This ideation is intended as a playful approach to inspire pilot projects to energise the community.

It considers use cases, called challenges, interlacing with different cultures.

To generate excitement there can be periodic challenges that each tribe can compete in, with popular votes and prizes that are tongue-in-cheek and growing the community, like perhaps fun badges to display in a virtual hall of fame. These can be as simple as, submit a base class of meshes to test Dacti on, challenge deadline is in a month, to complex ongoing work like a big ongoing project that could potentially spin off into a funded thing.

Each tribe has an entry lounge in the Virtual World (OMI website link) from which there can be portals to whichever worlds, websites or features the different tribes choose to use - in other words, apart from having the portal to access the site from the main virtual world, tribes are free to use whatever application(s) they choose.

I think this organisation is fun in its own right, but it also provides things to showcase to the general public, provides visual interest in onboarding new people, and gives an idea of who "your people" are when joining, to make it more welcoming and diverse.

via reddit

(I found this table interesting and went down a rabbithole, it certainly does not need to be these categories or tribes or anything, but I thought it could be really fun)

	Lawful	Neutral	Chaotic
Good	Solarpunk	Hydropunk	Atompunk
Neutral	Steampunk	Biopunk	Raypunk
Evil	Cyberpunk	Dieselpunk	Scrap-punk

G-E being idealistic-pessimistic and L-C being sci-plausible-sci-implausible

I don't even know what these are, but I get annoyed by "good" or "evil" (I only believe in consequences) and I love biology so I guess it is what it is. I could be biopunk.

Or maybe there can be Guilds, and Punk in entirety is a guild, and then within that there are tribes of punks. Some challenges are across Guilds, some only within a guild because maybe the challenge is meaningless or not possible in another guild. So if you're here to work and don't want to be bothered you join a Guild that is focused on that. So a guild is something that is important to you, and a tribe is your opinion on it, how you relate to it. Or maybe that just gets too complicated?

More random thoughts below, but fine to stop reading here too.

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furries probably want a guild. Facfic People who strongly relate to, like, LotR or whatever probably want a guild.

Web3/blockchain people with all those flavours need a guild. And then people who just don't want to hear about it either has a anti-tribe in that guild or just don't join it. I guess the decision comes down to communication. On the one hand having an anti-tribe means you can go to battle and fight your little heart out, or submit solutions to a challenge that don't use blockchain, but on the other hand you still have to read the information. For someone like me, probably best not to join it, and then challenges that get submitted across guilds can be addressed in different ways, and you can choose to engage or not.

I think it's important that people can join more than one guild if they choose to. Maybe force them to only join one tribe in a guild though, just for an arbitrary creative constraint?

Do we want a real world guild? That seems creatively limiting. Because I want a project that incorporates real data, I want that as a category, somehow, but I also want to have fun and so far real world stuff seems sooooo terrifically boring. On the other hand it seems that most people here prefer virtual, or fantasy. The approach to these are quite different, so perhaps they need to be entirely separate projects. However, some creative challenges forcing an interaction may be lots of fun and generate good learnings.

Maybe libertarian, socialist, anarchists could do with a similar tongue-in-cheek table. There's so many flavours of anarchy!

via reddit

	Lawful	Neutral	Chaotic
Good	Anarcho-Syndicalism	Mutualism	Anarcho-Communism
Neutral	Anarcho-Collectivism	Green Anarchism	Anarcho-Egoism
Evil	Anarcho"-Capitalism	National "Anarchism"	Chaotic Evil: Anarcho-Primitivism*

*(talking about the people that want to get rid of technology, not the indigenous people that want to be free of imperialism and capitalism)

lols