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title: List of questions reagarding near/sputnik

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# List of questions reagarding near/sputnik
## Funding flow
- Where to see the data regarding how the near community council distributing funding to each individual DAOs? 
    - Are there records for each proposal and its voting?
    - Is there general criteria guiding this process?
## Overall purpose for the system
- Seems like there are two-folded purpose of the sputnik system: 1) for supporting the development of NEAR ecosystem; 2) for open and easy DAO creation. Which is the emphasis? Has there been a shift of purpose (if so, what's the change of system to support that shift)?
- How can we tell if a DAO is official NEAR Foundation owned or "grassroot"?
- Are DAOs supposed to become self-funding at some point, or the system is mostly designed to still be receiving money from NEAR fundation?
## Data availability
- Is there more proposal/activity data on more DAOs (more than the ones in the proposal stats.xlsx)?
## Communities in NEAR
What is the role of community facilitators? How are they get compensated for their work? What is the utility of tipping and what are the pros/cons to tip from personal wallets?