Do we need this forum and what for?

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@mkoeppelmann

b) I think DAO governance is not in the greatest state. How I would describe the state currently: proposals that come from the outside (while sometimes low quality) often don’t get any real attention even if interesting. What is missing here IMO is some tiered approach. Asking a lot of people (GNO holder) to pay attention to some (maybe random) forum post is already a relatively bis ask. So ideally there was some path where a few people (that have already some merits in the DAO) have a role of vetting new proposals and those could bring the proposal into a further stage. Also - Gnosis deals with so many different topics that it might make sense to have categories for proposals to make sure the right people can pay attention.

On the other hand - proposals that come from the “inside” (from people working full time on or around Gnosis) often are almost decided already once they hit the forum. Not sure how to fix that other than encouraging everyone to post ideas as early as possible into the forum.

@refri

A little lower hanging fruit would be to have some person familiar about the internals posting regularly (on whatever channel, either Telegram, Discord or even here) about all topics that might be relevant to the community and answering questions seriously with internal knowledge

This is interesting, we think the role of governance facilitators could be useful in a case like this. The Governance Facilitator could be a neutral person, working group, or institution whose goal is to help GnosisDAO and Gnosis Ltd work efficiently toward the success of the Gnosis Chain. Some of the facilitator’s roles fit perfectly with what you mention, such as advising members in formulating proposals for the forum, drafting and publishing reports each month on the most relevant activities and news of the GnosisDAO that members should be aware of, supervising the correct following of governance flows and processes or moderating and maintaining the integrity of the governance forum. This has already been applied in the Maker and Decentraland DAOs.

Now, this facilitator will require a framework from which to draw the necessary processes to streamline internal governance and provide support to both internal and external collaborators. We are aware that there is a governance process but it seems that it’s not working as intended. At SEEDLatam, we believe that an updated framework is needed to provide a space for these actors and we are open to exploring ideas to optimize the experience for readers, reviewers, and proposers.