CV Transparency WG Funding Proposal (May to July 2022)

Proposal title: Transparency WG 3-month funding

Period covered: 3 months (May to July)

Proposal description:

This proposal covers a three-month period.

The tasks that need to be done by the Transparency WG remain the same, including recording calls, transparency audit, documentation and other operations-related tasks. There are some newly proposed initiatives that might require the work from the Transparency WG if they pass, such as tracking salaries and coordinating with Sampo WG.

To compensate the contributors of the Transparency WG, we will need 16140 for the months of May, June and July. But since the Transparency WG still has an unused budget of 5,601.25 WXDAI from the previous funding (February to April), we are requesting 10538,75 in this funding proposal.

The proposed budget will be divided among the contributors of the working group.

To check how we spent the previous funding check this document and the previous forum thread and to confirm what we accomplish check the transparency audit

The Tasks and the Budget

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How does this proposal benefit the community or the field of Token Engineering?

This will encourage and provide opportunities for the members to participate in upholding transparency and monitor the activities in the community. Providing equal access to information and involving agents to care for rules that apply to all eliminate the need for external agents and increase the commitment of participants to engage in the advice process. Trust comes when we can comprehend the behavior of other actors by using the same framework.

Amount requested (Only for conviction voting)

10538,75 XDAI

How will you share progress?

We will keep the same methods as the last time people will request funds on this proposal and we will track the job done for this period here and the milestones will be shared on the second Audit report

Team information:
Acidlazzer
Bear100
Efra
Enti
JH
Ivy
Rex
Zeptimus

As part of this WG is amazing to see how great the team works, specially with the operations tasks and all the great work recording calls and the audit report

Transparency is a lean mean DAO Ops Machine!! Easy yes!

I’m requesting 76 WXDAI for my contributions to the Transparency WG during May which included: Updating the discord events on a weekly basis.

I’m requesting 95 wxdai for my contributions to transparency WG over the last month, which have included:

• Generation of the dynamic WG master sheet structure with consideration of its caveats, 2hs

• Refactoring of earlier WG data to fit the master sheet, 1hs

• Creation of pivots and given communications with sampo and transparency members, 1hs

• Common Pool movements extraction from Dune and reformatting. 1hs

I´m requesting 611.85 WXDAI for my contribution to the Transparency WG during June 2022 for:

• Recording calls
• Uploading them to YouTube with its corresponding titles and descriptions
• Work on Transparency - Budget Sheet (Filling out with needed information from Transparency past transactions through the period of Jan-May 2022)

I’m requesting 51 WXDAI for my contributions to the Transparency WG during June (youtube thumbnails designs)

I’m requesting 85.50 WXDAI for my contributions to Transparency WG in June:

• Multisig payment
• Creating zenhub issues
• Reviewing Figma
• Updating YT playlist and decision tracking sheet

I’m requesting 2750 WXDAI (adding WGL) for my work in transparency this month based on this role.

I’m requesting 133 WXDAI for my contributions to Transparency WG in July:

• Updating discord events on a weekly basis
• Section 5 of the audit report

I’m requesting 97 WXDAI for my contributions to the Transparency WG during July (youtube thumbnails designs)

I´m requesting 420 WXDAI for my contribution to the Transparency WG during July 2022 for:

• Recording calls
• Uploading them to YouTube with its corresponding titles and descriptions

I am requesting 285 wxDAI for my contributions to TransparencyWG over the last month, which have included:

both scripts mentioned above available at https://github.com/m-r-g-t/tec-data-analysis

I’m requesting 2750 WXDAI for my work in transparency this month (july) based on this role.

I’m requesting 104.50 WXDAI for my contributions to Transparency WG in July:

• Multisig payment
• 1on1 syncs with Zepti to support our operations
• Updating decision tracking sheet
• Transparency audit

I’m requesting 2750 WXDAI for my work in transparency this month (August) based on this role.

On vacation 17-aug/15sep

I´m requesting 320 WXDAI for my contribution to the Transparency WG during August 2022 for:

• Recording calls
• Uploading them to YouTube with its corresponding titles and descriptions

I’m requesting 133 WXDAI for my contributions to the Transparency WG during May which included:

• Weekly calendar updates and audit fix

I’m requesting 54 WXDAI for my contributions to the Transparency WG during August (youtube thumbnails designs)

I’m requesting 50 WXDAI for my contribution to the Transparency WG during August, which was:

• Adapting the audit into newsletter format (scheduled to be sent in the week of Sept. 4-9).

24k on marketing, wonder why they are for🤔 we can pay it anyway but would love to know in advance since our budget is very tight

I’m paid 400 wxDAI for 21 hours per month and that doesn’t cover the several hours I spent making the audit newsletter.

UPDATE: we’ll reassess our Comms budget so as not to take away from Transparency’s and so I withdraw my compensation request.

We can definitely discuss this and explore alternatives, but I don’t think trying to bill other WG’s is the right thing to do.

There are many options in which this gathering of information that the newsletter takes can be recognized and covered for, like the WGCL position that the Comms Stewardship has a budget for and hasn’t been fulfilled since I requested time off for vacation.

In general, I would avoid demanding a payment as a way to deal with any situation around differences in the way the TEC recognizes and compensates for work.

I’m requesting 57 WXDAI for my contributions to Transparency WG in August:

1hs - dune bugfixes and amendments, including following up on failed queries, passing in parameters in dune within html request;
2hs - master sheet bugfixes, including bug where two wg’s were not being passed through; amending sampo to incorporate usdc+xdai as one in charts.

Definitely this will not affect our budget, but what I’m trying to say is that we don’t even need to format the audit again the job done by @Efra is the final version of it and we should distribute that one not make a new one. We just need to communicate ourselves better and thank you Manu for pushing those efforts 🙏

I’m requesting 228 WXDAI for my contribution to the Transparency WG during August, which was:

• Research and Designing Graphic Version of the Audit

I’m doing a shortened version and linking Efra’s final version because I’m of the opinion that people will not want to go over a dozen pages of information, regardless of how valuable they are to our Commons. Instead, I assume they will only want to review the main insights from the audit. The HubSpot analytics on recipient engagement will let us know if I was right or wrong.

I’m requesting 156.75 WXDAI for my contributions to Transparency WG in August:

• Multisig payment and sync w/ Zep
• Updated the decision tracking sheet and created the graphics for the audit
• Edited typos and sentence structure in other sections in the audit Google Doc
• Recreated the payment sheet for Aug-Oct
• Reviewed figma

I’m just going to chime in because it seems like Mount Manu requested funds for the wrong reasons; in the process of making the Audit Newsletter (in which I am also helping), @Mount_Manu spotted a few errors and offered to work on them instead of just delegating to other Transparency member.

That being said, I believe he should be compensated for the work that fell outside the domain of Marketing/Comms, and revisit his compensation on Marketing if the Audit Newsletter isn’t compensated properly, these are both different things and shouldn’t be an issue, specially for $50 bucks.

the issue is not the money, is the comunication and coordination, and just raised it so we do better in the future.