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# Initial Questions for the Pluriverse

- Who are we?
- What is our purpose? What is our north star?
- Should we elaborate a shared vision, values, and core principles as our first collaboration?
- How do we write such a document?
- How is it ratified?
- How do we hold ourselves and each other accountable to it?

- How do folx contribute?
- What is the DAO structure?
- What are the incentives?
- Who recognizes their value?
- Who ratifies compensation requests?
- How do we attract a diversity of contributors?
- Who will design and steward the onboarding flow?
- How do we manage the permissions of the community?

- How are contributions tracked?
- How are they recognized as canon?
- How much is on vs off chain?
- What defines a compensatable contribution?
- How should we design the Coordinape structure?

- How are contributions evaluated?
- How do we ensure the narrative stays coherent?
- Who defiens the checks/balances for high-quality contributions?
- How do we encourage a critical culture while also empowering creative makers?

- How do we define working groups?
- How much autonomy does each group need?
- How is knowledge shared across groups?
- Who will lead each group?

- What are we fund raising for?
- Where do we source funds?
- How are they distributed?
- Will we try to define this as a public goods project?
- Will we explore public goods funding projects/forks?
- Will we design an NFT campaign as a means or ends to our goals?

- What is the minimally viable team for keeping the project rolling?
- Do we need a community manager?
- Do we need a DAO operator?
- Do we need creative directors?

- How do we design the DAO?
- Is the structure outlined in the Pluriverse Guide sufficient?
- What is the minimally viable structure?
- What purpose does it serve?

- Is there a business model for the Pluriverse?
- Is there economic upside to joining the DAO?
- Are we for-profit or non-profit, or otherwise?
- Can the DAO support full time contributors?
- What is the product, in relation to what market fit?
- Are we buying something or selling something? To who?
- What are some alternatives that we might explore together? (ie: Regen DAO Treasury)
- Who will manage the DAO treasury?
- How might we proceed with our creative activities while keeping this an open question?

- What are the legal liabilities...
- of collectively owned IP?
- of open source dev work for this DAO?
- of creative commons attribution to creative work?
- of spinning up a content franchise?

- How might folx fork these ideas?
- What does it mean to fork the Pluriverse Guide?
- How does one fork the Pluriverse Guide?
- Why would one choose to fork rather than contribute?

- What are the elements of the Pluriverse stack?
- What tools do we need to effectively collaborate?
- Are existing tools sufficient for our needs?
- How do we communicate?
- How do we shift from soft > hard governance?

- How might we build upon the content of the Pluriverse Guide?
- Are the existing inflection points sufficient?
- What topics were left out of the guide?

- How might we introduce radical new ideas to the Pluriverse Guide?
- What are they and how do they fit in?
- How to we ensure the solarpunk narrative doesn't spin out into absurdity?

- How do we maintain a critical distance from alluring utopic visions while also maintaining a collaboration on a realistic vision of the future?
- How can we deconstruct failed utopias in order to learn from them?
- Can we formulate recipes for avoiding dystopia?
- Might we hold space for "third ways" beyond this binary?

- At what level of fidelity will are collective visions be rendered?
- How do we negotiate low-fidelity memes with higher-fidelity philosophies?
- What is the cost of reducing the fidelity of our outputs?

- How will we explore the transmedia potential of the Pluriverse?
- How might our meetings be designed more like workshops?
- How might we pivot between media while maintaining a strong conceptual tether (beyond mere branding)?
- Does each project require it's own team?
- Does each project require it's own fundraising?
- What kind of process might we develop to consider new ideas and options?