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Good morning.
My name is Andy, and I live in Wisconsin, USA. I’ve worked in IT for over 20 years now and am currently employed in a position of leadership within a large corporation.
I’ve participated in/led over 40 guilds in my IT career. Guilds are self-organizing/self-forming groups of like-minded professionals, centered around a shared skillset. Examples would be a python guild, a network engineering guild, an enterprise architecture guild, and a project manager guild.
Outside of my day job, I’ve also participated in two Co-Ops (brewery and farm). A co-op or Cooperative is a distributed organization. One where all members contribute to the best of their ability physically, mentally, and skillset-wise towards an aligned vision.
I’m sharing the above to provide context for this article. I’ve been at the start, middle, and end of distributed organizations. They work with the right guidance and can thrive when aligned with a meaningful vision that their members are invested in.
TLDR- Battleplan for Q1, 2023 is bullet-pointed here. For additional details see the BOTTOM of this article.
Hold a vote to gauge the temperature of the community, to stand up a DAO
Duration: 08:00 AM CST 2/10/2023 through 11:00 AM CST 2/13/2023
Hold a Discord Open Forum
Duration: Monday, 2/13/2023 at 8 PM CST
Open the Formal Voting Process to stand up the DAO
Duration: 08:00 AM CST 2/14/2023 until 08:00 AM CST 2/17/2023
Hold a Discord Open Forum
Duration: Friday, 2/17/2023 at 05:00 PM CST
EtherOrcs DAO completes first official vote:
Duration: 2/17/2023 8 PM CST through 2/20/2023 8 AM CST
Initiate electing War Council (Steering Committee) members
Duration: 2/20/2023 8 PM CST through 3/1/2023 8 AM CST
War Council completes internal mechanisms:
Duration: 3/1/2023 through 3/3/2023
First EtherOrcs All DAO Weekly Meeting
Duration: 3/6/2023 08:00 PM CST
First Working Group stood up - Choose Working Board tool and File Sharing/Storage for DAO (think DevOps/Agility)
Duration: 3/7/2023 through 3/28/2023
War Council Begins formal outreach with EtherOrcs Founders
Duration: 3/7/2023 through 3/31/2023
War Council Chair Brainstorming session with the All DAO on what should be done next.
Instantiation: 4/5/2023 - 8 PM CST
Stand up three working groups for the items identified in the All DAO points Brainstorming session
EtherOrcs is among many things a community, a game, an NFT collection, and an idea. It has provided joy, financial gains, financial losses, and stoked the coals of imagination in many. It has offered much to those who have held it and who have participated in the world that’s been built.
Its current state is a result of decisions made throughout its lifetime. These decisions were made by humans, who had good intentions in mind and were invested in its mission and longevity. Over the course of the last several months, that fire in those who brought EtherOrcs to life faded and eventually went out. This is normal, it is human, and it’s acceptable. We should not dehumanize those who feel burnt out and want to move on to new adventures in their life.
The above does not make excuses for missteps and a lack of communication. We hold individuals accountable with critical data, not cynical thinking. As you read further please hold this close to your mode of operation. For a community-led effort, a DAO, to succeed it will need a community that does not carry the anger over from the events of the past. Instead we want to reflect on what worked, and what did not, enabling us to expand into a brighter future.
EtherOrcs today is what we refer and to in the corpo world, as the Messy Middle:
The founding team spoke last night in discord that they had pursued several funding options and that none met their standards. They elaborated and shared that with most VCs, the conditions offered would empower and embolden the VC with exit strategies, at the expense of the community. Things like large chunks of tokens, assets, etc. The team believed this was not a good way to treat the community, as danger loomed on the horizon, should the VC pull its ripcord.
The team then pursued grants and found similar situations/conversations from entities like the Treasure ecosystem. A game like EtherOrcs, whose tokens were already largely in play would need significant rework to fit into the Treasure ecosystem. Couple this with the ask for a new game where starting players could ease into the already large ecosystem and an impassible roadblock was reached. This was something the founding team didn’t have the funds (not eligible for grants) nor the drive to complete.
The last option is a community-led effort or a DAO. A DAO is a great choice for EtherOrcs for the following high-level reasons:
People who are already invested will play a primary role in shepherding/up-keeping the systems running the game.
The IP and all assets stay in the hands of the people they directly affect.
A community-led effort allows the people directly playing the game to organize the backlog, in meaningful ways, that affect their everyday interactions in the game/environment.
Full transparency to all decisions made, money spent, and actions taken.
How the term/mantra/ideology of DAOs is thrown around in the wild of WEB3, you wouldn’t be wrong thinking this way. The reality however is that most DAOs you are aware of, don’t actually live by the Distributed Organization side of the house.
A functioning Distributed Organization will have several areas:
Leadership/Steering Committee/War Council
A group of elected representatives will serve on a Steering Committee for the DO.
They present back to the DO, actions that should be taken that once the DO agrees to, the steering committee acts upon (Standing up new working groups, etc.).
Reviews proposals from the DO and working groups within the DO, and provide feedback to the DO on proposals.
These positions have term limits, that once reached, see said steering committee members flow back to regular membership
Working Groups
These groups are stood up by members of the DO
These are volunteers who commit to complete an action/set of actions laid out by the DO, within a time period and to report back to the DO on the status and eventual outcome.
Examples range from “Build an icon for a webpage” to “Build a proposal to mint a new asset” to “Execute on minting a new asset”. etc.
These groups tend to have finite timelines, established to complete a task and then disbanded when the task is complete.
Curated Backlog
This is where all outstanding items the DO wants to get done, should go.
Simple items to very far-fetched items can go here.
The size and complexity of these items will dictate how large/many working groups will be needed to accomplish the ask
Backlog upkeep/curation
This is a smaller group who are similar to the steering committee in perpetuity and does a bit of leg work when items enter the backlog.
There are and can be more components to a Distributed Organization but for now, these are the most important to be aligned to an EtherOrcs DAO.
Below is my recommendation for how to proceed. I hold no stance that it’s my way or the highway. All feedback is welcome and will be discussed as to its merits towards the outcome wanting to be achieved. All laid-out times and Dates can be changed/modified.
Hold a vote to gauge the temperature of the community, to stand up a DAO
Duration: 08:00 AM CST 2/10/2023 through 11:00 AM CST 2/13/2023
Outcome: Temperature reading from the community on whether to proceed.
Hold a Discord Open Forum
Duration: Monday, 2/13/2023 at 8 PM CST
Outcome: Discussion on moving forward. No outcome is expected if the temperature check is >50%.
Discuss in this meeting, what percent of votes for a formal vote, is needed to stand up the DAO. >50%, >60%, >80% ??
Confirm voting style
Amount of assets
Single Vote
Open the Formal Voting Process to stand up the DAO
Duration: 08:00 AM CST 2/14/2023 until 08:00 AM CST 2/17/2023
Outcome: Ratification of the EtherOrcs DAO
Hold a Discord Open Forum
Duration: Friday, 2/17/2023 at 05:00 PM CST
The DAO moves on. I can flesh out what I imagine Q2 would look like as well, but this article is very long now and ultimately, the DAO at this point, would be deciding how to move forward.
Good morning.
My name is Andy, and I live in Wisconsin, USA. I’ve worked in IT for over 20 years now and am currently employed in a position of leadership within a large corporation.
I’ve participated in/led over 40 guilds in my IT career. Guilds are self-organizing/self-forming groups of like-minded professionals, centered around a shared skillset. Examples would be a python guild, a network engineering guild, an enterprise architecture guild, and a project manager guild.
Outside of my day job, I’ve also participated in two Co-Ops (brewery and farm). A co-op or Cooperative is a distributed organization. One where all members contribute to the best of their ability physically, mentally, and skillset-wise towards an aligned vision.
I’m sharing the above to provide context for this article. I’ve been at the start, middle, and end of distributed organizations. They work with the right guidance and can thrive when aligned with a meaningful vision that their members are invested in.
TLDR- Battleplan for Q1, 2023 is bullet-pointed here. For additional details see the BOTTOM of this article.
Hold a vote to gauge the temperature of the community, to stand up a DAO
Duration: 08:00 AM CST 2/10/2023 through 11:00 AM CST 2/13/2023
Hold a Discord Open Forum
Duration: Monday, 2/13/2023 at 8 PM CST
Open the Formal Voting Process to stand up the DAO
Duration: 08:00 AM CST 2/14/2023 until 08:00 AM CST 2/17/2023
Hold a Discord Open Forum
Duration: Friday, 2/17/2023 at 05:00 PM CST
EtherOrcs DAO completes first official vote:
Duration: 2/17/2023 8 PM CST through 2/20/2023 8 AM CST
Initiate electing War Council (Steering Committee) members
Duration: 2/20/2023 8 PM CST through 3/1/2023 8 AM CST
War Council completes internal mechanisms:
Duration: 3/1/2023 through 3/3/2023
First EtherOrcs All DAO Weekly Meeting
Duration: 3/6/2023 08:00 PM CST
First Working Group stood up - Choose Working Board tool and File Sharing/Storage for DAO (think DevOps/Agility)
Duration: 3/7/2023 through 3/28/2023
War Council Begins formal outreach with EtherOrcs Founders
Duration: 3/7/2023 through 3/31/2023
War Council Chair Brainstorming session with the All DAO on what should be done next.
Instantiation: 4/5/2023 - 8 PM CST
Stand up three working groups for the items identified in the All DAO points Brainstorming session
EtherOrcs is among many things a community, a game, an NFT collection, and an idea. It has provided joy, financial gains, financial losses, and stoked the coals of imagination in many. It has offered much to those who have held it and who have participated in the world that’s been built.
Its current state is a result of decisions made throughout its lifetime. These decisions were made by humans, who had good intentions in mind and were invested in its mission and longevity. Over the course of the last several months, that fire in those who brought EtherOrcs to life faded and eventually went out. This is normal, it is human, and it’s acceptable. We should not dehumanize those who feel burnt out and want to move on to new adventures in their life.
The above does not make excuses for missteps and a lack of communication. We hold individuals accountable with critical data, not cynical thinking. As you read further please hold this close to your mode of operation. For a community-led effort, a DAO, to succeed it will need a community that does not carry the anger over from the events of the past. Instead we want to reflect on what worked, and what did not, enabling us to expand into a brighter future.
EtherOrcs today is what we refer and to in the corpo world, as the Messy Middle:
The founding team spoke last night in discord that they had pursued several funding options and that none met their standards. They elaborated and shared that with most VCs, the conditions offered would empower and embolden the VC with exit strategies, at the expense of the community. Things like large chunks of tokens, assets, etc. The team believed this was not a good way to treat the community, as danger loomed on the horizon, should the VC pull its ripcord.
The team then pursued grants and found similar situations/conversations from entities like the Treasure ecosystem. A game like EtherOrcs, whose tokens were already largely in play would need significant rework to fit into the Treasure ecosystem. Couple this with the ask for a new game where starting players could ease into the already large ecosystem and an impassible roadblock was reached. This was something the founding team didn’t have the funds (not eligible for grants) nor the drive to complete.
The last option is a community-led effort or a DAO. A DAO is a great choice for EtherOrcs for the following high-level reasons:
People who are already invested will play a primary role in shepherding/up-keeping the systems running the game.
The IP and all assets stay in the hands of the people they directly affect.
A community-led effort allows the people directly playing the game to organize the backlog, in meaningful ways, that affect their everyday interactions in the game/environment.
Full transparency to all decisions made, money spent, and actions taken.
How the term/mantra/ideology of DAOs is thrown around in the wild of WEB3, you wouldn’t be wrong thinking this way. The reality however is that most DAOs you are aware of, don’t actually live by the Distributed Organization side of the house.
A functioning Distributed Organization will have several areas:
Leadership/Steering Committee/War Council
A group of elected representatives will serve on a Steering Committee for the DO.
They present back to the DO, actions that should be taken that once the DO agrees to, the steering committee acts upon (Standing up new working groups, etc.).
Reviews proposals from the DO and working groups within the DO, and provide feedback to the DO on proposals.
These positions have term limits, that once reached, see said steering committee members flow back to regular membership
Working Groups
These groups are stood up by members of the DO
These are volunteers who commit to complete an action/set of actions laid out by the DO, within a time period and to report back to the DO on the status and eventual outcome.
Examples range from “Build an icon for a webpage” to “Build a proposal to mint a new asset” to “Execute on minting a new asset”. etc.
These groups tend to have finite timelines, established to complete a task and then disbanded when the task is complete.
Curated Backlog
This is where all outstanding items the DO wants to get done, should go.
Simple items to very far-fetched items can go here.
The size and complexity of these items will dictate how large/many working groups will be needed to accomplish the ask
Backlog upkeep/curation
This is a smaller group who are similar to the steering committee in perpetuity and does a bit of leg work when items enter the backlog.
There are and can be more components to a Distributed Organization but for now, these are the most important to be aligned to an EtherOrcs DAO.
Below is my recommendation for how to proceed. I hold no stance that it’s my way or the highway. All feedback is welcome and will be discussed as to its merits towards the outcome wanting to be achieved. All laid-out times and Dates can be changed/modified.
Hold a vote to gauge the temperature of the community, to stand up a DAO
Duration: 08:00 AM CST 2/10/2023 through 11:00 AM CST 2/13/2023
Outcome: Temperature reading from the community on whether to proceed.
Hold a Discord Open Forum
Duration: Monday, 2/13/2023 at 8 PM CST
Outcome: Discussion on moving forward. No outcome is expected if the temperature check is >50%.
Discuss in this meeting, what percent of votes for a formal vote, is needed to stand up the DAO. >50%, >60%, >80% ??
Confirm voting style
Amount of assets
Single Vote
Open the Formal Voting Process to stand up the DAO
Duration: 08:00 AM CST 2/14/2023 until 08:00 AM CST 2/17/2023
Outcome: Ratification of the EtherOrcs DAO
Hold a Discord Open Forum
Duration: Friday, 2/17/2023 at 05:00 PM CST
The DAO moves on. I can flesh out what I imagine Q2 would look like as well, but this article is very long now and ultimately, the DAO at this point, would be deciding how to move forward.
Think of this like a beat detective, who on a new case coming in, calls witnesses, gathers data, and provides additional details in the backlog item, to have crisp acceptance criteria and outcomes.
Outcome: No expected outcome if vote is in favor of DAO. Celebration. If vote is not in favor of DAO, next steps would be an outcome.
Community members should share out on their relevant social spaces, that the EtherOrcs community has come together, and formed a DAO to embark on a new adventure, for EtherOrcs.
EtherOrcs DAO completes first official vote:
Duration: 2/17/2023 8 PM CST through 2/20/2023 8 AM CST
Ask:
How many positions should be on the War Council?
How long should the terms be for War Council?
How many consecutive terms can a War Council member serve?
Initiate electing War Council (Steering Committee) members
Community Members who would like to serve on the War Council will submit their names and relevant data to a system of record
Duration: 2/20/2023 through 2/23/2023.
War Council elect names and relevant data shared with DAO
Published: Friday, 2/24/2023
Official vote launches for War Council election
Duration: 2/24/2023 5 PM CST through 3/1/2023 02:00 PM
Outcome: Formally elected War Council
War Council completes internal mechanisms:
Duration: 3/1/2023 through 3/3/2023
Outcome: Report back to the DAO by 3/3/2023 05:00 PM CST with the War Councils’ operating model solidified.
Council to meet twice a week, 15-45 Minute meetings.
Council to agree on a location to share Notes/Data.
Primary communication Members
Two War Council members will be in charge of sharing with the DAO, all relevant and important information.
Scribe
Two War Council members will take up the mantle of Scribe, rotating and taking notes during War Council meetings.
Outreach
Two War Council members will take up the mantle of handling internal and external social relations (This will be more applicable further down the road)
Treasury
Five War Council members will be aligned to Treasury Funds (Multi-Sig, etc). (this will be more applicable further down the road as the treasury is populated)
Any other positions the community would like to see the War Council take up?
First EtherOrcs All DAO Weekly Meeting
Duration: 3/6/2023 08:00 PM CST
Agenda:
Open Items
Working Groups to be stood up
Solicit volunteers to lead working group/s
Upcoming items for the week of 3/6-3/12 2023.
Items Closed
Wins
Open Floor
First Working Group stood up - Choose Working Board tool and File Sharing/Storage for DAO (think DevOps/Agility)
Instantiation: 3/7/2023
Duration: 3/7/2023 through 3/28/2023
Outcome: Present Recommendations on the platform to use for the DAOs Working Board on the Weekly All DAO meeting 3/27/2023.
Next Action: Official Snapshot vote 3/28/2023 through 3/31/2023.
Acceptance Criteria:
Open to all DAO members to add items to the backlog and edit their added items
Rights to allow assigned members to carry cards through the board while being worked by working groups
Free/Nominal subscription fee
Interoperability (APIs, etc)
Onboarding courses/training material to bring the community up to speed.
Storage that works for all, when it comes to relevant documents
War Council Begins formal outreach with EtherOrcs Founders
Instantiation: 3/7/2023
Duration: 3/7/2023 through 3/31/2023
Outcome: Report for EtherOrcs DAO on all data gathered from EtherOrcs Founders encompassing all assets, roadmaps, etc.
The report will be presented in the All DAO meeting on 4/3/2023
War Council Chair Brainstorming session with the All DAO on what should be done next.
Instantiation: 4/5/2023 - 8 PM CST
Outcome: Identify the top three things the DAO want to work on.
Run a points exercise where the top three-point gathering items, have working groups spun up.
Meeting: 4/5/2023 - 1-hour duration. Miro Boards Used. Expect attending and actively participating.
Stand up three working groups for the items identified in the All DAO points Brainstorming session
Think of this like a beat detective, who on a new case coming in, calls witnesses, gathers data, and provides additional details in the backlog item, to have crisp acceptance criteria and outcomes.
Outcome: No expected outcome if vote is in favor of DAO. Celebration. If vote is not in favor of DAO, next steps would be an outcome.
Community members should share out on their relevant social spaces, that the EtherOrcs community has come together, and formed a DAO to embark on a new adventure, for EtherOrcs.
EtherOrcs DAO completes first official vote:
Duration: 2/17/2023 8 PM CST through 2/20/2023 8 AM CST
Ask:
How many positions should be on the War Council?
How long should the terms be for War Council?
How many consecutive terms can a War Council member serve?
Initiate electing War Council (Steering Committee) members
Community Members who would like to serve on the War Council will submit their names and relevant data to a system of record
Duration: 2/20/2023 through 2/23/2023.
War Council elect names and relevant data shared with DAO
Published: Friday, 2/24/2023
Official vote launches for War Council election
Duration: 2/24/2023 5 PM CST through 3/1/2023 02:00 PM
Outcome: Formally elected War Council
War Council completes internal mechanisms:
Duration: 3/1/2023 through 3/3/2023
Outcome: Report back to the DAO by 3/3/2023 05:00 PM CST with the War Councils’ operating model solidified.
Council to meet twice a week, 15-45 Minute meetings.
Council to agree on a location to share Notes/Data.
Primary communication Members
Two War Council members will be in charge of sharing with the DAO, all relevant and important information.
Scribe
Two War Council members will take up the mantle of Scribe, rotating and taking notes during War Council meetings.
Outreach
Two War Council members will take up the mantle of handling internal and external social relations (This will be more applicable further down the road)
Treasury
Five War Council members will be aligned to Treasury Funds (Multi-Sig, etc). (this will be more applicable further down the road as the treasury is populated)
Any other positions the community would like to see the War Council take up?
First EtherOrcs All DAO Weekly Meeting
Duration: 3/6/2023 08:00 PM CST
Agenda:
Open Items
Working Groups to be stood up
Solicit volunteers to lead working group/s
Upcoming items for the week of 3/6-3/12 2023.
Items Closed
Wins
Open Floor
First Working Group stood up - Choose Working Board tool and File Sharing/Storage for DAO (think DevOps/Agility)
Instantiation: 3/7/2023
Duration: 3/7/2023 through 3/28/2023
Outcome: Present Recommendations on the platform to use for the DAOs Working Board on the Weekly All DAO meeting 3/27/2023.
Next Action: Official Snapshot vote 3/28/2023 through 3/31/2023.
Acceptance Criteria:
Open to all DAO members to add items to the backlog and edit their added items
Rights to allow assigned members to carry cards through the board while being worked by working groups
Free/Nominal subscription fee
Interoperability (APIs, etc)
Onboarding courses/training material to bring the community up to speed.
Storage that works for all, when it comes to relevant documents
War Council Begins formal outreach with EtherOrcs Founders
Instantiation: 3/7/2023
Duration: 3/7/2023 through 3/31/2023
Outcome: Report for EtherOrcs DAO on all data gathered from EtherOrcs Founders encompassing all assets, roadmaps, etc.
The report will be presented in the All DAO meeting on 4/3/2023
War Council Chair Brainstorming session with the All DAO on what should be done next.
Instantiation: 4/5/2023 - 8 PM CST
Outcome: Identify the top three things the DAO want to work on.
Run a points exercise where the top three-point gathering items, have working groups spun up.
Meeting: 4/5/2023 - 1-hour duration. Miro Boards Used. Expect attending and actively participating.
Stand up three working groups for the items identified in the All DAO points Brainstorming session
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