Gravity Training, Voting Underway & Intrinsic Motivation and Rewards
Latest news & Praise Leader Board: Dec. 19-Jan. 1
Happy New Year everyone! It has been a happy 2021 so far with the TEC in full sprint, building towards the hatch scheduled for March. There are some important votes underway, lively discussions in culture and an upcoming conflict resolution training open for participants.
👩🚀 Registration Now Open: Become a Graviton
The Gravity Working Group is a collective that aims to bring people together and promote resilience in decentralized organizations by training its members in non-violent communication, understanding and analyzing conflict and techniques to manage it (internally, individually and collectively).
The mission is to help build a culture of wellbeing and high vibes, while also pointing out clear steps to strategically manage disputes whenever they arise. To do this, Gravity needs Gravitons! Gravitons will be trained in the Gravity arts, this training will include:
- Nonviolent communication & spiral dynamics — Trust creation
- Theories of conflict, Antifragility and conflict transformation
- BATNA, Negotiation and Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Role plays & simulations for conflict management
- Soft Governance & culture: Ostrom’s principles for enduring CPR institutions
- Gravity process deep dive (ADR for DAOs)
Gravitons will receive POAP certificates at the end of each session. After they have completed the course they can take a leadership role in the Gravity Working Group.
The sessions will take place starting January 21 through March 11 on Thursdays at 9pm CET (right after the weekly TEC community calls).
This is an open call for all people interested in learning these soft skills that can be applied in our everyday life and in our different communities.
Register now to reserve your spot
✨Cultivating Intrinsic Motivation
The Soft Governance Working Group, in its exploration of cultural frameworks and behavior, held a discussion on how to create an environment where reward and punishment mechanisms are part of a secondary incentive system, and intrinsic motivation is the first and biggest drive for collaboration. In this forum post, working group steward Livia Deschermayer gathered and highlighted the points of discussion, practices and context, and how this cultural aspect has been playing out in the TE Commons. It’s a great read, especially for those interested in accountability, rewards systems and the cultural build and documentation of the TEC.
⚖️ Legal Strategy Vote
The vote is underway to accept or reject the recommendation of the legal working group.
Over the last few months, the TEC Legal Working Group, along with DAO legal experts, examined the liabilities and strategies for the legal protection of TEC members. The following proposal is the result of that research.
It’s an exciting and critical proposal, so exercise your rights and vote on the strategy proposed! Feel free to also ask questions or give your feedback on the forum. Make sure to vote before this Monday, Jan. 10 at 5 p.m. Berlin time.
🗳 Praise Proposal Vote
While you are voting, check out the latest proposal to reward praise quantifiers. Praise quantifiers hold meetings every two weeks to assign impact hours to praise dished by the community. You can read more about this process and current contribution rewards system here.
The proposal says that until now, those who are working to keep up the rewards system have not been receiving enough rewards. There is a proposal to adjust the system so that these volunteers can still be rewarded fairly. Learn more about the proposal and vote in this forum post and poll. Voting ends this Monday, Jan. 10 at 5 p.m. Berlin time.
🌼 Dandelion Vote (for TESTTEC token holders)
Dandelion voting is a mechanism for token holders to vote on parameters of the commons, as well as making critical changes to smart contracts involved in key decisions.
Our TEC Test HatchDAO is live and the tech team found a bug in the Impact Hours App, a testament to the importance of testing. We can fix it with a vote and then TestTEC will be minted for Impact Hour recipients. The voter turnout is already at 48 percent! Join this important vote!
Read more about it on the TEC Forum: Upgrade Impact Hours App — 🌼 Dandelion
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 TEC tokens at launch. As voted on by the community, the intention is that each hour will be worth somewhere between $20-$200 of contributions covested into the Hatch 🐣.
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 December 19 — January 1:
Every contribution counts, and the Token Engineering Commons is incredibly grateful for its 199 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
💸 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 @GriffGreen @JessicaZartler on our Discord or Telegram.
This article was written by Jessica Zartler, Juan Bell and Griff Green.
