TEC Working Groups Weekly Update
Sunday, November 28th, 2021
Hello 
! Here are the Working Group updates from the last week. If you feel like you’re missing out, check out the calendar and join us in real time during any of our many calls.
No Spotlight this week.
Stewards
- Sprint 22 has ended and the Commons Upgrade (CU) is days away from becoming a reality
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Breaking News: listed below are the key dates for the CU except for the “Debate & Rock the Vote” section, which we are now extending to allow for a longer deliberation period:
- Nov 11 - Nov 18 <— Learn & Propose
- Nov 19 - 25 <— Propose & Debate
- Nov 25 - 30 <— Debate & Rock the Vote
- Dec 1 - 6 <— Stewards Council & Voters pamphlet creation
- Dec 7 - 13 <— Runoff vote
- Remember to keep track of the critical pieces of work for our CU through our ZenHub
- Our Steward WG 3-month Funding Proposal is live on our forum: you’re invited to take a look at it, ask questions, and propose improvements
- If you missed the previous programs, TE Academy’s Introduction to Token Engineering course will kick off once again on Wednesday Dec. 15 at 9:00am UTC
- Consider joining us for our Sprint Retrospective and Stewards Council meetings which alternate every Thursday at 1800 CET; and also for our weekly syncs which happen every Wednesday at 1900 CET
- 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 ethos is simple: All we are saying is give peace a chance
- This last week we completed our 2nd Graviton Training!
- Consider joining us for our Nonviolent Communication (NVC) bookclub, which takes place on Thursdays in the DAO Bookclub server; we are currently on Chapter 9 of Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall B. Rosenberg
- If you believe in what we do, consider supporting our Gitcoin grant
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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
- We have a new interface ready that’ll allow us to buy and sell tokens directly from our bonding curve
Soft Gov
- Our Rewards System initiative is evolving into a WG: here’s what its manifesto currently looks like
- On that note, we will have a Rewards System Assemblage event on Dec. 10th: a whole day of talks, discussions, and workshops about the Rewards System, hosting leaders from all around the web3 ecosystem
- The LASERTAG vote is currently active on Snapshot: this proposal will pick a group of 7 people to join a Gnosis Safe multisig with the purpose of executing the terms of all proposals that specifically address the funds in that multisig after they successfully pass a Snapshot vote
- In other words, they won’t be making decisions temselves but executing on the collective choices of the TEC community
- Check out some of our decision-making visuals
- We’re voting for the final parameters of our Commons Upgrade: let your voice be heard (but, ideally, wait until after the debates to cast the full weight of your vote)
- Forum Highlight: Our Rewards System sync calls are now on Wednesdays at 20:00 CET in our Community Hall VC. Check out our Rewards System Task Force Google Doc and our Reward Board for more detailed info on what we’re working on
Communitas
- Here’s 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
0mega
- Our WG sync calls are now weekly: the next one will be Wednesday December 1st at 8PM CET in the Omega VC
- We’ve started a Notion page for our TE Consilience Library
- Some weeks ago we started a series on Ethical Decision-making frameworks
Labs
- Currently focusing on Rewards System Research: join us Fridays at 9am PST/6pm CEST (at our TEC Discord server)
- For our Praise Evolution Taskforce: join us Thursdays at 7am PST/4pm CEST (at our TEC Discord server)
- For our DAO2DAO Models Workshops: join us Wednesdays at 9am PST/6pm CEST (at the PrimeDAO Discord server)
- For the Tokenspice Development Workshop: join us Mondays at 8am PST/5pm CEST (at the Token Engineering Academy Discord Server)
- For BlockScience Open Office Hours: join us on Thursdays at 9am PST/6pm CEST (via Zoom Call)
- For Longtail Financial Open Office Hours: join us on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 12pm PST/9pm CEST on LTF’s Discord server
- Forum Highlight: Solidity study group hosted by @metaverde: Nov 18 - Feb 24th
Comms (soon to be T.E.A.M.)
- Params Parties are like cowbell: we gotta have more!
- And so we’re still in Params Party season: check our calendar and join us at one of the many events we’re hosting
- Our Creative Onboarding campaign continues and we are actively looking for project managers, graphic designers, social media managers, copywriters, and animators to join our ranks as contributors
- So far we’ve assembled 5 teams for kicking off T.E.A.M. after the CU:
- TE Academy
- Hubspot
- Animation & Media
- Translation
- Twitter Planning
- Bounties will soon be unveiled!
Transparency
- We’ve helped Soft Gov update their decision-tracking document
- Our Transparency Survey for the community will be ready shortly
- Finally, we’ll be starting the Transparency Debates for the Multisig process soon
- Forum Highlight: Our bi-weekly sync calls are on Mondays at 15:00 CET in Transparency’s VC (and here’s our Transparency WG manifesto)
Legal
- 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
- We’ve got a new draft of terms and conditions for the ABC
- We’re creating a WG Funding Proposal that’ll enable us access to readily available capital in the (improbable but possible) event of legal action
- Forum Highlight: Join us every other Friday at 16:00 CET for a chance to contribute and learn more about the ABC’s legal framework
Params
- Check out our Commons Configuration Dashboard (CCD)!
- Try our dashboard here and, if you’re feeling lost or lonely, check our Party Calendar for the date & time of our many Params Parties
- We’ve added one more feature to our CCD: you can now simulate a funding request into the bonding curve as a way to understand what it’d take to pass a proposal
- Check out our current Commons Configuration Proposals (if you’d like to support one, use only 1 vote because it’s likely that most current proposals will be forked after our debates)
- As for the debate structure: we’ll deliberate on 5 proposals, each proponent having 5 minutes to explain and 5 minutes to respond to objections or feedback given by peers; the debates will last 1 week and you can DM Griff if you’d like to host
- Forum Highlight: Don’t hesitate to open an issue on ZenHub if you have suggestions on how to improve our CCD
Thanks for reading the update this week! Be sure to check out the calendar to join us on a call! 