In the page below you can find several alternate versions of the core intents that were under consideration and more rationale about why the draft proposal above created. This page is included for reference and may be interesting for anyone who wants to dive deeper into the logic behind the core intents.
Option 1:
Optimism Fractal is a community dedicated to fostering collaboration, awarding public good creators, and optimizing collective governance on Optimism.
- This is a simpler version that adds optimizing collective governance but doesn’t specify the Optimism Collective or Superchain
Option 2:
Optimism Fractal is a community dedicated to fostering collaboration, awarding public good creators, and optimizing governance in the Optimism Collective and Superchain.
- This option could be better to clarify what is Optimism directly in the core intents
- Our main target markets are the Optimism Collective leadership and Superchain communities like Base, so this could clarify to them exactly what we mean by Optimism
- For example, the Base community might be more interested in joining if it specifically states Superchain than if it just states Optimism, because some people in the Base community might think that Optimism more so means the OP mainnet
- We’ve already heard this feedback from an Eden Fractal community member that he wasn’t sure what is, but if we state Optimism Collective and Superchain right in the beginning then it makes it much easier for anyone to search it
- On the other hand, just writing ‘Optimism’ does encapsulate this (albeit less clearly and directly) and is much shorter and simpler for a general audience.
- Just stating Optimism is As this article states, Optimism is the Superchain and Collective. But most people haven’t read this article in the onchain space and almost nobody has heard of Optimism outside of the onchain ecosystem, so I think it’s better to be more specific here in the title
- Generally I think that this option is probably better for now because it’s more important to optimize our messaging with our target audience right now than to optimize our messaging for a general audience
- After we’ve established strong relationships with our target markets and grown Optimism Fractal to a more mature, independent state in the future, then I think it probably makes more sense to use a more general phrase like growing Optimism instead of the Collective and Superchain
- At this point we’ll have more of our own distribution, more people will be familiar with the meaning of Optimism in this context, and the poetry of growing Optimism will be able to shine more with the underlying support network of education
I also considered the following options but decided against them. They are below for reference if you’re interested.
Option 3:
Optimism Fractal is a community dedicated to fostering collaboration, awarding public good creators, and optimizing decentralized governance for the Optimism Collective and Superchain.
- This option changes ‘in’ to ‘for’, which makes it more direct and of service to Optimism.
- Generally I think that the word ‘in’ works very well to communicate with our target audience and works much better for communicating a general audience.
- Overall I think ‘in’ makes more sense than ‘for’- it just seems like better grammar and doing these things ‘in’ Optimism naturally implies that it’s also ‘for’ Optimism
- It also prefixes governance with the word ‘decentralized’, which provides more specificity regarding the type of governance.
- Alternatively we could use the word democratic or some other word
- Generally I think it’s best to just keep it simple with optimizing governance- that implies that it has the features of decentralization, democracy, fairness, fast, fun, enjoyable, efficient, etc… and it keeps it shorter, which is helpful for both our target and general audience.
Option 4:
Optimism Fractal is a community dedicated to fostering collaboration, awarding public good creators, and optimizing decentralized governance for the Optimism Collective and Superchain.