Description

This proposal is to establish a **DAO Facilitation Squad** to expand on the role previously served by an individual DAO Facilitator. The role of the DAO facilitation team will be to help identity and express community stakeholder interests in well thought out and implementable governance proposals, build consensus and facilitate working groups to resolve issues of importance in the Decentraland ecosystem, host monthly town hall meetings and maintain a persistent presence in the DAO Discord server, drive the DAOs externally facing strategic communications, and help mediate relations between the DAO Community, DAO Committee and Decentraland Foundation. Establishment of the DAO Facilitation Squad is part of a broader process to organize DAO operations around “Core Units,” which additionally include the **DAO Governance Squad** and the **Grants Support Team**. Each of these Core Units will serve six month terms, and be funded through the DAO’s standard grantmaking process. Despite its name, the operation of a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) is in large part a human process. While some view decentralization and automation through maximalist lenses, as the Decentraland DAO facilitator and an academic political theorist, I believe decentralization is as much an ethos as it is a system, and automation is about augmenting human processes to decrease friction and increase governing efficiency. As a result, engaged facilitation is an essential part of decentralized governance, particularly in virtual distributed systems such as Decentraland.