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L'articolo discute l'importanza di creare agende per migliorare la cooperazione nelle comunità, evidenziando il ruolo del gioco Cagendas e della proposta Vlalendas per facilitare la pianificazione delle attività. Viene analizzato il contesto della comunità Eden e si offrono raccomandazioni per esplorare le proposte, mantenere flessibilità nelle agende e considerare interfacce future per una cooperazione più efficace.

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Introduction

Communities can cooperate more effectively by creating an agenda for group activities. In traditional organizations there is often a single leader who creates the agenda for the group, which comes with many drawbacks and limitations. Now, communities are pioneering new ways to schedule activities together to maximize benefit for all!

This article is organized into the following sections:

Introduction

Table of Contents

Agenda Protocols

Context

Scheduling Eden
Cooperating So Far

Recommendations

Exploring Proposals
Agendas are Guides
Future Interfaces
Next Steps

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

Vlalendas is a newly proposed Cagendas game to help communities create agendas, choose discussion topics, and allocate time. Vlalendas is optimized for Eden Fractal Weekly Meetings with feedback from the original Cagendas proposal and can help communities coordinate all sorts of helpful activities!

You can learn about the Vlalendas in this article, which includes:

What is Vlalendas?

Table of Contents
How can Vlalendas help?
Why is it called Vlalendas?
Proposal Summary
Proposal Details

The Story of Vlalendas

The Inception of Vlalendas
What is the relationship between Cagendas and Vlalendas?
Cagendas Game Modes
What are the main differences between Vlalendas and Cagendas Original?
Feedback about Cagendas that Inspired Vlalendas
How can I learn more about Cagendas?

Considerations

Agendas are Guides
Slack Time, Flexibility, and Natural Conversation
Delegate Voting Power

Request for Feedback

Cagendas

On November 14th, Dan Singjoy proposed a new game called Cagendas to help communities allocate time while having fun. Community leaders discussed Cagendas during the first Eden Fractal Brainstorming Session on the next day.

You can learn about the Cagendas game and explore the brainstorming session in this article, which includes:

What is Cagendas?

How to Play Cagendas
Who can play Cagendas?
What do I need to play Cagendas?
Considerations

Media and Feedback

Eden Fractal Brainstorming Session 1
Feedback from Vlad in Discord
Cagendas on Twitter and Town Hall

Cagendas Game Modes

Original
Vlalendas

What is the relationship between Cagendas and Vlalendas?
What are the main differences between Vlalendas and Cagendas Original?
How can I learn more about Vlalendas?

Upcoming Cagendas Development

Cagendas + DAMS
Cagendas + Ideathons + DAMS
More Cagendas Game Modes

Vlad’s Proposal

Vlad made the following proposal on October 19th:

Click here to see details about Vlad’s proposal, including:

Video Introduction from Vlad
Further reasoning from Vlad
Proposal Discussions
Detailed feedback with Vlad, Tadas, and Dan
Consortium Poll

Tadas’ Proposal

Tadas made the following proposal on October 18th:

Click here to see details about Tada’s proposal, including:

Video Introduction from Tadas
Comparison with Vlad’s Proposal
Detailed feedback with Tadas, Vlad, and Dan
Analysis of proposal Pros and Cons
Why it may be best to vote on entire agendas at once
Alternative suggestions from Tadas
Consortium Poll

Lennie’s Proposal

Lennie shared the following proposal on October 19th:

Click here for details about Lennie’s proposal, including:

Links with more details from Lennie
Considerations about 5 minute time blocks
Feedback from Dan

Proposal Pros and Cons
Analysis of Web2 and Web3

Next steps from Lennie

Dan’s Proposals

Dan Singjoy made several proposals to help organize time and set agendas. Click here to learn about proposals and related work created by Dan, including:

Agendas Article
Cagendas
Vlalendas
Community feedback

https://edencreators.com/agendas/dans-proposal

Felix’s Proposal

Felix proposed the following on October 18th:

Click here to details about Felix’s proposal, including:

Video Introduction from Felix
Testing of the Discord Polling Feature
Feedback from Dan

Proposal Pros and Cons
Analysis of Web2 and Web3
Ideas about Cignals UI

https://edencreators.com/agendas/felixs-proposal

Jesse’s Proposal

During Eden ƒractal Meeting 20, Jesse proposed creating a second community room in the hour after breakout rooms. You can learn more about Jesse’s proposal and related initiatives here. This article includes:

Video Introduction from Jesse
Discussions with Jesse and Dan
Related Initiatives

Network-To-Earn
EOS Bees

https://edencreators.com/agendas/jesses-proposal

Context

Scheduling Eden

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?

https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1405383009558155265

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…

$https://edencreators.com/edenplusfractal$

Recommendations

Our recommendations are organized into the following categories. Please note that we are in the process of forming opinions about these proposals and these recommendations are subject to change.

Exploring Proposals
Agendas are Guides
Future Interfaces
Next Steps

Exploring Proposals

In late October we published this article with a section about exploring proposals, first impressions, and next steps that made the most sense at the time. This article is now archived here.

Exploring Proposals

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

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!

Notes

This article is a work in progress and may be updated soon. This article was first published in October 2022 and has been significantly changed since then. You can read the original version of the article here.