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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?


