Spork Marmots, TEC Public Goods & New Member Perspectives: Reaching Out While Looking In
In this issue of the TEC news, we combine the creativity and playfulness of unicorns & MegaBufficorns with the foundational #BUIDLing characteristics of Spork Marmots to bring you TEC concoctions from the rainbow walkway of ETH Denver’s Virtual Castle.
Throw in a sprinkling of collective psychosis, a never-large-enough dose of Ape Unit, and a charged dash of positive change catalysts and you end up with a smorgasbord of Token Engineering delicacies for your mental digestion.
👄 Take a bite and discover the multitude of ways the Token Engineering Commons is advancing the token engineering ecosystem.
🦄 TEC at ETH Denver
The Token Engineering Community was out in full force at the largest and longest running ETH community event in the world — ETH Denver. The virtual Web3 castle was full of Bufficorns and PegaBufficorns educating, promoting communities, getting funky at decentralized dance parties, and bringing their much appreciated freaky selves to the party. 🎉
But 2021 was the Year of the Spork Marmot — providers of tools, support, and fortification for #BUIDLing. And whoa, the Sporky’s were sizzling and popping all over the place, including the TEC’s own @_liviade & @thegrifft spreading the Ostrom gospel and connecting the cyber-physical dots. 👇
Deploying a Self-governing Community — Livia Deschermayer
What does a woo-woo talk about freedom, love, and cultural builds have to do with the Token Engineering Commons you might (…or might not) ask yourselves? Check out this brilliant TEC overview with a focus on the people behind the TEC, automated vs. autonomous, and why a sense of belonging is critical to the upcoming TEC Hatch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_TEHMWudYw
Ending the Collective Psychosis around #PublicGoods — Griff Green
Elephants + Sacrifice + Non-excludable Monopolization + Exploiting the Altruists = Collective Psychosis
If you are interested in hearing Griff’s always energetic and passionate perspectives on how to end our collective psychosis around public goods, watch this ETH Denver gem. Inside, Griff unveils a third way, the Commons Stack way, to develop innovative economies built to reward the creation of public goods.
🎥 “The Public Good of TEC”
What is #TokenEngineering & why do we need it?
Check out “The Public Good of TEC” by Community Steward @sebnem hosted by @apeunit Berlin where she overviews the new, transdisciplinary field, knowledge co-creation and our upcoming hatch next month (great memes included):
🧩 Best Advice for Decentralized Communities
💁On our last Soft Governance WG Weekly Sync, we kicked off the call with this provocative question:
Based on the cultural practices we’ve been developing plus your personal experiences, what’s the best advice you would give to someone starting a decentralized community?
Curious? Opinions? Experiences? Check out this post on the TEC Forum Community section & share your best advice:
https://forum.tecommons.org/t/best-practices-for-decentralized-communities/243
📓 Challenges of DAOs & New Member Perspective
The TEC is a collective of like-minded individuals always looking to expand our reach and improve our processes by attracting talented, motivated individuals and groups to take agency, participate and help us advance token engineering.
Our most recent guest blog is by exactly such a person — TEC member @natesuits. In Engineering Communities — A New Member Perspective, Nate ponders DAO challenges and identifies a project addressing those major hurdles — the TEC:
“There is real progress being made within the TEC to develop a framework for how decentralized communities can organize effectively and serve as a catalyst for positive change in the world.“
Step inside to discover more new community member insights & take a leap into the Token Engineering Commons community 👇
👩🚀 Graviton Training: Still not too late to join…
Our fifth session, this Thursday Feb. 18, will feature @_liviade on the topic of Soft Governance & Culture: Ostrom’s principles for enduring CPR Institutions.
Join us Thursday Feb 18 at 9pm CET / 12 pm PST (right after the weekly TEC community call on our Gravity voice channel on Discord):
✍️ Signup: https://bit.ly/3sjSUsv
📚 Study Content: https://bit.ly/3ixicyQ
☎ Join: https://discord.gg/tjhx4rw2WK
Future Gravitons: Don’t forget to claim your POAP :D
🃏 TEC Meme of the Sprint
Calling all meme artists….yes all one billion of you….come play with us on Discord!
Get inspired by meme wizardry from the likes of @thegrifft, @freedumbs00 & @JessicaZartler and come have some fun 😸
Take a peek 👉 https://twitter.com/tecmns/status/1357819053415534592
And now…
💎 The Praise is in! Impact Hour Leaderboard
For participation, TE Commons contributors are acknowledged via a praise bot developed by the Commons Stack and then that Praise is quantified and converted into Impact Hours. Through Telegram and Discord bots and bridges, community members dish Praise to each other to recognize work.
Impact Hours will be converted into TECH tokens at launch. The exact value of Impact Hours will depend on the parameters chosen by the community and how much is collected in the Hatch 🐣, but the intention is that each hour will be worth somewhere between $10-$200.
Congratulations on the hard work everyone and thank you for your contributions to the Token Engineering Commons! 🥳 Here is the full list of Impact Hours awarded for work from February 2 — February 12:
Every contribution counts, and the Token Engineering Commons is incredibly grateful for its 236 active contributors that have earned Praise so far. 🙏 Below is a partial list of total Impact Hours to date, the full list and the math behind its calculation can be found in this spreadsheet:
To see a cool chart view of the Impact Hours, check out this visualization from our Community Steward @Santigs67
🌱 Join the Community 🌱
We warmly welcome you to join and share:
👋 Pop by our Discord or Telegram channels, introduce yourself and share what you are working on
☎ Say hi on our weekly community calls at 2pm EST / 8pm CET on our general voice channel on Discord — add it to your calendar
🤗 New to TEC? We have an AMA dedicated to answering community questions each Wed. at 10am EST / 4pm CET on our general voice channel on Discord — add it to your calendar
💸 Submit a proposal for funding for your TE project
📑 Read more about our working groups and join one
📣 Follow us on Twitter & Medium to stay up to date on the upcoming hatch
Token Engineering Commons members are also eligible to receive CSTK tokens from the Commons Stack for their Praise. To receive the tokens, members must apply to join the Trusted Seed. For any questions, reach out to @_liviade @thegrifft @JessicaZartler on our Discord or Telegram.
This article was written by Craig Anderson and Jessica Zartler with edits by Griff Green.
