How can public goods creators get the recognition they deserve? We play an awesome Respect Game to foster collaborations and put a spotlight on pioneering builders in the Optimism Collective 🌱 🔴 ☀️
Date: November 6th, 2023
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Show Notes
Table of Contents
- Show Notes
- Timestamps
- Introductory Posts
- Tweets
- Related Posts
- OF 2: Illuminating Public Goods
- OF 1: Welcome to Optimism Fractal!
- The Roots of Optimism Fractal
Timestamps
0:00 - Dan welcomes everyone to the third Optimism Fractal meeting
0:52 - Dan presents the agenda. He shows the Optimism Fractal website, explains more about joining Optimism Fractal meetings, earning awards through public goods contributions, and gaining community respect. He reminds to register for weekly Optimism Fractal meetings through the Luma link
3:42 - Dan promotes the Optimism Fractal blog, explore recent posts, presents the ‘Details’ page that explains the Respect Game rules, and the Fractalgram app used in games
5:05 - Dan gives a high-level introduction to the Optimism Collective, describing it as a new community to reward public goods and build a sustainable future for all
6:14 - Dan introduces Optimystics, the team behind Optimism Fractal that just got approved for a RetroPGF grant. Gives details about what the Optimystics have been working on and encourages to explore the articles, tools and games
7:50 - Dan briefly explains how to play the Respect Game
10:14 - Rosmari shares her contributions from the past week, including working on the latest Optimism Fractal video, tweaking the title/description, adding timestamps and show notes, and promoting it on social media.
12:48 - Rosmari also explored tools like Descript and Opus Clip to generate short clips from the full videos.
13:20 - Tadas shares his work on distributing respect from previous meetings, writing a draft article about potential synergies between Retro PGF and Optimism Fractal, particularly around addressing Retro PGF's application review burden.
15:20 - Tadas suggests Optimism Fractal could help recognize contributors, while Retro PGF rewards them. He proposes ideas like ordering applications by Optimism Fractal respect levels.
18:30 - Rosmari shares that she created a Twitter list for Optimism contributors that already has some followers
19:27 - Hodlon asks Tadas about his plans to release the article, and they discuss idea dissemination challenges
21:15 - The group talks about the difficulties of spreading innovative ideas out to the wider community.
23:10 Hodlon shares working on a DAO model following from events about Ethereum he helped to organise. These were about Ethereum localism or using a blockchain in a localism. He’s working on collecting ideas about a ‘living DAO’ model related to fractal democracy and creating DAOs in a fractal system. Hodlon will share updates via the Discord channel
25:20 - Dan relates fractal structures to nature and how it can inspire better human cooperation.
25:54 - Dan shares contributions through updating the Optimism Fractal media page taglines and outreach, promoted Optimism in the Optimism community calls, Optimism Forum, shares learnings from Citizen’s House Call, hosted and promoted at Eden Fractal community. Dan applied to be a Grants Councillor Reviewer for Optimism and provided details on how to apply. Shares an idea about RetroPGF showcase inspired event where participants can pitch their projects.
34:14 - The group has an in-depth discussion about the evolving dynamics of the Respect Game over time as more respect points are gathered each week. Incentives to do your best every week and support each other as a group where participants can balance each other’s work, be rewarded continuously, and the aim of scaling up the fractal process with hundreds of participants.
39:30 Ranking process begins
41:49 - Dan and Hodlon suggests the name "Public Goods Game" (PGG) for their upcoming RetroPGF game format.
43:07 - Everyone submits their consensus scores for the Respect Game rankings.
45:04 - Hodlon expands more on his idea for a "living DAO" model that he's been developing. He looks forward to publicly sharing more details once he has fleshed out the concepts
48:50 - Tadas also looks forward to reading Hodlon's ideas when he publishes them. Tadas also will share what he’s working on with regards to higher order fractals and DAOs collaborating. Tadas mentions that leaving freedom for DAOs to customize their internal processes while also creating a system where they cooperate and build larger DAO is one of his interests
51:14 - The group talks about the importance of continuing to refine cooperation processes for the benefit of the world. Dan mentions More Equal Animals book, Psync and taking inspiration from fractal democracy leaders and innovators
53:00 - Dan encourages viewers to explore the Eden Fractal community, which holds similar meetings on Wednesdays at 16 UTC
53:32 - Dan thanks all the attendees and wraps up the meeting
Introductory Posts
Part 2
Tweets
Related Posts
OF 2: Illuminating Public Goods
What are the best ways to award public goods creators? In the second episode of Optimism Fractal we play the Respect Game and highlight the brilliant work of visionary Optimists 🌻 🔴 ✨
OF 1: Welcome to Optimism Fractal!
As sunlight shines, sunflowers bloom! In the first episode of Optimism Fractal, the Optimystics embark and introduce a fun consensus game to create profound benefits for the Optimism Collective! 🌻 🌞 🔴
The Roots of Optimism Fractal
Optimism Fractal is rooted in profound wisdom designed to help communities thrive. Our processes have been honed by hundreds of the world’s most talented builders for countless hours to make the best experiences possible.