Thanks @Curia for this RFC—we appreciate this conversation as it’s important for the DAO to have directionality top of mind.
The pros of strategic alignment are self-evident, so we won’t touch on that point. However, we would like to highlight a cautionary point around coordination with a program like SAI. Our position is that existing entities in the DAO (Laita, VGC, GTF) should already be taking care of this function.
While it’s certainly positive for the DAO as a whole to ideate and reflect on the proper path forward for Velora, it’s important to have a, per se, captain at the helm. The crux of Velora’s success primarily comes from Laita. They’ve done a good job over the past handful of months explicating the vision behind Velora’s new direction. As long as they sustain periodic updates and solicit community feedback (as is the recent case here), we believe that the strategic alignment is properly being addressed. In supplement, the presence of the GTF provides enough coverage regarding DAO-based operations, along with the VGC handling growth elements. Therefore, to prevent too many overlapping initiatives, we’d advise not having a separate body taking care of strategic alignment directives—rather, the three mentioned entities should coordinate to publish periodic updates around strategy and vision. The job of the delegates will then be to give feedback.
To those ends, we’d be keen on waiting for @SEEDGov’s intended post as opposed to starting a new program like SAI: