This a draft until voted on and adopted by the ODC Jedi
Our mission is to protect web3, focusing on:
- Sybil resistance through data science and the development of useful algorithms and other approaches
- Resisting recentralization and potential capture at the data layer
If we collectively do not resist Sybil attacks then one of the real bright spots of web3 - the collective funding of public goods - could be captured by essentially criminal forces. Similarly, if we continue to all take shortcuts when accessing and analyzing blockchain data then we are adding vulnerability to the ecosystem right above the decentralized blockchains in the form of centralization.
We want to highlight values such as:
- openness - working in public and actively requesting input
- candor - being direct and facts based
- inclusive - making a particular effort to welcome and invite a breadth of perspectives
- initiative - we are action oriented and respect and appreciate those that take on responsibility
Transparancy is critical to an open source community. Most ODC discussions take place on the ODC Discord. Certain ODC focused discussions may take place in-person or on other forums and when this happens it is the responibility of the people involved to drop summaries into ODC Discord, wiki, PRs, or issues to share with the community. This is to ensure the community has all the information it needs to make an informed decisions, and to provide transparency into what was decided, what was done, and why. Information related to Human Resources or some Business Development negotiations will need to kept private for legal or competative reasons.
Proposals can vary broadly in their stated goals and requests. At this time proposals can be made to the ODC community or to the ODC Jedi through the Governance Repository Proposal form. Each new proposal will get it's own Discord thread under the Proposals channel.
- They may ask the community to endorse a specific policy and procedure (e.g. “Should ODC allow VC backed projects?”), or ask the community to build something (e.g. “Building a new software tool” or “Writing improved documentation”).
- They may have no funding requests attached (e.g. “Should we adopt a new Foundation for the DAO”), or make an explicit request for funding (e.g. “We would like to create a working group focused on building a decentralized architecture for Gitcoin Grants”).
After a period of time the participants in the Discord thread can ask for a vote to be taken on the proposal.
At this time, only Working Groups and Projects elect leads by using the ODC voting tooling. However, the various ODC groups within the community can use the ODC voting tooling at any time.
In the near future, ODC decisions and voting will be done on-chain. The ODC Jedi are not ready to operationally support this approach yet.
Find more information about community-organized Voting here.
At this time funding projects and work activities is decided by the ODC Jedi.
Original founding members of the OpenData Community (ODC). As ODC grows, the ODC Jedi will be replaced with a governing board of sponsors, partners, and elected members.
Requirements:
- Be an ODC member in good standing
- Elected by the Working Group team members
Benefits:
- All governance, business development, finance, and engineering decisions initially fall to it's members
Achieving this stage proves that the team practices the basics of agile software development. ODC Projects are the projects under the governance of the ODC. ODC projects are listed in the [ODC Projects page] and their repositories can be found within the [ODC Github Organization]. It is not mandatory for a Sandbox team to become an official ODC project. The [ODC Projects] are groups that are directly responsible for the production of ODC software releases.
Requirements:
- Team elects a project lead and maintainers group
- Project must use the ODC tooling
- Project contributors must be ODC members
- Project Lead provides regular updates to ODC Jedi and community
Benefits:
- Project gains access to ODC business development mentoring
- Project is published in the project section of the ODC website
- Project repository is moved into the OpenDataforWeb3 GitHub organization
Sandbox teams are generally early stage software development projects that ODC provides repository, tooling, mentoring, and infrastuture. Any individual or team that wants to self organize can form a Sandbox team.
Requirements:
- Be an ODC member in good standing
- Have a great idea for a project
Benefits:
- ODC Sandbox repository to hold your code and documentation
- ODC Discord channel for communications
- Mentoring on agile software development practices, Github project management tools, and how to use Git with Github repositories
The [Working Groups] are not directly responsible for the production of a specific piece of ODC software. Working Groups activities center around a topic or practice that spans all the community (developers, operators, end users…), by forming a guild of people with a shared interest. Some of the working groups will phase out as is work completed, e.g. Sandbox.
The current working groups are:
- Outreach
- Hackathon
- Business Development
- Website - Engineering
- Governance
- Sandbox
Representative of the ODC project
Requirements:
- Elected by an current ODC project contributors
- Responsible for project planning, meetings, and communications
Benefits:
- Represents the project in all ODC communications, elections, and decision making
Any individual that participates in hackathon events.
Requirements:
- Be an ODC member in good standing
- Attends hackathon meetings
- Works with hackathon mentors through Discord and Github
- Submits the results of their work
Benefits:
- Opportunity to receive Hackathon bounties
- Bounty winners get their work published in ODC Github organization repository
- Opportunity to continue the hackathon work as a Sandbox team longer term
An innovative data scientist dedicated to working in the public good
Requirements:
- Be an ODC member in good standing
- Follow the Regen Ranger oath in practice and intent
- Pass and maintain the Regen Ranger training certificate
Benefits:
- ODC Regen Ranger Soulbound Token (SBT) with additional
- ODC community voting power
- Annual MintKudos bounty award
Representative of the ODC working group
Requirements:
- Be an ODC member in good standing
- Elected by the Working Group team members
Benefits:
- Represents the Working Group in all ODC communications, elections, and decision making
This governance document is adapted from Openstack Governance version 22 Oct 2020 available at https://docs.openstack.org/contributors/common/governance.html and CNCF Project Proposal Process v1.5 https://github.com/cncf/toc/blob/main/process/project_proposals.md, and CNCF Sandbox README https://github.com/cncf/sandbox/blob/main/README.md.