📋 govNERDs Weekly Update

📢 Voting Cycle Status

Current Cycle: #35

• Voting Period active: April 3-9 at 19:00 GMT
• Two Protocol Upgrade Proposals currently active:
  • Upgrade Proposal #14: Isthmus L1 Contracts + MT-Cannon
  • Upgrade Proposal #15: Isthmus Hard Fork (contingent upon passing of UP #14)
• Final 48-hour voting reminder scheduled for Monday, April 7th
• Citizens' House veto period will follow: April 10-16
• DAB working on detailed summaries for both protocol upgrades

🎯 Last Week Recap

• Working Group 1 (WG1) completed Skills-Based Intake Survey for wannabe-govNERDs
• Working Group 2 (WG2) focusing on updates to Core govNERDs Assignments page
• Marcus created and maintains delegates tracker spreadsheet for monitoring top 100 delegate approvals
• Alex published the Voting Cycle Guide for #35
• Foundation distributed mid-point season surveys - due EOD Friday, April 4th
• Bunnic shared the Optimism GovGPT AI tool for testing

📝 In Progress

• Developing Mentorship-Led Task Matching system
  • Pairing core govNERDs with wannabes based on skills survey results
  • Creating one-on-one screening calls to validate social skills
• Exploring unified notification system across Discord/Telegram
  • Addressing duplication issues with announcements
  • Evaluating options for centralized posting with channel tagging
• Creating High-Impact Educational Content
  • Preparing interview summary of Lavande's governance explanations
  • Planning visual explainers of complex governance concepts
• Working with Megalod on future Voter Guest onboarding optimization
  • Exploring dedicated Telegram group for consolidated updates