Ratification Poll for Adding Events Core Unit (EVENTS-001) - April 11, 2022

The Governance Facilitators have placed a ratification poll into the voting system as part of the responsibilities defined in MIP51. This Governance Poll will be active for fourteen days beginning on Monday, April 11 at 16:00 UTC.

This is a binary vote.

• You may vote for a single option.
• You should vote for the option which you prefer.
• If you would accept either option, you should vote ‘Abstain’.

Review

The community may vote in this poll to express support or opposition to Adding Events Core Unit (EVENTS-001) being accepted and implemented in the Maker Protocol.

MIP39c2-SP32: Adding events Core Unit (EVENTS-001)

A brief summary of this proposal has been provided by the MIP Author and is shown below:

The Events Core Unit will handle planning, organization, and execution of MakerDAO branded events. Our vision is to use an exhaustive list of themes, visuals, set dressing, technology and branding to carry out events to the highest standards for the MakerDAO community.

Please review the links below to inform your position on this proposal before voting.

• Canonical Proposal Version
• Latest Proposal Version
• Proposal Discussion Thread

MIP40c3-SP66: Events Core Unit DAI Budget (EVENTS-001)

A brief summary of this proposal has been provided by the MIP Author and is shown below:

MIP40c3-SP66 adds the DAI budget for the Core Unit EVENTS-001: Events. This budget will allocate DAI to the CU. The one-off seed transfer will be 149,692 DAI with the monthly transfers being 62,371.50 (12 transfers total). The total CU budget amounts to 898,150 DAI annually.

Please review the links below to inform your position on this proposal before voting.

• Canonical Proposal Version
• Latest Proposal Version
• Proposal Discussion Thread

MIP41c4-SP33: Events Core Unit Facilitator - Jon Perry (EVENTS-001)

A brief summary of this proposal has been provided by the MIP Author and is shown below:

This sub proposal onboards Jon Perry as the Facilitator for EVENTS-001. As the facilitator, he will be responsible for ensuring the Events CU achieves its mandate of producing branded events for MakerDAO to the highest level of quality, transparency and professionalism.

Please review the links below to inform your position on this proposal before voting.

• Canonical Proposal Version
• Latest Proposal Version
• Proposal Discussion Thread

Outcomes

This poll implements a Minimum Positive Participation value. The Minimum Positive Participation is currently set to 10,000 MKR.

If the votes for the ‘Yes’ option exceed the votes for the ‘No’ option AND the votes for the ‘Yes’ option exceed 10,000 MKR, then the following actions will be taken:

• The MIP Editors will mark these proposals Accepted and the Governance Facilitators will confirm their passage on the Governance and Risk call on Thursday, April 28.
• Any further work required to implement these proposals will be tasked to the relevant Core Units.

Otherwise, this proposal will be marked as rejected per MIP51.

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