Title: Season 6 Specification and Community-Indicated Direction

Draft Authors: 0xZFi#4882, Icedcool🏴#4947, Ernest_Of_Gaia🚐 🏴ccNFTs🪐#4762

Working Group: 0xZFi#4882, links#7868, Icedcool🏴#4947

Summary of Season 6 Operational Specifications

This is the BanklessDAO Season 6 Specification. It has been reformatted to adhere to the procedure of governance changes as defined by our newly codified Constitution. If this Seasonal Specification passes Snapshot, the following timeline will be ratified. Special considerations for focus in Season 6, as indicated through the Season 6 Community Vote, are included here as well.

Background

After Draft 1 of the Season 6 Spec had been posted to the Forum, it was brought to the attention of the author that the Seasonal Specification process was superseded in Season 5 by the Constitution.

As such, the Seasonal Specification has been limited in scope to operational timeline ratification including community-indicated direction with bDIP suggestions.

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Season 6 Timeline

• Season 6 will start on Monday, November 7, 2022.
• Season 6 will end on Sunday, February 5, 2023.
• Formal gap week will be February 6 through February 12, 2023.

Delayed Transition Timeline

• The Season 6 Budget Proposal will be posted to Snapshot November 4, 2022.
• The Season 6 Specification will be posted to Snapshot November 4, 2022.

Community-Indicated Direction

These changes have acquired consensus on the Forum but do not require addition to, or alteration of, the Constitution. They simply express the direction the Community has indicated they would like to take for Season 6 as a result of the Community Vote.

• The community has signaled an interest in increasing the utility of BANK tokens. Any guilds, departments, or projects whose purview encompasses this topic are encouraged to develop ideas and collaborate on this throughout Season 6.
• The Otterspace verifiable credentials pilot will begin in Season 6.
• The Grants Committee shall be allowed to remove an inactive and unreachable member with a unanimous consensus among other Committee members.

Changes that Require a bDIP

Any potential changes to our Constitution would require a bDIP. bDIPs for the items below will be drafted for a formal voting process in Season 6.

• Member-Based Guild Funding (previously called Automatic Guild Funding) will begin to apply for Season 6. Guilds, as categorized in Season 5, are to choose between continuing as a Guild or a Department, as defined by the taxonomy post here, and to submit funding requests accordingly.

The full Season 6 Specification post can be found here.

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POLL

Approve the Season 6 Specification, disapprove, or abstain.