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tags: Rangers, notes, Open Haus
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# Open Haus Notes: 6/16/2021

## Rangers Onboarding → Contributing

- What does the onboarding process look like to maintain engagement?
- What would it look like to contract services outward as a group of contributors to other DAOs such as BanklessDAO?
- How do we recognize people who are providing value? How do we help clarify the path for contributing?
- Tracks could allow for voting contributors into full membership and also help to provide visibility toward contribution?
- Claiming POAPs for completing work?
- [Gitcoin Quests](https://gitcoin.co/quests) are basically this (getting a POAP for completing work)
- Folks showing up on calls such as Haus Party has value (receive the POAP) → could this count toward increasing XP or levels?
- What can we do to engage lurkers?
- How much do we reward attendees of calls and meetings?
- If someone comes to a meeting *and participates*?
- There are a lot of options to help level people up with the Discord reboot
- Importance to be aware of the purpose and providing insight into how to contribute
- Gamification is cool but need to be aware to not make it *not too complex*
- Humans trying to contribute and find a way through the process
- Providing *wayfinding* to provide value
- Providing *scaffolding*
- Teach people what things are and how they can contribute
- There are ways to game things — how to avoid things becoming chores and decreasing enjoyment of the platform
- Human element is the most important
- Reaching out is crucial and encouraging
- Direct outreach scaffolds involvement

### Engagement and Contribution

- Education tracks
- Way to get people formally into the DAO and contributing
- Should be able to stand on its own (somewhat)
- Quests
- Can these be utilized to provide *scaffolding* and *encouragement* after people are initially brought in?
- What methods and processes are there for keeping people engaged?
- Human contact and outreach → keep potential contributors hooked while they explore and see what value they can provide
- "Transparency of information" and "Contributor Experience" is a new area for exploration
- Participation and "Contributor Experience" is a core aspect of DAOs and is critical
- How does someone find out *what* they can contribute?
- Once they know *what*, *how* do they contribute?
- Beyond that, *why* would someone want to contribute?
- Why → How → What
- Reputation as a way to earn voting power
- Proof of Contribution → know 100% on chain that this person could be trusted since they have a reputation that can be *slashed* by the DAO if they did something negative or malicious
- Does a lack of GSuite cause issues?
- *Individuals* use centralized products, but...
- In true decentralization, DAO would own access to Medium or Twitter and delegate control to members and the DAO could then pull access back if needed
- Adding a *maximum amount of voting power* could be an improvement
- This currently exists on a social consensus level within a DAO
- Ensuring there are safeguards so certain in-groups don't acquire too much power
- DXDao Contribution
- *Contribute* → direct link to the GitHub (but these are all individuals GitHubs — not the DAO's GitHub)
- DAOs having bounties and projects that need to be done it's much easier to have newcomers jump in
- MetaGame's Notion is a good resource for the *Evergreen Quests* for technical and non-technical newcomers
- How to help folks contribute when they're available for only a few hours?
- How do you balance this with getting folks up to speed with contributing to the codebase?
- Unless having an isolated task it's hard to get people able to contribute — this also exists for non-technical tasks
- Project and task lists is a great way to provide a sense of what's needed in a Guild/DAO while also providing wayfinding and scaffolding on *how* to contribute
- There are lots of non-technical contributions: documentation, processes, etc. that provide insight into *how the DAO operates* while also having a clear output
- *Information needs to be as available as possible* — after the initial investment in the content that is a great way to get people involved
- Common problem in decentralization:
- Don't need multiple job boards — why not focus on 1 so that folks know where to go?
- Can have several competing boards but then find 1 that gains traction
- Divergent angles and takes is healthy for product development — will help determine what sticks and has traction over time
- Seeing writing and communication samples is a way to gain insight into how people think and communicate
- Writing helps establish points of permanences so that ideas aren't lost writing things down → reviewing what is written → providing it to people who need to see it

### How to DAO

- *How to DAO series of articles/docs?*
- Requesting payment is an area that would be included in this
- Basic series on concepts about contribution, requesting payment, etc.
- *Value* is the keyword in these conversations, but how does this translate to be forward-facing?
- What are the outcomes and how are these identified? These would ideally come from a North Star and mission alignment
- Need to have a base amount of value extraction to feel rewarded, but don't want to extract too much that it would be harmful to the larger DAO
- Likelihood is participating and contributing in multiple DAOs, but the challenge is a question of *where to extract value from* or *how and when to extract value?*
- What happens if someone is brought on *to contribute* and *doesn't contribute*?
- Be mindful of which permissions they receive — nothing lost if they don't contribute (provided they don't request payment)
- DAOs need to have *community alignment* and *information availability* to prevent gaming reward systems
- Calls for maximum transparency — SourceCred is often a blackbox that communities rely on

## Resources

- [https://dxdao.eth.link/#/manifesto](https://dxdao.eth.link/#/manifesto)
- [https://dxdao.eth.link/#/worker-compensation](https://dxdao.eth.link/#/worker-compensation)
- [Wordsmiths Meetup](https://hackmd.io/Vv3NnAhlQZm4gkwnqtjsLw)