[bDIP-N]: Expanding the Mandate of Governance Department

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Title: [bDIP-N]: Updating the Mandate of Governance Department

Draft Authors: [Baer.eth]

Working Group: [DAOstewards - BanklessDAO Workstream]

BDIP SUMMARY

TLDR;

This bDIP aims to reflect the current status of the Constitution updation process on Github and give the Newly formed Department of Governance the mandate to update the Constitution and Community Handbook source in version control.

BDIP BACKGROUND

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The constitution mandated the OpsGuild - further referred to as Ops Department - to update and version control the Constitution and Community Handbook source as new bDIPs have passed by the community.

The Ops Department cannot fulfil the mandate for the following reasons.

  • The scope of the Ops department’s mission is limited to Watching over the daily activities of the DAO.

  • there is a limited appetite for governance-related tasks at Ops other than Season planning

Due to the above-mentioned reasons, the constitution wasn’t updated promptly.

Previously passed bDIPs were incorporated by Icedcool🏴#4947 and Baer.eth#6344, both members of the governance Dept.

According to the constitution, Governance Department is a newly formed, nonfunded ‘Guild’ to facilitate governance processes and provide GovOPs and GovStratagy to the DAO.

Updating the constitution by mandating the version control of the constitution from end to end will enable the Governance department to exercise its formation purpose.

BDIP SPECIFICATION

Current Form Proposal
If the passing proposal is a bDIP, OpsGuild will be prompted to update the Constitution and Community Handbook source in version control and a new version of the Handbook will be made available to the community. If the passing proposal is a bDIP, Governance Department will be prompted to update the Constitution and Community Handbook source in version control. A new version of the Handbook will be made available to the community.

As mentioned in the bDIP background, the Governance department is probably the aptest entity to regularly update the version of the BanklessDAO constitution in all available forms.

This bDIP can be considered ‘minor’ since it corrects discrepancies in the mandate of an Ops Department.

EXPECTED IMPACT

If this proposal is implemented, the Ops department will be relieved from its mandate to version control the Constitution, enabling the government department to house all governance-related activities within BanklessDAO.

ANALYTICS

The impact can be measured by

  • The number of bDIPs incorporated into the constitution by the governance department.
  • Accuracy of the BanklessDAO Constitution and Community Handbook source

NEXT STEPS

  1. Approval of this bDIP with 51 votes.

  2. Assign bDIP a number once this proposal enters the Snapshot vote.

  3. Approval of this proposal on snapshot

  4. Incorporating this proposal on GitHub through a Pull request from author

WORKING GROUP BACKGROUND

‘DAOstweards -BanklessDAO workstream’ is a supporting workstream for the BanklessDAO Governance department in achieving its goals by authoring proposals and providing proposal development support for BanklessDAO members.

POLL (Discourse Post Usage Only)

  • Yes
  • No, but Support the direction and needs improvement.
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If there’s no appetite than how is increasing the mandate going to work?

Surely we need appetite and desire to increase the mandate.

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“BDAo Governance Workstream” is the name of the workstream that you can use instead of department.

While the daostewards created the workstream it is it’s own workstream now

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That’s why this proposal is asking to enable the Governance Dept to do this

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@ernest_of_gaia i dint get you; the Governance dept is a non-funded ‘Guild’ according to the constitution. And there isn’t any BDAo Governance Workstream anymore

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To everyone who voted no, please add your rational on why? and any possible alternative to the proposal!

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@ernest_of_gaia i dint get you; the Governance dept is a non-funded ‘Guild’ according to the constitution. And there isn’t any BDAo Governance Workstream anymore

I’m not sure that’s the case. Can you quote the part of the constitution you’re referring to because ‘ctrl + f’ search results aren’t finding that definition: https://github.com/BanklessDAO/bankless-dao-constitution/blob/main/bdao-constitution.md

Also a department and a guild are supposed to be mutually exclusive so calling this “dept is a non-funded ‘Guild’” isn’t how that’s supposed to work as it effects how it would be funded.

Is this the Governance Dept you are referring to: [V2] Establish and fund a Governance Department

Did it actually get funded by grants? Haven’t followed if that went through or not. If the department is formed that does make sense to make that small change to the handbook/constitution. But only if that dept. is actually formed to replace the ops workstream. There seems to be confusion about whether that workstream still exists or not reading the above comments.

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I still don’t quite follow because the Ops Guild is funded. Is the proposed governance department I linked to the one you are referencing in your proposed change in the bDIP? I’m sure they will get funding based on the votes but if they haven’t yet this change should wait until the department is established.

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Just need to update it to reference the governance workstream and not the department

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it’s a non funded workstream not a guild. There is a workstream, we have updated the Discord Governance category with channel titles that reflect the purpose of the workstream. we are this season unfunded because we put up a proposal, that to my knowledge has not been ratified due to the GC votes 4 abstain, 1 no, 1 yes.

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folks need to know too, it is not ops dept that handles the updates, its solely Iced Cool, as a member of the Ops Dept. This is quite a blocker to actually getting updates going in the first place

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@ernest_of_gaia is a hard naming choice for sure! if we follow the constitution word by word, Governance ‘workstream’ is a guild,

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Can you point to the text in the constitution that states that and the proposal where we agreed to sustantiate as a guild. A guild has totally different goals, objectives and needs. By default it would be an unfunded project not a guild

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What you commented is not what your proposing above

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@activate-glacier what an I missing? Everything except the final updation of the handbook is already happening under one roof, so the impact of this proposal is having everything under ‘Gov Dept’. Can allso add.

‘governance department takes owner of the version control process of the Constitution and Handbook’ to the impact section

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I’m being nitpicky. But this spoke to me for a moment.

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Why no flat out no?

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it’s No, but there are other options like knocking Ops door and asking them to do it or go to GC and ask to cut funding to the entire dao until the constitution is updated.

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Ah, indeed. Thanks :innocent:

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I have to tagged Ops multiple times, but tagging them here to @raybankless.eth @ernest_of_gaia @0xZFi.eth @Rowan @AboveAverageJoe @brianl @Steff

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