• 🌱 Ecosystem Care
• Strategy
• Fund
• Onboarding & Contribution Guidance
• Governance model and practices
• Hubs
• Retreats
• Fest
• 🤝 Leadership, Collaboration and Communication Support
• Communication Layer
• Open Value Network Layer
• Culture Layer
• 🧠 Researchers / Knowledge production support
• Working Groups
• ‣
• Council
• Research partnership
• Wikipedia as a research platform
• 🎗️External Audience brand awareness & integration
• Brand & Identity
• Awareness / educational campaign

🌱 Ecosystem Care

• Information overload & Ambiguity
• Bridges, not walls
• Clear expectations agreements and participation
• Help setup specific goals & tasks
• Clear focus, priorities and planning
• Decrease cognitive load
• Provide financial compensation
• Recognize and praise contributors
• Enable more transparency (decision making process etc)

Strategy

• Open up roles
• Use participative tools (github/underscore, google docs...)
• Resource distribution protocols
• Building alignment across the contributors
• Strategy presentations (videos in the newsletter?)
• Regular surveying

Fund

• Sources
  • Individual donations (open fun prizes for different level contributions – e.g. 1 hour consulting on self organization, or a set of book/articles)
  • Grants (talk with foundations) Grant request example
  • Membership fee (magazine?)
  • Paid services (trainings, workshops)
  • Investments
• Distribution Mechanism (Aragon, Giveth, Moloch...)
• Workshop on paid products
• Ask community for help
• Legal Institution? partner with someone?

Onboarding & Contribution Guidance

• Checklist
• Wiki
• Personal support
• School of self organization project? e.g. monthly education and consulting session

Governance model and practices

Hubs

• The best place to around major conferences – nice, big, cozy
• free for contributors of the dgov
• Place for the afterparties

Retreats

Fest

🤝 Leadership, Collaboration and Communication Support

• Support the industry collaborations, synergies and standardization
• Launch 10 investable project
• Identify stakeholders & funding strategy
• Enable Cross Functional Complexity

Communication Layer

• Newsletter
  • Curating a monthly newsletter (+ highlights of the month)
  • Support the space projects with publicity
  • Enable time-warp (send in the most convenient time)
  • Summary of the month chat topics/activity
• Network Map & SSID
  • Integrate ID system with contacts, hubs maps etc (Keybase?)
  • Maintaining and expanding the ecosystem map
  • Add profiling info (interests, skills etc)
  • Reputation
  • Matchmaking tool
• BUIDL chat with channels
• Moderating the #buidl chat on Telegram and potentially other channels (rotating moderation?)
• Allowing #build cross-posting
• Calendar – curating the event calendar
• Informational Partnerships
• Regular meetups in various cities etc – Organize and participate in local network events / meetups. Goal – self-education?
• Forum
• #dgov blog / journal – use medium or https://dgov.pubpub.org/ for the network relevant articles
• Shared glossary/definitions
• Job board / forum topic?
• Arrangements with John L (Aragon), Kate B (DAO Stack)...

Open Value Network Layer

• Sobol: goals, structures, agreements
• Conflict management layer
  • Mediators list & process
  • Ethical and legal platform for innovation
  • NVC court
• Custodians (funds, personal data)
• Workshops (Design Thinking etc)
• Use blockchain for efficient data exchange inside the network
• If we loose inactive part of the community moving to the new platform – it can be refershing and good

Culture Layer

• Ministry of memes – develop artful insights on what's going on in the network (sensemaking)
• Art
• Games
• Fun
• Inspiration
• SWAG
• Stickers, posters etc
• Create a show – create funny reviews about the companies and people in the industry

🧠 Researchers / Knowledge production support

• Run the research producing events
• Support the projects & researches with connections, coverage etc
• Coordinate the ongoing researches with the academics (avoid overlaps)
• Help researchers find right people to interview
• Identify the needs for tools
• Identify stakeholders & funding strategy
• A knowledge base has been created (companies, reports, events, etc.)

Working Groups

• Manage the portfolio of researches
• Take any group and develop it forward, even if a bit
• Should be titled as the end result of the work

Srategic Foresight

Council

Research partnership

Wikipedia as a research platform

• S3nd research straight to the wikipedia. Setup bounties for the successful publish
• It will also create great traffic magnet
• Compensate top authors, they can delegate funds

🎗️External Audience brand awareness & integration

• Create greater awareness about the topic
• Amplify the movement and the network
• Identify stakeholders & funding strategy

Brand & Identity

• Attract branding specialist
• Develop the brand further

Awareness / educational campaign

• Meetups
• Case Studies
• Media Collabs
• Website
• tag campaign – Maintaining the twitter communication channel, so everyone has a chance to exchange news under the „hashtag“ #va2030 and can keep up to date with what is going on in the space.
• Educational animated videos?
• Make a movie
• Create a wiki page about network/governance (link would be highly important)