I am voting against this proposal.
First I want to commend @0x_Buidler and his crew on iterating on this project for several months if not almost a year: we need, in Arbitrum, builders like you capable to stick to their personal vision. This is not a statement to just sweeten the pill here, I really mean it.
That said, I still have two big issues: the fact this is an isolated initiative for the infra of the dao, and the costs. To report what I posted above for clarity.
While there was the effort to embed this into the SOS proposal and any future change, I don’t honestly think is enough: the website of the DAO will be one of our main front end for communication beside social accounts (assuming we will ever had dao managed ones), and it has to go through a more high level strategic plan.
As a secondary point, the budget is still too high for the service provided. I think that for slightly more we could hire directly a marketing team for the dao which would help us filling a gap that we have. This would help not only driving the engagement higher, but also spread the geography (if we see the reporting dashboard with a 6 months horizon, of the 11,000 visit to the website almost half of them come from India, which is neither right or wrong but is likely a byproduct of the founder being based in that geography AFAIK. Which means, to me, that the current reach is mostly tied to personal effort, and we are at a point in which we need to step up the game in several areas.
As a final note, I don’t know how the current team could interface themself with the DAO in future, and likely with OpCo going forward, I can’t say if with the current terms this project could be for example absorbed by the opco, or the team hired as service provider. I like the work that was done, and I think we should find a way to reward the “stickiness” of a team in the ecosystem, just, not with these economical terms, and not without an higher level plan.