OceanDAO Tech Earmarks
The mission of Core Tech WG is: to steward community initiatives towards high-impact technical outcomes. This includes identifying high-priority tech projects (e.g. earmarks), find teams to work on them, and help shepherd those projects to completion.
This page (and its child pages) is dedicated to the earmarks process.
Earmarks per round: 23, 22, 21, 20, 19, 18, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11
There are two approaches for a grant proposal becomes eligible for tech earmarks.
Approach 1:
- In grant proposal form, grant proposer specifies they’re applying for core-tech earmark, and which one
- Proposer posts to the #core-tech WG discord requesting approval by the WG. E.g. write "dear core-tech WG, does this proposal meet the core-tech earmark? [link to proposal]"
- (Optional) feedback / discussion on channel
- Within 48 h, each core tech WG member can vote a “thumbs up” or “thumbs down” to the proposer’s original discord message (step 2).
- After 48h passed, any core tech WG member will review results and report formally “it’s a fit” or “it’s not a fit”. (Only votes by WG members are counted.) If disagreement, resolve in next WG mtg.
Approach 2: Steps 2-5 get replaced by: proposer attends a regular weekly core-tech WG meeting (with minimum reasonable quorum), makes the request, and there is a vote right there. This is faster and simpler, we recommend it.
The earmarks list is maintained by the OceanDAO Core Tech Working Group.