Ray: the creation of a collective (DAO) is a primary focus of my work. I have dogfooded enough times to offer a process and feel good about it. The key to me in the future of governance is for people to be familiar with creating their own agreements. My work, from the software perspective, is making it easy for people to do that. We have some tools to do that which are coming out in the coming months, but right now we can just do this in paper. Mission and vision is one of the first steps, for sure. What are we doing together? That is one of the most critical things to understand and agree upon. After that, relating to any assets. Because if you are not stewarding something real in the world, what are you doing? You are just talking. I like talking too, and sharing ideas, but if want to get something done, we need to steward a shared asset. That's critical to lighting a fire under our butts. If we put $1,000 in, we actually have something to steward together. And then it gets real. Starting with a nice small amount...the more assets, the more the tension can arise. People often get along fine until money is involved, and then it gets weird. Identify how we make decisions. We get to invent that. there are tons of ways to make decisions, but the key is for us to create that together and have a grounded feeling of understanding the process. Here we get to co-create a decision making process that will make us feel empowered. How will we operate in a standard way? With Co-Gov, what I am developing, you will be able to look at other groups and see how they are solving these things because it is on a ledger.
Lauren: I wanted to introduce David, who does legal stuff, theater productions, programming, etc. He is raring to go, a very interesting guy. Colin is interested in putting together practical knowledge ecology products like Knowledge Trails, to make conversations like this easier to manage. I wanted to work on a governance document today. I have sort of put this together in an Enspiral-like way. It's less that I am concerned with what mountain we climb, but I'm interested in how we supply people who want to climb mountains, to make sure that they are safe and don't die.
Ray: that sounds like the start of a mission statement. This seems like a big and diverse group. Maybe you can do that one-on-one with people since you are kind of in the center here. You can take a shot at some initial statements. Vision: what would the world look like. You can work with people this week, and we can maybe be pretty close by next Saturday.
Sam: as you were summarizing, I was asking myself; how would that apply to a distributed organization: how would that apply to an organization that was more peer-to-peer, more collegiate? The reason I ask that, in communities such as this, where sometimes we see alignment, where people come and go, it might not be so defined. We still want to make decisions, manage assets, so I am curious about that model. My reference frame: how the internet evolved through a wide community. You don't know who is in and out, but you see that decisions are made in protocols. Not assumed and taken for granted.
Ray: I am assuming that we are all individual, equally empowered peers. But what we are designing is where different classes might form, and different levels of influence. We are creating a framework for creating a structure that makes sense.
Sam: I think that it's appropriate in this case, where Lauren has acted as a hub. Does Lauren Scale? The model in the back of my mind: an RFC-based model, propose, gather feedback model which allowed the internet to take shape and allowed apps to become developed, and lots of protocols to become standardised. I am curious becaues that, to me, is a genesis to a decision making model which could be the start of a governance model. It does scale and does seem to work.
Raymond: that sounds interesting and attractive. My suggestion: let's get clear on what our process is to submit an RFC. That's the preliminary work. but at some point we need to get clear on what is the process for changing the rules.
Charles: Sam, something jumped out from what you said, about Lauren functioning as a hub and if that scales. The question is: does Lauren scale? And...the purpose...for me, I haven't heard the purpose defined, and for me that would be the basis, unless it would be decision making around what's the purpose?
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