DAO grants program - New Category: Community Experiences This proposal is now in status: PASSED. Voting Results: * Yes 87% 6,821,645 VP (66 votes) * No 13% 1,036,179 VP (12 votes) * Abstain 0% 0 VP (0 votes)

Grants should be agnostic to the client, shouldn’t be? I think the reference client is not a key component for this proposal

Voting **No**, this change is actively discouraging the development, promotion and use of other clients being developed by the DAO in favor of the client developed primarily by the foundation (the "reference client") The DAO currently has 5 clients in development that should also be supported: - Babylon client ([info](https://discord.com/channels/894658869391933540/1058482438445215774/1058482960627683459)) - Godot client - Rust client - 2D client ([info](https://discord.com/channels/894658869391933540/998571206640930826/998571482227687486)) - VR client ([info](https://discord.com/channels/894658869391933540/936190478003634176/1139643781981950093)) [quote="dao, post:1, topic:20175"] Development of attractive experiences in Decentraland that generate retention of users in the form of events, exchanges of wearables, emotes or other interactions consumed by players through the reference client. [/quote]

100%, communities don't need that much money to leverage more value.

I like the proposal but some Community Experiences might need new architecture to populate LAND. From the grant description, I understand that these experiences must be created from existing infrastructure. But sometimes, especially for larger experiences, you need to invest (at least some %) in building the infrastructure aka something in DCL.

Hey! Thank you so much for the comments and your support so far in these changes. To @dogman, @morph and @existential14 about budgeting, So far, our spirit is to contribute to a creators economy that is healthy and can have a space to think about projects in longer terms and provide sustained contributions, being paid fairly for the value they bring to Decentraland’s ecosystem. That’s also why we have supported the initiative of having 12-month grants instead of 6-month grants. Limiting grants to short amounts of money prevents teams that are built to think of longer term contributions, more robust infrastructures, and to be continuous over time. As they are today, we have the chance to support both types of contributions. And to @hprivakos, DCL Brazil is being used as an example because their contribution could go way beyond social media, but they can't now based on the categories we have. This category is needed because we have seen how events and different communities generate engagement by bringing people together, to have fun and explore. We want to support that by generating a category where the objective is towards creating community and experiences inside the reference client. Hope this helps understand the willingness behind the proposal more clearly.

someone who did not vote on them

I quite like this one, but I think the community experiences are a great example of a category that should have much lower limits per grant, ideally people should be able to make a small amount of $$$ go far, because as a community, they are in a position to leverage their own value to make that happen. Going to abstain for now, but I like the concept of more specific grant categories with more specific usecase limits.

[quote="Existential14, post:5, topic:20175"] I don’t know who made those statements [/quote] In the meeting on the topic, it was Chris i saw raise this concern.

[quote="dao, post:1, topic:20175"] The community has expressed the concerns of not closing the possibility of newcomers to be able to submit proposals, so we have deleted the requirement posted in the poll regarding the “Demonstrated commitment to community building within Decentraland: Proven track record of organizing and facilitating community events, initiatives, or educational programs” as we agree that we don’t want to close the possibility of new creators to join us in building a metaverse owned and created by its users [/quote] Really? Have you not paid attention to several of these little grants that are turned down left and right because "We" don't know who they are. I don't know who made those statements but they sure were not voting that way. Just my observation. I like the idea but I think this should be on the low end of the budget and be restricted to $5,000 - $10,000/grant maximum possibly. The ones i've seen were usually $3000 or less.

I don't see why DCL Brazil is being used as example here, the social media category already exist and already fit what they want to do. I also don't like that the "opensourceness" requirement is removed for the Community Experiences category, and I still don't understand why it's needed, I don't feel it's beneficial to split the budget once again, we might need to look into sharing a budget between different categories.

I agree with having more defined categories but I do not think in world content should be allocated a majority of the budget