Entropy has voted against this proposal. While we recognize the importance and potential for creating builder support networks, the outlined virtual event series lacks necessary details to inspire confidence that this will be executed at a high level. Only a few examples of the session topics are presented with no clarity into what speakers/mentors will be brought in to share expertise. The DAO has no means to verify that the “experts” speaking to these early builders are qualified or will point the founders in the correct direction. The original wording of the proposal and comments from Farstar seem to imply that the point of this program is to alleviate the load on OCL, but without collaboration, we are not confident that the right people can be attracted to the program. The lack of clear next steps and alignment with Arbitrum’s other entities, increase the risk that the program will “die out” post ETH CC.
A secondary concern is the overall budget. Even with an in-person component, $67k for what is mostly a virtual call series is very high. Entropy will again point out that the DAO should hold proposals pulling from the DAO’s 2025 Event Budget to a high standard. Letting this budget slowly be chipped away $60-70K at a time reduces the possibility for a larger scale, more professionally organized Arbitrum event to be funded. Even though it’s mentioned in a comment, we also encourage the proposal author to make it explicitly clear, preferably at the top of the proposal, that funds are being requested from the 2025 Events Budget. This is to reduce that chance that delegates are misinformed and believe a Tally vote is required.
Lastly, as per the AVI’s latest update, the DAO is still waiting to receive all of the deliverables from the Pilot Program.
By funding this proposal, the DAO would be preemptively signaling support of their findings and extending the AVI’s mandate to interact with Arbitrum builders on behalf of the DAO. Before continuing to support the Farstar team and the AVI, Entropy would like to see all of the Pilot’s deliverables and make a judgement on whether this is worthwhile for the DAO to continue spending resources towards.