Hey all Doug here happy to be applying for another season!
Council sub-committee: (if applicable)
Mission Reviewer
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 )
.27%
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.)
99% https://optimism.karmahq.xyz/profile/sugma.eth#overview
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
Solidity, Security “contract monitoring”, Professional background in aerospace.
Please demonstrate any non-Optimism experience you believe is relevant to this role and/or your sub-committee: My work pre crypto involved working on highly complex systems with large teams and even more complex organizational structures, certainly gives an edge as chaos is room temp for me.
Have you previously served in a representative (appointed or elected) role in the Collective? If so, please specify which:
Yes i have served on the Grants council seasons 3, 4 and 5 as well as the Anti-capture commission
Please outline your contributions, and their impact, to the Optimism ecosystem to date:
Supported Optimism early on through governance, Helped build and form the current grants program from the ground up with my fellow council members.
Please describe your philosophy on what makes a good Mission Application:
A good grant returns value in the form of users/engagement and capital inflow, team/culture is also a major factor and our grantees should be held to highest level of standards and ethical practices.
Additionally projects seeking grants should have an organic interest in furthering the reach/impact of Optimism.
What types of Mission Requests do you think will help achieve the Season 6 Intents?:
Eager to see protocols that bring experimental ideas and primitives forward, overall useful/innovative products win the user.
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 : 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