MGRC Diversity

Governance
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What’s the dealio with getting onto the ZCAP? I would like to join!

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I like the idea of continuing to expand ZCAP. I also think we should seriously consider adding two more seats to the MGRC next year since that could help improve diversity and representation.

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For diversity, I think adding seats to the MGRC is as bad as unrestricted approval seeking because it will drown out key strengths and valued votes in an effort to find a minority to amend and placate an existing majority

I hope next MGRC process is respectful of ZIP1014, again, but gives same 5 seats to NEW people (with NO prior financial affiliations to ECC/ZF and their VCs), selected by Sortition rather than Approval voting or Pre-Approval Voting (a.k.a. Unrestricted Approval Voting) after expanding the ZCAP by extending invites to 1. All MGRC candidates, 2. All previous grant candidates, …

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Do you realise why this is a stupid idea?

If not, think about it for a while, I am sure it will come to you.

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Help a brother out … Thinking out loud here

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if there is no restriction on who can apply for the mgrc, and application for the mgrc gets you on the CAP, then I can just go crazy on fiverr and rig the elections. (i probably would, so its for the best i dont get the option.)

Same logic for grant candidates

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@aristarchus if you’d like to frame a pro-expansion-to-7-argument here, I’ll do my best to argue against it.

I think I’d take the keep-it-5 position as that seems the easiest to defend, and it’s mutually exclusive with expand-to-7.

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Ahh, I did not mean to imply that the ZCAP expansion strategy is permanent. In fact, I don’t think any ZCAP expansion strategy should be permanent - any permanent strategy may be gamed. Nevertheless, I think it needs to be expanded alongside devfund expansion, for now, such that 33%, max, are insiders.

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I’m actually not strongly in favor of expanding to 7 since there are trade offs. The benefits of greater representation on the committee may not be worth the effort of voting to change the ZIP and the possibility loss of agility that comes with a larger committee.

It’s worth considering though.

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With more people, there is more inertia. We still haven’t really seen what it’s like to have a 5 person MGRC, anyway.

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