[SEP #7] Governance Framework

I took a first pass at the draft leaving questions, comments, and suggestions in the Google doc. I included some of the main points here as doc comments should be expected to be resolved and hidden.

Nice work on this so far by everyone! :pray:t2:

Safe Ecosystem Foundation (SEF) and SafeDAO relationship

Sub-committees

This is awesome as it would be a big step forward for DAOs by showing a successful legal structure for other serious DAOs to take moving forward.

DAO member liabilities public clarification

It would be beneficial to define the current state (before committees are established) in terms of how participating DAO members who are not contractors or full-time employees of SEF are or are not covered under limited liability with Swiss Foundations. Then, compare this with how DAO members interact with SEF as a result of creating the sub-committee structure.

From what I understand, under Swiss Associations participating members have limited liability under the association. *Not legal advice.

This paragraph states that the goal is to provide limited liability. Does this mean Swiss Foundations work similar to Swiss Associations in providing DAO members limited liabilities?

SEF voting on SafeDAO proposals

Is this saying SafeDAO and the Foundation have not voted on past proposals and will aim to abstain from voting moving forward?

Voting process

Voting strategies

Ranked choice voting could be great to include. Voters ranking the options may lead to people thinking more in-depth evaluating the benefits and tradeoffs of each option rather than focusing mainly on one solution.

As @jengajojo mentioned above, it would be interesting to explore if and how Quadratic voting has helped in the governance process of other DAOs.

Encourage more public communication from delegates on voting decisions

I’ve reached out to a delegate in the past to understand their thought process before. It would be great to have this be public when possible.

Balance of debate between delegators and delegates

Do you think there is room for healthy (constructive and well intentioned) debate between delegates and delgators?

Seasons

It’s important to clearly communicate what seasons mean externally.

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