Cagendas

Cagendas is a social coordination game that helps communities create agendas, choose discussion topics, and make decisions together. This article is a work progress and we’ve been making many innovations to improve Cagendas since it was first created in late 2022, so the article will be updated with more exciting developments soon. Enjoy :)

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Cagendas is a social coordination game that helps communities create agendas, choose discussion topics, and make decisions together. It’s a portmanteau of community and agendas. The basic idea is that anyone can propose a topic to discuss at weekly events (after the Respect Game), then community members vote on their favorite topics with Respect. We’ve been pioneering Cagendas at Eden Fractal weekly events for over a year and you can learn more about it below.

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.

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! 🥁 🌎 ✨

How can communities optimize meetings? We pioneer a fractal Cagendas game with topic databases for real time coordination! 🌺 🦒

What is best way to connect a digital community? We fuse the new Eden Fractal Topics game with an open source video conferencing tool to trailblaze global coordination 🧑🏽‍💻⚡️🌎

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 ⚽️🎮

In addition, you can see the Eden Fractal community engage in early discussions about community agenda systems between meetings #18 to #28, when Cagendas was first approved in December of 2022. You can also watch an early Eden Fractal brainstorming session about community agendas here.

How do we cooperate after playing Eden+Fractal? We approved 3 proposals to optimize post-breakout room meetings, set moderator guidelines, and elect a moderator! Voilà! 👌🏽🎄

At Eden Fractal, we play a version of cagendas called Vlalendas.

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…

You can read a quick intro to how we play Cagendas in Eden Fractal meetings here. For a more detailed explanation, you can read all the rules that we use to play cagendas during Eden Fractal meetings specified in our moderator guidelines and this related article, which explains the relationship between the moderator and delegates. These approved proposals describe how we cooperate by playing cagendas in the hour after breakout rooms. The second page of the moderator guidelines explains the version of cagendas that we play called Vlalendas. You can also explore the show notes from Eden Fractal meeting 28 to see related resources about these proposals.

Any community can play Cagendas to allocate shared time according to the will of community members and facilitate great experiences. More than ever before, communities are now empowered to understand the desires of each community member and structure group activities with enjoyment, productivity, and efficiency. More coming soon!

Anyone can play Cagendas with any scoresheet of any game. You don’t need anything other than your imagination or some agreed upon scorecard to use for votes.

That being said, Cagendas is uniquely enabled by the powers of EOS, Eden+Fractal, ƒractally, Consortium, and Cignals…. so communities like Eden ƒractal are in a perfect position to start playing Cagendas first!

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.

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.

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.

There are two key differences between Vlalendas and the original version of Cagendas.

1) Vlalendas enables communities to vote for topics in the week before meetings, whereas the original version of Cagendas enabled communities to vote in real-time.

2) Vlalendas provides more flexibility for community councils to deliberate proposals for as much time as they see fit, whereas the original version of Cagendas divided time into discrete five minute intervals.

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

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.

Please note that this page is a work in progress in early stages of development and will be updated soon.

Communities can cooperate more effectively by creating an agenda for group activities. Communities are pioneering new ways to create agendas together to maximize benefit for all!

Vlalendas is a social coordination game to help communities create agendas, allocate time amongst priorities, and choose discussion topics. Vlalendas is a variant of Cagendas.

Opinions that help us cooperate! Cignals help communities know what people are thinking, get a feel for the room, and measure consensus.

A powerful voting application that helps communities make decisions, signal their opinions, and measure consensus. Cagendas is powered by Consortium.

A fun, innovative, and revelatory consensus process that helps communities cooperate for mutual benefit. Complements nicely with Cagendas!

Decentralized, autonomous movie studios. An innovative, wonderful way for communities to collaborate and make awesome videos while playing Cagendas!