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Tue 11 Dec 2018 10:45PM

Rebranding the Governance Meeting to Giveth DAC Meeting

KI Kris is Public Seen by 202

Tension: While reworking the wiki with Josh I'm again seeing that the naming of this meeting can be confusing, it always has been to me. It would be great if the governance circle would organize governance meetings to discuss all things happening in the governance circle that is linked to its goals (internal & external gov experimentation), but that is not exactly what we do in this meeting. We sometimes use the holacratic governance meeting model for this meeting - and that is probably why we use this name - but very often it is a fireside chat as well. What this meeting is about is the 'management' of the Giveth DAC, so that is how I propose to name it, so people know what to expect during such a meeting.

We have a Comms Circle Meeting, Social Coding Circle Meeting and DApp Dev Circle Meeting. We have no Governance Circle Meeting (which was a conscious decision at the time). We do have a meeting to discuss the overall governance of the Giveth DAC that comprises these four circles. This is the Giveth DAC Meeting.

Proposal:
Rename our weekly Governance Meeting to Giveth DAC Meeting.

If this passes I will take it upon me to change the naming in the appropriate places.
This will help people to distinguish better between governance initiatives and experimentation (which they can model for their own DAO/DACs) and Giveth DAC activities. (will make nav on the wiki easier/clearer too!)

BS

Bowen Sanders Fri 14 Dec 2018 8:35PM

There is a Social Coding sync meeting every other Tuesday - thinking this might be the "something regular about code" you speak of...

K

Kay Sun 16 Dec 2018 5:06PM

The social coding sync is much about the actual projects and dev support for those, but I would love if social coding also hosted different regular talks - I meant more in the sense of general technology talks and impromptu tutorials. There is lots of interesting stuff that falls through the cracks usually. I.e. how transactions or gas work, gow to call a smart contract directly, a comparison between web3 javascript libraries, ways to inject web3, how to leverage metamask or universal login, a crash course to ipfs, how to use a dappnode in production, ens and reverse ens checks, etc, etc. ... its neverending.

MR

Michael Roberts Thu 13 Dec 2018 3:37PM

That's make sense. I guess my point would just be to use a name not an acronym.. so call it Giveth Community meeting then.. Its much easier for newbie's to the Giveth community in IMHO. Also re: Lorelei points, I can understand her rationale as well, which in my mind would leave a gap for a more general community meeting.. but I'm not about to propose yet another meeting.. I'll just say as a newbie, I find there is a slight overlap between the comms and governance meetings.. I feel we do an 'around the table' to see what people are up in both meetings and I'm not sure that is necessary. However, if two separate meetings are indeed necessary, I will throw it out there to encourage meeting hosts to make meetings 30 minutes in total as a friendly challenge to keep meetings really focused and concise because I think most people don't like meetings except for 'managers'. Also I would suggest the role of note-taker and even meeting facilitator should rotate to give everyone a chance.. but that's not critical just an idea that I've seen in the past that can work well.

KI

Kris is Thu 13 Dec 2018 4:47PM

Open to Giveth Community Meeting :) reasoning is that we are the Giveth DAC and that we have been forcefeeding that term a bit to people. All for shorter and more focused meetings. And I agree, sometimes comms overlaps a bit in topics, bcs they're not discussed in this meeting (or in a gov circle meeting that doesn't exist yet :) ). One day I'd like that meeting to pure comms but right now it's also often a bit of a community meeting. Strict mgmt never really works at giveth I learned and learned from :)