Introduction to Governance Framework for PA/vPA Operations Treasury
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### A note on the founding of this side treasury
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During Project Catalyst Fund 8 a challenge setting called **[Community Advisor Improvements](https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/campaigns/26453/about)** was introduced. Several Community Advisors (now called Proposal Assessors) suggested that a proposal could be made to request a portion of the challenge funds for a CA (now called PA) community treasury. This treasury would be able to function as a rapid-funding mechanism for tools, efforts and related expenses to maintain and improve the Quality Assurance ecosystem, within the larger Catalyst ecosystem, and to function as a small experiment in decentralized self-governance. After discussion, it was decided that the **[CA representative for the Catalyst Circle v3 would submit the proposal](https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/403745)** on behalf of the community. The following Governance Framework has been created as an option for Trustees of the proposal to adopt in order to have objectively defined governance protocols for managing the integrity of the PA/(v)PA Operations Treasury. The proposal submitted to Catalyst regards the person who submitted the above proposal to be the Founding Trustee, and that role and its responsibilities are provisionally described in the document **[On the Qualities of Distributed Leadership](/7lEf9w6WRXeaNaT8TJnAZA)**.

### What is the Governance Framework?
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The PA/(v)PA Operations Treasury formally consists of a set of interrelated protocols that outline many areas of governance, and includes a glossary of terms, principles and objectives of the treasury, a schedule of controlled documents that govern specific aspects of the treasury, policies for revisions to the framework, and more. The Trustees may also request or adopt additional resources and documents for inclusion under this framework, such as whitepapers, FAQs, checklists, diagrams, etc.

### Where is the Governance Framework?
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Right here, obviously! This Governance Framework and its architecture, including controlled documents and trust registry is Version 1.1, and it is available both as an official document in the **[PA-vPA Treasury repository]** as well as this public comment version that collects feedback from the community. There are two previous versions in the repository, **[Version 1.0](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bRFsYYbDc52U610XGgg2h-dBFdn2MhgvlXwHtElq3_0/edit#heading=h.axc2mxxlbqi)** which was in google docs and **[Version 0](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SZxFLGWK6yPwr6lyUdPfzdklfFYHytMONotPJQsHjqY/edit#heading=h.7h3y5pcyahb0)**, which was a template meant to capture initial data about the proposal, and it is also archived in the repository. Links and summaries for all of this documentation is available in the repository.

#### This Governance Framework was adopted on June 1st, 2022.

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