Aragon DAC’s Flock Funding Proposal (for historical reference only)
Below you can find an article I wrote in January ’19 to promote the Aragon DAC proposal that unfortunately did not go through for a vote. Publishing this for reference and inspiration only: this is work that still needs to be done by some team in the future! #sharingiscaring
The Aragon DAC, the second development team building out core Aragon infrastructure, is very proud to announce that it has submitted its Flock proposal to the Aragon Association for review and, if passed, very soon to the entire Aragon Community to vote on during the upcoming AGP Vote #1. Aragon is implementing a set of tools and components to empower freedom by making decentralized governance happen. Aragon’s sole purpose for existence is to give you, the individual, the freedom and the power to decide. To be able to do this, we need to practice what we preach: we need you to decide on our future.
Right now two teams are working on the development of the Aragon core infrastructure: Aragon One, the foundational team, and the Aragon DAC, a community effort announced in August, 2018. Allowing the Aragon DAC to work alongside Aragon One was the first step the Aragon Association has taken to decentralize the development of the project, but this is only the beginning. Aragon intends to onboard even more teams in the near future because our ambitious mission cannot be accomplished by just one or even two teams. The Aragon DAC exists because the Aragon Association wanted to kick off this process and is very much value and culturally-aligned with the people of Giveth (who form part of the core team of the DAC), saw an opportunity to join forces here and decentralize now. However, as Luis states correctly: hand-picking your teams is not very decentralized. So, after having established the Aragon Governance Proposal process, it is time for the next step: we invite you, the ANT Holder, to decide if we should continue our work on the core Aragon infrastructure through the review of our Flock proposal which we submitted together with our AGP.
To allow you to make a truly informed decision on our proposal, we are providing a number of ways to make it easy to understand what we are working on and why. The first way is, of course, through the Flock proposal on GitHub itself (to which we will keep on linking back, and back, and back until you click!). The second is an even more detailed proposal right here to which we hope you will add comments so we can learn from and improve through you, the community. Last but not least, we invite you to follow us and/or join our community and ask us any question (really, any!).
Our Flock proposal outlines the development projects the Aragon DAC plans to tackle in the next 6 months. Below you can directly click through to the various parts of our Proposal and you are invited to comment at will. Please do also look into who we are, our legal and financial structure and why we are doing this! We also made a sprint report of our most recent accomplishments and right here you can find a detailed overview of all we did since our launch.
We will spend 75% of our time continuing the development of:
- aragonCLI (GitHub here, documented on hack.aragon)
- aragonAPI (GitHub here, documented on hack.aragon)
- hack.aragon.org (GitHub here, live on hack.aragon.org)
- Dapp-DAO Interactions (GitHub here)
15% of our time on new development projects:
And 10% of our time on developing a strong Aragon Ecosystem with these outreach projects:
- Online Office Hour Appointments
- In-Person Events (such as our recent meetup in Chiang Mai, Thailand)
One of our long term goals is to build a sustainable consulting service into our community to bring outside funding into the improvement of the Aragon ecosystem and we will make important steps in that direction during these next 6 months.
To accomplish these objectives, we are requesting a 333,000 DAI one-time payment, plus 80,000 ANT with 1-year cliff and 4-year vesting period.
This is the first of many Flock proposals by the Aragon DAC. We hope to expand this team and spin out a user-focused Community R&D group in future Flock proposals to continue our mission to Build the Future of Human Collaboration with Aragon.
Warm and decentralized regards,
To keep us with the progress of the Aragon DAC:
- Discover our site
- Join us on Riot or Rocket Chat
- Follow Aragon DAC on Twitter
- Find our meetups and streamed meetings on Youtube
- Contribute to Aragon on GitHub
- Find our Campaign on the Giveth DApp
- Subscribe to the Aragon Monthly Newsletter
