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# GM Bus Meeting Notes

## October 10, 2022
- get KPIs together 
- post season 1 conclusion blog
- take the next few months to submit funding proposals
- gm radio:
    - Pooja and Owacki are scheduled
    - moving at a more sustainable pace for scheduling any more
    - practice on team 
        - will be useful for various content

## September 26, 2022

### Sinjun to Lauren
- Lauren is on her way to NYC
- Dan is flying out for SmartCon

### new comic/infographics. (perchy)
- DAO Town
- interactive on the bus
- sponsors can put custom graphics
- so much meaning imbeded in DAO Town
- collaborative and coming together concepts of DAO Town is Ethereum
- blank DAO Town and people create it together
- people are building independently but also sharing the ecosystem
- DAO space isn't permanent so Perchy wants to revisit DAO Town
    - gm bus is a great canvas for that
- Perchy wants to make more comics
    - green pill comic, what does it mean to get green pilled
    - we can appeal to people new to crypto
        - spectrum of material that can appeal to new people
- team wants to support Perchy as much as he wants
- Perchy liked the support from the team for Tale of Two Renaissance
- Mandy has a sticker idea and will put it in the discord
- Perchy's channel is gonna use the discord design channel for now
    - might add a infographic channel later

### We have a discord
- https://discord.gg/8VZGgTT6pY
- keep inner ops team while fleshing out channels
- follow channel description so things are streamlined
- suggest new channels in general channel
- closing out Telegram
    - inner ops
    - gm radio
- leaving public telegram open

### gm Machine?
- to include boats and things

### Where's the bus
- Lauren is arriving in NYC today
- Dan is taking the bus from Sept 30-Oct 25 to Tennesse
    - keeping it in Memphis
- Sasquatch is picking it up after DevCon
    - taking it to Arizona
- Regen hackathon Oct 25-27 ASU in Tempe
    - doing tie dye 
- Travis Wyche in New Mexico
    - Oct 28-Nov 5

### Rapid fier reflections
- Yalor is clearheaded and inspired about new oportunites and wants to help new ideas come to fruition. excieted to see comunity flowing without one leader doing everything. ready to 
- Kyle is excited to see the van complete and ready to take a break and refil his resevoir. wants to see the paterns of events and see what can happen for season 2
- Perchy enjoyed IRL and excited to see community engagement. looking forward to more creative ways of collaboration and engagement in future seasons
- Gen enjoyed IRL. Wants to try nomadic! great timing for it and met people that helps her feel that she can make nomadic a reality. Wyoming and the bus is available for her.
- Dan is stoked and high from leaving job and research. wants to contribute to the creative stuff and see how dots connect. bringing go pros and drones to smartcon.
- Christina is not ready to stop at all
- Mandy feels amazing. excited to meet people irl. still wants to visit spots more and go to events.  interviews are exciting and a little nervous.
- Bushi feels good cuz he does whatever he wants. excited to see it grow beyond a single bus. turn into a movement and grows beyond us.

### Sinjun's visioning
1. Close your eyes
2. Take a deep breath
3. Let's begin this journey
4. Envision where you were 5 years ago. Note this down.
5. Zoom to the present
6. Imagine yourself 5 years in the future. What is life like in the future? How do you feel in the future? Note this down.
7. Still in the future, what are you doing? Who are you working with? What are you working on? Note this down.
8. Go from the bright version to the distopian version, so we can get the polar oposites.
9. In the future, what would it look like if things were worse? Note this down.
10. Take both future visions, the bright and dark, and sumarize it into one sentance.
11. Take a moment and look at each of the three furtures you wrote down. Close your eyes and really feel each one. Take some notes.
12. Share bright version and how it feels.

## September 23, 2022

### Where's the bus?
- NYC Sept 28 - 30th (Working with Lauren to Define) 
- Memphis (storage) 30 Sept - 25th October. 
- AZ Oct 25 - 27th  (New Tie Dye Design needed)
- NM Oct 28 - Nov 5th

### Notes for the blog

Look what we helped make possible…

The people who did episodes on the Green Pill included Meta_Dreamer from MetaFactory, Kevin Owocki and Web3 studios, Opolis, WGMI, Ameen Sol, wonderverse, and COLLABLAND

Chainlink crawfish broil and tie dye shirts:  https://twitter.com/YalorMewn/status/1571253974636048385?cxt=HHwWgsDRocjKm84rAAAA
Chris’s tie dye gm shirt https://twitter.com/chrisbarrett/status/1571117691787939840?s=46&t=wEyTn0ed8Qs1-bUYH8IamQ

Twitter ~50+ new followers
@gmbusbus  https://twitter.com/gmbusbus
Instagram 38 new followers and 1,000+ reel views
@gmbusbus https://www.instagram.com/gmbusbus/
Telegram channel ~70 members
gm bus ☀️   https://t.me/+E8dwTUcMJrxmNDJh

Better than imagine writings on the bus
Nonce
Opolis
DAOESCO
Gitcoin
Bankless
Fire eyes
MetaBuilders

Lauren in the navigator’s chair https://twitter.com/halsteady/status/1569698794568294401

Chris running in front of the bus at MCON2 https://twitter.com/chrisbarrett/status/1567885160367939585?s=46&t=hL7a0fXxfdoMt6nGo73f2Q

Feems grateful for MCON2 https://twitter.com/feemschats/status/1569008560012677120

https://twitter.com/shemnon/status/1566116870674980864 bus on the road, tagging gitcoin and opolis

## September 19, 2022

### New compensation strategy
- Disolve utopia labs? (gonna try it a little longer)
- Payments go out on 1st and 15th (Gen + Yalor) 
- Plz fill in the <ETH Address> in the [Gsheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/1Mpk99DChsHGasCBlv3X-ZZ55razKPpTrELCyr6stBB8/edit#gid=0)

### Season #2 Sponsorship Queue 

- ARAGON [PROPOSAL](https://docs.google.com/document/d/18q060BLdCic9Dv9xqkKtBM1xtz8Sa4cnRcdVqQ0q22U/edit#heading=h.nfomnm6onla00) 

- SHAPESHIFT [Proposal] 

- More ???? 

### GM Radio 📻
- Mandy interviewed Yalor
    - podcast idea
    - interview sponsors
    - why being involved with the gm bus
    - why does it matter
    - interview people at events
    - introduce people and what they do 
    - what's relatable
    - Kyle will create an intro and question template
    - Season #1 line-up https://hackmd.io/QrxsgOgsRFKEJl-y5srrIg
    - Using https://riverside.fm/ 
    - Christina will help with Scheduling.
        - can help with making written content from interviews

### How to Connect Aragon and UofAz
- need more people to know how to use DAOs
- more people excited about DAOs
- right now its biased towards people who are technically inclined
- Hats and Orange collab is a great example
- focused on collaboration solutions
- does the school have technically inclined who want to get excited about DAOs?
- technically inclined usually get jobs real quick
- funding makes getting involved challenging
    - students think they need funds to get involved in crypto or contribute in the space
- if students actually get to meet in IRL with people in the DAO communities, they are easier to engage
- perspective is that financial savy is necessary to do crypto which is a barier
- students don't need to be blockchain devs, but just patient enough to deal with the bad UX/UI
- how to talk so were resonating at a human level
    - wgmi dao
- how to communicate with students who've committed time and capital to a higher education?
    - are they seeing it just as a job?
    - are they seeing it as societal evolution?
    - students have external pressures to get an internship and job
    - find ways for students to get involved
    - need more community influence, not just engineering
- Does Aragon have training and [bounties](https://app.dework.xyz/an-dao)?
    - share fight for freedom video
- How to shift the perspective from Job with benefits to Community Contributor?
- curation is very valuable
    - gm bus can do that
        - sponsors and points of contact
- gm bus is a central point of contact for sponsors
### GM Sailboat 

- 

### Sponsor Guide
- Let's make a wiki [here](https://hackmd.io/YrgOtRvKT8WqCGYUdIJ6qQ)
- plz throw in anything
    
    
#### Sinjun is at UofArkansas
- checked in with a local restaurant
    - dealing with corporate heirarchy
- maybe the gm bus can just flow
    - don't need to plan ahead
    - we're kinda gorilla
    - let's just go around the heirarchy
    - let's just park
    - ask for forgiveness not permission
- coffee shop
    - just park outside
    - tell people to get a coffee and come have a conversation with us

#### AZ university
- collab with Tyson
    
#### Seaons 2 Sponsors
- season 1 sponsors will stay on the bus
    - what size?
    - cost to renew
    - move season1 sponsor logos down where less writing is
- all sponsors stay on the bus forever?
    - need an incentive to pay again
    - logos don't necessarily mean perks
    - hopefully this grows past a bus
        - logos on the bus don't automatically go on the boat
    - founding sponsors get something
        - get priority to sponsor boat first


### September 12, 2022

Onsite compensation:
- manning and driving the bus
- make a template for future 
    - help with onboarding
- events
- bus maintenance
    - Kyle estimates about $0.25/mile
        - he has a spreadsheet
- no revenue stream
- have sponsorship
- spend in a targeted way
- go where we said we are going

1. who manned the bus and how long?
- valid expense
- 2 ppl for 2 hrs each compensated
    - hourly works here cuz actually there
- Kyle: 2-3 hours multiple days, but wanted to donate this time, cuz he wants it to keep going
- Kyle and Mandy: 4 hours each over 3 days
- Sinjun: 6 hours over 3 days
- Yalor: never stood still, so 0 hours
- Pershy: 6 hours over 2 days
- Bushi: 4 hours on 1 day
- Gen: 4 hours over 3 days
- Stacey: 3 hours over 3 days
- total manned hours: 27 over 3 days
- manning the bus a different than regular rate
    - hourly rate:  23
- travel: $300, $900, $175
    - average: $458
    - Stacey, Bushi, Sinjun, Perchy, Gen get $450 for travel
- driving the bus
    - only drive the bus if you want to so no compensation
    - job of the future, something poeple can do, so yes get compensated
    - in the bootstrapping phase
    - long term: make more available for people who don't normally afford travel
    - help get more people with the vibe
    - are people sponsored?
    - more focused on the event than the actual driving
        - driving is included in an event
    - without paying for driving issues
        - shorter commitments
        - paying for airfare home
    - if we're paying for driving, liability release
    - Mandy and Kyle schlepping the green pill was $200/day, but that included using they're vehicle
        - Kyle is all set up with taxes and his own busines
- gm bus LLC with liability insurance

### Compensation at MCON
#### Travel
1. Stacey: $450
2. Bushi: $450
3. Sinjun: $450
4. Perchy: $450
5. Gen: $450

#### Manning the Bus ($23/hr)
1. Kyle: $92
2. Mandy: $92
3. Sinjun: $138
4. Pershy: $138
5. Bushi: $92
6. Gen: $92
7. Stacey: $69

### Content
- Stacey is gonna get some strategy and schedule going
- Lauren is gonna coordinate with sharing at Chainlink
- how to demonstrate onboarding and new people without doxing
- Smartcon - exposure to bigger concept and branding
- Kyle, Stacey and Lauren will meet about content before Smartcon (Wed 2 pm MST)
    - benefit from Lauren's client knowledge

### Sponsor's events
- point of contact 

### Sinjun driving the bus
- crack the coffee shop code
    - how to reach non crypto
    - pizza party on the bus
- focusing on Arkansas and Oaklahoma

Sasquatch is taking the bus to New York


## August 29, 2022

Social content:
- organic social content through other people
    - engange with community and share their content
- tag people in pictures
- tap a card?
- dongle poap - powerless just tap
- POAP for scavenger hunts
- will POAP sponsor us?
- annonomous confessions

MCON
- rented a whole city block
- going to:
    - Chainlink crawdad 
    - Opolis with Sinjin and Gen
- Wed-Fri podcasts in the trailer
    - Green Pill
    - BDAO
    - open it to ideas that show up there
- capture: behind the scenes conversations 
- 7th Coffee Entrance
- green food items?
    - ask in gm channel for ideas
    - green coffee foam
    - spurelina
    - green crepes or donuts
    - delivered not made there

[future stories](https://hackmd.io/LlxaKnjrRyCGXTyMQqBiOg)
- weekly timetravel
- this is what the future looks like
- Adrienne, please make something animated/visual
- an alternative to fear about the future
- Bushi will look and give feedback to what's already been written
- format as a thread so people know if they get in in the middle

Imagination is hard
- describing something specific can help open up to other possibilities
- what is important to us?
- what is imagnination?
- how does this challenge our 
- like anonomous confessions
    - what if it gets submissions?
    - request submissions?
    - make a space for creativity

dweb
- well recieved
- can take this very far
- real life
    - help people turn on their imagination
    - work through that process
- high impact
    - conversations
    - questions
    - working through imagining a future that's better
- workshop one day?
    - school kids sitting in a circle by the bus
    - walk them through an imagnination process
    - beyond getting a job kind of things
- less crypto education
- more gm education
- don't exactly know what the gm bus does
    - education and exploration

Education
- impacting kids
    - we're grown ups and having fun
    - more open minds
    - easier to imaginate

Season 2 could be about the people who are actually gonna live the future
- passing the torch
- what kids are living in school isn't the most optimal outcome

Storing content pictures
- Stacy has [a folder](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DZPiy5pkZ0K2gUnZ0tihNs4MBtsWPF4E)
- Christina is gonna collect images and video form telegram
- Gen is gonna help scrape too

Weekly Medium article
- Sinjun is working on the first one
- put up ideas to be explored
    - someone can pick one and own it

pinned message in gm channel
- call to action
- get people involved
- Yalor




## August 22, 2022

Season one of the gm bus is about exploration
dweb - open flow with microphone and speakers

impact DAOs 
- what if imagination was a public good?
    - how would you quantify that?

Recording content to help with explaining what the gm bus is

Shift peoples preconceptions of crypto
- reframe and put it in a new context
- make that the anchor

Bankless proposal has been submitted to grants committee
- committee will get back to Sinjin on Discord

tiktok and instagram

Bushi is starting with Twitter and getting that right and then moving onto other social channels
- in the beginning get as much content out as possible

How to get the gm on the moon - Aaron's idea

what the future prospects for people coming in now?  what about season 2, genesis - allow onboarding, while not putting too many logos on the bus for season 1

excited for added writing and drawings on the bus

Stacey made a master footage folder, separated by event
- marketing in file cabnet

Ready to move to Discord with different channels?
- discord is overwhelming?
- telegram too messy?
- how to keep coms from getting fractured?
- Bankless discord as an example
- lets explore at mcon

How does the gm community engage with the wider community?
- how to anticipate the community participating?
- discord can help intermingle
- whole community spawning out of gm
    - regen
    - travel
    - rving
    - outside/nature
- like a movement
- conversations and sharing resources
- connected fabric, from wherever anyone is gm-ing from
- create solutions
- community without a product
    - not selling anything
    - exposing them to ideas and concepts
    - positive echo chamber
- mobile shelling point
- mobile campfire
    - likeminded gathering
- people who connect with the gm bus can connect

Season 1
- exploritory
- open mode
- what are we doing?
- how do we best serve?
- seed the ways things go

How do we engage people?
What do we give them to do?
- open people up
- (re)igniting people
- give people hope

The movement of the hippies of the 2020s!

How to keep clarity and intention within an growing movement?
- intimite groups are more comfortable

the bus allows direct conversation where people are at
- opens up different ways of thinking

looking forward to recieving feedback
- lets make a place to dump thoughts
    - what are the gems from conversations?

Essence of what were doing is reframing the narrative
- opportunities 
    - for individuals
    - for us as a whole

**we might need a mission or manifesto to rally around**
- Sinjun started a manifesto
    - https://docs.google.com/document/d/19vMzUC46COgPsf7i4Ua5EH1KLjP9T5Fuy3OdEAbpBiA/edit
    - announcement about the movement
    - good news announcement
- publish on the website
- publish on the discord as a gate entrance

unite around, not centralized around
- big picture that includes individual stories

Open to extending Season 1 events?
- parameters to bring people in
- is there a wrap up date?
- the bus can be available for internal gm members to take to an event
- sponsors want the bus at events

Sinjun is driving the bus after MCON
- explore non crypto events
    - university
    - coffee shops
    - blockchain groups
    - Austin
    - Nashville

Break after Season 1 to digest everything
- taking handwritten stuff and animating it

renaissance
- get more clarity on gm bus before NFTing
- example: songaday (minted all at once)

Sustainability models
- people bring their creativity
- support individuals
- community of appreciators

Utopia is still open
- schlepping and fixing up green pill trailer
- a few people submitted hours for compensation
- doesn't give notifications

## August 15, 2022

getting ready to leave in 5 days

Sinjun is joining Yalor in SF
- dweb and hack summit

gm house in denver
- bushi +1.5, Sinjun and Pershy

MetaCartel Ventures proposal is passing
- waiting to hear back from Chainlink
    - going with a startup angle

How to make the gm bus sustainable without always asking for donations
- Part of merch sales can power the bus
- NFT sales
- create so much value that people want to support by purchasing merch and NFTs and partnerships

Partners can contribute more than capital
- collaborate
- participate
- share ideas

Values of the GM bus to sponsors/partners
- what is ROI for the gm bus?
- how is ROI measured for the gm bus?
- how to quantify vibes
    - number of people who left the hampster wheel

Bus is almost ready
- getting new photos in the wilderness

Bankless proposal
- good feedback
- next step
    - once it gets enough votes it goes to the grants committee
    - vote here: https://forum.bankless.community/t/gm-bus-and-green-pill-trailer-season-1/4102
    - anyone can vote
    - who's on the grants guild?

Crawfish at the gm bus at MCON
- are there any crypto related terms?
- custom newspapers?
    - Bankless - the rug
    - MF newspaper?

[Utopia Labs](https://app.utopialabs.com/request/payment/62f27708f6c1abb59d3fe5b2)
- proposals for compensation
    - can add docs/hackmds
    - easier if you get 'vouching from someone in the group'
- can switch to coordinape if utopia labs doesn't work

[Structure Films](https://www.structurefilms.com/)
- documentary film team
- they sell films to netflix
- they will probably bring a team to events
- gm bus wont hire them
    - the sell NFTs
- could the gm bus get a portion of royalties?
    - add utility to the NFT?

Is there another film crew?
- was hard to get follow through from them

Bankless is doing a spotlight on the gm bus at MCON
- grant proposal includes media partnership

How best to collect content
- hard drives

## August 8, 2022

[Gnosis safe](https://gnosis-safe.io/app/eth:0x4E547Ac6695F41F79b7e34c66b5ea54E5768Ba43/home) 2/5 pass

Hack summit in San Francisco
- gm set up in their venue
- 500-600 people
- dystopian labs helping
- August 26th and 27th 
- gm bus already at dWeb

Rough draft [Media Partnership](https://hackmd.io/b5Xwq3tqQWKw6xuwUAzebA)
- Bankless
    - creator services
    - podcasts
    - they can use the podcast studio in Denver
    - doesn't really sponsor
    - value in partnering
    - Christina will add text about why it's good for Bankless
    - see gm sponsor deck, perks section
        -  logos on the bus
        -  nfts in season 1 and 2
        -  record live podcast episodes
- MetaFactory
    - Sinjun gonna start working with them on merch
    - Yalor - coordinate with Metadreamer
- Grants
    - Weekly basis processing
    - grants commitee makes decisions
    - Christina - go through passed grants to see what gets funded
    - gants come in $BANK
    - MetaFactory is sending $ROBOT

Treasury Sustainability 
- receive tokens

Mandy and Kyle have been helping with the physical GM bus - Thank you!

Event List (collecting photos)
- dWeb 9/24
    - Yalor is picking up Isaac
- Hack Summit San Francisco 9/26
    - comfy lounge
- Picking up trailer 
    - from Montana to Denver (Owoki's driveway)
    - building podcast studio in trailer
- MCON
    - Sept 6-9
    - on the street in the day
    - move off the street in the evening to make room for food trucks
    - Podcast
        - impromptu, not scheduled
        - who do you want on the podcast?
    - flyers
        - Yalor is gonna help Perchy print his one page explainer cartoon
            - Sinjun suggests a poster also
                - posters on the street 
                - posters given away as swag to gm bus visitors
                - put posters up around denver like MCON posters
                - start by printing 300 posters
                    - get some hung
            - try a few different sizes
                - one big poster size
                - post card version
                    - focuses on 4 quadrant section
                - deliver a document to Yalor
                    - he'll get it printed
                    - Vista Print is easiest
        - make a bunch of different one pagers
            - people will like the one they like
            - junk mail? canvasers?
        - Call to action?
            - oportunities with sponsors in their communities on the website? (season 2 work?)
            - educational links?
            - what does Isaac suggest for the website?

Website
- fuel meter?
    - playful for people to see
    - how far the bus can go?
    - ask Isaac how coibase or gnosis safe integration 
        - set up a call with Sinjun and Isaac
    - your community powering the bus

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