What is Contribution Management?
You’ve heard of project management, product management, and even treasury management - but wtf is contribution management, and why do I need to manage my contributions? If we consider a contribution in this context as: a unit of labor done by an individual for the sake of furthering the goals of a project or community, then contribution management is the use of tools and techniques to keep track of one’s contributions, making sure they’re recorded, surfaced, and (eventually) given value when ...
Being autonomous requires a mental shift
We’ve talked about contribution management and the power of recording community contributions. But the largest barrier to unlocking this power is that self-reporting your own work isn’t automatic, and requires a bit of a mental shift from what most are typically used to. The most important thing to keep in mind is, you’re not self-reporting your contributions for a boss or manager, you’re doing it for yourself and your peers - that’s a drastically different kind of interaction, and one that a...
What is Contribution-Based Governance?
As DAOs steadily grow in proliferation and popularity (yes, even in the bear market), there is a massive need to explore more alternative governance models. For the most part, we’ve seen DAO governance models that are largely based on capital (buying tokens, NFT auctions, etc). One governance model that we would love to see more in DAOs is what we call contribution-based governance, which simply prioritizes the contributions of contributors and participants over capital. In Kei’s article ‘The...
Govrn builds trust between contributors and DAOs. Easily track, record, and own your DAO Contributions.
What is Contribution Management?
You’ve heard of project management, product management, and even treasury management - but wtf is contribution management, and why do I need to manage my contributions? If we consider a contribution in this context as: a unit of labor done by an individual for the sake of furthering the goals of a project or community, then contribution management is the use of tools and techniques to keep track of one’s contributions, making sure they’re recorded, surfaced, and (eventually) given value when ...
Being autonomous requires a mental shift
We’ve talked about contribution management and the power of recording community contributions. But the largest barrier to unlocking this power is that self-reporting your own work isn’t automatic, and requires a bit of a mental shift from what most are typically used to. The most important thing to keep in mind is, you’re not self-reporting your contributions for a boss or manager, you’re doing it for yourself and your peers - that’s a drastically different kind of interaction, and one that a...
What is Contribution-Based Governance?
As DAOs steadily grow in proliferation and popularity (yes, even in the bear market), there is a massive need to explore more alternative governance models. For the most part, we’ve seen DAO governance models that are largely based on capital (buying tokens, NFT auctions, etc). One governance model that we would love to see more in DAOs is what we call contribution-based governance, which simply prioritizes the contributions of contributors and participants over capital. In Kei’s article ‘The...
Govrn builds trust between contributors and DAOs. Easily track, record, and own your DAO Contributions.
You might have read our last article and thought, “Govrn sounds great for DAOs that don’t need core teams to steward them, but we need a core team to manage things or else we’ll devolve into chaos - an individual contributor focus isn’t enough!“
Fortunately, that’s not the chaos case. In addition to empowering DAO contributors to own their own contributions, we also empower DAO core teams to effectively coordinate those contributions - mainly through our new DAO Dashboard feature.

DAO Dashboards provide an amazing bird’s-eye view of all the contributions that are attributed to your DAO.
The contributors still own their own work, but core teams can better understand the work that’s being done in the DAO - leading to less chaos and more coordination.
DAO Dashboards shows you:
A heatmap of the DAOs contributions, showing what was done on what day
A chart of the contributions by member
A chart of the contributions by type/category
All of the recent contributions in the DAO
You can also adjust these by timeframes (week, month, year, etc), and of course there’s even more to come!
When contributors push their contributions up to a DAO, the Dashboard opens the door to whole new ways of coordinating and directing that DAO, simply through the work that’s being done.
For example, if you see that certain types of contributions are happening more often than others, you can double down on those if they’re the most important. Alternatively, if certain important types of contributions are happening less often, newly onboarded contributors can be directed to focus on those types in order to fill the gaps.
DAOs are often inefficient, but they don’t have to be. Use DAO Dashboards to level up your coordination!
You might have read our last article and thought, “Govrn sounds great for DAOs that don’t need core teams to steward them, but we need a core team to manage things or else we’ll devolve into chaos - an individual contributor focus isn’t enough!“
Fortunately, that’s not the chaos case. In addition to empowering DAO contributors to own their own contributions, we also empower DAO core teams to effectively coordinate those contributions - mainly through our new DAO Dashboard feature.

DAO Dashboards provide an amazing bird’s-eye view of all the contributions that are attributed to your DAO.
The contributors still own their own work, but core teams can better understand the work that’s being done in the DAO - leading to less chaos and more coordination.
DAO Dashboards shows you:
A heatmap of the DAOs contributions, showing what was done on what day
A chart of the contributions by member
A chart of the contributions by type/category
All of the recent contributions in the DAO
You can also adjust these by timeframes (week, month, year, etc), and of course there’s even more to come!
When contributors push their contributions up to a DAO, the Dashboard opens the door to whole new ways of coordinating and directing that DAO, simply through the work that’s being done.
For example, if you see that certain types of contributions are happening more often than others, you can double down on those if they’re the most important. Alternatively, if certain important types of contributions are happening less often, newly onboarded contributors can be directed to focus on those types in order to fill the gaps.
DAOs are often inefficient, but they don’t have to be. Use DAO Dashboards to level up your coordination!
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