Dear Eden Fractal community,
I hope everyone has enjoyed the winter break and is having a wonderful start to the new year. After these refreshing weeks away, I'm excited to reconnect on Thursday and share important developments in our journey to implement fractal decision-making processes throughout society.
Our years of dedicated development have created strong foundations through sophisticated tools, comprehensive educational resources, and most importantly - amazing communities and contributors pioneering these processes. We're now well positioned for transformative growth that will help all communities and organizations enjoy the benefits of fractal democracy.
As discussed in our prior events, we're transitioning to a new time for our bi-weekly gatherings - Thursdays at 17:00 UTC, alternating with Optimism Fractal. I'm excited to invite you to our first event of 2025 this Thursday, January 16th, where we'll explore strategic proposals for nurturing growth across the fractal ecosystem while providing space for all participants to share their thoughts about fractal governance and maximizing our collective impact this year.
🌱 Fractal Ecosystem Developments and Discussion Topics
This discussion builds upon months of strategic planning, now organized in the updated Eden Fractal Community notion site where you can find all recent strategy documents. As always, you can also watch recordings of previous discussions on our videos page. Over the winter break, two key articles were published that provide important context for Thursday's discussion.
First, Tadas published a blog post, "Current Problems with Fractals and the Meeting Schedule," offering crucial insights about development cycles, meeting cadence, funding priorities, and the need for focused deliberation spaces. Building on these observations, I published an article "Growing Together: Strategic Evolution of Fractal Communities in 2025," which explores synergistic opportunities between Eden Fractal and Optimism Fractal while outlining pathways for ecosystem-wide collaboration.
The Growing Together article introduces two draft proposals I'd like to explore more deeply on Thursday:
- Eden Fractal Cagendas: A democratic topic selection system enabling our community to guide strategic discussions using Respect earned across multiple fractal communities. This helps us prioritize the most important ecosystem-wide initiatives while fostering genuine democratic participation.
- Eden Fractal Core Intents: A framework for aligning ecosystem efforts around three key priorities - increasing Respect Game implementation, expanding Respect token utilization, and growing funding for the fractal ecosystem. This creates clear metrics for measuring our progress while directing resources effectively.
These proposals are in early draft form and your feedback is essential for refining them. They aim to leverage our upcoming ORDAO deployment to create robust foundations for both immediate community engagement and sustainable ecosystem development. We had productive initial discussions about these articles and proposals at last week's Optimism Town Hall - this video provides a great introductory overview of these recent developments and proposals.
As technological advancement accelerates and coordination challenges grow more complex, our collective work and growth strategies become increasingly critical. I’m stoked about all the progress we’ll make together this year and look forward to hearing your thoughts.
🌿 Catalyzing Growth with Eden Fractal’s First Event of The Year
Join us Thursday at 17 UTC as we begin this next chapter in our journey. Whether you're a long-time contributor focused on development, a community leader implementing these processes, or someone just discovering these innovations, your voice matters in shaping how we grow together. We welcome:
- Feedback on the draft proposals
- Thoughts about Eden Fractal's direction in 2025
- Questions about fractal decision-making processes
- Ideas for growing the broader fractal ecosystem
- Discussions about maximizing our collective impact
- Updates on your progress over the break
I look forward to collaborating with you all to create transformative growth that helps every member of our ecosystem thrive. Together we can make 2025 a breakthrough year for implementing better decision-making processes throughout society. I greatly appreciate everyone in the community and am looking forward to seeing you at the event!
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Dear Eden Fractal community,
After a refreshing winter break, we're excited to reconvene and begin an transformative year of growth for fractal decision-making processes. Our years of careful development and experimentation have created strong foundations - from sophisticated coordination tools to comprehensive educational resources. Now, we're positioned to dramatically expand our impact while maintaining the democratic principles that make these processes so powerful.
New Schedule & First Event of 2025 📅
We're transitioning to a new bi-weekly schedule, with events now happening on Thursdays at 17:00 UTC (alternating weeks with Optimism Fractal). Our first gathering of 2025 will be this Thursday, where we'll explore strategic proposals for nurturing transformative growth across the fractal ecosystem.
Strategic Discussion & Recent Developments 🌿
At last week's Optimism Town Hall, we had a productive discussion examining two key articles that will help shape our direction:
- "Growing Together: Strategic Evolution of Fractal Communities in 2025" - Exploring synergistic opportunities between Eden Fractal and Optimism Fractal while outlining pathways for ecosystem-wide collaboration
- Tadas' analysis of fractal meeting schedules and coordination needs, providing valuable insights about optimizing our development processes
Building on these discussions and months of strategic planning, I've drafted two proposals for community consideration:
Draft Proposals for Community Feedback:
- Eden Fractal Core Intents - A framework for aligning ecosystem efforts around increasing Respect Game engagement and Respect token utilization, creating clear metrics for measuring our progress toward implementing fractal decision-making processes throughout society
- Eden Fractal Cagendas - A democratic topic selection system enabling the community to guide strategic discussions while maintaining genuine participation as we scale
These proposals are in early draft form and your feedback is essential for refining them. They aim to create robust foundations for both immediate community engagement and sustainable ecosystem development.
Enhanced Resources & Documentation 📚
The Eden Fractal Community Notion site has been updated with comprehensive strategic documentation developed over recent months. These materials provide deeper context about our journey and vision while outlining concrete steps for implementation.
Open Discussion & Collaboration 🤝
Thursday's event welcomes:
- Feedback on the draft proposals
- Thoughts about Eden Fractal's direction in 2025
- Ideas for growing the broader fractal ecosystem
- Questions about implementing these processes in your community
- General discussion about maximizing our collective impact
We'll also receive an update from Tadas about ORDAO deployment progress, which will enable enhanced coordination through Snapshot integration.
Looking Forward 🌅
The infrastructure we've built together - from the Respect Game to sophisticated governance frameworks - provides foundations for transforming how communities make decisions. As technological advancement accelerates and coordination challenges grow more complex, these tools become increasingly critical.
Join us Thursday as we begin this next chapter in our journey to implement fractal decision-making processes throughout society. Whether you're a long-time contributor or just discovering these innovations, your voice matters in shaping how we grow.
Event Details:
- Date: Thursday, January 16th
- Time: 17:00 UTC
- Link: [RSVP Link]
Looking forward to collaborating with you all in what promises to be an amazing year of growth and impact.
Best regards, Dan
Old Draft
Happy New Year, Eden Fractal community! 🎊
I'm excited to share some important developments in our strategic evolution as we enter 2025. Over the break, we've been carefully considering how to optimize our community processes to better serve the growing fractal ecosystem and accomplish our mission of implementing fractal decision-making processes throughout society.
Building on months of strategic discussions and recent analysis from Tadas about current challenges in our meeting structures, I've drafted two proposals that would enhance our ability to support both our community and the broader Superchain:
- Implementing Cagendas for our bi-weekly events, enabling more dynamic and focused discussions on crucial topics like funding and ecosystem development
- Establishing new core intents that align our efforts around:
- Increasing Respect Game engagement
- Expanding Respect token utilization
- Growing funding for the fractal ecosystem
These proposals maintain our bi-weekly cadence while creating more flexible structures for addressing key ecosystem needs. They're designed to help us better support all fractal communities while preserving our ability to test and refine new features and processes.
We'll be discussing these proposals tomorrow at Optimism Town Hall (18 UTC), where they're the approved discussion topic. I encourage everyone to join if you can - your perspectives would be valuable as we refine these ideas.
You can find more details in:
- The "Growing Together" article: [Link]
- Detailed proposals: [Links]
- Tadas's original analysis: [Link]
We'll also continue this discussion at our next Eden Fractal event. These proposals represent exciting opportunities to enhance our impact while staying true to our mission of implementing fractal decision-making processes throughout society.
Looking forward to working together to make 2025 our most impactful year yet! 🌱
- first event
- congrats on development v2
- also a musician
- excited to join sometime
- integrations with ZAO respect?
Composable - respect
Welcome back any time
Opportunity for Funding
- Setting up infrastructure to distribute when there’s funding
- What’s most important to discuss
- Great