Profile of Dr.Suga in Optimism

Posts by Dr.Suga

• Season 4 Feedback Thread by Dr.Suga - No Role
  Posted on: July 10, 2023, 5:53 p.m.
  Content: Thank you for your message, @Gonna.eth. I will once again share @Griff’s message above in which he shares the otherwise transparent information regarding General Magic. I will also share @brichis’s response above, which elegantly expresses how we can all learn from this OP experiment.
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• Season 4 Feedback Thread by Dr.Suga - No Role
  Posted on: July 10, 2023, 1:53 p.m.
  Content: Thank you for your message, @Gonna.eth. I will once again share @Griff’s message above in which he shares the otherwise transparent information regarding General Magic. I will also share @brichis’s response above, which elegantly expresses how we can all learn from this OP experiment.
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• Season 4 Feedback Thread by Dr.Suga - No Role
  Posted on: July 9, 2023, 4:24 p.m.
  Content: I’m not sure I understand the impetus of your new question here @jackanorak. Regarding your previous question, I think I may have misunderstood. I thought you were asking if General Magic had decision-making power of behalf of the DAOs we serve, which we do not. Regarding Griff, I’ll redirect you to his response above and also point out that all information regarding his role and position is totally transparent. You do raise a good point about the “communication or functional gap”, so I want to clarify on one aspect of that to say that the grant writing service is not necessarily used because DAOs are looking for specialists per se. I address this in response to you on another thread 1 to say that General Magic simply wants to support public goods projects that are overloaded with their own work, so we provide a simple service to help balance that by doing some of the writing and related tasks.
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  • Gonna.eth: What I say is my opinion as a delegate and has nothing to do with Grants Council. Thank you @Griff for the transparency here. Griff: I am sure, though, that Brichis’ knowledge of the complicated grant program this quarter would be very helpful to any team. It was very difficult to navigate. I would love to get feedback on how to make the grants proposals system better so we don’t have to destine double resources to make grants happen. Knowing that Optimism already sends OP to Grants Council where elected members approve a working framework and provides feedback to proposers. This grants service GM is providing, especially if it’s taking resources out of public goods projects, sounds overkill. Dr.Suga: General Magic simply wants to support public goods projects that are overloaded with their own work, so we provide a simple service to help balance that by doing some of the writing and related tasks. If I understand correctly, you provide a service and charge for it. This has nothing to do with “supporting” public goods, any project public or private can pay for your service. Or do you have some sort of public goods filter/benefit?
• Season 4 Feedback Thread by Dr.Suga - No Role
  Posted on: July 9, 2023, 3:59 p.m.
  Content: Hi again @jackanorak ! Hope you’re well. I just wanted to add a quick clarification here to say that General Magic as a grant writing service does NOT have any decision-making power whatsoever within the grant making bodies. We research, support, draft, and post, and all the while take instructions from the DAO we are serving. Thank you.
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• [FINAL] Dappnode: Future-proofing UI/UX of OP nodes by Dr.Suga - No Role
  Posted on: July 9, 2023, 12:41 p.m.
  Content: Hi @jackanorak. Thank you for your query. General Magic offers an operational service where we support teams in the grant application process. This service was created in the spirit of getting more public goods projects to apply for grants that would not have otherwise done so --either because they are unaware such grants existed or don’t have the time to apply to them as they are busy building great tools in support of public goods. Since the grant process is very time-consuming and quite frankly most projects don’t have the bandwidth, we created an outsourced service where we research and write grants for public goods projects and are only compensated if we win a grant. You can find details of this service and the terms here 3 . We don’t believe this is against any rules that we have seen. We have read all the guidelines extensively and followed them competently. Grant writing via General Magic is simply an operational service utilized by the project, e.g., even if a project researches and writes their grants in-house, they would need to dedicate dozens of team hours to the process, which they usually just account for in overhead costs and don’t include in the grant application. You may have seen my own name, for example, posting proposals on behalf of a couple projects including Dappnode and DAOstar. These projects have zero connection to each other apart from their use of General Magic simply to support their grant writing. As you know, General Magic is part of the Giveth Galaxy (for more info, see Griff’s explanation here 1 ), which is a vast community of gifted builders and creators focused on developing public goods across numerous independent DAOs and projects. I am honored and grateful to be part of such a community that truly believes in supporting the visions of other projects that are part of that inclusive, for-good mission. We are also grateful to Optimism for giving all of these DAOs and projects the opportunity to invest in that mission through requesting the much-needed support to help move them forward and become part of the Optimism vision.
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• Season 4 Feedback Thread by Dr.Suga - No Role
  Posted on: July 9, 2023, 12:24 p.m.
  Content: I’m not sure I understand the impetus of your new question here @jackanorak. Regarding your previous question, I think I may have misunderstood. I thought you were asking if General Magic had decision-making power of behalf of the DAOs we serve, which we do not. Regarding Griff, I’ll redirect you to his response above and also point out that all information regarding his role and position is totally transparent. You do raise a good point about the “communication or functional gap”, so I want to clarify on one aspect of that to say that the grant writing service is not necessarily used because DAOs are looking for specialists per se. I address this in response to you on another thread to say that General Magic simply wants to support public goods projects that are overloaded with their own work, so we provide a simple service to help balance that by doing some of the writing and related tasks.
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  • Gonna.eth: What I say is my opinion as a delegate and has nothing to do with Grants Council. Thank you @Griff for the transparency here. Griff: I am sure, though, that Brichis’ knowledge of the complicated grant program this quarter would be very helpful to any team. It was very difficult to navigate. I would love to get feedback on how to make the grants proposals system better so we don’t have to destine double resources to make grants happen. Knowing that Optimism already sends OP to Grants Council where elected members approve a working framework and provides feedback to proposers. This grants service GM is providing, especially if it’s taking resources out of public goods projects, sounds overkill. Dr.Suga: General Magic simply wants to support public goods projects that are overloaded with their own work, so we provide a simple service to help balance that by doing some of the writing and related tasks. If I understand correctly, you provide a service and charge for it. This has nothing to do with “supporting” public goods, any project public or private can pay for your service. Or do you have some sort of public goods filter/benefit?
• Season 4 Feedback Thread by Dr.Suga - No Role
  Posted on: July 9, 2023, 12:24 p.m.
  Content: I’m not sure I understand the impetus of your new question here @jackanorak. Regarding your previous question, I think I may have misunderstood. I thought you were asking if General Magic had decision-making power of behalf of the DAOs we serve, which we do not. Regarding Griff, I’ll redirect you to his response above and also point out that all information regarding his role and position is totally transparent. You do raise a good point about the “communication or functional gap”, so I want to clarify on one aspect of that to say that the grant writing service is not necessarily used because DAOs are looking for specialists per se. I address this in response to you on another thread 2 to say that General Magic simply wants to support public goods projects that are overloaded with their own work, so we provide a simple service to help balance that by doing some of the writing and related tasks.
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  • Gonna.eth: What I say is my opinion as a delegate and has nothing to do with Grants Council. Thank you @Griff for the transparency here. Griff: I am sure, though, that Brichis’ knowledge of the complicated grant program this quarter would be very helpful to any team. It was very difficult to navigate. I would love to get feedback on how to make the grants proposals system better so we don’t have to destine double resources to make grants happen. Knowing that Optimism already sends OP to Grants Council where elected members approve a working framework and provides feedback to proposers. This grants service GM is providing, especially if it’s taking resources out of public goods projects, sounds overkill. Dr.Suga: General Magic simply wants to support public goods projects that are overloaded with their own work, so we provide a simple service to help balance that by doing some of the writing and related tasks. If I understand correctly, you provide a service and charge for it. This has nothing to do with “supporting” public goods, any project public or private can pay for your service. Or do you have some sort of public goods filter/benefit?
• Season 4 Feedback Thread by Dr.Suga - No Role
  Posted on: July 9, 2023, 11:59 a.m.
  Content: Hi again @jackanorak ! Hope you’re well. I just wanted to add a quick clarification here to say that General Magic as a grant writing service does NOT have any decision-making power whatsoever within the grant making bodies. We research, support, draft, and post, and all the while take instructions from the DAO we are serving. Thank you.
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• [FINAL] Dappnode: Future-proofing UI/UX of OP nodes by Dr.Suga - No Role
  Posted on: July 9, 2023, 8:41 a.m.
  Content: Hi @jackanorak. Thank you for your query. General Magic offers an operational service where we support teams in the grant application process. This service was created in the spirit of getting more public goods projects to apply for grants that would not have otherwise done so --either because they are unaware such grants existed or don’t have the time to apply to them as they are busy building great tools in support of public goods. Since the grant process is very time-consuming and quite frankly most projects don’t have the bandwidth, we created an outsourced service where we research and write grants for public goods projects and are only compensated if we win a grant. You can find details of this service and the terms here 3 . We don’t believe this is against any rules that we have seen. We have read all the guidelines extensively and followed them competently. Grant writing via General Magic is simply an operational service utilized by the project, e.g., even if a project researches and writes their grants in-house, they would need to dedicate dozens of team hours to the process, which they usually just account for in overhead costs and don’t include in the grant application. You may have seen my own name, for example, posting proposals on behalf of a couple projects including Dappnode and DAOstar. These projects have zero connection to each other apart from their use of General Magic simply to support their grant writing. As you know, General Magic is part of the Giveth Galaxy (for more info, see Griff’s explanation here 1 ), which is a vast community of gifted builders and creators focused on developing public goods across numerous independent DAOs and projects. I am honored and grateful to be part of such a community that truly believes in supporting the visions of other projects that are part of that inclusive, for-good mission. We are also grateful to Optimism for giving all of these DAOs and projects the opportunity to invest in that mission through requesting the much-needed support to help move them forward and become part of the Optimism vision.
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• [FINAL] DAOstar: Governance standards for the Optimism ecosystem by Dr.Suga - No Role
  Posted on: July 4, 2023, 6:52 p.m.
  Content: Hello delegates, Thank you again for advancing DAOstar’s proposal on governance standards for the Optimism ecosystem to the voting phase. @amanwithwings from DAOstar has created a short video to help you understand the proposal during this final voting phase. The video contains the following: Aman’s brief introduction ( 0 - 1 : 17 4 ) Jake from DAODAO on DAOstar’s governance standards proposal ( 1 : 18 - 3 : 07 1 ) Ivan from Aragon on DAOstar’s governance standards proposal ( 3 : 08 - 3 : 26 ) Aman’s summary and conclusion ( 3 : 27 - 5 : 13 3 ) Please advance directly to Aman’s summary and conclusion 3 if you do not want to watch the whole video! Thank you.
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