Week ending Sept. 16th
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Open for Business:The PA/vPA Operations Treasury Community is up and running and has successfully approved its first applicant (for funding a new tool for PAs), as well as chartered its first governing body (a vPA Working Group) which is already off to a fast start facilitating the community owned vPA Petitions Process! Check out the highlights below and follow for more details.
AIM successfully approved for its PA ID-Finder tool
vPA Process Working Group Charter accepted by the Treasury
2/3 vPA petitions completed with the last one nearing finalization
vPA working group has begun to build out the architecture around bounties for its members
Community toolmakers AIM submitted and were approved for their tool PA ID-Finder.
The scope and purpose of this WG is described in the above charter:
The purpose of the vPA Process Working Group is to facilitate and coordinate individual contribution to collaborative tasks related to maintaining the integrity of the veteran Proposal Assessor process in Project Catalyst when those contributing individuals are to be compensated from the PA/vPA Operations Treasury.
This working group is needed because the vPA process is rapid, complex and iterative, and therefore would benefit from an open, organized pool of contributors who are prepared to carry out tasks within shortened timeframes, but who need appropriate incentives, coordinated approaches and facilitative access to the tasks at hand.
If you are interested in working on iterating guidelines in the community, definitely get in touch with the WG, as this is a major task that needs attention soon.
Do you have other ideas that align with the purpose listed above? Bring your ideas to the group and develop a path forward!
The first 2 petitions have been completed and are ready to be sent on to IOG
Elsewhere in the QA Communityfor getting a jumpstart on the process of iterating Community Guidelines for Fund 10 has been making the rounds. Add your thoughts and insights, and lets keep pushing to get the process organized, coordinated and functioning (and funded through the PA/vPA treasury!) Any doubts? Suggestions? Let the community know or .
, and note the community created Administrative Review that was, as well as the discussion around the claim in that thread.
, where the task describes contacts for the project, the results of the vote and how and when it was held. It also includes the data on how long the "rapid-funding" process took... 8 days and 22 hours for the first try, and our goal is to cut down on that significantly for most claims.
Do you want to build something for the QA community or are you contributing in other ways? Check out to see if your efforts might overlap with the funding objectives of the PA/vPA Treasury.
All claims against the Treasury begin as discussions, and you are encouraged to run ideas by community members, and get tips and pointers on how to structure or submit claims, or just design your own claim and submit it . Community members will help you from there.
You can check out the Charter and community recommendation for approval of the Charter .
The vPA WG is currently working on , creating and facilitating the vPA Petitions Process (see below).
Significant tasks on the near horizon for the vPA WG are convening its first meeting, onboarding community members actively working on the iteration of vPA and related guidelines, and electing or otherwise selecting a Trustee to add to the Treasury board of trustees ( on how the Treasury Community reciprocates with its Trustees).
The vPA WG is required to allow unlimited membership without restrictions, so don't think that you have to be a vPA to contribute! If you care about the integrity and outcomes of the vPA process, then your contributions to the WG are welcome. The best place to check in with them is via for now (ask for @DanMercurius). And if you needed reminded, the purpose of the WG is not just to coordinate and facilitate, but to do these things in order to create accountable funding mechanisms for the QA community. In other words, the WG is able to pay to sustain critical effort in the ecosystem.
A final petition is currently ongoing, (see his initial , and know that this is an ongoing discussion). It is currently halfway through an async process designed by the Petitions process facilitator. The petitioners presented their petition and the data around it first, and. Currently Dimitri will be presenting his side in a presentation on Friday, which should give a full picture of the case as well as the issues observed and possible outcomes for the community to consider. Soon after this second presentation, a vote will be scheduled to collect a final layer of community input. , including when voting on the petition is open. Hoping for plenty of participation and insight from the community on the issues sensed here.
UPDATE: The last petition has completed presentations of evidence and . The vote is open until 0300UTC tomorrow (Saturday). As with all things Catalyst, voting is an important stage in informing processes, and often marks new stages of auditing and studying results and outcomes.
There is an that can be the launch point for our efforts to coordinate the changes to the Proposer, PA and vPA guidelines for Fund 10. This is becoming a critical piece of the community governance puzzle, and is an area where we can actively carve out the community's role from IOG oversight over time.
Obviously the Treasury Community is rolling out this Bi-weekly update to be released on the 1st and 3rd Friday of each month via the Project Catalyst newsletter, but it is also the beginning of a process to migrate the over to Gitbook as required by our Governance Framework. This should help us on our journey to make the Treasury as accessible as possible.
Check outthat has been circulating and catching feedback. This is an idea that has been around the community for a while, and this latest description has added numerous improvements.
A friendly reminder that the Treasury Community has a and we appreciate anyone engaging in the claims process, working groups or general communication channels for these things to be aware of it and to follow it. It has been designed with a "light touch" and while there is a mediation path provided, it does not currently include an enforcement mechanism, relying instead on the power of an informed community taking responsibility for its own environment. Like all experiments, we will see how it goes. As with all Treasury documentation, , which is there to make sure that the conditions required for our participation are always being cultivated.