Active Governance - Noun 582 - #5

Hello people! Welcome back to active governance. This week I'm reporting from beautiful Rio de Janeiro!

I'm here for ETH Rio and I've been meeting some awesome members from the nouns community. It's great to be seeing a lot of noggles around the conference. I guess we're doing something right 😁

This week we have 5 proposals to go over. Let's do it.

Disclaimers:

These are my personal opinions based on how I believe the DAO should be using the treasury to achieve its goals. I made the decisions based first and foremost on the on-chain proposals.

Prop rating is based on the quality of the proposal itself and not whether I support it or not.

Proposal 256 (Voting For)

The First Triple Back Flip in a Wheelchair

I like the fact that we should be getting exposure to a new kind of audience, more mainstream, if you will. It could also prove very useful as a reference to what Nouns can fund and create.

The one thing I missed from the proposal was exactly how Nouns will be featured in the movie. besides the usage of props and alike. Since we are solely funding the documentary I would hope to see some direct mentions of what nouns are and do.

I would've also liked to see more details on marketing. What exactly the deal with Wheelz is. How many posts were discussed and most importantly, for how long. I feel like his reach will be our main tool in getting new eyes on nouns.

The costs seem a tad high, but still in line with who and what we're getting. The whole idea is very nounish and what we're all about. I think it's worth taking a chance here.

Prop Rating: 4/5

Proposal 257 (Voting For)

Nouns Fair @ ETH Global hackathons

What a great proposal, so much to go on and very detailed. Love to see it.

It's my first time seeing these activations. But it looks like the team has been doing a great job so far! Awesome to see that we are grabbing the eyes of talented people at these events.

My one concern here is the budget. It is too high for the DAO to continuously fund these. I think some of the items could be cut in order to attain a more sustainable budget. Game set and t-shirts for example are a big sink at 31.5K of the whole budget. Maybe some of the swag can be cut down too.

Still, happy to support this version of the prop. The people at these events are an important audience for us to bring nounish ideas to.

Prop Rating: 5/5

Proposal 258 (Voting Against)

Nouns x W3BSTOCK in NOUN YORK CITY!!!!

The very first image has a lil nouns noggle. Don't love that. This prop is for Nouns.

I spent quite some time going over this proposal. I didn't think the idea was necessarily bad and I was a bit surprised with it having unanimous votes against it so far. I went to house of nouns to check if I was missing something. But alas, almost no votes were given with reason.

I investigated further and found that this exact same proposal was submitted to lil nouns about 2 weeks ago. But it was canceled. Mainly though the ask for the sponsorship was 6.5 ETH, but for nouns they are asking 10 ETH. So which is it?

I don't necessarily have a problem with submitting proposals on different DAOs if they have actual significance to each. Here it looks like a second attempt of sorts? A lot of the text still mentions lil nouns specifically. I guess now the lil noggles on the title image make sense, lol.

With all this info I just can't trust the project at this point.

Prop Rating: 1/5

Proposal 259 (Voting For)

Nouns Short Shorts - Bonus Pack

Yes! Love to see it. The first prop house for nouns shorts was a huge success. It was great to see so much interest and so many great submissions. Let's keep funding more awesome content!

I only wish the event costs were more detailed and organized. The way it is seems like an arbitrary number. Would love to know how they decided on that particular amount.

I know this isn't the main focus of this proposal. But it is still important for us to have these basic informations at a high standard. Our "business model" takes enough risk as is by paying upfront, we should at least make sure we know what we're paying for in detail.

Prop Rating: 3.5/5

Proposal 260 (Voting Abstain)

Forgeries - ALL are FAKE except ONE

I wish some proposals were more ELI5 ("explain it like I'm 5"). I couldn't really understand the benefits of omega. What exactly are the tools that are being deployed to the public? As for the forgeries, seems to me like glorified gambling. I won't comment a lot on other aspects of the proposal as it really won't cost the DAO anything and that makes a difference.

I'm a fan of Gami. I really like what he built with Gnars, and I would love to keep supporting his work. Even though I don't really resonate with this proposal I'm still voting for as there is no downside for the DAO and it could be a good tool for the community.

Prop Rating: 2.5/5

Thanks for reading through another edition of my newsletter!

Nouners, I hope to inspire you to vote with reason. Builders, I hope you can take something away for future proposals.

Feel free to reach out to me on twitter @lep0327

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