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    "summary": "Cardano dOSPO and OMF Program",
    "rationale": "Cardano's open source infrastructure has a real and underaddressed sustainability problem. Critical libraries, SDKs, indexers, and shared tooling depend on small groups of maintainers with no stable funding, no succession plans, and no systematic way to identify which components carry the highest systemic risk. This proposal creates the operational layer to address that gap.\nThe approach is sound: a dependency audit first, then data-driven selection of which projects to fund — not by relationships or proposal visibility, but by measured centrality and bus factor scores. This is how mature open source ecosystems (Linux Foundation, CNCF) operate. The tiered retainer model, structured mentorship pipeline, and bounty program create a full contributor lifecycle: recruit (WP5), develop (WP3), deliver (WP4), sustain (WP2).\nWhat makes this particularly valuable is that it opens space for community members to participate directly in infrastructure maintenance through multiple entry points — bounties for targeted work, mentorship cohorts for skill development, and retainers for sustained contribution. This is not funding a company to build something; it is funding an operational framework that distributes maintenance work across the ecosystem.\nThe governance design is credible: two independent advisory councils with no founding entity employees, a replaceable operator, quarterly public reporting, on-chain attestations, and hard sunset criteria. Unspent reserves return to the treasury.\nConcerns Noted (non-blocking)\nThe dOSPO legal entity does not yet exist and is formed at month 6. Until then, Open Source Cowboy Consulting — the proposer's own company — operates as interim administrator. The proposal includes a freeze mechanism if entity formation fails, which mitigates but does not eliminate the risk.\nOperations budget is ₳2M of ₳12M (16.7%). For a 36-month program this is not unreasonable, but the community should monitor whether operational costs track proportionally to pro",
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