Eden Fractal Videos
The Eden Fractal community has engaged in many discussions about Cagendas and produced several videos where you can explore these exciting agenda games. You can see some of the recent videos about Cagendas below. Eden Fractal community members have played Cagendas in every weekly meeting since then, which you can watch at EdenFractal.com/videos.
Eden Fractal 28
How do we cooperate after playing Eden+Fractal? We approved 3 proposals to optimize post-breakout room meetings with a new consensus game called Cagendas, set moderator guidelines, and elect a moderator! Voilà! 👌🏽🎄
EF 36: Fractalgram, Cagendagram, and Proxies!
After Eden+Fractal, Tadas demos Fractalgram and the group explores how the new app helps communities cooperate. Then Dan shares a presentation about Telegram + Cagendas, Patrick shares a proposal for delegate proxies, and we conclude with love songs! 💙
EF 57: The Future of Creative Collaboration
Taking the next step in the evolution of human collaboration, we explore growth strategies and plans to unleash the natural power of creative communities with innovative social games 🎶 🌱 ⚽️
EF 59: The Future of Cagendas
How will we share the greatest story of all time? We step into the arena to play Cagendas, a social coordination game that helps communities sync up for creative collaboration! 🥁 🌎 ✨
EF 62: New Topics Game!
How can communities optimize meetings? We pioneer a fractal Cagendas game with topic databases for real time coordination! 🌺 🦒
EF 76: Agenda Games
New games are coming! We changed the meeting format, shorten our weekly meetings to an hour, and discuss strategies on the next generation of social games to coordinate communities ⚽️🎮
You can see the page below to see the original design when Cagendas was first created in late 2022, as well as an analysis of design considerations and detailed discussions with Eden Fractal community members. Soon we will update this page to provide a more organized and better experience.
If you’re interested in exploring more about Cagendas, you can read our original articles about Cagendas, Vlalendas, and Agendas. Please note that these articles were created while cagendas was in very early stages of development and have not been updated since our moderation guidelines were approved in the 28th EF meeting. These three articles show the history, context, and thought processes that led to the current configuration, but do not reflect the current state of the cagendas and will be updated with newer information soon.
Cagendas is a social coordination game that helps communities create agendas, choose discussion topics, and make decisions together. It has been continuously improved since its creation in late 2022. The game involves proposing topics, voting on them, and discussing them during weekly events.
The Eden Fractal community has produced videos and engaged in discussions about Cagendas. Different game modes, such as Vlalendas, are available. Cagendas is enabled by EOS, Eden+Fractal, ƒractally, Consortium, and Cignals. Anyone can play Cagendas with any scoresheet or use the specific tools provided. This project provides historical resources, explains how to play Cagendas, and invites communities to join and explore the game.
Most of these were from late 2022 and 2023
Early History
The Story of Vlalendas and Cagendas
Feedback about Cagendas that Inspired Vlalendas
Original Cagendas Plan, Design Considerations, and Early History
Rationale
Eden is a decentralized and autonomous community. Decentralized means that there is not a single leader who can unilaterally make decisions for the whole community. Autonomous means that community members can make group decisions and coordinate group actions. There are many leaders in Eden who are working together to help each other, make community decisions, and help people cooperate.
So, how does a decentralized and autonomous community come to consensus to create an agenda? In other words, how does a community with many leaders decide what to do with their time?
Cooperating So Far
In the twenty weeks since the inception of Eden ƒractal, we’ve cooperated with the ƒractally consensus process during the first hour of meetings and then shared open discussions afterwards. In the eighteen months since the inception of Eden, we’ve cooperated with the Eden Elections process with hundreds of breakout rooms and delegate meetings. Our cooperation with these processes has produced thoroughly impressive results in building community and creating public goods, including helpful videos, tools, inspiration, and networking.
During our open discussions and throughout the past months, we’ve deliberated deeply about ways to structure our time to better facilitate group decision making. In recent Eden ƒractal meetings we’ve explored various interim consensus processes, contemplated the meaning of consensus and signals, and adopted the innovative Eden+Fractal process to help make great community decisions.
The Eden Elections, ƒractally, Eden+Fractal processes have helped the Eden community effectively structure time with fun, collaborative, and productive games for the first hour of meetings. These consensus processes provide the community with protocols for effective cooperation for the duration of the breakout room, but they haven’t yet provided ideal solutions to help us cooperate in the hour after breakout rooms…
Agendas are Guides
We should remember the limits of setting agendas and avoid becoming too constrained by the systems that we create. Like any other proposals, agenda proposals are expressions of opinions about what should be the agenda. It’s up to the moderator and community as a whole to use their discretion judgement to effectively facilitate the best meeting possible. If there are new people who need attention or some other issue, the host(s) may need to make a judgement call to push everything back 5 minutes, or whatever other on the fly calls from the community. Sometimes a proposal may need 2 more minutes over time, and it’s up to the host and/or community to make a snap decision to allow it.
Let’s keep in mind that any proposed agenda is a guide, not an instruction that we must follow exactly. We should remember that the opinions from a proposal 2 days ago may not be fitting in the current moment and be flexible to enable natural cooperation and subjective feeling when it is right to do x, y, or z. Over time we can speed up cignals with Consortium, but especially for now we’re technically limited in our ability to share a high throughput of cignals. In either case, and especially now, we should remember that the agenda is a guide to help the community and the agenda does not rule over the community.
Future Interfaces
Over the past couple weeks I’ve thought about how different interfaces may be able to help us better allocate time for the community. I like all the proposals above in various ways, but ultimately I think that all of these proposals are somewhat clunky and can be further innovated to help communities cooperate better.
I’m not yet sure what form these innovations will take. Perhaps Eden may cooperate better by using a tool like Doodle with Consortium Cignals or the Eden+Fractal council. Fun fact: the current timing of Eden ƒractal meetings was decided with Doodle back in May. There are also many other scheduling tools that we may want to explore, such as Calendly. Maybe we can integrate Web2 tools with the latest cooperative technology via APIs or open-source alternatives. Maybe there is an app on EOS or EVM that may already help with this, such as Clarity.
Next Steps
The Eden community is innovating quickly. During Eden ƒractal Meeting 20 there were six proposals for agenda and proposal protocols. Since then there have been many discussions and iterative proposals.
This is a new design space that may require much more exploration, consideration, and iteration to perfect. Our next steps are to implement an effective protocol for agendas is to carefully review current proposals, determine the best option, and iterate.
With our tools and wits, we can learn to cooperate way better than ever before. We should be patient while thoroughly exploring these proposals to learn to cooperate as effectively as possible. We can try different aspects of each proposal and iterate gradually, then play it by ear. We’re making great progress with Eden and should take some time to get this right. I’m looking forward to further exploring these possibilities and much more with the community….
More updates will be published soon. Thanks for reading!
Agenda Protocols
After innovating the breakout room process with Eden+Fractal, the community is designing new protocols for effective cooperation in the hour after the breakout room.
The Eden community is innovating quickly. During Eden ƒractal Meeting 20 there were six proposals for agenda and proposal protocols. Since then there have been many discussions and iterative proposals. The proposals and discussions were previously scattered around discord and forums, so we’ve curated each proposal and responses below. Further below you can read more about the context and recommendations for the next steps.
The following proposals are curated below:
- Vlalendas
- Cagendas
- Vlad’s Proposal
- Tadas’ Proposal
- Lennie’s Proposal
- Dan’s Proposals
- Felix’s Proposal
- Jesse’s Proposal
Explore Cagendas Game Modes and Variants
Cagendas Game Modes
There are different types of Cagendas games, similar to how there are multiple types of poker or different game modes in video games.
There are currently two game modes for Cagendas. In addition to the original game mode described above, communities can also play a different type of Cagendas game called Vlalendas. You can learn about Vlalendas here.
What is the relationship between Cagendas and Vlalendas?
Vlalendas is a type of Cagendas game that is optimized for Eden Fractal weekly meetings.
You can think of Vlalendas as a Cagendas game mode (ie classic, arcade, campaign, etc) or a variant of Cagendas (ie draw poker, seven-card stud poker, Texas Hold’em Poker, etc). Like all other potential variations of Cagendas, Vlalendas helps communities create agendas.
Vlalendas emerged as a result of feedback about Cagendas from Vlad and Jesse during the first Eden Fractal Brainstorming Session, an exploration of Vlad’s vision, and a thorough review of Lennie’s proposal.
Upcoming Cagendas Development
We are creating several new articles to further explore the potential of Cagendas. You can view these draft articles in early stages of development below. These articles will be vastly refined and updated in the future.
Cagendas - Originally Published Article
Delegate and Hybrid Voting Power with Cagendas
Delegate Voting Power with Cagendas
What is Delegate Voting Power?
Delegate voting power is an idea where Eden+Fractal delegates having voting power. For example, each delegate could have 100 votes.
Jorge suggested voting power for Eden+Fractal delegates during Eden Fractal Meeting 23 1:50:57. You can watch Jorge and Dan discuss this below:
What is Hybrid Voting Power?
Hybrid voting power is an idea that combines voting power of Respect with Eden+Fractal delegate points explained in Delegate Voting Power.
What is Cagendas?
Cagendas is a social coordination game that helps communities create agendas, choose discussion topics, and make decisions together. We play a version of cagendas called Vlalendas and you can see the rules for Vlalendas here. Please note that the articles linked in this section are works in progress and will be updated soon.
How do I play Cagendas?
Here’s how it works: Anyone can propose a topic on the Eden Consortium in the week before the meeting. The topic can be a proposal for the community or just a theme for discussion.
The community discusses whichever topic receives the most votes over the prior week first. The winning topic proposer will be given five minutes to present their topic (or they can choose someone else to present it for them). The community will continue discussing this topic until the delegates approve a proposal or a moderator decides to move to the next topic. The community discusses the topic with the second most votes next, and so on.
Please be respectful of everyone in the room and raise your hand if you’d like to speak. The moderator will give each person an opportunity to share their thoughts. You can see the rules for the Vlalendas game that we play here.
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How do I propose a topic?
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How do I make a good topic proposal?
Remember to write clearly and simply…
Write something that community members will appreciate…
What if we don’t have time to discuss a topic?
We only have so much time and are not always able to get to every topic. If you want to discuss it, then propose it again next week or in the future.
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