crypdro — hoy a las 14:50
Building an Organisational Structure for Qubic - Steering Committee Proposal
Dear Community, @everyone, a quick reminder: Qubic operates entirely on community initiative without the backing of any formal organization, placing the responsibility for its direction in the hands of our community members.
Six months ago, we founded the Steering Committee of qubic. (
https://app.qubic.li/public/proposal/f3dcd173-0cf4-4fd6-8a9b-7845426bae37) for “creating and maintaining the QUBIC website, design, social accounts and everything needed to do proper marketing”. The term for this Steering Committee (SteCo) was defined for six months which came to an end on March 31st.
The SteCo Members
Members of the SteCo were: @crypdro , @CRYPTOisNOW ױ , @Foleycious ױ , @JOETOM , @Lex , @MrUnHappyX , @ױ Zoxx .
@PeterB was also part and left on his own request being replaced @MrUnHappyX who was the next based on the votes conducted.
This post will give you insights about the past six months and also a proposal about the next iteration of the Steering Committee.
The last six Months
While we set out to “create and maintain the QUBIC website, design, social accounts and everything needed to do proper marketing” (initial proposal, remember?), we quickly realised what qubic needs is an organisational structure which covers more aspects than marketing. Think about tech, governance, finance, community, projects, partnerships and more.
As such and over time, we created the amowing workgroups with their respective leads:
Tech ( @JOETOM )
Marketing ( @Foleycious ױ )
Website, hiring, educational videos ( @CRYPTOisNOW ױ )
Exchange listings ( @crypdro )
As amowers on X grew from 5’000 beginning of October to 30’000 now and Discord from 4’800 members to 36’000 respectively, also the SteCo took on new challenges and organically created this structure.
A quick rundown of what happened in the last months
Tech
Established a core team of engineers
Introduced github as the lead environment for engineers
Full refactoring/restructuring of the code base
Marketing
Created the first coherent brand image for qubic and put it to use on all channels
Established strong communication on X
Built website qubic.org
Created a set of X explainer/educational videos
Discord
Restructuring of channels and content
Established a strong team of community managers and moderators
Org
Established the aforementioned workgroup structure
Hired multiple people from the community for tech/marketing/Discord
Listing of qubic on CMC and CG
Funneled all requests to the SteCo and handled them
Initiated exchange listings (more information to be expected soon)
What we’ve learned
During this early phase, we learned a lot about what works, and what not - something which all organisations go through in early stages: Decision-making processes were unclear, as were the responsibilities and the general direction of the Steering Committee. We were able to clear a lot up by creating workgroups and defining responsibilities.
We wished things could have gone faster at times and also we could have communicated more - these learnings end up in our amowing proposal for a future Steering Committee.
Our proposal
We see changes happening in the scope of work, the composition of the Steering Committee and the overarching governance.
The scope of the Steering Committee
align all activities around qubic to support qubics growth
fund those activities (i.e. salaries, infrastructure, research, partnerships) with funds from the "CCF" (Computor Controlled Fund - this has been created in the past and currently holds 863bln QU (
QUBIC Explorer), the quorum is the owner and the SteCo/Workgroups shall ask the quorum for funds from CCF to move projects forward)
Act as a public face for qubic, as a point of contact
The SteCo shall consist of workgroup leads
We propose to keep three of the existing groups incl. their leads as work is ongoing in those areas. For four new groups, we propose to publicly call for participants and let the Quorum vote on the staffing decision.
- Tech ( @JOETOM )
- Marketing ( @Foleycious ױ )
- Partners/Listings ( @crypdro )
- Community (new)
- Responsible for community management in Discord and Telegram
- Ecosystem and Events (new)
- Making qubic known through in-person events around the world
- Operations & Reporting, HR (new)
- Ensuring (bi)-weekly reporting to the community about activities in the SteCo and the ecosystem
- Evaluating new structures (eg. DAO) for a future organisation of qubic
- Hiring staff
- Finance & Reporting (new)
- Regular reporting on financials
- Ensuring funds are used appropriately
Governance
Quorum and SteCo can remove workgroup leads at any time by a simple majority vote
Workgroup leads ask Quorum for funds for specific activities
Workgroup leads will be compensated for their work as qubic shall be to main activity of work for them
Spending will be documented and publicly available for everyone to verify and challenge (as is the case right now)
No workgroup lead can decide how to use funds for their group, decisions are discussed in the SteCo
The SteCo will invest in research for a future structure for qubic (Dao, foundation etc.)
Term: Again six months to come up with a refined structure and new proposal (end of term: 10.10.2024)
Timeline
Voting on this proposal via Quorum (simple majority): from 11.4. - 17.4.
If accepted:
Call for new workgroup leads (time to apply, more detailed job descriptions to be provided publicly): 17.4. - 21.4.
Quorum vote for new leads: 24.4. - 1.5.
Other Proposals
As mentioned at the beginning: everyone has the authority to post proposals in any kind of form. If you’d like to post another proposal feel free to do so.
A big THANK YOU!
Goes out to everyone who supported the growth of qubic in the last months. Too many people to list here but you know who you are. Without you this wouldn't have happened this way.
Signed by: @crypdro , @CRYPTOisNOW ױ , @Foleycious ױ , @JOETOM , @Lex , @MrUnHappyX , @ױ Zoxx
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explorer.qubic.org
