Luke Schoen ltfschoen

Ambassador Fellowship Governance: Pre-Implementation Risk Assessment

Executive Summary

I prepared a risk analysis that identifies significant governance, legal, and privacy concerns with the proposed on-chain implementation of the Ambassador Fellowship. This executive summary outlines these risks and highlights critical questions that should be addressed before implementation.

The purpose of this risk assessment is twofold: 1) Polkadot OpenGov Pull Request #736 implements only a simplified subset of the full Ambassador Fellowship Manifesto previously approved by OpenGov, potentially requiring new approval; and 2) the Polkadot Ambassador Fellowship Governance Extension Pallet I've developed implements critical manifesto components missing from PR #736, but requires proper governance foundations to be effective. Addressing these concerns before implementation would:

Increase Approval Likelihood: Demonstrate thorough risk assessment and mitigation planning, showing OpenGov voters that governance

Polkadot Community Evaluation: AI Governance Framework for Decentralized Voices Program

Document Control

Version: 0.9.1
Date: August 21, 2025
Author: Luke Schoen, Clawbird Pty Ltd
Status: For Public Review Prior to W3F Submission

Decentralized Governance Transition Risk Management Framework: A Parallel Storytelling Approach

This educational document uses parallel storytelling to illustrate governance risks and mitigation strategies through two scenarios: a business scenario involving pub expansion and an abstract governance pattern. The business scenario serves as an accessible analogy to help understand the more complex governance concepts.

The sections of particular educational value include (Scene 6.1) on verification mechanisms and (Key Lesson 3) on transparency requirements. These governance safeguards demonstrate how communities can protect themselves from potential harm during governance transitions. The framework shows that when participants vote without fully understanding implementation details, or when reasoning behind critical votes remains undisclosed, governance systems become vulnerable to manipulation and failure.

The mitigation strategies presented, especially the verification polls that confirm understanding be

Polkadot Human Rights Definitions - Second draft

Preamble

This document is intended to provide clear explanations, definitions, and principles of basic human rights that are not granted by one human or non-human entity, but rather by your human nature alone. This list is not exhaustive and can be expanded upon or extended later through voting action.

Article I: Definitions

All word definitions below are stated as is, unless stated otherwise in each section.

Polkadot DAO Constitution - Third draft

Preamble

We the community of the Polkadot Ecosystem are a Decentralized Software Protocol Network and promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity, do decree and establish this Constitution for the Polkadot DAO OpenGov.

Article I: Polkadot Origin Story

Section 1: Polkadot

alias zed="/Applications/Zed.app/Contents/MacOS/cli"

https://github.com/MyCryptoHQ/MyCrypto/releases/tag/1.7.17
download to ~/Downloads
mac_1.7.17_MyCrypto.dmg
checksums.txt.gpg
checksums.txt
view checksum of binary

cd ~/Downloads
shasum -a 256 mac_1.7.17_MyCrypto.dmg

docker exec -w /multix/squid --user=root -it multix-ui-dev /bin/sh
apk add --update tmux

# new Tmux session and window
# references:
# * https://gist.github.com/michaellihs/b6d46fa460fa5e429ea7ee5ff8794b96
# * https://dev.to/iggredible/useful-tmux-configuration-examples-k3g

# commands

	At a previous ETHBerlin event the Department of Decentralisation said their standards collective tools were focused on decentralisation: self-hosting, fully open source, fully encrypted, and with support for hosting and connecting federated community. Here's an updated list

	- Community (async) - Matrix
	- Coordination (sync) - Jitsi Meet
	- Doc mgmt (collab) - Cryptpad, Nextcloud
	- Images - Dotmemo.xyz
	- Events - OnlyOffice (organising events)
	- Tickets - pretalx/pretix

	// ==UserScript==
	// @name Recaptcha Solver (Automatically solves Recaptcha in browser)
	// @namespace Recaptcha Solver
	// @version 2.1
	// @description Recaptcha Solver in Browser \| Automatically solves Recaptcha in browser
	// @author engageub
	// @match :///recaptcha/*
	// @connect engageub.pythonanywhere.com
	// @connect engageub1.pythonanywhere.com
	// @grant GM_xmlhttpRequest