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title: KO Community Call - 1st July 2020

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# KO Community Call - 1st July 2020

###### tags: 'community-call' 'july' '2020'

### Agenda

* General catchup and feedback

* How can we make KnownOrigin a community run platform?

* How might we rewarded and incentivise people for being part of the our community?

* How can we enable our artists, collectors and users to have a say in the future direction of KnownOrigin?

### Attendees

- Approx 15 people (mostly artists, some collectors and friends of KO)

![](https://i.imgur.com/3TbePl2.png)

### High level points

- Curation and Promotion
    - How to promote artwork fairly on platform?
    - Rotation of aritsts on the home page
        - spread of pool of people to curate 
    - Special pages for newly added artists
        - scouting for new and emerging talent
    - 1 week roation for curated works
        - home page selection
        - allow groups/artists to curate work
            - is there an incentivisation take here as well?
        - If a KO artist does the curation - incentives them by allowing a selection of their own works along side it
    - Random selection algorithums
        - press the button / pull the lever and see what comes out
        - Try to avoid overly algorithmic selection based on money as the main driver
    - Curation is key 
        - Dont be affraid of biasedness - thats the point of curation, to give opinions
    - **Mission: give emerging artists an opportunity**

- Recognising communtiy participation
    - badges - novice, apprentice, junior, master, fellow etc
        - community content creator, illistrator, VR master etc
        - like leveling up in games
    - Use Discord roles and badges more
    - mentorship for newbies on the scene - lots of experience on KO which are will to help out
        - Is the first step to open a discord channel for mentorship?

- What if artists and collectors had a direct say in the platform itself? 
    - Voting rights
        - ability defer my vote to someone I trust
    - Community ownership
        - Tokenisations, DAOs, revenue share options all possible in the future
    - Public road map where voting can happen

- Contests & creative challenges
    - Ensure they are done properly with the right incentives for all involed - there aint no such thing a free lunch
    - More regular CV / DCL events

### Known issues & gripes + feature requests

- Discoverability, filters and loading times
    - secondary market discoverable is a problem

**See alpha.knownorigin.io for the current rebuild (alpha state)**

- Support fo social currencies
- Docs/FAQs about how KO works and why

### Immediate first step

- Recuring calendar invites
- Create mentors channel on Discord 
    - Select willing partipcants and give them a mentor role who can moderate that specific channel
- Experimental - different approachs, new tools - dont be afraid - KO has the space to be inovative
- Let the community, artists and specalist curate the content 

