Greetings from the Governance Working Group - the community-driven initiative to define and technically implement governance models for the NDC. The GWG is to design and propose governance models for adoption; it does not directly run, manage, or operate the ecosystem governance or treasury.
For more information on this group’s efforts and about its sub-Working Groups, visit thewiki page here: ndc | wiki
For any of the sub-Working Groups below, you can find their working documents for public review and feedback here:
It was important to the CE WG to hear from the Community about what core values should be included in the discussions, and a Forum post + Astro DAO test poll revealed that Community Collaboration & Transparency came in as the top two values we hold.
For the CE WG, these values will be of great importance and are why we will be hosting a Twitter Spaces / Ask Us Anything soon.
They continue to be available for Community feedback and edits.
Some of the structures and frameworks referenced in these documents are currently being established by our fellow Legal Working Group & Technical Governance Working Group members, and once they are established, we will be able to revisit and finalize these documents.
Community Contributor Onboarding Process - clearly outlining how anyone in the NEAR Ecosystem can participate in the overall Governance Working Group and then any of the sub-Working Groups in particular - led by @Cryptonaut and to be posted here ASAP
COMMUNITY LEADER & FOUNDER CALL TO ACTION:
Engaging the many sub-communities within the wider NEAR Community is going to be essential for the CE WG, so please indicate your willingness to collaborate by filling out this Google Sheet - this will be a rolling item
Collaborating with the Communications Working Group on our first Twitter Spaces - details to come!
First Press Release with an update – It’s in final review with legal, and will post when it goes live this week.
IN PROCESS:
1. FIRST AMA/NDC RADIO – We are developing the first three live space events to explore the crucial ideas around governance, the NDC, and the issues crucial to the community. This coming week we will solidify themes, speakers, and dates.
2. POLL DEVELOPMENT – Insights are crucial to the communications process, therefore we will be working with the engagement group to learn from polls. The first poll VALUES RESEARCH will be incorporated into our work.
—> 1. V2 Governance Framework Undergoing Edits and Feedback from original design. The call in the working group is set for Tuesday. Currently also collecting 1 on 1 feedback so if you would like to chat to discuss specifics, feel free to ping me on telegram @ozymandius1
—> 2. Constitution V1 was posted two weeks ago. The V2 will be released once the governance framework V2 has been updated and distributed.
—> 3. Addressing the Variables Question → Focus of coming week is to nail down the key variables of the governance framework – specifically election timeframes, salary for members, terms of governing bodies, meeting timeframes for the governing bodies, etc.
Plan Going Forward:
—> Meet on tuesday and come to consensus on key changes for governance framework.
—> Update Governance Framework based on changes.
—> Update Constitution based on Gov. Framework changes.
Last week the [GWG onboarding process document] (GWG - Contributor Onboarding Process - Google Docs) was prepared. It was shared with GWG core group and internals for review and is now open for public review.
Created a Miro board along with @blaze to showcase process visually.
Worked on creating Wiki.Near page for onboarding community members who want to contribute towards NDC
For this week we’ll be working on a tasks mentioned below.
TL:DR & Video NEAR Constitution
The draft fro Near constitution is long and complex which has been one of the biggest roadblocks for community to understand how the proposed NDC V1 framework would work.
To help solve this, we want to create a video that explains the process.
Capture existing contributions
A lot of work has gone into creating multiple processes, procedures and frameworks since NDC was proposed by Illia 2 months back.
The issue has been effective communication.
Our efforts are going to go into streamlining communication and simplifying it for the larger community to be able to participate and understand what is going on.
Note - If you want to join NDC as a a contributor, please follow the link shared.
Would be starting a daily summary update on what was done or discussed about via NDC base.
Starting the report from the 14th of November 2022 which was on a Monday
Meanwhile before then, Ozymanduis had dropped the draft of the NDC Governance Framework V2 on sun 13th of Nov for review, contribution and comment on the NDC constitution WG & Leads group
On the 14th of Nov blaze made it clear that NF doesn’t influence the NDC rather help support the treasury with fundings , on the lead group, Nov 22nd was the agreed date for the GWG draft release by the press for community publication . As recorded by “blaze “ we’ve 5+ draft docs with 20+ comments from the community.
Now we’re in between choosing the right voting process.
For fair decentralized voting systems, we would either work with
Filling of form
Nearsocial( NFT badges to determine reputation) later on iterate on PoH » PoUH » PoUAH
Kyc process
For identity management. (In progress)
The CE WG , Planning on building engagement and awareness about NDC by
hosting AMA’s on twitter to start engaging our twitter
Posting updates about NDC
Retweet/ Quote tweets on $Near related posts
Making polls
With this we are increasing awareness, engaging the community on twitter, providing more info about NDC to openly, for transparency sake and wider understanding about the NDC. community WG updates for NOV 15th» [Nov_15_2022 Community Working Group Update - Google Slides]
Thanks and big ups
and big ups