# DAO East & West Chat Notes **General Description:** Hey All! We've had some really great conversations in Denver and Colombia the past couple months. As we prepare for "DAO West visits DAO East" this winter, I would love to hang out and chat more with everyone leading up to it. Mainly to get to know each other more, learn what each person cares about and maybe even jam on some new ideas! Goal is to organize a bi-weekly call at a time that works for Asia and US DAO lovers (sorry Europe for now). Welcome All! ---- **Call #1 Recap: (US) Tues Nov 1 / (Asia) Wed Nov 2, 2022:** 5pm PST 8pm EST 7am Chiang Mai time 9am KST/JST 1pm NZDT Location: https://meet.jit.si/daowestandeast Call Notes: As it was the first call, we didn't really have any set agenda. We went through these topics in a roundtable manner: - People intros - Thing you are excited about in the DAO space - Recent interesting DAO thing you've learned - DAO event - past, present or future - Upcoming exciting things Some highlights included: - **Sky**: Public Nouns (https://publicnouns.wtf/) - **Gen**: Nonce Community in Korea (https://twitter.com/nonce_community, https://nonce.community/) - **Gen**: Spore DAO (https://twitter.com/SporeDAO) - **Jenna**: DAOCon in Seoul (potential Dates: April 5-8, 2023) - goal to time up with other events similar time - **Songyi**: Bridging communities - **Christina**: Magic Theater (Prototyping as a Service - Integrated with Disadvantaged Communities) - **Scott**: - **Tae**: Curious what the local Korea crypto scene is like? meet-ups, etc? **Attendees:** Sky Jenna Christina (BorrowLucid) Gen (twinfin) Songyi Yoseph Scott (scottrepreneur) Tae ---- **Call #2 Recap: (US) Tues Nov 15 / (Asia) Wed Nov 16, 2022:** 5pm PST 8pm EST 8am Chiang Mai time 10am KST/JST 2pm NZDT Location: https://meet.jit.si/daowestandeast Agenda: - Market chatter - interesting things - DAO highlights - ETH Denver attendees from East? Call Notes: - Christina and Bau shared learnings from ETH SF - Discussed the life and death cycle of DAOs (and why it's so important to let DAOs die) - Yudai & his colleague from Fracton joined and dropped some solid DAO Tokyo alpha - Potential date range: DAO Tokyo Mar ~27~30 time - Scouting for venue - Aiming for 200-300 people (strong mix of represented 60% Asia/40% other) - Couple different types of days that make up the event - Get locals better positioned for contributing to DAOs - Potential skiing before event (Tae is focused on onsen) - Idea for a "DAO East Meets DAO West" DAO to help facilitate and fund eastern visitors to ETH Denver and western vistors to DAO Tokyo / DAOcon Seoul - Japan doesn't seem too affected by FTX directly (FTX Japan is its own regualted entity - make take some time but hopefully customers will get their money back) **Attendees:** Sky Christina (BorrowLucid) Bau Tae Yudai (& colleague) ---- **Call #3 Scheduled for: (US) Tues Nov 29 / (Asia) Wed Nov 30, 2022:** 5pm PST 8pm EST 8am Chiang Mai time 10am KST/JST 2pm NZDT Location: https://meet.jit.si/daowestandeast Agenda: - Market chatter - A lot can happen in two weeks! - DAO highlights - Raid Guild and Nonce hackathon competition (BorrowLucid) - BorrowLucid, Tae & Sky -> LA DAO holiday Dinner?! Call Notes: - https://twitter.com/scottrepreneur_/status/1597269809234087938 - https://create.zora.co/ - https://purple.construction/ - https://prop.house/ - https://www.forgottenrunes.com/about - https://nns.xyz/ **Attendees:** Sky, Scott, Gen ---- Informal Calls happened many two week over a few months... **Call #4** **Call #5** **Call #6** **Call #7** ---- DAO Tokyo happened! Apr 13, 2023 https://dao-tokyo.xyz/ and SeoulBound happened! Apr 19-21, 2023 https://seoulbound.fun/ ---- **Call #8 Scheduled for: (US) Tues May 2 / (Asia) Wed May 3, 2023:** Wednesday, May 3rd at: 7am Chiang Mai time 9am KST/JST 10am AEST 12noon NZDT which is-> Tuesday, May 2nd at: 5pm PST 8pm EST Location: https://meet.jit.si/daowestandeast Agenda & Call Notes: - Taking turns each sharing a highlight from Tokyo and Seoul - - Notes from SeoulBound: https://app.charmverse.io/seoulbound2023/page-8577859133844297?viewId=1209448d-7e74-4e12-8190-d9ba30e55800 - xBound - Gitcoin grant: https://explorer.gitcoin.co/#/round/1/0xaa40e2e5c8df03d792a52b5458959c320f86ca18/0xaa40e2e5c8df03d792a52b5458959c320f86ca18-227 - ABCD future - - Fundraising using Nouns mechanism? (https://nouns.build/) - **Attendees:** Sky, Christina, Duke, Gen, Tae, d0wnlore, sonyi, Stamford ----- **Call #9 Scheduled for: (US) Tues May 16 / (Asia) Wed May 17, 2023:** Wednesday, May 17th at: 7am Chiang Mai time 9am KST/JST 10am AEST 12noon NZDT which is-> Tuesday, May 16th at: 5pm PST 8pm EST Location: https://meet.jit.si/daowestandeast Agenda & Call Notes: - Wow! That was the best call of the past 4 months in the entire Ethereum ecosystem. IYKYK - Taking turns each sharing updartes on interesting happenings - xBound update - Gitcoin grant: https://explorer.gitcoin.co/#/round/1/0xaa40e2e5c8df03d792a52b5458959c320f86ca18/0xaa40e2e5c8df03d792a52b5458959c320f86ca18-227 - ABCD progress updates - Taiwan really interesting goals - References: - https://mangaroa.org/ - https://linktr.ee/digitalnomadskorea - https://www.stitch-town.com/home/%EC%84%9C%EA%B5%90%ED%83%80%EC%9A%B4 - https://www.ivs.events/ - https://www.plurality.net/v/eng/ - https://amble.studio/ - ETH Women in Toronto - **Attendees:** Sky, Christina, Songyi, Tae, d0wnlore, Toshi, Yudai, Ibraheem -------- **Call #10 Scheduled for: (US) Tues May 16 / (Asia) Wed May 17, 2023:** Wednesday, May 31st at: 7am Chiang Mai time 9am KST/JST 10am AEST 12noon NZDT which is-> Tuesday, May 30th at: 5pm PST 8pm EST Location: https://meet.jit.si/daowestandeast Agenda & Call Notes: - Korea in September??? - Tapei in December??? - - ABCD progress updates - Taiwan really interesting goals - - Raid Guild on-boarding season 6 - Gathering interest - Funding? maybe Public Nouns? - - - References: - - **Attendees:** Sky, Songyi, Tae, d0wnlore, Gen --------