TEC WGs Weekly Updates

[Mount_Manu]

Tuesday, January 18th, 2022

Hello ! And GM: this is the first Working Group (WG) Weekly Update of the year! Consider turning on all notifications for this topic so that you may remain informed of what happens in our community Updates will go live on Sunday.

Here’s 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.

Stewards

• First things first: we are all Goldilocks now! Check out the specifics to the winning parameters for our Commons Upgrade here.
• We are currently on sprint 25 and this is our Jan 7 - 20 Sprint Board. As a reminder:
  • We do our Sprint Planning every other Friday,
  • Our Sprint Retrospective every other Thursday,
  • Our Stewards Council every other Thursday,
  • And our Stewards Weekly every other Wednesday.
• Our Steward WG 3-month Funding Proposal has been live on our forum for quite some time but more feedback is always welcomed.
• TE Academy x TEC: Introduction to Token Engineering
  course will happen later today at 4 pm CET in this Zoom link and, if you haven’t been to one yet, you don’t wanna miss it.
• Forum Highlight: As always, you’ll find many guiding references in our TEC Timeline here, in our TEC Handbook here, and in our TEC Retrospective Miro board, all of which are open for everyone to see. In it we visualize in-house empirical findings: what has gone well, what can be done better, and what specific actions we can take to keep progressing successfully.

Gravity

• Our funding proposal is live on the forum.
• If you’d like to contribute to Gravity, please fill out this Google Form so that we can start co-creating a common understanding of what needs doing and what you can do.
• We’ve joined Dework too! Click on the link to explore current tasks and find out if you can contribute.
• As always, our Nonviolent Communication (NVC) bookclub takes place on Thursdays in the DAO Bookclub server at 21:00 CET; we’re currently on Chapter 13 of Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall B. Rosenberg.
• If you believe in what we do, consider supporting our Gitcoin grant.
• Forum Highlight: Here are some important links to consider:
  • Request support managing situations through the following link.
  • Fill and share the Gravity survey.
  • Check Gravity’s step by step process.
  • Read the notes from our weekly WG sync.

Commons Swarm

• The Commons Upgrade is live! We’ve now deployed the Gardens and upgraded it to a Commons:
  • We currently have the HatchDAO’s Commons Upgrade Vote: The vote (titled ‘Vote #4’) sets aside the initial buy amount (i.e. 250,000 wxDAI) to a separate vault so it can be used to buy into the bonding curve; it allows the DAO to transfer TEC tokens and then it migrates all the leftover wxDAI (besides the initial buy) to the conviction voting pool and the bonding curve app. Then, it makes a handshake deal with the migration app where it only sends this money if the Gardens DAO creates a token (i.e. TEC token) and gives it to all the (TECH) token holders.
  • On January 19th this vote will be executed and the TEC tokens will be minted for each and every Hatcher, although they’ll be frozen.
  • Also on January 19th: the ABC Opening Vote goes LIVE!
  • On January 25th the Hatchers’ Token Freeze period begins and lasts for 26 weeks, up until July 25th, 2022 when TEC tokens will unlock and become liquid.
  • Also on January 25th: our ABC will Open and TEC will be able to be minted by anyone!
  • And finally, for those that do Ragequit, the delay between requesting and receiving funds will be of 2 days.

Soft Gov

• 82 people voted on our Commons Upgrade Runoff, choosing the parameters that will frame our collaborative economy. Here’s the full Snapshot breakdown.
• Our TEC Community Covenant is live on IPFS as part of our upgrade migration.
• A Snapshot vote concerning our Token Freeze and When should the vesting period start? went live and is now closed: When ABC opens (Jan 24th/28th) was the notion that will be executed.
• Another Snapshot vote titled How should we adjust the ABC to deal with the unknowns presented by Ragequitting? also went live and closed: the consensus was for devs to assess and use their own discretion to proceed.

Communitas

• As a reminder, there are 3 weekly calls around our WG:
  • Our weekly sync is Mondays at 8 pm CET / 2 pm EST.
  • Our Orientation call is Wednesdays at 6 pm CET / 9 am PST.
  • Our TEC Lounge is Fridays at 5 pm CET / 8 am PST.
• We’ve reached 1,500 members on Discord.
• Recently, we outreached to 82 voters to brief them on the different proposals.
• If you haven’t already, check our Communitas WG 3-month funding proposal.
• A Guide for Guides: Eduardo has curated a list of instructions to onboard people into the guide role:
  • Congratulations Gene, David, and (myself) Mt. Manu for their new roles as guides

0mega

• Our Consilience Library page is online and we’re actively looking for contributors so message me (Mount Manu#3530) on Discord if you’re a subject-matter expert on any of the 8 petals of our world-famous, crypto-economic systems flower.
• Currently, our WG has got 2 initiatives, funding proposals, that we’ve been forwarding:
  • (1) The TE Ethics Participatory Research as an acknowledgement of contributions for focus group participants and for co-facilitators;
  • and (2) the TE Consilience Library to structure and curate an annotated library (for which we’ve started a Notion page).
• Consilience’s Library Manifesto is live.

Labs

• TE Academy will build the first bachelor-level education program and NFT-based certification, open job-boards and matchmaking activities for projects seeking Token Engineering experts: check that out here
• Dogfooding the Proposal Inverter: we want the creators of the proposal inverter to be the initial users of the proposal inverter
• For our DAO2DAO Models Workshops: join us Wednesdays at 9am PST/6pm CEST (at the PrimeDAO Discord server).
• For Longtail Financial Open Office Hours: join us on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 12 pm PST / 9 pm CET on LTF’s Discord server.
• For BlockScience Open Office Hours: join us on Thursdays at 9 am PST / 6 pm CET (via Zoom Call).
• Forum Highlight: Solidity study group hosted by @metaverde: Nov 18 - Feb 24th.

T.E.A.M.

• We’ve launched the Commons Upgrade!, and with it henceforth we shall be known as the Token Engineering Amplify Messengers (T.E.A.M.) WG!
• Now, a quick recap: T.E.A.M. has 4 teams, which are:
  • TE Academy team (syncs on Mondays at 5 pm CET / 10 am CT).
  • Twitter team (syncs on Mondays at 6 pm CET / 11 am CT).
  • Animation & Video Production team (syncs on Mondays at 7 pm CET / 12 pm CT).
  • Translations team (syncs on Mondays at 9 pm CET / 2 pm CT).
  • Hubspot team (syncs on Mondays at 10 pm CET / 3 pm CT ).
• Our Dework account is set up and ready to reward contributors: congratulations to lonis.eth for developing such an amazing tool (and thanks to @chuygarcia92 for finding it!)

Transparency

• Our bi-weekly sync calls are on Mondays at 15:00 CET in Transparency’s VC (and here’s our Transparency WG manifesto).
• If you haven’t already, check our Transparency WG Funding Proposal.
• Forum Highlight: We created a map around access management: How to get access to TEC platforms.

Legal

• We have our sync calls every other Friday at 4 pm CET: join us and learn more about our legal framework.
• We’re currently working in the following issues:
  • Terms & Conditions for Conviction Voting Proposals (in progress).
  • New draft of terms and conditions for the ABC (ready).
• Open call for legal experts: we’re looking for contributors with legal expertise in the DAO space; DM iviangita on Discord if you’d like to be involved.

Params

• Success! Our job here is done and, as such, this is the last Params WG Weekly Update…
• But we leave behind greatness:
  • The Commons Configuration Dashboard (CCD)!
• Forum Highlight: Commons Upgrade Voter Pamphlet.

Rewards

• Our new Praise dashboard is almost ready.
• Forum Highlight: Our Rewards System sync calls are now on Wednesdays at 20:00 CET in our Reward-System VC. Also, check out our Rewards System Task Force Google Doc.

Thank you for reading the WG Weekly update from Jan 1 - 13 Be sure to check out the calendar to join us on a call!

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[Mount_Manu]

Monday, January 24th, 2022

Hello ! Here’s 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.

Stewards

• Last week marked the ending of Sprint 25, which went on from Jan. 7 - 20; whatever the date, you can find our current Sprint Board here.
• Now, a relevant reminder of when we do what we do:
  • Our Sprint Planning happens every other Friday,
  • Our Sprint Retrospective every other Thursday,
  • Our Stewards Council every other Thursday,
  • And our Stewards Weekly every other Wednesday.
• The following things happened this passed week within our Community Stewards:
  • We went over a Dework demo in our sync call.
  • Chuy was invited to represent the TEC community as a DAWN DAO delegate; for context, DAWN DAO is responsible for The DAOist events worldwide.
  • Mert gave an update about a TEC x PrimeDAO collaboration regarding the Proposal Inverter, which will allow multiple DAOs to submit and fund one same proposal instead of having each DAO fund different proposals individually, as is currently the case.
• Last but not least, our Stewards WG Funding Proposal has been live on our forum for quite a while now: check it out if you’d like to learn about what we’re funding and how you can contribute.
• Forum Highlight: We launched our Commons Upgrade with Goldilocks, our winning proposal: check out its parameters here. And don’t forget to Tweet about us!

Gravity

• All we are saying is give peace a chance:
  • Gravity’s mission is to foster competence in conflict management through training, education, and trust-creation.
• Our funding proposal is live on the forum.
• Got peace? Fill out this Google Form if you’d like to spread it around; there are many ways to contribute besides mediation.
• We’ve joined Dework too! Click on the link to explore current tasks and find out if you can contribute.
• Lastly, we will soon unveil a calendar of activities for the next 3 months.
• Forum Highlight: Here are some important links to consider:
  • Request support managing situations through the following link.
  • Fill and share the Gravity survey.
  • Check Gravity’s step by step process.
  • Read the notes from our weekly WG sync.

Commons Swarm

• The Commons Upgrade is live! We’ve now deployed the Gardens and upgraded it to a Commons:
  • We currently have the HatchDAO’s Commons Upgrade Vote: The vote (titled ‘Vote #4’) sets aside the initial buy amount (i.e. 250,000 wxDAI) to a separate vault so it can be used to buy into the bonding curve; it allows the DAO to transfer TEC tokens and then it migrates all the leftover wxDAI (besides the initial buy) to the conviction voting pool and the bonding curve app. Then, it makes a handshake deal with the migration app where it only sends this money if the Gardens DAO creates a token (i.e. TEC token) and gives it to all the (TECH) token holders.
  • On January 19th this vote will be executed and the TEC tokens will be minted for each and every Hatcher, although they’ll be frozen.
  • Also on January 19th: the ABC Opening Vote goes LIVE!
  • On January 25th the Hatchers’ Token Freeze period begins and lasts for 26 weeks, up until July 25th, 2022 when TEC tokens will unlock and become liquid.
  • Also on January 25th: our ABC will Open and TEC will be able to be minted by anyone!
  • And finally, for those that do Ragequit, the delay between requesting and receiving funds will be of 2 days.

Soft Gov

• Some of the lessons we learned from the Commons Upgrade were:
  • Contrary to our initial hypothesis, people did not choose a money-oriented proposal, proving that our community is value-aligned.
  • Next time we’ll explain each parameter and each module individually, otherwise it’s an information overload
  • We’ll work on understanding ranked choice better
  • There’s a steep learning curve to interacting with TE parameters, regardless of the CCD’s intuitive understanding. Some part of this is unavoidable but, still, we ought to make this more accessible for laymen.
• 82 people voted on our Commons Upgrade Runoff, choosing the parameters that will frame our collaborative economy. Here’s the full Snapshot breakdown
• Our TEC Community Covenant is live on IPFS as part of our upgrade migration

Communitas

• As a reminder, there are 3 weekly calls around our WG:
  • Our weekly sync is Mondays at 8 pm CET / 2 pm EST.
  • Our Orientation call is Wednesdays at 6 pm CET / 9 am PST.
  • Our TEC Lounge is Fridays at 5 pm CET / 8 am PST.
• We’ve reached 1,500 members on Discord.
• We outreached to 82 Hatcher voters to brief them on the different proposals.
• If you haven’t already, check our Communitas WG 3-month funding proposal.
• A Guide for Guides: Eduardo has curated a list of instructions to onboard people into the guide role
• • Forum Highlight: If you have any questions or concerns, I encourage you to DM any of our onboarding guides, that is, Gene (r33pich33p#6906), David (David (please DYOR…)#4116) or myself, Mount Manu (Mount Manu#3530) on Discord and we’ll be happy to schedule a 1-on-1 session with you to answer any query.

0mega

• Our Consilience Library page is online and we’re actively looking for contributors so message me (Mount Manu#3530) on Discord if you’re a subject-matter expert on any of the 8 petals of our world-famous, crypto-economic systems flower
• Currently, our WG has got 2 initiatives, funding proposals, that we’ve been forwarding:
  • (1) The TE Ethics Participatory Research as an acknowledgement of contributions for focus group participants and for co-facilitators;
  • and (2) the TE Consilience Library to structure and curate an annotated library (for which we’ve started a Notion page.)
• Consilience’s Library Manifesto is live.

Labs

• We joined forces with TE Academy for a TEA x TEC presentation. Major praise to Juan Carlos Bell for hosting the talk (more than 50 people attended)
• Vyvy-vi and YGG will soon team up to summon a Discord bot army: the session will take place from March 4th to May 6th… more details to come soon.
• Remember that Metaverde is still hosting a Solidity study group (which started on Nov. 18th and will end on Feb. 24th).
• Dogfooding the Proposal Inverter: we want the creators of the proposal inverter to be the initial users of the proposal inverter
• For our DAO2DAO Models Workshops: join us Wednesdays at 9am PST/6pm CEST (at the PrimeDAO Discord server)
• For Longtail Financial Open Office Hours: join us on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 12 pm PST / 9 pm CET on LTF’s Discord server
• For BlockScience Open Office Hours: join us on Thursdays at 9 am PST / 6 pm CET (via Zoom Call)
• Forum Highlight: Overwhelmed by awesomeness? We’ve got you: here’s a calendar with all the aforementioned events.

T.E.A.M.

• We’ve launched the Commons Upgrade!, and with it henceforth we shall be known as the Token Engineering Amplify Messengers (T.E.A.M.) WG!
• Now, a quick recap: T.E.A.M. has 4 teams, which are:
  • TE Academy team (syncs on Mondays at 5 pm CET / 10 am CT)
    • Weekly syncs have been focused around onboarding new contributors and training current ones.
  • Twitter team (syncs on Mondays at 6 pm CET / 11 am CT)
    • Preparing a new Airtable workspace for Tweet organizational management
  • Animation & Video Production team (syncs on Mondays at 7 pm CET / 12 pm CT)
    • Started pre-production for the Rewards quantification tutorial
  • Translations team (syncs on Mondays at 9 pm CET / 2 pm CT)
    • Our first batch of translations is currently being reviewed
  • Hubspot team (syncs on Mondays at 10 pm CET / 3 pm CT )
    • Performing emailing list updates

Transparency

• Sometimes less is more: our bi-weekly sync calls are on Mondays at 15:00 CET in Transparency’s VC (and, by the way, here’s our Transparency WG manifesto)
• Too many decisions to keep track of? We know: That’s why we’ve compiled a Soft Gov Decision Tracking List for your convenience.
• Check out our first batch of YouTube and Medium analytics.
• If you haven’t already, check our Transparency WG Funding Proposal
• Forum Highlight: We created a map around access management: How to get access to TEC platforms

Legal

• We have our sync calls every other Friday at 4 pm CET: join us and learn more about our legal framework
• We’re currently working in the following issues:
  • Terms & Conditions for Conviction Voting Proposals (in progress).
  • New draft of terms and conditions for the ABC (ready).
• Open call for legal experts: we’re looking for contributors with legal expertise in the DAO space; DM iviangita on Discord if you’d like to be involved.

Params

• I know last time we said it was the last time but we’re not quite done yet because…
• …we want you to play with the real Params: check them out here.
• Now, if you wanna go from design assistance to decision assistance, try importing your params to the dashboard
• Forum Highlight: Commons Upgrade Voter Pamphlet.

Rewards

• More than 20 people registered to quantify the praise in our database. If you’re one of them and you’re reding this: thank you!
• Our updated Praise dashboard is almost ready" we’re fixing some issues that arised in the last praise quant.
• As a relevant reminder, here are the rules of praise and quantification and here’s an outline of the rewards system process.
• Remember to DM Mitch (divine_comedian#5493) on Discord if you’d like to be involved in the praise quantification process.
• Forum Highlight: Our Rewards System sync calls are now on Wednesdays at 20:00 CET in our Reward-System VC. Also, check out our Rewards System Task Force Google Doc.

Thank you for reading the WG Weekly update from Jan 1 - 13 Be sure to check out the calendar to join us on a call!