Outline Month 5 General Contributors and proposed grant amounts
Describe the ongoing responsibilities of those receiving recurring grants
Overview
This proposal will lay out Retroactive Grants for April 2021 as well as the rates by which recurring contributors will be paid for the work rendered this past month. Each contributor is named along with the function to which they contributed, the amount of their grant, and their specific contribution. As always, General Contributors are compensated in $BADGER from the treasury.
Details
Retroactive Grants
The following General Contributors worked on a more project-style basis.
Name
Function
Amount
Contribution
cookies #4969
Development
25
Programming bots
Gabs#0291
Operations
25
Enter the Badger video editing
getdown#4638
Development
25
AWS infrastructure redesign & IaC
hyment#1402
Support
75
Community support
kilogold#7310
Development
50
BSC Bridge Faucet proof-of-concept/deployment
plug#5346
Development
50
Building execution environment
Recurring Contributors
The amounts set forth here are based upon time commitment of each General Contributor during April.
Name
Function
Amount
Contribution
Affax#0001
Development
125
Building Bridge UI and smart contracts
andy8052/DrApplesauce
Advisory
100
Member of smart contract advisory board
Arben
Advisory
200
Strategic advisor, including institutional expansion, business development, legal, and infrastructure security
Designed BadgerERC1155, repaired test suite for badger-system, fixed BSC fork mode, proposed revision to contributing guidelines, collaborated with bdex team, worked on QA for yearn-test
freewhol€z
Advisory
200
Strategic advisor, including institutional expansion, business development, legal, and infrastructure security (On retainer basis for legal services to be charged hourly)
Ingalandia#9826
Operations
100
Content and marketing lead
Kerthmash#2764
Development
250
AWS reorganization
Lipp
Operations
150
Project management and organizational advisory
Richard
Advisory
200
Strategic advisor, including institutional expansion, business development, legal, and infrastructure security
saj#8488
Development
250
Fullstack QA
Sam122
Advisory
100
Member of smart contract advisory board
Tritium - VLK
Development
250
BSC Bridge Faucet Proof-of-Concept/Deployment
U.S.V
Advisory
200
Strategic advisor, including institutional expansion, business development, legal, and infrastructure security
WARR!0R#0466
Development
50
v2-UI front-end repo
Will.i.am
Operations
200
Events, marketing strategy, and product marketing lead
Support
Name
Amount
Role
blackbear#4259
125
Head of Support
Kryptobi
75
Member of Support team
sp7290#4859
75
Member of Support team
hyment#1402
75
Support team voluntary assist
Total $BADGER Allocation for month 5 = 4025 $BADGER
Vote “For” if in favor of the proposed Month 5 grants and vote “Against” if not in favor.
I want to also suggest we edit the BIP and add Hyment for retroactive month of April for 75 badger (paid now) and continuing into May for 75 badger (paid at end of May assuming continued contributions) for his tremendous help jumping in and supporting the Support team in the Discord.
Will be posting the BIP on announcements soon for folks from discord to come and chime in.
Unfortunately you can only vote yes or no in full. I would have voted yes, except for the fact that a member of the council appointed by the community shouldn’t be also receiving grants, because this for me is a conflict of interest and would not show independence in their council votes. Either contribute to the project or be in the council, but not both.
I’ve thought about that too. At the moment I am being paid as a contributor, not a core team member. The council is also not a paid posistion. As I start doing more and more, I wonder if I should step down. I also somehow feel that it is @blackbear and I who are the only ones really close to the community and focusing on bridging the gap. If it is decided there is a conflict of interest, I’d like to find someone who will be active and take my place. If it were to me to appoint my successor, it would be @hash_error, another very active member of our community who always takes the time for people.
I’m putting all my time in for Badger now, and enjoying it, and doing more for the DAO than I would on the council. If the community thinks there is a conflict of interest here, I will step down.
I brought up in the council chambers yesterday, that the council is in general too far from the community and comparatively maybe a little too close to the team.
I would kindly ask you to approve this BIP, and file another one if you think we should reconsider who is on the Council. I don’t think it is a bad idea.
I think the community would be very foolish to remove @blackbear. He is the head of support, and the voice of the people, and he understands and represents the community well.
I would vote for hash_error to be a council member. Don’t know where that put him tho, as he’s currently an ambassador. Guess both roles are similar.
It seems like in the end, there are a handful of people who are very involved in a positive way in our community. These people tend to end up bouncing around between multiple posistion.
I hope this isn’t always the case. not sure Hash_error even wants it
Thank you for your honest reply. I have always supported fair compensation for people contributing directly to the project and in that regard I would vote for in snapshot.
I do value your contributions to Badger and the community in all aspects and it is nothing personal. The council has both members appointed by the team, and members appointed or voted by the community (that sometimes can be a counter-weight). Thus I feel that if a community appointed member is also contributing and receives grants (being paid by the team), then this might be seen the wrong way or lead to conflict of interest. Are they really representing the community, or the team? Hope you see my point.
I too am very conscious of that. I just wonder if a totally unpaid council who is not really engaged with the team makes the best group of people to deliberate on things.
In my mind this divide between the community and the team is the worst thing a DAO could ever have. I hate this thinking, and I am working very very very hard without even sleeping enough to try to change it. You see me pushing on the community every day to focus on productive things and help build. You see me posting bounties and finding members of our community who want to do work and bringing them into the team. I also spend a lot of time with each one of them making sure they find their way and connect with the right people to make things happen.
I’m doing the same thing on the other side of our unfortunate divide. I post links to messages our community discord all the time in dev channels pointing out areas of user friction. In team meetings, I am constantly the voice of the community and the user. We need to come together, to build together. The people who are committed to badger should be part of the team, because they should be building with us, and these are the people you want on the council.
Maybe they should be re-elected every 3-6 months so the community can continue to choose people who represent them, and so new badgers who aren’t involved yet have a foot in the door. This I very much agree with.
