring new thoughts and experiments in those areas and spreading that through talks focused in DAOs I gave in different events(EthBarcelona, Global Governance Gathering, NFTBrasil, EthSafari…).

I have supported the structuring and launch of different projects on Optimism, my favorites being: AlxndriaDAO, AgroforestDAO and AfricaDeFiAlliance. I believe my experience with organizations trying to establish themselves on OP, with OP tools, gives me a good perspective for adding my two cents in what needs building or not, and how to prioritize and connect it,.

I see this role as a great chance to make use of those experiences and support builders to connect to what/who they need, beyond analyzing their applications.

Have you previously served in a representative (appointed or elected) role in the Collective? If so, please specify which:

No

Please outline your contributions, and their impact, to the Optimism ecosystem to date:

I have been a user for most of the time, just recently deciding to join as a delegate. Most of my contributions have been to Eth ecosystem in general, as listed above. For Op I have been a spreader of the word since the first RPGF, but haven’t finnised any relevant contributions. I’m currently working with blockful where we are working on a reputation system integrated with EAS that will run on OP and are working on a mission for scaling ENS to OP, both are still in development and can’t have their impact measured.

Please describe your philosophy on what makes a good Mission Application:

I believe in things being built in the open, with clear and fast feedback loops and in the freedom for creators to do things they love and are good at. A good mission application should be able to:

  1. provide clarity of how to follow up with the progress of the project
  2. demonstrate the capacity to deliver
  3. present a plan on how they are going to deliver
  4. be focused on solving things efficiently first, and if it’s the case, making it fancy and cute later.

I am biased towards impact and especially towards enabling others to create impact.

What types of Mission Requests do you think will help achieve the Season 6 Intents?:

There’s a common line between the 3 intents that make clear that one can support the other, the line goes through making decentralization stronger, which makes the superchain more interesting for other chains, which makes for more possibilities on areas, communities and work styles/vibes for developers to join.

Regarding Intent 1 I think enabling DAOs to properly exist “in the superchain” instead of in one of the chains would make a great case. I believe having the RPGF Governance round will be a great support to the decentralization challenges already, but having specific Intent 1 missions looking at current infra for organizations to be run fully on the superchain and easy to launch in this way, can make a big difference. Honestly, all things related to advances and exposure on the Path to Open Metagovernance can super power the 3 intents, as good builders are easier to flock when you give them capacity to easily manage or comprehend the management of the things they build.

Specifically towards intent 2 I believe that making sure the advantages of being in the superchain are clear, visible and easy to enable should be the focus of missions. This intent is very delicate and needs good experienced business people dealing with it, so my initial thought is that the missions of this intent should be focused in increasing the FOMO inside other chains so there’s pressure to support the negotiation.

On Intent 3, Base will do it by itself I guess lol I see spreading the funding for different areas around many chains as the most viable option to scale growth. Understanding where on the superchain are game, defi, AI or whatever other type of builder already more inclined to build and better supported and superpowering it in there, while allowing it to connect to the rest easily, is way more powerful than trying to have everyone build everything on OP.

Please disclose any anticipated conflicts of interest:

I work with blockful.io and our team will likely be building on the superchain and taking part on mission applications and RPGF in the coming months. Also, one of our team members is top 7 delegate on ENS DAO where we are elected service providers.

Please verify that you understand you may be removed from this role via the Representative Removal proposal type in the Operating Manual 1:

Yes

Please verify that you understand KYC will be required to receive Council rewards at the end of Season 6:

Yes

Please verify that you are able to commit ~20 hours / week to reviewing grant applications and other Council operations:

Yes

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Grants council self-nomination
Mission Reviewer

If you are a delegate, please provide the link to your delegate profile:

If you are a delegate, please indicate what % of votable supply is delegated to you: (voting power can be referenced here 2)

That would be painfull :blush: Let’s say that I start my journey.

If you are a delegate, please indicate your voting participation rate in OP governance to date: (You may link to your profile on Karma 7 3, if applicable.)

Same here: Not really active with this doxed Addy. I start my journey.

Please link to your voting history and any voting rationale you’ve shared: (You may link to your Snapshot and/or Agora profile for voting history. You may link to your delegate communication thread, or any other medium you use to communicate with your delegators, to share your voting rationale.)

My rationale are actually that we need to improve governance in the collective and leverage deliberative processes to do so.

See here particularly: https://mirror.xyz/antoinevergne.eth/3eqlNCnNsj-2ZeD9XsUdqe0_D5lnX-DZWuEh6IcUrzQ

And here: A Citizens' Assembly for RPGF4 — Antoine Vergne

Do you have a technical background?: If so, please elaborate

Not really. I used to code in HTML2 and 3 …. My technical background is in social technologies of collective decision making.

But: I mined BTC in 2011 (lost the computer), validate/d on 10+ chains among which are Cosmos, Matic, Presearch, Gnosis, Celestia, Near, Casper, etc.

Also I am regularly in the top 100 Debank profile and top 50 Degenscore (non-doxed addy). I use 50+ chains, my Nonce on Optimism in the in the thousands.

Please demonstrate any non-Optimism experience you believe is relevant to this role and/or your sub-committee:

I’m a seasoned project manager, and co-director of a company, I coordinated multiple complex projects reaching 10K+ citizens, leveraging 5M€ budgets, designing decision making.

I am also used to myself apply to grants on a regular basis so I know the drill from the user perspective.

Have you previously served in a representative (appointed or elected) role in the Collective? If so, please specify which:

Nope!

Please outline your contributions, and their impact, to the Optimism ecosystem to date:

I have started to work on the question of governance and its improvement. Particularly I am now working with the OP foundation on the first pilot of deliberative governance: Experimenting with Deliberative Processes in the Collective - #2 by abcoathup

Generally, I am contributing to the thinking and practice on how we manage to avoid falling in the same pitfalls as we have done in large sized representative governments. I think that Web3 can bring a lot to improve human collaboration at scale, but the risk is looming to fall back to nepotism, factions and apathy.

Please describe your philosophy on what makes a good Mission Application:

A good Missions application is not only about metrics, milestones, budget. It is about the mission and spirit of the team, about its mindset and alignment with the vision of the collective. You can have applications that are perfect on the paper but are extractive of the collective.

What types of Mission Requests do you think will help achieve the Season 6 Intents?:

I think that season 6 intent on the superchain will demand a high level of consensus finding and collaboration. Having mission requests around finding the best processes to do so is a necessity.

Please disclose any anticipated conflicts of interest: If you are a top 25 delegate in another ecosystem, hold an elected position in another DAO, and/or are a multisig signer in another community please disclose here.

Nope

Please verify that you understand you may be removed from this role via the Representative Removal proposal type in the Operating Manual 1 :

I understand

Please verify that you understand KYC will be required to receive Council rewards at the end of Season 6:

I understand

Please verify that you are able to commit ~20 hours / week to reviewing grant applications and other Council operations :

I am able but not over extended period of times.

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Sorry for the long reply, this email went into spam(( Do I still have a chance to reschedule my candidacy?

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Hey no worries! If you’re able to send a video of your answer to the question from the Grants Council S6 Election Town Hall post to the email where you received the calendar invite, that would be amazing :pray:

Let me know if you have other questions. Thank you!

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