[Discussion] Introducing Steering Committees and Council Structures

[auryn]

@amy.sg

When you say designing and experimenting with solutions, do you mean own the implementation of the strategy? Do you see it as solely owning the strategy? For example, are members in the community development council proposing initiatives such as region specific community growth and executing, but not opening proposals to the wider community? Feel free to utilize your own examples. I’m trying to understand how you are differentiating away from the “grants committee” model.

My understanding is that the steering committee set the strategies and corresponding budgets, and it is then it is up to the councils to execute on their respective strategies given the budget that has been allocated to them.

My question is about what latitude the councils have in deciding how they operate?

For example, a council could potentially operate as a:

1. grants allocation council, taking open submissions for relevant grants and allocating funding to whichever projects, and in whichever amounts, it collectively deems fit.
2. curation layer for a quadratic funding round, deciding one which projects are eligible but leaving it to the QF round to decide which projects get how much.
3. R&D lab, hiring / contracting teams to execute on ideas / solutions to the steering committee’s strategies.
4. RFP council, defining things to be built in support of the steering committee strategies and requesting bids/proposals from external teams to execute on the ideas.
5. a VC-like entity, making strategic investments in teams/projects/protocols that might impact the metrics given by the steering committee.
6. etc…

@amy.sg

they can create initiatives in the form of a set of RFPs in which case they are doing both the design and reviewing proposals like “a grants committee”, and/or design an incubator program that they are running.

Are these the only modes of operation? Or just two examples?