Week of March 2-8, 2025

📢 Voting Cycle Status

Current Cycle: #34

• Review Period continues until Wednesday, March 19th at 19:00 GMT
• Citizens' House voting for the "Allow the Optimism Foundation to Stake a Portion of Sequencer ETH Through Season 8" proposal - Forum post (Only Citizens' House votes on this proposal type - Token House does not participate)
• New proposal: "OPCM and Incident Response Improvements” - Forum Post
  • Requires four approvals from the top 100 delegates to move to voting
  • A formal upgrade vote needs to be initiated on Agora by March 13th
• Retro Funding voting period closes tomorrow, March 7th, at 6 PM UTC - Vote here

🎯 Last Week Recap

• Held first govNERDs Community Check-in on March 4th
  • Alex facilitated a productive first session
  • The team agreed to extend future meetings to 1 hour
  • Feedback was positive from participants
• Launched new Bounty System
  • Deployed first bounty request form - thanks to Reformed_Normie for the idea
  • Posted to govNERDs: Bounties
  • Announced in Discord for interested contributors
• Created Working Groups for Contribution Path Optimization
  • Organized into three focused teams based on member skills and interests
  • Created a coordination page with assignments in govNERDs: Contribution Path Working Groups
• TG Reminder support for Citizens' House proposals
  • Bunnic created a notification for the Sequencer ETH proposal
  • Fuji created a template for the Retro Funding vote reminder
• Voting Cycle Guide created by Alex
  • Improvements included sections for grant programs and clarification on voting periods
  • Template updated for future cycles

🔜 Coming Up This Week

• Working Groups to begin implementation of their assigned focus areas:
  • Onboarding & Talent Development (Alex, Fuji)
  • Task Organization & Management (Bunnic, Marcus)
  • Stakeholder Engagement & Strategy (Jesse, Pumbi)
• Announcement needed for OPCM and Incident Response Improvements proposal
  • Requires delegate approvals
  • Team to prepare communications highlighting the proposal
• Implementing task management improvements
  • Cleaning up assignments board (some tasks showing as "not started")
  • Updating task statuses to reflect current progress
• Continue expanding the Bounty System with additional opportunities
• Supporting remaining Retro Funding voting questions
• All core govNERDs should keep their task statuses on the govNERDs: Assignments