by christypdx
Fun DAO provides IRL community members with the opportunity to join a low barrier to entry, low overhead DAO, for the purpose of playing with novel coordination tools and governance mechanisms, while growing and strengthening your local web3 network in the process.
This project is not meant to take significant time or energy from its members. Rather, it should offer the opportunity for casual gatherings to experiment with novel onchain coordination tools.
Fun DAO:
- Offers web3 novices and the DAO-curious a chance to join their first DAO.
- Allows novices and veterans alike to be continually exposed to new web3 mechanisms.
- Creates an opportunity to provide valuable feedback to the teams building onchain tools.
- Holds space for local community members to get to know each other, and potentially brainstorm other projects and workgroups that might eventually help animate a diverse local DAO ecosystem.
Ingredients
- A local group of people interested in active participation in an ongoing web3 hands-on learning experiment.
- A DAOHaus DAO for onchain membership. You may not have a treasury to start, or ever.
- A shared Telegram group chat, or any effective communications/coordination channel.
- Optional: Implement Hats Protocol for onchain member role attribution and administration. FUN!
Instructions
- Each cycle the DAO decides on a local group outing, using a unique onchain coordination tool (e.g., Confetti, Pairwise, quadratic voting via Snapshot, conviction voting). Which tool is used is determined through group discussion. The outing could be a one-off event (e.g. a sports game, art museum, or barbecue) or it could be longer-term and purpose driven (e.g. a community garden, or onchain art project).
Account: Fun DAO PDX
Fun DAO PDX had its first outing on Saturday, January 27th, 2024. We went to a free art show at the Oregon Contemporary art center: Georgie Friedman’s BREATHING – LIGHT. Our first outing was decided using Jokerace (edit: now Confetti), where the art show beat out indoor golf and a trip to Multnomah falls, among other suggestions.
Though the DAO had 10 onchain members at the time of voting, the outing’s attendance count was 15, with newcomers joining to say they hadn't yet understood how to set up a crypto wallet, but wanted to join. In response, FUN DAO members coordinated dedicated onboarding hours, hosted at a local affiliate community space, for the second Tuesday of every month, which was in addition to the local monthly EthPDX meetup.
We were happy to see the very first FUN DAO cycle onboard new community members to self-custody wallets, while offering a first experience using Jokerace for many more. (etherealforest.org/blog)