DAO Board Composition: should the board have an independent board member? How many?

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@OneApe

This initial Board will only serve six months.

It looks like this was pulled from the ApeCoin website, under “Board”. See here:

However, this is interesting as this same thing is not explicitly defined in AIP-1, which reads as:

@btang

Every year, there is a DAO-wide vote to determine which DAO members will serve on a special council on the APE Foundation (the DAO’s “Board”). The purpose of the Board is to administer DAO proposals and serve the vision of the community.

There’s no mention of the six month initial term.

Perhaps there can be an informational AIP that we put forth to codify that six-month term limit.

@OneApe

With one of the purposes of the Board being to serve the vision of the community, shouldn’t the Board include an independent member? Possibly even more than one.

I like this proposal, and I do wonder if there is a mechanism by which we can do this now.

In reading back through AIP-1 a few times I see nothing that defines a specific board size. (Maybe yet another AIP that’s needed). So perhaps with the support of the current board (@maariab @yatsiu etc.) we could see about:

1. Clarifying the board size (I’ve drafted an idea for this here and will be submitting it formally tomorrow).
2. Perhaps adding a slot for 1-2 non-appointed community members
3. Setting up a vote for those 1-2 members, who would also be subject to the six month term.