Polkassembly - OpenGov Dashboard Treasury Proposal #2405

OpenGov Dashboard Treasury Proposal

3 years ago

Hello all,

The Proof of Chaos project aims to incentivise governance participation.

In order to track the effectiveness of our efforts, we built a Kusama Governance Dashboard. With the launch of OpenGov we are now looking to extend the dashboard to also include all relevant data from this new governance system.

We are asking for a total of 31.889 € for the undertaking.

Through our last proposal we have been overpaid 4.160 € (due to KSM price increasing during voting period) which we discounted in this proposal. We will only be asking for 70% of the funds up front and 30% after completion to ensure accountability on our part.

31.889 € - 4.160 € = 27.729 €

Asking amounts of each proposal:

Up-front payment through proposal 1: 27.729 € * 0,7 = 19.410 € => 733 KSM (10% price buffer)

Post-delivery payment through proposal 2: 27.729 € * 0,3 = 8.319 €

Any excess funds (due to a KSM price increase between referenda creation and payout) will be paid back to the treasury! This includes the price buffer of course.

You can find the full proposal here.

Comments (2)

3 years ago

Thanks for sharing this proposal, Gabriel.

can we include metrics on agile delegation? amount of delegated tokens, specific tracks, etc.
I fail to see in the submission how many people from your team will work on this: could you clarify this (and if its only a team of one as well) and how you calculate rates? not that I think they are high: but I want to know if you use a standard for different tasks.

3 years ago

Thanks for this feedback Raul

Yes, we will definitely have a few charts for delegation. On the main dashboard we will have a chart that shows delegated vote count/amount vs direct vote count /amount for each referendum (similar to what we have for the gov1 dashboard).

We will also add a chart for delegations per track over time on the main dashboard. I could see a tab in the dashboard just for delegations actually but maybe we save that for later? The goal is to ship a dashboard quickly for gov2.

I have added a "Team section" on the proposal but will give a short summary here as well. This proposal will mainly be executed by Claudia. She built most of the gov1 dashboard and is an analyst engineer with 2+ years of professional experience in the domain. I, Gabriel, will help out here and there with the coding part but my main contribution will be in guiding the effort. Our rates are based on previous proposals or "ecosystem" rates if you will.

The rates question is of course a very relevant one. Since we often have questions and discussions around the hourly rates on proposals, maybe it would be interesting to get more "standardisation" around rates as a guideline for proposals actually.

It could be interesting to track the rates that projects are charging for the different tasks (research, development, content creation, translation etc.) in a database (could just be a google sheet). That way when a new proposal comes along it would be easier for the community to evaluate whether the costs are more on the higher end or lower end.

Thanks again for the feedback!

3 years ago

I like the GovDash data analysis dash board and look forward to seeing it available for OpenGov. Not voting is a form of vote delegation from those that don't care to those that do. I don't vote about things I don't care about. Why is incentivizing people to vote about things that they don't care about by bribing them with NFTs a good thing? Won't this just lead to vote herding, (voting along with whatever side is winning at the time) by lazy NFT seekers, as a heuristic short-cut to get free ape jpegs? I don't understand why this is a good thing. I feel like you could drop the NFT part of the project.

3 years ago

Hey Kekose,

Thanks for the support on the dashboard.

This proposal is not regarding the NFT side of the project but I think you are aware of that.

The NFT side of the project is definitely still going to continue though. We are currently revamping it to bring it on chain and effectively decentralize it.

No incentive model is perfect and we are aware of that. Our goal is to get as close to perfection as possible though and I hope you will like the changes we are making to the system. Fact is that we absolutely need more participation in governance and the project has had a positive impact on that (note that we also introduced an on-chain quiz standard for this as well to drive educated votes). Would love to have you join our discord to shape the future of the project.

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