Description

The DAO Governance Squad has been created in January 2022 as a result of a Community Grant given by the Decentraland DAO. From its inception, it has grown into a fully-featured product development team working in an open and agile way, **focused on improving the capabilities of the main governance platform of the Decentraland DAO**, the Governance dApp, and its ecosystem. In the last 5 months (There is 1 month left in the current Grant period) it has achieved: **Engagement** - New Decentraland DAO Homepage - Grants Dashboard - New User Profile - Sentiment Survey for Grants (WIP, to be shipped by mid-December) **Community Building Tools** - Automatic Governance notifications on Discord (WIP, to be shipped by mid-December) **Operations & Developer Experience** - Better testing infrastructure - Improvements to our deploy pipeline and partial decoupling from Decentraland Foundation infrastructure - Snapshot Integration Updates - Improving development documentation on the Github repository - Multiple Improvements and Bugfixes - For an in-depth view please check our [Github repo](https://github.com/decentraland/governance) **Out of our original scope**: We partnered with the Partners Registry Squad to build the v0 of the Verified Partners [page](https://studios.decentraland.org/). During this period we also worked on ensuring the metrics we were using to determine the impact of our work were well-tracked and easily available for the team. We are happy to announce that **our north-star metric, VP participating per proposal, grew 50% from last semester and 375% year over year.** To see the previously shipped initiatives check the previous Grant request proposal [here](https://www.notion.so/DAO-Governance-Squad-2H2022-Renewal-Proposal-044b3a5f2a70477ea05e0ebf4cb77833). You can also see the demos we recorded [here](https://www.notion.so/840079520e8742d0be9fa07bf2fe60f7). Check the changelog [here](https://www.notion.so/Decentraland-Governance-dApp-Release-Notes-dc15030c43f541fbbb274be49c1e0dac) and the monthly updates on the proposal [here](https://www.notion.so/Decentraland-Governance-dApp-Release-Notes-dc15030c43f541fbbb274be49c1e0dac). Check the Transparency Dashboard [here](https://datastudio.google.com/u/0/reporting/fca13118-c18d-4e68-9582-ad46d2dd5ce9/page/p_nlc90z86rc) and the Governance homepage to see some key metrics of the DAO operations and community engagement. **This Grant proposal aims to continue this development path taking into account the needs of the Decentraland DAO community and its multiple stakeholders for the upcoming 6 months**. A detailed view of the objectives can be found in the Roadmap and Milestones section of this proposal.