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title: 9 Oct 2020 — Secret Admirers call notes

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# 9 Oct 2020 — Secret Admirers call notes 
- yearn structure 
    - yearn is more like a network than an organization
- YFI
    - what are the boundaries of the governable space?
        - yearn.finance? yes 
        - who does podcasts? this actually doesn't seem governable by YFI
    - governs anything you deliverable on chain, and some other things too, but not super clear exactly what
- multisig
    - a proxy for vote
- contributions
    - It's best when people take initiative, yearn isn't suited for hand-holding or bossing
    - need to make things clear to help people contribute:
        - what is important for us?
        - who is working on it?
        - how to get involved
            - current system is unintentionally complex, but a good gate for those that really care
            - process of curating, when we bring people to specific groups, this is working but has tradeoffs
- YIPs
    - technical scalability with how gov works blocking this now
    - currently the old system still works and people could do on-chain votes, but there is a lot of overhead and we're kind of in limbo until the next system is built but vaults v2 take dev team priority
- forum
    - need better templates for posts
    - for strats, need to know specific things, like how much money
        - need to compare ROIs
- Voting on Strategies
    - There is currently a technical bottleneck for the strat dream
    - in future there could be a strat DAO or strat council that reviews and approves strat proposals
    - Possible Process
        - Can discuss strats in discord / telegram
        - First proposal to startDAO
            - needs real analysis showing it's a good idea
            - have to do research that shows it's a good idea, this is more important than money
            - stake tribute to avoid wasting time
        - second proposal
            - full implementation
            - stratDAO would do a code review
    - dev team shouldn't look at anything earlier than something's about to get attached to the vault
    - needs a process before this, an economic layer, to review the idea
        - Someone like Tarun to evaluate economic value of a strat
    - need Gauntlet to do economic analysis, or there is tooling available, like CADCAD
        - Is Gauntlet more for Maker scale though? strats are smaller
- comms tools
    - telegram groups
        - need ability to kick people and groups
        - is it ok to map the groups and the rules to get in?
            - we are not an org, we're a network, these are independently run groups
            - by mapping them you just make FOMO, but good to explain they are there and they are not official -- anyone can make an eg YFI Brand group and start working
            - best process is to start contributing wherever you are and people will want to work with you and invite you to groups
            - or start your own group
    - but it's best to clarify how this works so
        - easier for people to join
        - less like a cartel
        - less overhead
- The comms role
    - no spokesperson, we are not an org. a network doesn't have one voice
    - no point in a comms group speaking for yearn
    - better to have a writers group and a mods group
    - no group that decides what yearn says
    - no official yearn statements?
        - what about twitter, medium, etc.
        - twitter can just retweet -- make it a bot for certain people with a hashtag
    - official statements that aren't retweets
        - security post as a result of a process
        - need to make clear what these are
    - medium
        - publish guest writers
        - what is process?
- conflict remediation process
    - to do
    - Klim is the honorary bad guy
- growth and adaptation
    - tension-driven instead of speculative and preemptive
- project management
    - problem: make it as easy as possible for others to self-organize
    - put all tasks in open github kanbans and use zen hub option if we need more
    - make it all publicly visible, anyone can grab a card and start contributing
- salary
    - didn't formalize responsibilities
    - formalized roles or not?
    - legal status of payments / social contract
    - gitcoin style grants
    - two types of payments in a network
        - retroactive rewards
        - proactive payments for deliverables
