Funded Projects: The Treasury funded one additional service project this month, which was a funding request for the vPA Dework Setup done by Dan Mercurius. The Funding Request task process and details can be seen here: https://app.dework.xyz/catalyst-circle-ca-r/veteran-ca-wg?taskId=93e7d4e9-5256-4577-8f15-210ee6c386ff

Treasury Trustee Update: The community is in the process of nominating and enlisting additional Trustees for the treasury. The vPA Working Group nominated four candidates for its single Trustee role, who then agreed to share the responsibility of the role on a month-to-month rotation.

All four candidates and the existing Treasury Trustee have a channel for further public discussion on this topic here: https://discord.com/channels/946921942143885342/980492610147864626

The group has initially agreed that three total will have signing capacity on the multi-sig wallet, and that two of three will be required for future transactions once this is put in place. The process is emergent and will continue over the coming months.

Transactions Log: The Treasury transactions are consistently being logged on this document for public view: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QPWno_XPN4zXpSBhBVr7tyoihR8iduczjtugpdz--0k/edit#gid=0

Task Hub: Other pending or forming tasks related to the vPA Working group can be found on the WG’s board here: https://app.dework.xyz/catalyst-circle-ca-r/veteran-ca-wg

Future Perspective: At this point, the Treasury is functional, funding projects and continues to be available for community engagement and involvement. To join the discussion, find the Treasury Discussion channel on DeWork: https://discord.com/channels/946921942143885342/980490333253152859

Front-end Design for the Treasury continues to be in build. This is still a skeleton design: https://hackmd.io/@PA-vPATreasury/SynfeL8Xo/https%3A%2F%2Fhackmd.io%2F%40PA-vPATreasury%2FHJWOQI87j

The most recent weekly update can be found here: https://hackmd.io/@PA-vPATreasury/H1r9RzVLs?utm_source=preview-mode&utm_medium=rec

All conversations and developments regarding the treasury can be found on DIscord at the Treasury’s channel: https://discord.com/channels/946921942143885342/980490333253152859

Follow-Up to Last Month’s Report:

The PA ID Finder tool, our first funded project, is now complete and available to the community: https://github.com/Project-Catalyst/pa-id-finder/ The finder also has a GitHub Repo Here: ttps://github.com/Project-Catalyst/pa-id-finder/ Following the approval of the vPA Working Group Charter, the group is working proactively to design needed roles to support the community’s use of the Treasury. Some of these new proposals will be listed below.

New Developments and Achievements:

The Treasury funded its second project this month: Retroactive Funding for Fund 9 Petitions Process (Edits and Moderation), a strong example of compensating a community member for work related to the vPA process. Details can be found at this DeWork Link: https://app.dework.xyz/catalyst-circle-ca-r/treasury-12?taskId=458ec10f-74d9-4b1d-b99d-644c9b2d1aaa

The vPA Working Group has opened the discussion about a Bounty Manager for the Treasury, and flushing out needs, responsibilities and details of the role. That invite for participation in the process can be found here: IR: Bounty Operator Responsibilities:https://app.dework.xyz/catalyst-circle-ca-r/veteran-ca-wg?taskId=0a8749a0-ac2c-4521-8449-ae113c9286ed

Other pending or forming tasks related to the vPA Working group can be found on the WG’s board here: https://app.dework.xyz/catalyst-circle-ca-r/veteran-ca-wg There is a new “Funding Request” Template for initiatives related to the vPA WG, which can be found on the WG dework board (Link above). Potential applicants can select "create new task" on that board, in the upper left hand corner of the task you will see a "template" button. Select FR from the list.

The vPA Working Group has also assembled a Task Force under its governance that is tasked with organizing a process/conceptual framework around Catalyst Improvements. This has involved weekly meetings (4 to date, details here: https://hackmd.io/@PA-vPATreasury/SyRPpdAXi/https%3A%2F%2Fhackmd.io%2F%40PA-vPATreasury%2FHJsnAOA7s) with attendances exceeding 20 members at times. Deliverables for this Task Force have included research on setting WG wages (https://discord.com/channels/946921942143885342/1031019579352297602) as well as developing a possible PCIP repo, alongside a general vPA documentation repo with always-on feedback loops and version history for things like the vPA Guidelines, as well as discovering multiple distinct, but overlapping, areas of governance for Quality Assurance in Catalyst, where more Working Groups could be chartered to capture organizational wisdom (For example: a rewards/incentives WG that could document and act as liaison between community and IOG on things like reputation system research and rollout).

New Submissions to the Treasury are forming and can be followed here:

Create a Problem Statement Rubric for Fund10 Documentation: https://app.dework.xyz/catalyst-circle-ca-r/documentation-27714?taskId=f8bfda4b-e0f5-4102-bc1e-67e7baeb6bcf IR: Bounty Operator Responsibilities: https://app.dework.xyz/catalyst-circle-ca-r/veteran-ca-wg?taskId=0a8749a0-ac2c-4521-8449-ae113c9286ed

Treasury-Related Working Documents in Process:

A Side-Treasury Ecosystem Map designed by Jeremy B: https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVPPEmlSk=/?share_link_id=393453349508

Front-end Design for the Treasury is in build. This is still a skeleton design: https://hackmd.io/@PA-vPATreasury/SynfeL8Xo/https%3A%2F%2Fhackmd.io%2F%40PA-vPATreasury%2FHJWOQI87j Insight from the building team: The most developed section is drilling down through the governance section—>Governing Bodies—>Working Groups—>vPA Process Working Group—>etc. If the left sidebar doesn't auto-expand, you will see a » in the upper lefthand corner that will expand the framework.

Much happened this month. We had two active groups applying to the treasury, the first a VPA Working Group, which was reviewed and approved by the Trustee, and the second a claim for funding to create a tool. We completed the process for voting on, approving, receiving work from and funding our first claim for the treasury. Both of these project processes and benchmarks are chronicled on the DeWork space for the Treasury which can be found here: https://app.dework.xyz/catalyst-circle-ca-r/treasury-12

The claim created a PA Finder Tool to create a web tool (similar to other AIM tools) that makes it very easy and quick for PAs to find their Assessor ID in a specific fund. This was delivered.

As this was our first claim that required fund distribution, the Treasury team created a multi-sig wallet using Roundtable, and a corresponding transactions log that can be viewed here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QPWno_XPN4zXpSBhBVr7tyoihR8iduczjtugpdz--0k/edit#gid=0

As additional trustees are added (the first will be from the VPA WG), new multi-sig Roundtable treasuries will be created to enable adding of additional signers as required by the governance framework.

Finally, a Gitbook was created for related information, which can be found here: https://pa-vpa-operations-treasury.gitbook.io/pa-vpa-operations-treasury-bi-weekly-update/updates-by-week/2022-updates/week-ending-sept.-16th

This month, the community submitted its first two proposals to the treasury:

Proposal 1: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L0U3PkvwGz4IQp-HsxxapqRmFmg3j9YHq88ILZKedts/edit#heading=h.qqvbs061527c

Proposal 2: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l81FutOlI4GItMA7Lbq7WeXtDCG6WvsYwfZWllxKRHE/edit

These were submitted in the days immediately prior to the submission of this report, and so the Treasury Trustee is currently reviewing them for approval. Update on the outcome will be provided in our next monthly report.

In the past weeks, we held weekly group discussion sessions. Specific outcomes have included: drafting the submission ticket (application for rapid funding) to be used by potential proposals to the Treasury, and the development of a Working Group Charter for a team to form around the vPA Process, in order to steward improvements and needs related to serving as a vPA.

Both of those working documents are attached. The vPA Working Group charter is currently being shared with the community in the vPA-Discussion chat on the Catalyst United server. Ideally, the WG will come together to: expand the Board of Trustees for the Treasury, help to usher the forming of two potentially incentivized task forces to work on the vPA guide and petitions process, and complete the process of proposing, being funded and reporting on results.

Other groups and individuals are also preparing proposals to the Treasury, including a bounty tool and an administrative group to help server maintenance and communication. Both of these are pending and expected to take form alongside any additional proposals in the coming month. These next claims will help to further establish cases and enable execution of the governance framework.

The Treasury Operational Framework document is also drafted and receiving community feedback. (File attached) This guides the next steps for forming a Treasury Advisory Group (TAG) and operating the treasury.

During this reporting period, we have held community meetings about organizing the TAG (Method and next steps). We also identified and met with a first group to put a claim into the treasury, and going through that process is informing the creation of a treasury claim application template draft for future applicants. A Treasury wiki is also in formation and a Treasury working group Dework has been created.

Here is a recording of the strategic discussion (first half): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07XVlOINRW8

Direct Link to the Treasury Discussion channel in Discord: https://discord.com/channels/946921942143885342/980490333253152859

We held an initial meeting on Friday, May 20th to discuss approach to forming the Treasury Advisory Guild. That approach will be deployed in the coming two weeks in order to put those members in place. Also, the drafts of the Treasury governance framework and corresponding documents are in review for finalization.

Link to Recording: https://youtu.be/Ft5hc7Dcc8E

Finalized governance documents will be included in next report.