Hey! I'm part of the team who submitted this. Appreciate the feedback. We are planning to revise / resubmit this proposal and address these concerns, but I just wanted to take the time to reply here as well. The objective with this project is, in part, to mark the beginning of a new technological era, much like NASA did in the 60s – except DCL is our NASA. We want to show this parallel specifically to newcomers from a wider audience who might have a limited or one dimensional understanding of NFTs and wearables, with DCL as the landscape that makes it all possible. In short, we want to be evangelists; we want to spread the word with something as eye catching as sending a tuxedo into space. The other part of our objective is inward-facing towards the community. We found ourselves with an amazing opportunity to provide legendary artifacts (physical and wearable tux + original score by Bowie's producer) and a historic experience to someone in the community. With other virtual worlds and games with avatars to choose from, we simply believe in DCL. We think it's pretty cool to have an avatar from DCL be first into space even for those (including myself) who are watching from the ground. Those are the objectives, but I know your concerns are with the business case and costs. The numbers are pretty straight forward. Will definitely include this in the revised proposal, but in short, the quote from SentIntoSpace is 12K. There's also the actual shipping back and forth of the physical tux, and the PR retainer, so it will likely end up closer to around 15K. I went into so much detail above outlining our objectives because, as you can see, we can really only hope to just break even on this project. The actual feat itself, evangelist reach, and opportunity for the community is much more important to us. I hope this answers some of your concerns! Feedback on everything is super important to us, so please hit me back with any questions or suggestions on how to make this work better for everyone. As I said before, we do plan on revising and resubmitting, but I want to take a few days to give us a chance to talk further (if you want) before I do so. Feel free to hit me on discord as well alllowercase#8153 :blush: Thank you!

Has this proposal been discussed anywhere? I didn't find it on discord. I think the idea is sound, this will make a nice publicity stunt but... I don't understand the business case - in fact, this proposal does not present a business case. I think this is self funding. You need quotes from Nick Graham (how much for his work both physical and the DCL NFT) and from SentIntoSpace. Then hold the auction. If the total take exceeds these amounts we proceed with the good idea. If not, we don't. Why does the DAO need to fund this? Also, I think we should make it a point of habit to build some funds (OK, times right now are very good, but that won't always be the case). I'd suggest a minimum of 5% of the total profit to be allocated to a DAO treasury for funding future initiatives. In short, I think the idea is very good but the business case is not made and I don't think it needs a grant. If I've missed something, please explain (but I really do want to see some basic business plan and a discussion before we allocate funds - otherwise this is not an operational DAO)