LinksDAO

Proposal Name: Community Contribution Rewards Authors: mrsenorhill, cbruce, cooper Link to Discourse: TBD

Funding: Up to $71,000/month total (up to $36,000/month for pod leadership (up to 12 pod leaders each paid 3k/month) and up to $35,000/month for community contributors). For the remainder of 2022 the max would be $639,000 total.

TL;DR Create a fund for community contributors to be rewarded for delivering work that gets to our mission while maintaining a responsible and predictable budget. A “pool” of monthly payouts for pod leadership and a “pool” of adhoc rewards tied directly to future project or workstream proposals.

Rationale LinksDAO is one of the most exciting projects in this space. And while we’ve accomplished much in the roughly three months since founding, there is much more we collectively want to do. Long-term success will require an intentional investment in the people that make up our community.

To accelerate towards our mission, we need to attract and retain talent who can consistently contribute in actions that create value for membership.

Proposal Details We will establish a budget and set of transparent processes for rewarding contributors that deliver meaningful outcomes. Our approach relies on principles that create equitable rewards and are supported by an “upward mobility” process from within the DAO. This is not an insignificant financial commitment, but we believe ensuring people have fair and predictable compensation for meaningful contributors is the right investment.

Up to $36,000/month for up to 12 pod leaders In the new pod structure, there will be a max of 12 pod leaders who are responsible for driving each pod’s outcomes towards the LinksDAO mission at a high quality bar. (list of pod leaders and bios below) These pod leaders will be paid a monthly stipend to ensure their time, attention, and alignment to the LinksDAO mission. To ensure consistency, we want to reduce the turnover of these individuals while also creating clarity on compensation for a group that has been, to date, a group of volunteers. We arrived at the 3k/month reward by evaluating the median national yearly income for a “Manager” role, dividing by 12 (months), and then scaling back by 50% to reflect a 20hr/week commitment to DAO leadership activities. We feel this is both generous compared to other DAOs with similar structures and financially responsible for our treasury. Performance, and potentially future voting proposals, will be required to continue in these roles long-term to ensure this investment in pod leadership is worth it. Note: Dev and Operations pod leaders will not currently take rewards as those roles are currently filled by members of the founding team

Up to $35,000/month for community contributors (ad hoc, across projects) Pods will be responsible for generating projects (or workstreams) that create value for the community and further the LinksDAO mission. (for example: recent delivered projects like the SXSW event or the merchandise store) Each project will have a “contributor” budget clearly outlined in its voting proposal. That money will come from this fund. Community contributors who’ve established a reputation within pods will be eligible to become a member of the project team, each receiving a proportion of the contributor budget for that project (or in some cases workstreams). Payouts will occur upon successful completion of a project’s deliverables after being evaluated by pod leadership to ensure payout proportions are equitable compared to the initial proposal. The process through which “upward mobility” into pods and projects are managed will be a part of the “Pods M2” launch. But first we wanted to solve for the contribution budget.

Pod Leader Names, Descriptions, Discord Handles, and Bios: (Apologies for the formatting)

Partnerships JLee#1816 Worked in finance and b2b SaaS (real estate focused 🏗️🏢) for nearly 15 years in various BD and executive roles. Currently a partner at a consulting firm that helps grow Web3 co’s (WbD).

Responsible for the recent ProShop merch launch.

nickwalkermsu#7598 Linkedin

IRL Director of Enterprise Data Sales at an AdTech company. 10+ years of b2b sales, partnerships and business development experience across finance, HRtech, Travel Tech, Market Research, and Adtech working with major brands and institutions

Contributions: Ideated Steph Curry charitable contribution, Boardroom Article, Partnerships with Club Glove, Caddie Uniform, Dryvebox and currently working across multiple others at various stages. Actively contributing to Marc Serota NFT partnership, The Doug Tour, Pro-shop, Events, D&I, structuring adjacent Web3 and multiple brand partnerships. Focusing on building win-win partnerships for our community while making golf more accessible to all.

Known to occasionally write a poem

Marketing

dberk#0120 LinkedIn Twitter

IRL Director of Marketing Operations and Growth with experience leading teams of 50 people in tech, media publications, and medical manufacturing.

He has founded 2 companies and 3 company subsidiaries, and has been on the founding team of 2 tech startups.

At LinksDAO he has advised The Mulligan from its origin into a scalable tech stack, co-led social media posting, copy written and edited a variety of proposals, and coordinated cross functional marketing strategies to be implemented by the DAO.

Moderation BLL01#2800 LinkedIn

At LinksDAO I have worn many hats if not every hat and have supported the growth of the community from all sides in various ways. Some of the ways I have done this is by providing my wide expertise on a range of topics, documentation of processes, moderation, structuring the community, operations, and helping to establish the pods as a whole.

I look to continue to make the community a better place through structure and organization. Providing an experience that is unique to all but equal to all. I hope to have all members feel welcome as well as have the freedom to talk and participate as well as get involved like myself and others have. I want to make this community expansive and representative of what web3 should and will look like, run by the community for the community.

db#8253 Two plus years of discord management, moderation, and design experience in various types of different servers including gaming, stocks, and crypto. Four plus years of market related activities daily, Organizational Leadership Major from WVU.

Worked along side of the first proposal in part of the stolen membership floor sweep, hosted public talks, created a safe civil discussion for ALL members, A trusted source of information to and from the team, helped form the foundation of the mod team, number one in the xp leaderboard, committed to the project since inception and have been promoted from golfer, caddie, starter, to founder over this time

Curated a community that respects one another’s opinion while keeping conversation focused on the greater goal, Actively helps run twitter, volunteered the SXSW event, coordinated multiple giveaways, has a passion for crypto and golf.

Analytics alanglinais7#3176 Website, Twitter, LinkedIn

IRL Job: Analytics & Insights Analyst at Nike

LinksDAO Contributions: -Co-created a Dune Dashboard for the community, querying public blockchain data into easily digestible visualizations via SQL, which reached the #1 trending section on the website -Developed Member survey, Web3 impact score, Infographics/Posters (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) -Various Ad-Hoc support for teams including: pitch deck help, Wallet, Web3, & Discord security decks, partnership pitch metrics, Mulligan data column, SXSW analysis, Shopify store analytics, etc. Fun Fact: Over the last 3 years I’ve ran more miles than I’ve put on my car.

Events GoodToGoJoe#1142 20 years coordinating a wide variety of events from concerts to fundraisers with primary focus on community building. Oversaw coordination and execution of first LinksDAO Member Retreat at SXSW and currently involved in planning multiple events, including first charity event and first international event. Expert in leisure and good times. Appreciates a nice charcuterie board. ryanprickette ⛳. 🏌#8740 -Played golf at Marquette University while earning an engineering degree -10 years of work experience multiple tech sectors, including manufacturing, energy, and electric mobility -Led golf venue selection and programming for the SXSW event

Ladies Tee JenS IRL job - Avionics Engineer on the Dream Chaser space plane at Sierra Space.

I grew up playing golf with my dad and grandpa and played on my high school golf team. When I worked at NASA in Houston I participated in a golf league and regularly set up golf events for my company including clinics for new golfers. I also helped coordinate an annual charity golf tournament.

Within LinksDAO, I helped establish the relationship with Full Turn to provide ladies merch for the LinksDAO Proshop, worked with other community members to create the Ladies Tee Channel in Discord, and volunteered at the SXSW event. I have a passion for growing the game and look forward to continuing to do that! QueenB IRL job:Psychologist/researcher Google Scholar

Areas of interest: Aligning organizational priorities & incentives. Sustainable, preventive approaches to managing behavior.

LinksDAO contributions: Have been helping the organizationavoid groupthink;I’ve pointed out blindspots. To date, I’ve contributed across different pods (e.g., moderation, marketing, partnerships), with a focus on culture and community.

I have noticed that LinksDAO members sometimes struggle to voice concerns/complaints openly (e.g., sending me a DM, one-on-one comments IRL). I have transferred these anonymous complaints to the leadership, which has ultimately resulted in responsive course corrections at times. To be completely honest, I’ve often wondered if people see any value at all in my efforts–asking hard (annoying?) questions. Playing the devil’s advocate, in a way.
Note: Dev, Finance and Operations pod leadership will be filled by gregan#7075, cbruce#2679 and mrsenorhill#2624, who will take no monthly stipend. This list of pods and pod leaders is not final and will evolve over time. In particular, one area that we are aiming to formalize and ‘staff’ is a Diversity & Inclusion pod or sub-pod, but there will be others, and we invite feedback, thoughts and engagement from the community on these topics.

Major Milestones:

M1 (April 2022): “Onboard” Pod Leaders formally to their roles (set expectations for each role and set them up for success) M2 (April 2022): Pod Leaders define and share clear OKRs for each Pod. Our rationale for doing this AFTER the proposal passes is that each pod leader should be compensated for the work necessary to create these goals and they should be aligned and incentivized to see those OKRs through. M2 (April 2022): Provide bi-weekly text updates to the community on plans, progress, and problems related to OKRs M3 (May 2022): Launch task management software that organizes pod activities into projects and tasks, which also creates transparency on execution and contribution rewards tied to projects and workstreams. M4 (September 2022): Complete a formal review of pod performance and share results with the community. Rationale is that pod leaders should have a runway of six months to demonstrate results in their roles. Delivering outcomes will dictate keeping pod leadership roles.

Pod Leader Responsibilities 20hrs/week expectation for pod leadership and community team leadership responsibilities Consistently engage within leadership team and Discord community Define goals for pod under leadership and maintain a bi-weekly cadence of updates to the community (text or via community calls) about progress towards goals Onboard new members to pods by creating “upward mobility” from membership to meaningful contribution Oversee the identification of projects that meet pod/DAO goals and help steward proposals from idea, to definition, to RFC, to vote, and ultimately through successful execution. Manage the approved contributor budget for projects and workstreams Develop the talent of contributors within pods so “upward mobility” is clear and achievable for all members who want to contribute Maintain the health of their pod’s culture

Effort: Medium

Voting:

Yes: I support allocating up to a max $71,000/month of treasury funds towards a contribution budget

No: I do not support this allocation

Abstain: Neither for nor against, but recording this vote counts toward reaching Quorum.

What Happens After the Vote:

If Yes, the results will be sent to the multi-sig. If approved, the Operations Pod and Accounting and Finance pod will drive ensuring funds are spent responsibly.

If No, nothing happens.