What is Cagendas?
Cagendas is an exciting new game where communities can have fun while allocating time more effectively!
The Eden community has been deliberating to find the best ways to set agendas for discussions and proposals during weekly meetings. I propose that we play a game of Cagendas to help the community cooperate during the hour after breakout rooms. Cagendas can provide structure for Eden and other communities to guide discussions, process proposals, and coordinate all sorts of group activities in real-time.
Please note that this idea is a work in progress in an early stage of development and will be updated soon.
Table of Contents
This article is organized into the following sections:
- What is Cagendas?
- Table of Contents
- 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
- Related Posts
How to Play Cagendas
The original version of Cagendas can be simply summarized in the following four steps:
1) Propose agenda items for five minute time slots. Anyone can propose an agenda item for a five minute time slot on Consortium.
- For example, you could propose that
- You will give a presentation about ‘x’ for 5 minutes
- Person A speaks about topic ‘y’ for 5 minutes
- The group does ‘z’ activity for 5 minutes
- The Eden+Fractal council votes on ‘x’ proposal
- Etc…
- To better organize our thoughts, we can create a new group on Consortium to separate agenda items from other polls and proposals. The new group could be could named Cagendas or some other name.
2) Vote for agenda items. Anyone can vote for agenda items with respect points that they’ve earned during weekly meetings.
- You have a limited amount of votes in each game, so choose carefully to pick the best topics!
3) At the end of each five minute interval, whichever agenda item receives the most votes will be focus of community discussion for the next five minutes.
- In order to be counted, the winning agenda item must receive at least 30% more votes than the agenda item that previously had the most votes.
- Votes for any proposed agenda items that do not receive the most votes will be counted in the next five minute interval.
- Whichever agenda item receives the most votes is removed from the list of proposed agenda items immediately. Players can propose the same agenda item again if they’d like to discuss it further.
4) The game ends after one hour and the respect points for all players are replenished back to prior voting power at the end of each game.
Who can play Cagendas?
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!
What do I need to play Cagendas?
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!
Considerations
- Alternatively, we could start with 10 minute time slots. This may be best to test it out at a slower pace first while we test the process.
- Instead of counting total respect earned, we could only count the total respect earned over the past 5 weeks, 12 weeks, or another time frame.
- Instead of (only) counting respect points, Eden+Fractal status or some other metic could be used. For example, there could be a different version of Cagendas where all votes are made with the Eden+Fractal council. This could work well with Jorge’s suggestion to provide each delegate with 100 votes.
- In the future, there could be additional rewards for creating and voting on agenda items.
- Much of the functionality for Cagendas is already built with Consortium. I will share more technical considerations soon.
Media and Feedback
Eden Fractal Brainstorming Session 1
00:00 - Start
01:16 - Context
02:08 - Panel presentation
04:48 - Cagendas by Dan Singjoy
09:14 - Tadas put some context
11:03 - Jesse feeback
12:06 - Vlad feedback
17:45 - Tadas feedback
18:43 - Dan Digest of the brainstorming
22:07 - MindMap updated
23:42 - Lennie feedback
24:31 - The value added points of Brainstorming Sessions
25:13 - Jesse Feedback on Cagenda Proposal
25:55 - Our experience with Brainstorming Sessions
26:40 - Do the things with flexibility and commitment
28:08 - Closing of the session
31:03 - How to submit your proposals to the MindMap?
32:51 - Good use of the time
34:37 - Time to conclude You can view Cagendas and other proposals on the Mindmap. You can submit your proposal to the MindMap here. You can join Eden Fractal Brainstorming sessions here at 1600 UTC on every other Tuesday. Next stop: November 29th, 2022.
Vlad and Jesse provided the following feedback, which you can read in the notes on the right side of the mindmap below:
Feedback from Vlad in Discord
Cagendas on Twitter and Town Hall
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.
What are the main differences between Vlalendas and Cagendas Original?
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.
How can I learn more about Vlalendas?
You can learn more about 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
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.
Notes
Please note that this page is a work in progress in early stages of development and will be updated soon.
Related Posts
Agendas
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
Vlalendas is a system to help communities create agendas, allocate time amongst priorities, and choose discussion topics. Cagendas helped inspire Vlalendas.
Cignals
Opinions that help us cooperate! Cignals help communities know what people are thinking, get a feel for the room, and measure consensus.
Consortium
A powerful voting application that helps communities make decisions, signal their opinions, and measure consensus. Cagendas is powered by Consortium.
Eden + Fractal
A fun, innovative, and revelatory consensus process that helps communities cooperate for mutual benefit. Complements nicely with Cagendas!
DAMS
Decentralized, autonomous movie studios. An innovative, wonderful way for communities to collaborate and make awesome videos while playing Cagendas!