TEC WGs Weekly Update: April 18 - 25

[Mount_Manu]

Monday, April 25th, 2022

Hello ! These are the Working Group (WG) Weekly Updates for the week of Apr 18 - 25. Within this post you’ll find what’s been happening lately in and around our many calendar calls. If you feel like you’re missing out, join us in real time during any of our many syncs or check out our YouTube channel archive for hundreds of recorded calls.

Stewards

• We are in the midst of Sprint 33 (Apr 15 - 28): here’s the link to our current Sprint board.
• Currently we have 3 open (funding) votes on our Gardens:
  • cadCAD Community Funding (requesting 54,000 WXDAI).
  • Retroactive Funding for TEC at ETH Denver 2022 (requesting 965.16 WXDAI).
  • Comms T.E.A.M. DAO - Marketing T.E.A.M. (requesting 24,820 WXDAI).
• A vote was held on Snapshot (i.e. the Water vote), on which it was decided that the TEC, alongside 1Hive, Shapeshift, BrightID, and Giveth, would put $100,000 worth of their own tokens into a multisig, which would mint $WATER that would be then paired with each token in a Honeyswap LP. The consequence of this would be an increase in liquidity for all these 5 DAOs.
• Here are some of the highlights of this week’s Stewards Council call:
  • The initiative to create a Fundraising WG has got its first signs of progress: dive into the details through this Google Doc and this Google Sheet.
  • Gravity’s consulting deal with Aragon got the TEC $6k, which we’ll be turning into $TEC shortly.
  • A HackMD document was created to do some collective sensemaking around Praise etiquette.
• Moreover, during our Stewards Weekly sync, the following topics were discussed:
  • The Rewards System WG Stewardship was passed from Lívia to Mitch.
  • Updates from the Governance Token Engineering Guild were presented: here are the notes.
  • The TEC Engagement Process diagram developed in Communitas was presented.
  • Low engagement on the 1st Water vote on Snapshot, resulting in an insufficient quorum, necessitated a 2nd vote. Strategies to mitigate this from happening again were discussed.
• Forum Highlight:
  • Tamara, our very own Steward of Stewards, gave a presentation titled ‘Beyond State and Market’ on The DAOist’s GGG event in Amsterdam: here’s the link to the recording.

Gravity

• The 3rd Graviton Training will be starting soon!
  • We’ll upload the study plan to our forum before our training starts.
• Every Tuesday Leen and Jeremy host a practice session about Deep Democracy and Liberating Structures, respectively. If you missed the last session—which was about Invitations & Check In Wave—here’s its recording.
• On Wednesdays, we have our WG’s coordination call at 5 pm CEST.
• Our weekly book club is currently reading Margaret Wheatley’s Who Do We Choose To Be? Last week, we went over Chapter 6, which is about Interconnectedness. We meet every Thursday at 3 PM EST / 9 PM CEST, right after the community call.
• Every Friday, at 17:00 CEST, we have a Psychology and Mental Health Research sync.
• If you’re in need of help managing a conflict, you can make a request through our typeform.
• Last Friday we held an AMA session at Aragon’s discord about conflict management.

Soft Gov

• Our weekly sync is on Wednesdays at 13:00 EST / 19:00 CET.
• Check out our Snapshot Water Proposal.
• As we had to re-do the Water Proposal vote for lack of quorum, we’re having a discussion about voter apathy and how to create more engagement.
• A new working group is incubating: the Financial WG, aimed at managing working group services and finding ways to bring revenue to the TEC. Here is a list of Possible Revenue Streams
• Here is our spreadsheet to gather the Ecosystem Health Metrics.
• On the 27th of April we are kicking off the Governance TE Guild.

Communitas

• This week, we’ve kept developing our engagement process, the work from which can be visualized here.
• Some of the work we did this week covered:
  • Outreach for Praise activation.
  • Elaborating on the member stage roles.
  • Defining our community’s constituents.
• If you’d like more context, here’s a link to our agenda.
• Forum Highlight:
  • Although already shared in the Stewards section, this is worth repeating: Tam gave an insightful presentation at The DAOist’s GGG event in Amsterdam: if you haven’t yet, watch it here.

0mega

• We’ve continued our work on Nic’s Omega workflows Figma file where we’ve been aggregating, and curating, all the ideas and initiatives we’ve worked on since the creation of 0mega:
  • TE Consilience Library.
  • Onboarding and building complexity tolerance.
  • Dynamic Energy Budget.
  • Process flow → Energy flow ← Creative flow.
  • Workflows.
• Research is still ongoing around dynamic energy budget with the purpose of creating an art and science lab with an innovative economic model that would fund academic research in a truly interdisciplinary way, having both artists and scientists working together to solve complex issues.
• We hosted sync #3 of the Imaginarium Creative Jam Session. Here are the notes we gathered.

Labs

• Summon Your Own Discord Bot Army event is still live and will be until May 6th.
• The Proposal Inverter DAO2DAO Models Workshop happens on Wednesdays 9:00 PST / 18:00 CEST. If you missed it, here’s a link to a presentation given in 0mega about the Proposal Inverter.
• Below are our office Hours:
  • From Longtail Financial: Tuesdays & Thursdays at 22:00 CEST / 12:00 PST on the LTF Discord server.
  • From BlockScience: Thursdays at 9:00 PST via Zoom call (ask @Mount Manu on Discord for the link).
• The Pre-Registration to our TE Fundamentals Course is open.
• Help us build the TEC Lab! We are looking for proposal contributors. If you’re interested, get in contact with YGG or Tamara.

Comms

• We currently have 1 funding proposal live on Gardens:
  • Comms T.E.A.M. DAO - Marketing T.E.A.M.(24,820 WXDAI requested)
• More specifically to each subgroup, here are the updates from the 4 teams that comprise our T.E.A.M. collective:
  • TE Academy team (syncs on Mondays at 17:00 CEST / 10:00 CT):
    • Recent agenda points.
    • Working on outreach for educational projects in other DAOs (e.g. HER DAO and Espacio Cripto).
  • Twitter team (syncs on Mondays at 18:00 CEST / 11:00 CT):
    • Recent agenda points.
    • Covering the events in Amsterdam (e.g. DAOist, DevConnect).
    • Talking about basic Token Engineering concepts.
  • Animation & Video Production team (syncs on Mondays at 19:00 CEST / 12:00 CT):
    • Recent agenda points.
    • Progressing with the storyboard for the reward system video and upcoming conviction voting video with Paul.
  • Translations team (syncs on Mondays at 21:00 CEST / 14:00 CT):
    • Recent agenda points.
    • Gravity has resolved the issue that arose and so the second batch of translations will be on the works soon.
  • Marketing team (syncs on Mondays at 22:00 CEST / 15:00 CT):
    • Recent agenda points.
    • The next newsletter will be sent on the upcoming days; it was delayed due to myself, Manu, becoming ill.
• Forum Highlight:
  • Our Steward, Chuy, is in Amsterdam🇳🇱 for The DAOist, DevConnect, Schelling Point and ETHAmsterdam events so make sure to say hi if you’re there as well.

Transparency

• Our financial audit is almost ready, we’re giving it the last editing touches.
• As a relevant reminder, you can read about our TEC Meeting Protocols, Terms and Disclaimers via these links.

Legal

• This week there was no Legal sync so below are the same updates from last week…
• The Legal WG Funding Proposal is passed and executed!
  • Here’s our fund tracker.
• We’re currently working on updating our covenant: here’s the working document for it (and here’s the ZenHub issue about it).
• We’re also working on the TEC Content Ownership Agreement.
  • Ongoing discussion about using Celeste for its enforcement.
• Finally, we’re developing a Terms & Conditions document for All 3rd Party Services.
• Forum Highlight:
  • Feel free to join us at our next bi-weekly sync, which is on April 29th: here’s calendar link to the event.

Rewards

• Livia has passed the Stewardship Torch to Mitch.
• Quant #7 has finished and it is now closed.
• Check our forum post about Quantifier Disagreement.
• If you haven’t yet activated your new Praise Bot, please enter the command /activate on Discord, in any chat, and sign into the message with your Ethereum address.
  • When you do start praising people, please be specific about the action being praised, be descriptive about why you’re grateful, and elaborate on the implications of that particular good deed within our community.
• Our Reward Board Proposal will be ready soon with the reward system parameters and the rewards distribution.
• SourceCred.org is shutting down and its repositories won’t be mantained. But we will keep working with it until it is no longer usable.
• Forum Highlight:
  • Would you like to become a quantifier? Well then, become a quantifier!
  • Our Rewards System sync calls are now on Wednesdays at 20:00 CEST in our Reward-System VC. Also, check out our Rewards System Task Force Google Doc.
  • Our TEC Bot is not a scam! Do not be alarmed.

Thank you for reading the WG Weekly update from Apr 18 - 25. Check our calendar and join us on a call soon! Goodbye (I have to return some video tapes)!