Introduction
I believe the first step toward community governance revolves around an easy way to conduct polling through the smart wallet. Polling not only offers direct feedback from the community, but also allows a way for the Divi Team to review community engagement levels.
Direct voting on proposals should be a process reserved in later phases.
Polling Control
I recommend polling events are generated directly from the team. If a community member feels a topic needs to be presented in a poll, we need a process where if there's enough community support, the Divi team could post the poll.
Maybe allow a community poll to execute based on a fee and/or support?
Wallet Notification
Some type of notification that new poll(s) are available
Weighted Polling
Unless we plan on verifying identities, it's too easy for people to create multiple wallets to try to manipulate outcome. If we aren't verifying identify, I recommend 1 coin = 1 vote
Polling parameters
Items such as description of the poll, team comments, duration etc..
Proxy
If someone doesn't want to participate in polls, however, wants their voice heard by someone they deem better informed, I'd like to see an option for vote proxies.
Example: Johnny2Tall owns 100,000 Divi. He would have the option to have BillyBlockchain control his 100,000 Divi for 'voting'. He believe Billy is well informed and would make decisions that benefits the project.
Search
Easy way to search the results of previous polls
Transparency
Would the votes be public? Could an individual toggle public/private vote options?
Conclusion
The goal here is to get community feedback without turning over the keys to governance at phase 1. It doesn't matter how amazing our full governance system works if we're not first able to inspire participation within the community. I feel this is a first step for the team to get the necessary feedback in a transparent way from the community and start looking at ways to improve participation.