Season 6: Reflection Period Guide
May 9 - May 22: All Voters Read 
The first two weeks are for reflecting and reading.
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Review retrospectives from Season 5:
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Read the forum posts linked below in advance of each voting period.
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Familiarize yourself with the following posts at your convenience. These won’t be voted on but that contain important information.
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Foundation Budget Report (coming soon!)
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Everything you need to know about Missions in Season 6:
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Everything you need to understand about Superchain Governance in Season 6:
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If you would like to run for election to be a Lead representative in Season 6: the deadline to post Operating Budget proposals for the Grants Council, Developer Advisory Board, or Code of Conduct Council and receive 4 top 100 delegates approvals is May 22nd at 19:00 GMT.
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Any delegate can put forward an Inflation Adjustment Proposal to change the current rate from 0%.
Approve
Top 100 delegates may provide approvals by posting the below phrase in a comment under a proposal draft
”I am an Optimism delegate [link to your delegate commitment] with sufficient voting power and I believe this proposal is ready to move to a vote."
Each of the below proposals requires 4 top 100 delegate approvals by May 22nd at 19:00 GMT in order to move to a vote in for Special Voting Cycle #23a.
- Vote on Fault Proofs (Protocol Upgrade) [Link]
- Vote on Guardian and Security Council Threshold Changes (Protocol Upgrade) [Link]
- Vote on Agora Advanced Delegation Bug Fixes in Alligator (Governor Upgrade) [Link]
- Vote on Grants Council Operating Budget (Info)
- Vote on Code of Conduct Council Renewal [Tentative] (Info)
- Vote on Developer Advisory Board Renewal [Tentative] (Info)
- Inflation Adjustment [Tentative]
Proposals will be linked as posted to the forum.
May 23 - May 29: Token House Votes
- Vote on Fault Proofs (Protocol Upgrade) [Link]
- Vote on Guardian and Security Council Threshold Changes (Protocol Upgrade) [Link]
- Vote on Agora Advanced Delegation Bug Fixes in Alligator (Governor Upgrade) [Link]
- Vote on Grants Council Operating Budget (Info)
- Vote on Code of Conduct Council Renewal [Tentative] (Info)
- Vote on Developer Advisory Board Renewal [Tentative] (Info)
- Ratify Season 6 Intent Ratification and Intent Budgets
May 30 - June 5: Citizens House Veto Period
Provided the below upgrade proposals pass in the Token House, they will move on to a one week veto period in the Citizens’ House
- Veto period for Fault Proofs (Protocol Upgrade)
- Veto period for Guardian and Security Council Threshold Changes (Protocol Upgrade)
- Veto period for Agora Advanced Delegation Bug Fixes in Alligator (Governor Upgrade)
May 30 - June 5: Token House Nominations
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Any delegate that would like to run to be a representative may self-nominate themselves on the forum before June 5th at 19:00 GMT.
- Grants Council
- Developer Advisory Board [Tentative]
- Code of Conduct Council [Tentative]
June 6 - June 12: Candidate Assessments and Reading
- Ask candidates questions in the nomination thread and/or join the Election Town Hall hosted by the Foundation.
- Prepare for Special Voting Cycle #23b by reading relevant proposals
Approve
Top 100 delegates may provide approvals by posting the below phrase in a comment under a proposal draft
”I am an Optimism delegate [link to your delegate commitment] with sufficient voting power and I believe this proposal is ready to move to a vote."
Each of the below proposals requires 4 top 100 delegate approvals by June 12th at 19:00 GMT in order to move to a vote in for Special Voting Cycle #23b.
- Fjord (EIP7212, FastLZ) (Protocol Upgrade)
Proposals will be linked as posted to the forum.
June 13 - June 20: Token House Vote
- Fjord (EIP7212, FastLZ) (Protocol Upgrade)
- Vote on Chain Delegation Program Amendment
- Vote on Anticapture Commission Amendment
- Elections:
June 20 - June 26: Citizens House Veto Period
Provided the below upgrade proposal passes in the Token House, it will move on to a one week veto period in the Citizens’ House
- Fjord (EIP7212, FastLZ) (Protocol Upgrade)
June 20 - June 26: Delegates Rest, Relax, Touch Grass! 
June 27th: Season 6 Starts! 
Season 6 Preview
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Voting Cycle #24 (June 27 - July 17)
- Representative Structures (Grants Council, etc.) onboard elected members
- The Collective Feedback Commission and Grants Council draft Mission Requests
- Token House delegates approval rank Mission Requests (see Missions: Voting Guide)
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Voting Cycle #25 (July 18- August 7)
- Grant Applications open for Retroactive Public Goods Funding Round 5
- Grant Applications open for all approved Mission Requests!
- Grant Applications open for Retroactive Public Goods Funding Round 5
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Follow the public governance calendar the rest of the Season!