Optimism Fractal Seasons

How can a seasonal structure help communities thrive? Following a rhythmic Respect Game we explore heliotropic ideas to align Optimism Fractal seasons with Retro Funding rounds 🌻 🔴 🌞

Date: April 11th, 2024

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0:00 Welcome to Optimism Fractal 23rd event

0:27 Dan discusses the Optimism Fractal website, weekly events, respect game and video updates

2:48 Dan discusses the upcoming planning session around Retro Funding and a potential seasonal structure. Dan encourages everyone to checkout notion page.

7:06 Jason shares his thoughts on the importance of optimism, learning, and spreading joy through exploratory education.

12:33 Tadas discusses being sick recently, catching up on Optimism Fractal activities, and catching up with what Dan and Vlad are doing with new app.

15:23 Rosmari outlines her contributions over the past week, including promoting the event, editing videos, drafted an initial version of the timestamps, and exploring thumbnail generation using AI. Made proposal for council. Promoted event on farcaster, watched podcast on retro pgf

21:45 Will shares updates on using Markdown for grant writing, GitHub public, updating the Karma Gap, and integrating custom tokens and credentials into the Learn-to-Earn program, and the live learning sessions hosted every other week. Doing Show on Future businesses web 3, repurposing content blockchain adventure.

26:54 Dan shares screen of work he has done on the education hub, including organizing projects by category, created additional tasks, hopes to inspire community to help with huge amount of tasks. improving the website, and providing feedback on the Respect game app. Trying to fix web errors, ideas on personal respect, integrate with enf. Strategies from Eden fractal. Reviewed Hodlon and Bitbeckers notion page app idea.

32:07 Rosmari asks will about his learn to earn program. Will responds with details on how it works. Social and emotional learning. Does live learning after every other week.

35:33 Dan jumped to ask Will if he’d like to share his work on notion page. Told Will he has access to notion page.

38:03 The group engages in a discussion about how to award the "Respect" or recognition fort the past week's contributions, weighing the merits of different members' efforts.

42:41 Jason adds some lighthearted commentary and humor throughout the discussion, helping to keep the mood positive.

48:33 The group discusses using fractalgram and the relative nature of respect based on individual contributions.

39:52 The group continues the discussion around the "respect" voting and consensus building. Level 6- Dan, level 5-Will, level 4-Rosmari, level 3-Jason, level 2-Tadas 55:95- Will shared form to sign up for let’s go live, gives details

56:59 transitions to a planning session

57:43 Dan proposes ideas around seasons for Optimism Fractal

1:01:40 Dan outlines a plan to have 12-week seasons of Optimism Fractal, with a 1-2 week break in between to sync with the RetroPGF schedule as this would allow for more structure, focused efforts, and sustainable breaks for contributors.

1:02:10 Dan explains how the seasons could focus on different categories like Onchain Builders, Governance, and Dev Tooling, and possibility to integrate with RetroPGF and the Optimism Collective's priorities

1:03:40 Dan shares his idea of creating educational resources on the Optimism website to help people get involved and contribute to Optimism Fractal in various ways, including information on funding opportunities.

1:04:35 Dan shares a Notion project with a calendar view outlining the proposed seasonal structure, including rough dates for the different focus areas.

1:06:02 Dan provides more details on his vision for the educational resources, including curating funding opportunities and promoting ways for people to earn funding through contributing to Optimism Fractal

1:09:56 Tadas agrees that the seasonal structure and breaks are a good idea, and suggests focusing the decision on the immediate upcoming break and season start, as the exact dates for the Retro PGF rounds are still unknown.

1:10:01 The group discusses break, agrees to propose a 1-2 week break depending on retro pgf start date) after the current season, and to start the next "Onchain Builders" season of Optimism Fractal on May 2nd.

1:18:35 Jason provides additional feedback and thoughts on the proposed seasonal structure and alignment with Retro PGF, discussing opportunities to create a rating system for companies contributing to public goods and the overall synergies between the initiatives.

1:24:03 Dan responds to Jason, appreciates all the feedback.

1:25:58 Rosmari open for discussion next week, naming seasons, do we need to prepare

1:27:11 Tadas comments we can agree to have a break, set stages at later date

1:27:57 Dan comments whether a poll is necessary, may write a proposal being as we already have consensus on seasons and breaks. Discussion on names

1:31:04 Dan wraps up meeting. Go optimism fractal!