Thread by @NEARDevGov

1/9 We are excited to share what we’ve been cooking for the #NEAR Developer Governance in the past few months.

It became obvious to us that to build a decentralized developer ecosystem, we need to be maximally open and flexible, while ensuring quality and failure resistance.

2/9 We are lucky to have devs in #NEAR who were directly involved in similar orgs like #rustlang . Our solution is Developer Governance, which combines Community Groups and Work Groups to achieve both quality and flexibility, with a DAO committee deciding on asset distribution.

3/9 Community Groups (CG) are specialized self-organized communities. Today we have Protocol, Wallets, Indexer, and UA CGs with up to 100 ppl each. Anyone can create a CG, choose a format, and invite others. The goal is to come up with ideas and concerns for the Work Groups.

4/9 Work Groups (WG) are permissioned committees of experts that use strict NEP process to select and approve or reject proposals. Today we have Protocol, Standards, and Wallet WGs with meetings attended by up to 20 ppl each. Later membership will be managed in decentralized way.

5/9 The overarching DAO, which will launch in a couple of weeks, is responsible for distributing funding from the @NEARFoundation and other orgs. We will start with a preselected set of committee members, but eventually we will have a decentralized process for managing members.

6/9 The goal is to be completely self-governing and inclusive, like #rustlang governance. But unlike them we don’t have 7 years to build it, so we are bootstrapping it by handpicking some WG members and centralizing some decisions. But decentralization will happen.

7/9 We are still early, but we have great ambitions. We plan to launch the Zero Knowledge CG & Tools WG soon. We plan to start processing infra and dev-tools proposals soon and run even broader initiatives. For Q1’23 our goal is to have each WG process one proposal a week.

8/9 Please join us if you have ideas, want to code, have opinions or concerns about the #NEAR tech stack. Ideation, implementation, selection, and funding of tech should all become decentralized.

9/9 Follow our Twitter account and register on the Developer Governance page to participate:

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