Hi everyone! Thanks for the engagement; it’s always reassuring to see how much our community members and contributors care about the Optimistic Vision. Addressing a few questions on the governance side below. @Jonas will respond to specific questions about round details and design in a separate comment.
- There is no change in support of public goods. While we’ve updated the brand and changed the shorthand for Retroactive Public Goods Funding from “RetroPGF” to “Retro Funding,” there has not been a change in commitment to supporting public goods. The refreshed branding has no impact on the inclusion of public goods within scope. If the scope were changed to exclude public goods, governance input and approval would have been requested.
- More clarity around the types of public goods that will be rewarded. In Retro Funding 3, badgeholders and builders requested more clarity around the types of contributions and impact that will be rewarded. Category-specific rounds provide clarity on the specific types of contributions (including open source, public goods) that will be rewarded in each round, and do not change the nature of Retroactive Public Goods Funding.
- Sharing this plan is a step towards more community involvement, not less. Open sourcing our Retro Funding design plans for the next year is a step forward in terms of transparency and insight into how and why the Foundation makes decisions about these parameters (see Phase 1 on the Path to Open Metagovernance.) The next step in the transition towards community-led scope setting and round sizing will be to ask the Citizens’ House to ratify proposed rounds (ratification of round sizing begins in Round 6), followed by Citizens making these proposals autonomously. We are still fully committed to these being Citizen responsibilities, and continue to follow the gradual approach outlined here.
- The same process will apply to the parameters pertaining to Citizenship. @optimistic_emily, our Product Lead for Citizenship, is conducting the foundational research required to develop an informed strategy on Citizenship. As part of Phase 1, you can expect Emily to continue open sourcing this work on Citizenship, which will eventually include the path towards governance-set Citizenship criteria.