HAUS Party LIVE! Notes: PadawanDAO (12/2/2021)

--- ###### tags: `Haus Party Live` --- # HAUS Party LIVE! Notes: PadawanDAO (12/2/2021) Join us for 🎉 Haus Party Live 🎉 every Thursday at 2pm EST on the [DAOhaus Discord](https://discord.gg/daohaus) ## Notes From the Livestream 🎉 > Initial notes shared after Haus Party LIVE! but will be updated afterward with more references and resources. **Topics** - [PadawanDAO](https://discord.gg/xDnGaneZ) - [PadawanDAO Twitter](https://twitter.com/PadawanDAO) - Yalor **Hosts & Guests** - dekanbro, Vanilladelphia.eth, vengist - PadawanDAO - ZARface, Tavia, aleem - Yalor - ZayiRey --- 🌱 Welcome to our metaphorical garden! 🌱 ## Notes from the UberHaus Universe - Processing what's happened over the last year as a community and looking toward what we want to do in v3 moving into 2022 - Keep absorbing knowledge from our experiments and usecases - PoolHAUS is wrapping up ## PadawanDAO - What does it mean to be a Padawan? - Started with Ric Burton's initiative to send youth to events - Getting youth to conferences to introduce them to Eth ecosystem (first event was Eth Lisbon) - Before the actual initiative, he tweeted that he was looking for folks who are under 25 and don't have a job yet, but are interested in getting in the door and needed financial assistance - Open call - Needed to figure out what they could get into -- didn't have access to main event ### Origin Stories: Jedi and Padawan - ZARface: - Graduated from university with a CS degree - Their sister Zayi recommended he join the Consensys bootcamp - Was halfway through bootcamp when he saw Ric's tweet - Meeting folks here led to more connections and network effect - Zayi: - Yalor and Zayi are current Jedi - Padawans vote on each new Jedi proposal so that the Padawans are able to have a voice in who mentors and shapes - Yalor: - In Padawan Discord there is a "Jedi Application" where you share some details about yourself and Tweet for signal - Need Padawan emojis to join - Met ZARface in Lisbon and was looking at for them, but then realized that all the Padawan needed someone to look after them - The group organization seeds were planted here, but the group is super self-organized ### Jedi Goals - Jedi want to mentor and help the Padawan create value where they want to instead - Current focus is on Eth Denver in collaboration with Blockchain Education Network - Goal is to get 100 Padawan to Eth Denver - Goal is to bring "voice of reason and DAO expertise" - How to think about infrastructure, how to set up tooling, how to communicate with one another - Great to see working groups forming and moving forward - Currently have 5 working groups! ### Working Groups Sub sects of the community aiming to "elevate the DAO into what it can be" - Tavia runs the *Social* - Aleem currently taking over the *Technical* - Technical team created a Gitbook with lots of helpful content ## Community - Similar story to how many folks in the space started -- inviting and open invitations to bring folks in from the periphery - This injects more diversity into the space: "Not just the Padawan learning fro us boomers" but also us learning from them - Providing access to the younger generation - Joseph Kosuth (founder of conceptual art) created his founding piece that he sent ot MoMA when 16 as an anon, and came out of hiding when 21 - https://www.moma.org/artists/3228 ## How is it Going? - Eth Lisbon first event for everyone - Have raised 76.2 ETH so far in the Padawan Yeeter - Yeeter only shows ETH balance on the frontend so there is even more funds raised than what's shown! - To be clear, *not* focused on the raise -- looking at getting youth to events and the working groups - Have the funds for what they want to do now, but are having other community calls (such as Eth Denver) and are looking figuring out next few months - Treasury diversification next step (xDAI) - Sending folks to Eth Denver: to get all the Padawan there need roughly ~$130,000 - Will go into a safe on xDAI ### Governance Flow For New Members - Lisbon Padawans, New York Padawans, Denver Padawans... - What does tiered membership look like for folks joining at different times? - Have a large pot of funds, but not funds that were tributed in - Funds are in Mainnet treasury controlled by funders which provides oversight - DAO wanting to take control of funds is worked out with the Padawan and the Jedi advisor council - If moving funds to xDAI can consider having the Jedi as shareholders, or even set up a reputation token for the Padawan and this can be tributed in showing skin-in-the-game ### Workstreams - Are funds being used to pay for work in these workgroups? - Currently open discussion -- Padawan doing the work without concern for pay other than share value - MetaCartel earmarked grant for folks building infrastructure - Padawans will be able to determine if they're using funds to pay for work done in work streams in addition to events - Bringing in Govrn to help with retroactively tracking and rewarding work - Aaron (Govrn) was a previous Haus Party guest in 2021 - Considering a *Grants Dashboard* where members will be able to request funding, but this may be a distraction from core goal of getting folks to conferences - Raid Guild working on something similar (Dungeon Master) - What does it look like for Padawan to graduate into Jedi? ## Other Questions - What is the "327" Meme Number? - 327 is a well-known number throughout the Star Wars universe - How is it decided who to recruit for new folks? - Working on defining criteria, and are looking to build a team to address onboarding - Onboarding is exciting -- the "political process of self-definition" and finding "what it means to be a Padawan" - What was it like goign to the conferences and meeting folks in the IRL crypto culture? - Tavia came from a non-technical background and didn't know anyone in Lisbon initially, but met lots of folks who introduced them to others - ZARface felt it was refreshing to be in a new country again, and was excited to network - What's it been like to interact with DAOs for the first time? What are your opinions? What is exciting? Any concerns? - Aleem: absolutely fire! VitaDAO is favorite. - What could it look like for a DAO to control IP and the price of IP? - Concern: What if a meme completely took over a DAO? Potential for a "51% attack on humans" - Dekan: We all have our own stories of how we got involved and we have those stories of folks who helped us get involved initially - Not easy to get into the space and there are lots of barriers - There's a lot of focus on "going mainstream" but this may be the wrong approach and focus - "We don't want mainstream!" & "Keep Ethereum weird!" - Yalor: People find this when they're ready. If only focusing on "tokens -> dollars" folks are missing the point of what this is all about ### How did Yalor get into this space? - In 2017, Yalor wasn't aware of DAOs or Eth, and a roommate's friend ([Griff Green](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVC9SbTmfSg)) showed up at his house and was talking about crypto - Started to redpill Yalor into crypto's new paradigms and Yalor began to read and research - Griff Green offered for Yalor to stay in his Hacker House in Spain, and Yalor went to Spain - Yalor deeply impacted by the community and the technical challenges they were overcoming - 1.5 years later, after burnout, moved to Hawaii and discovered article about MetaGame, and this led to MetaCartel ecosystem - First met Dekan in person at Eth Denver - James Waugh: Not about folks fighting for a piece of pie. We need folks making more flour. Need more bakers, more flour. Need more base layers - Human capital is the "flour" -- PadawanDAO is the flour - Our whole bakery will be worth more because we'll have more resources to bake with - The Padawan are starting off 10x ahead since they don't need to unlearn bad habits - We had to unlearn bad habits that they haven't developed ## Messages from (and to) PadawanDAO - ZARface: Feel like whole experience was so new and felt like everything was awesome. Upon reflection, still excited to be here - Met lots of established community folks - Tavia: Younger generations (Millenials and Gen Z) will be future in the space. More that we do to onboard and activate is better for us in the long run - Felipe: Tell the story as it's developing. DAOs were a bad word when he started 4 years ago. *Capacity to give* is the next trend - Dekan: Be careful about anyone who calls themselves a DAO expert or anyone who proclaims that they're experts - We should be experimenting as much as possible - If you have an idea, try it! - Yalor: "Live your own experiments"