> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://ethdowment.gitbook.io/ethdowment/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://ethdowment.gitbook.io/ethdowment/meeting-notes.md). # Meeting Notes ## **📅** Tuesday, **July** 6, 2021 **Notes** * Want to make sure we don't over commit with funding proposal, etc. Don't want to fall into trap of feeling like we need to perpetually fundraise. * Want more vision and mission to align behind. Possibly also explain roadmap for what happens if someone donates. * Start by writing a blog post per week, starting with mission / vision post. * Want to start branding / creating an endowment meme. Not sure exactly what. Possibly Pando? Or make it purposefully blank and let community decide? * Ether Cards are cool NFT example. * Want to bring more people into convo, start inviting more. * Seem aligned on using some NFT / community mechanics to fundraise, using those to vote on what protocols to allocate funds to, and relying on some third-party protocol's governance to ultimately allocate funds. * Keep things fun and moving forward. * Thinking about what value community provides. All seem to enjoy discussing philanthropy, DAOs, etc. Perhaps that's the hook? * Be careful not to commit to specifics in blog, more around intentions. **Next steps** * Blog post about mission / vision / high-level roadmap (Based, Greg) * Add donating (and possibly wallet connection and adding name to website) (Jared, Ford) * Start seeding more conversations in Discord and inviting people (All) ## **📅** Tuesday, **June** **29**, 2021 **Notes** * Presented DAO research * Boardroom.info * Parcel.money * Aragon * Colony * DAOHAUS * DAO decision * A lot of solutions are pretty heavy-weight * Decided to start with a gnosis safe with 2 of 5 signers and go from there * NFTs for fundraising and community * Exploring idea of minting NFTs that are sold or given to donors * NFTs could gate access to Discord, events, etc. * Outstanding question around purpose of NFTs and whether it's counter to the mission of the endowment to be exclusive * Idea of getting artists from around world to contribute art * Idea of generative NFTs * Idea of partnering with POAP * Collaboration ideas * Poap for NFTs * Arweave for hosting NFTs * Babylon for treasury management * Gnosis Safe for treasury * Collab Land for gating Discord access * Graph for safe subgraph **Next steps** * Ford work on subgraph * BN set up gnosis safe * Greg look into Arweave and NFTs / Art * Jared add address to site and talk to artists * Mus help mock adding address to site ## **📅** Tuesday, **June** **22**, 2021 **Notes** * Need more momentum. But how? * Start setting smaller goals that enable actions like depositing funds. * Do in parallel to thinking about governance * Open to applying for a grant * Things to differentiate us * Clear objective (What do we want to do? What question to answer?) * Clear funding need (Amount, what for) * Try to get grants from multiple protocols * Ideas * Could apply for research grant to outline project * Could apply for MVP grant to get something off ground (e.g. to fund small overhead costs, maybe some part-time comp) * Could apply for full project team grant (e.g. hire someone full-time) but this seems like too much right now, maybe later * Could donate to the endowment directly as well * Would be cool to get other protocols involved * Can start having exploratory conversations now * But also good to figure out what we want to do * Aligning on experimenting with governance being purpose of Ethdowment * Endowment is a long-term, solid funding mechanism * Do lots of fast, iterative governance experiments on top * “Endowment like ocean current, experiments like waves breaking” * “Experiment to find less bad governance” or “less shitty governance” * Possible MVP * A DAO-as-a-service that we can deposit into and vote (e.g. DAO HAUS) * Vote on what protocols to send funds to (i.e. what wallet address) * Those protocols implement their governance structures to vote on where to allocate the funds * Need to think about the goals and how to measure the effectiveness of the different governance experiments. What’s the north star? * Difficult because how we measure this and how we decide what experiments to allocate to is in effect a form of governance * Regardless, we should have a mission / vision / hypothesis around what is “good” governance. E.g. is it what the most Ethdowment users / donors like? * Transparency is important, will be built into DAO model * Possible roadmap * This week: explore DAO solutions * Next week: decide on DAO solution and implement * Following week: deposit capital into DAO and vote on where to invest * Onwards: start talking to governance recipients for first batch of funds * Next steps * CA to share DAO research so far * Come to next meeting with DAO as as service solutions ## **📅** Tuesday, **June** 15, 2021 **Agenda** * Review [**Roadmap**](/ethdowment/overview.md#roadmap) and align on plan * Next steps for lifecycle, brand, governance * Explore operational funding? **Notes** * What is the core innovation we want to focus on? * Permanence ("around in 1k years") * Sustainability / not having to constantly fundraise * Experiment with radical democracy * Decentralized philanthropy * What are the governance options? * Multi-sig / board of directors * Capital-weighted voting (1 token 1 vote, gov alpha) * Democracy (1 human 1 vote) -- difficult to implement now * Quadratic voting, with or without sybil resistance * Meta governance -- allow people to direct funds to different governance experiments. e.g. direct funds to a 1 vote per token protocol or a 1 vote per human protocol. * Soft-test / mvp democracy via simple Discord vote. Could be good v1. * Could allocate funds based on # votes and not a winner(s) take all system. e.g. some nonprofits could get $10. Some gas price concerns. * Discussion around experimentation * Seems plausible that we can create a protocol for accepting deposits, investing funds, allocating donations, and withdrawing funds. * Governance is harder. Perhaps we approach it as an experiment. Try to create a system that can create a system vs trying to create the perfect system. * Discussion around protocol partnerships / grants * Could protocols allocate grant budgets to us for development? * Could protocols save treasury funds in Ethdowment? * Could protocols use Ethdowment to allocate grants? * Roadmap * [**v1 roadmap**](/ethdowment/overview.md#roadmap) in Gitbook seems ok **Next steps** * Ford and Jared to discuss next steps on protocol development * Everyone try to invite 1 new person to Discord per week * CA explore ethereum foundation partnership ## **📅** Tuesday, **June** 8, 2021 **Participants: CA, Jared, Ford** **Next steps** * ~~Schedule call and share with community (get Zoom link from Jared)~~ * ~~Update Gitbook from free trial~~ * ~~Try to get 5 people on next call~~ * ~~Reach out to pool together~~ * Start to explore operational funding * ~~Look into tax implications of contributing~~ ## **📅** Tuesday, **June** 1, 2021 **Participants: CA, Jared, Mustafa** ### Agenda * Start promoting to people * ETH foundation guys * On Deck * SPC * Friends * What questions do we want to answer? * Voting * Product roadmap * Start proposal system in Discord * CA to write proposal for governance * CA to look up and share example proposals * Jared to write proposal for product lifecycle * CA add cal event and link to next community call so new members can join * Governance ideas * Open to idea of a governance token * Could be nice incentive for early users * Restrict % of returns that could fund overhead to keep aligned with mission * Lock at beginning to ensure used for governance * CA to write proposal * Branding and marketing * Could do profile avatar NFTs for first 1,000 donors as marketing thing * Like permanent aspect of ethdowment and pyramids, aliens, etc. * Want to play up permanence * Think we can also play up fun a bit -- do something unique that helps us stand out. * Have something people can display elsewhere -- NFT, emoji, etc. like being part of a club or having their name on a building -- make giving part of digital identity. * Look at Badger, Yearn, Yam, bored ape yacht club, Index Coop, etc. as examples * **Goals for next week** * Submit proposals * Get 20 total people into Discord (\~14 more) * **Next steps** * Jared lifecycle draft * Mus to brainstorm brand / fun ideas * CA proposal examples and gov token proposal * CA add calendar event and link to Discord / Gitbook * CA write blurb and put in Gitbook * CA add channel descriptions to Discord ## **📅** Tuesday, May 25, 2021 **Participants: CA, Jared, Mustafa** ### Agenda * CA agenda items * What do we want to do this week? * Brand mark across properties * Small site edits * Start twitter * Share with advisors * Spec v1 dapp / protocol? * Any documentation edits? * Add Gitbook to website? ✅ * Ford's saving idea?! * Discuss fun vs professional balance for brand * Add a little spice to landing page? * "Welcome" sign rotating by language? * Song + animation? * What to build brand around? * Start to create a theme to build brand around now? * Brand is explicitly tabula rasa and we wait until community vote? (slight preference for this... e.g. could use white flag for now) * Governance plans re: donor vs human votes * Ok to start sharing site with potential advisors? * Thoughts about general representation (i.e. diversity)? * When we're ready to do intro blog post we should use mirror: ### Notes * Start inviting people soon, but after we update site with brand, twitter link, github link * Like Ford's idea of people being able to save and withdraw from endowment * Product tiers in the future * Funds: save or donate * Governance: multi-sign, gov alpha (1 token 1 vote), forked communities, 1 person 1 vote * MVP is likely save or vote + multi-sig or 1 token one vote gov alpha voting on proposals. Later on figure out 1 vote per human. * Design idea of seedling inside Ethereum logo ### Next Steps * Finish logo - Mus * Add logo to all properties (website, gitbook, github, twitter, discord) - CA and Jared * Add links to all properties to website (keep discord and gitbook primary and secondary CTAs) - Mus and Jared * Product spec and tiers document (in plain english, not technical yet) - CA then send to Jared and Mus for feedback ## **📅 Tuesday, May 18, 2021** **Participants: CA, Jared, Mustafa** ### **Agenda** * Mustafa’s Background * Jared’s Background * Likes the “Permanence” of crypto projects like this DAO * Already built a smart contract * Receive money -- doesn’t do anything with it yet * Meeting Goals * What are we trying to achieve (high level) * Progress tracking * Milestones with dates * How do we want to work * Recurring meetings ### **Notes** * Build website * Forcing function for figuring out copy * Website will be intro * Gitbook will be explanation docs on governance * Let people put in money from Day 1 * Would want to look into a security audit * 75k is cheapest one * Look into southpark commons for someone to look over code * Website will pitch the basic concept * If we can’t hit the milestone, we’ll give money back or donate it to some charities * We frame up the possibilities * Timelines are helpful for establishing trust * We may not have decisions but some timeline will be essential for building trust * This should be one of the most trusted ideas that exist * Good community, trusted, doing good * Hypothesis: People will be supporting the “system” not so much the cause * Keep track of how much each address donated * Could assign tokens for donors so that they can * Governance protocol: * Multi-sig wallet * X-Y confirm transaction, it goes through * Smart contract / governor alpha ### **Action items** * Jared will ask around southpark commons for someone that knows about governor alpha * Agree on language for website * CA to open up discord group for anyone interested in the project * Agreed to new meeting frequency: * 10 AM EST / 7 AM PST * Every Tuesday (can be flexible) * CA to draft and publish documentation --- # Agent Instructions This documentation is published with GitBook. GitBook is the documentation platform designed so that both humans and AI agents can read, navigate, and reason over technical content effectively. Learn more at gitbook.com. ## Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter, and the optional `goal` query parameter: ``` GET https://ethdowment.gitbook.io/ethdowment/meeting-notes.md?ask=&goal= ``` `ask` is the immediate question: it should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. `goal` is optional and describes the broader end goal you are ultimately trying to accomplish on behalf of the user. GitBook uses it to tailor the answer towards what is most useful for that goal. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.