Matt and Shelby led a discussion around various themes of “meta-governance.” Before diving into the notes, it is important to clarify that there are actually various definitions/understandings of what meta-governance is. A few versions was came to were: governance participation between DAOs, the “governance of governance” for a DAO (think of org design workstream), and the concept of “meta-delegates” - a group of folks acting as a delegate.

• Re Org Design:
  • Philosophical question around who should be making what decisionsTreasury decisions - core teams decide on own budgets (general idea in org design workstream) vs whole community decide on budgets for each core team (like MakerDAO).
  • Decision-making for budgets: off-chain gov process for creating, reviewing and passing budgets.
  • What problems solve today and what problems will we have a year from now that we can start thinking about today?
• Re Meta-delegate (Squad/group delegation)
  • instead of individual delegate system that we primarily see now (see Active Delegate Platform), encourage creation of delegate groups
  • Decision on how to vote for proposal via multisig with 5-10 folks
  • Who should be in initial test group?
    • group of core team devs
    • mix of founders, core team, contributors - one person from each group or representative from each group to ensure interests are represented?
  • What problem are we solving with this?
    • Benefit of individual vs group: easier for person delegating to distribute power to more people (rather than having to delegate individually to each person - costing time and gas)
    • Bolstering distribution of influence - delegation how it is now is not perfect and can still lead to a few people having a lot of power as large token holders usually only make the effort to delegate all of their voting power to one delegate. By having a group delegate, this would give more people power with just one delegation.
  • Do delegates have equal playing field/access to communicating to investors/large token holders?
    • Active Delegate Platform displays delegate portfolios making it easy for everyone to see what delegates stand for/what their goals and motives are with governance decisions.
    • Discussions around proposals all happen on Discourse. Delegates are asked to share their thoughts/reasoning for voting for or against each proposal
    • Question: But what if they don’t have expertise or knowledge to make certain decisions? - loop back into org design discussion.