# 🦞 Lobsters working group meeting

## Topics

* #### Partnerships & PH idea (Nemo)
* make inbound and outbound working group
* current dealflow: gearbox, coinlist, nansen, ambire, ocean movie etc.
* list potential ideas for outbound team
* internal group (handle projects we're working with): Eugene, joel, nemo
* decide how to work with external group (Trello?)
* we already have many proposals eg Akropolis, but nobody seems to care? -> informal poll with Discord reactions?
* perhaps instead of doing polls in private channels, we just do it in the onboarding channel
* ("why is everything happening in private?")
* proposals are good, (Eugene would've accepted) but nobody does anything about it
* **maybe we (WG) need to start first; when things get more interesting people will (naturally?) want to engage**
* we need to find a way to get people to ape in/test
* -> Gearbox is a nice example: quite some activity for them
* use socials more -- twitter, telegram, ...
* AMAs? other discussion events?
* AMAs: thematic? e.g. if it's an options protocol, we find... relevant speakers
* have point-of-contacts for each project
* -> from now to Friday: decide how to track/assign work?
* external group (find new leads?): Ivan, (Nemo?), Nickbutts
* make proposals in the group (every 1-2 weeks?)
* (lots of people in DAO w/ connections -- maybe we should empower them to raise ideas?)
* discuss internally with members, is it ok to approach the project
* then we invite members to comment on proposal, etc
* then it gets tossed to internal group
* -> from now to Friday: Trello board for discussing how we want to do things
* WG to make a structure so we know where to throw work, direct people etc
* current flow?
* new project, proposal
* internal <-> external <-> project discusses: what are they looking for
* shill to members -- testers, etc

* #### Research and content (Nemo)
* topics
* source (quality) ideas, user wants, etc
* what kind? -> "quality research, whatever's missing in the crypto space"
* eg if there's currently an incomplete study on something, we can get people to fill out what's missing
* or exploring/comparing zk solutions
* but if it's too complicated -- it might become irrelevant by the time we get it out
* us vs paradigm, delphi, etc?
* so then... is there any (other) type of content we want to reward?
* good discussion in lobsters? (but tg not conducive for long discussions, eg telegram threads are shit)
* lobsters daily -> lobsters weekly/monthly?
* we can have Notion pages for each topic, and keep adding new discussion onto each page (+ scoring maybe)
* make working group team
* source ideas, then... we vote on which to do?
* rewards
* we've got a huge opportunity cuz many want lobsters for their contributions
* so we can reward people for good research (or give them shit if it's bad lol)
* where to post, how to gate it
* maybe to lobsters first, then to the general public?
* maybe too difficult (?) -- perhaps drop it first and focus on lobsters weekly/monthly

* #### Development (Null byte, md zor, ivan, zhongfu)
* propose few ideas up until Friday
* maybe small lobster-gated utilities/tools?
* hackathon
* front end or tool for easy integration (lobs holders, or lobs score vs nft holder etc)

* #### Media (Nemo)
* make working group team
* approach different podcasts and media for articles, explain grand vision
* beweekly tg space (Null byte, CIA)

* #### Organisational things (Nemo)
* tools we use for tracking progress - Trello, Notion etc.
* make a Notion w/ important links/info (CIA)
* have 1-3 PMs to chase people - Eugene, Nemo and...?
* Schedule recurring meeting - ~~one a week, once in two weeks???~~ bi-weekly
* How and when to open this up to other fellow lobs that are not aware of our working group but would like to contribute

* #### List other topics and key points here

* #### Degen - A movie by LobsterDAO (nickbtts)
* Overview of idea & people involved
* they're keen to do a documentary re griptoe space: the characters, what they're up to, etc etc
* funding options - equity?
* share ideas for locations and personalities
* what we have now is probably a bit half-baked in their pov, so we should do up a better proposal or something

* #### Community (CIA)
* Increase chatting, increase user flow from the main group
* Finish merch idea.
* Monthly voicerooms/podcasts/project pitch in main TG chat/main Twitter?
* we could also alternate between (Telegram voice chats/Discord voice channels) and Twitter Spaces
* (depending on who we want to target, maybe)
* Telegram: lobsters chat was on telegram anyway, so it's not too unreasonable to say that quite a few prefer telegram
* plus we have 2k+ members in telegram vs ("only") 800 in discord
* but we did want to move to discord anyway
* also most of our telegram users are bots, maybe we'll want to kick them out

* #### Merch (CIA)
* covid lockdowns, not easy to get stuff moving

## what's next?

* split people up into separate working groups, then have another call a few days later to work out what to do
* define: what does the DAO want to be/do, in general
* -> to have high-quality engagement, people discussing about r&d in the blockchain space, debates, education
* no particular answer?
* do we want to be a venture/investment DAO, or stay as... whatever we are now
* (if not executed properly, it can end up being a shitshow)
* (so unless someone steps up and is convincingly good...)