# Octant's Purpose & Designing A Governance Structure

**URL:** <https://discuss.octant.app/t/octants-purpose-designing-a-governance-structure/208>\
**Category:** Governance\
**Tags:** governance\
**Created:** [February 9, 2024, 12:15am UTC](https://discuss.octant.app/t/octants-purpose-designing-a-governance-structure/208 "2024-02-09T00:15:49Z")\
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Thanks for the comments here @devanshmehta - thoughtful as always 🙂

As a representative of Gitcoin we are excited to see these changes and look forward to working with Octant core contributors and the wider community to drive meaningful impact and sustainability for digital public goods. Dropping a few replies in line here to some of the comments.

> [@thedevanshmehta](#):
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> It’s also really interesting that Gitcoin is now having a “matching on matching” pool so money we sponsor in running these mini rounds will be multiplied from their own corpus.

In thinking through the design of our new structure at Gitcoin partners like Octant were top of mind and we look forward to driving impact in the way you describe!

> [@thedevanshmehta](#):
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> This is a tough one to crack, too many governance forums become theater where the main decisions happen behind the scenes over call, TG groups or DMs. Brice had a penetrating [article](https://tokenbrice.xyz/farewell-glc/) on how it plays out in Aave’s forums

Very much agree on this point and appreciate the work that @james and the Octant team is doing to come up with creative solutions to improve.

> [@james](#):
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> **We are building a governance council for Octant.** The main intention of this council is to start at the base of our governance decision tree, with the goal of designing a framework for the community fund. Early

Looking forward to next steps RE: the council and would be open to helping support that initiative however I can. Tagging here a post from our forum describing some of the work myself, Sejal and Mathilda are doing to this end.

> **[GG20 Community Council](https://gov.gitcoin.co/t/gg20-community-council/17749)**
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> As we begin to move towards a more decentralized future for Gitcoin Grants, we have an exciting opportunity to involve the community directly in vital decision-making when it comes to the community rounds that Gitcoin funds each quarter during GG...

Onward and upward!

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