Voting, Discussing, and Publishing: GitHub and Discord
First Meeting: September 29 on Zoom, see the calendar
Initial Intent
The initial intent of this working group is to create a formal space to discuss and specify proposals for enhancing the NNS governance system. The working group itself will choose its own focus and scope within that broader intent.
Leadership
The working group will be coordinated by @emmaperetti and will initially be led by three individuals representing different groups of time zones:
This is just the initial leadership, the working group can discuss changes in leadership (e.g. rolling changes per quarter).
Voting, Publishing, and Discussing
We’re going to experiment with using GitHub as a place for us to govern the working group itself. Here is the repository. The will of the working group will be represented by documents in the working group, and consensus will be formed with GitHub issues and reactions.
More informal discussions can take place in the dedicated Discord or in the forum.
First Meeting
Our first meeting will be held on September 29 at 3pm UTC (see the calendar). The purpose of the first meeting will be to decide the focus of the working group and possibly begin to discuss concrete improvements to the NNS and their importance.
You can make proposals for the focus and scope of the group in this GitHub issue. Please come to the first meeting prepared with a GitHub account. Though we are using GitHub, we expect this group to be less technical in nature than the other working groups.
Anyone interested in participating in the working group should fill out this survey.
I filled it out specifying a lot of actual NNS issues that can be discussed, rather than the meta level of the first two meetings where most of what was discussed was the working group itself. Hopefully we can move past that soon.
I’m not going to be able to attend the next meeting and I don’t have more time to give the GWG this week so I’ve summarised the available information and processed it into a candidate mission statement and list of work items for the group to consider. Given there was a focus on the working group scope I tried to produce a scope document but it wasn’t possible in light of the diversity of responses. The mission statement could use defending but it is only intended as a place to start and mission statements always get changed.
The content of the mission statement & work items doc is based on summaries of primary resources for the purpose of brevity and relevance so some stuff was lost in the compression. Also, nothing posted on the Github and no survey submissions after today, or from the Chinese community were included.
For the next meeting I propose the following resolutions:
All future meetings have an agenda and designated note-taking-person
GWG participants break into groups based on work items and return at the next meeting with a scope and research plan for the work item they’ve chosen.
One group gather feedback from the GWG on the candidate mission statement & work items, summarise the responses not included in the documents below, and produce a new candidate mission statement and list of work items.
ICGWG Mission Statement & Work Items
Mission Statement
To facilitate the ability of the Internet Computer governance system to represent the interests of
the Internet Computer Community by providing advice to the community and the DFINITY
Foundation
Work Items
Tokenomics
a. Reward weighting
b. Defining tokenomics goals
NNS Function
a. Stakeholder participation outside of neurons
b. User Interface
c. Incentive development
d. Follow relationship expiry
e. New NNS topics
f. NNS Mechanism design
Community Funding
Research
a. Mapping the governance system
b. Economics of IC governance
c. Decentralisation assessment
d. Governance & tokenomics goals
e. Legal analysis
f. Observe and measure the interaction between the NNS and the community
g. Gather information on community pain points
Outward-Facing
a. Investor Relations
b. Investor Education
c. Known neuron engagement
d. Community engagement & participation encouragement
e. Proposal status communication
f. Establishing an upward feedback channel to DFINITY
g. Facilitating the implementation of community-driven proposals
h. Expert engagement
i. A website to explain what is going on with the NNS to normal people
Administration
a. Overseeing other working groups
b. Addressing issues of unimplemented proposals
c. Governance roadmap item prioritisation
d. Content moderation
Advising
a. Technology
b. Marketing
c. BizDev
d. Ecosystem growth
Philosophy & Terminology
a. Ethics
b. Definitions ie. community, decentralisation
c. Methodology
Process (Work item not present in attached research)
a. How should this group operate and what procedures should be followed?