Notes on UberHaus Jester report

--- tags: UberHaus --- Notes on UberHaus Jester report ======================== # Methodology: *Reasoning: Legitimacy of [Jester report](https://hackmd.io/@uhjesters/Bk42qmWz5)* ## 1. Dig for evidence for each of the points outlined in the report Can use anything that is public facing. Published DH articles. Public comms and docs #### Foundations DAO failure Ragequit failed in takeover Was rabbithole idea discussed enough, managed well? Defense bot learnings More evidence needed on this https://medium.com/daohaus-club/the-foundations-incident-ef4d8b6458f3 #### Launch of UberHaus https://medium.com/daohaus-club/uberhaus-is-alive-%EF%B8%8F-3af528dc3494 https://medium.com/daohaus-club/castle-lp-dao-for-hands-of-the-haus-d446d24becde https://medium.com/daohaus-club/poolhaus-and-decentralised-liquidity-provision-ced87ffe656 #### DAOhaus manifesto https://daohaus.mirror.xyz/0NEWxKEKAhR2lDpSaG9aTPTv0Xwo1uynTetajbvurnw ## 2. Outreach to participants in the UH ecosystem. Delegates & WarCamp Will be contacted (***via DM on Discord? via email?***) - Explain the purpose of the Jester report / declaration - Share [the doc we have going](https://hackmd.io/@uhjesters/Bk42qmWz5), present guiding questions. Invite to respond to the qs and/or contribute to the report / declaration in any way they want to. - All responses will be made public under the anonymous guise of Jester. @plor @JSimbouras and @Bau ? will assign themselves members to reach out to, from the following list. | Org | Delegate | Assigned to | | ---------------------------------- | --------------- | ----------- | | RaidGuild | Keating | plor | | MetaCartel | Yalor | plor | | Moloch | Travis Wyche | James | | MGD | Zayi or Kseniya | James | | WarCamp | Dekan | plor | | DAOSquare | Typto | James | | Machi X | penguin | plor | | TrojanDAO | Jsimbouras | N/A | | ETHStaking | samkuhlmann | James | | CollectiveDAO | scottrepreneur | plor | | ChessDAO | 0xJoshua | James | | LexDAO | Nick | James | | Defiant Pixel Society | Kyle Stargarden | James | | xCrow & CommitPool | Spencer | plor | | Tools for Regenerative Renaissance | Stephen Reid | plor | | Madison Blockchain | plor | N/A | | ShillShop | Kerp | plor | | Hero DAO | cupofjoseph | James | | WarCamp | Adrienne | plor | | WarCamp | vengist | James | | WarCamp | sky | plor | Guiding questions? ----------------- - Thoughts on a reboot for UberHaus? - Any transgressions you'd like to highlight? - What are your experiences with UberHaus overall? - Any other aspects you'd like to have show up in a retrospective report? *Answers will not be attributable to you, just information "on background" Delegates for DAOs ------------------ #### Notes: Delegate #1 Delegate for a DAO he no longer aligns with Can't be delegate for multiple DAOs How do DAOs not interested move on? This is part of reboot since it wasn't opt-in #### Notes: Delegate #2 1. Thoughts on reboot, I like the new meeting schedule, the weekly updates, things seem much more organized which makes the time spent as a delegate more valuable. 2. No transgressions as far as I know 3. Overall, the experience has been pretty disorganized with lack of mission. The only time Uberhause ever needs to act is when warcamp is need of something like the mainnet liquidity launch etc... My hope with the reboot is that token holders can help give uberhaus that sense of direction while the members can ultimate consent to that direction. 4. Maybe the purpose of the retrospective report in helping define the future of Uberhaus #### Notes: Delegate #3 Thank you for reaching out and for the awesome work at DAOHaus and UberHaus. I think the reboot is a much needed kick to get UberHaus operating as intended. Working in DAOs is Hard getting people for a meta dao is even harder. I think a key to the success will be establishing roles and getting people excited to present and participate rather than it be a meeting they attend and listen to. I am a delegate and rep for my DAO and attended as many of the Season 1 meetings as I could, I was there for the first 2 and 4th quarters and also made sure my friends were present for meetings. Because of the weight of my DAO I encouraged my co founder to rep his DAO. I voted on a few proposals but overall the HAUS farming pools were a little too complicated an undocumented for us to use them. We have maintained all HAUS positions and are commited to the long term success of DAOHaus and DAO life. I think UberHaus should focus on improving marketing and cross collaboration between the participating orgs. Delegates were promised some reward for participation but impact from the first UbderHaus is evident by the need to reboot it. Much love to you and the team. I think UberHaus should be a place where member DAOs can field and provide feedback on potential or upcoming features as user groups that provides a lot of alpha to members, give daohaus direct feedback and evidence of the work it is doing and helps build that audience with the people best aligned to use it #### Notes: Delegate #4 I only hear about it tangentially and know the basics of the current infrastructure but haven’t dug into it. For the questions: - Thoughts on a reboot for UberHaus? - Sounds fine to me, from some of the ideas I’ve heard there seems like a lot of good thoughts around a reboot/rethink on how it’s integrated in the DH DAOs. I haven’t thought about it much myself so I don’t have specifics on what I think that might look like - Any transgressions you'd like to highlight? - Not that I’m aware of - What are your experiences with UberHaus overall? - Not much, just a bit of knowledge as needed to understand how it integrated into DAOhaus and how I view it from a product design perspective - Any other aspects you'd like to have show up in a retrospective report? - I might have just missed the information, but I could see more communication out to the ecosystem on what is going on in UberHaus, but I’m not really sure if it’s useful or not but just a thought #### Notes: Delegate #5 - Thoughts on a reboot for UberHaus? - YES needed - Any transgressions you'd like to highlight? - Just lack of coordination, feeling uninformed as a delegate. - What are your experiences with UberHaus overall? - Good, I like spending time with the delegates, I just don't know what to do. - Any other aspects you'd like to have show up in a retrospective report? - Make it easier to catch up, share delegate responsibility #### Notes: Delegate #6 In one sense, Uberhaus plays a fairly straightforward role in DAOhaus: it distributes power over funding (primarily via its control over the non-circulating HAUS supply) away from the DAOhaus core contributors (warcamp) and to many of the DAOs that use DAOhaus. In that role, its performed quite well. It has maintained a successful check on the power and influence of warcamp while also facilitating continued development on the platform In another sense, Uberhaus is a really ambitious experiment in DAO2DAO coordination and community-building. The delegate approach was at first necessary to facilitate practical participation in governance, but what we've learned is that it has limited engagement in this second aspect of Uberhaus as a space for multiple DAOs to interact and act as a community. Non-delegate members of the uberhaus member daos are not really involved, which limits the number of possible interpersonal interactions and therefore the amount of serendipity and emergence. I do think a reboot that involves more individual people -- both the non-delegate members of uberhaus member daos & individual members of the DAOhaus ecosystem -- is really important hopefully that will increase the amount of productive activity that emerges from the ecoystem / community rather than from warcamp or the handful of existing active uberhaus members #### Notes: Delegate #7 I have not had much interaction or participation in UberHaus, mainly because I am not a delegate. I have expressed many times that I think UberHaus should involved HAUS token holders. Currently, there is very little to do with HAUS, and people always wonder what HAUS is for. I think the purpose of UberHaus should be to lead, own, govern, grow and look after the DAOhaus ecosystem, community and products that make it up #### Notes: Delegate #8 Thoughts on a reboot for UberHaus? Not certain what a reboot would look like. Do feel like it may be necessary because I'm still left with this though of, "why is Uberhaus needed?" I still do not see a clear need for Uberhaus. It feels duplicative to DH. Maybe we just need a working group within DH. Any transgressions you’d like to highlight? No transgressions that I've seen. Those who show up to the calls seem to be dedicated. Though, I'm still left wondering the purpose. What are your experiences with UberHaus overall? Mostly time consuming. No clear direction or purpose. Lots of scheduled meetings without a lot of goal setting or goal achievement. Any other aspects you’d like to have show up in a retrospective report? No, I think this has been my concern for a while. Feel like we need to have an elevator pitch of purpose. Otherwise, it feels like most of what DAOHaus is already doing is serving the purpose of Uberhaus. Maybe Uberhaus just needs to be like an advisory group and not a fully operating dao in and of itself. #### Notes: Delegate #9 1. yes reboot it, make HAUS token do something. Hero DAO will support how ever possible 2. complaints: while i have personally been involved, uberhaus has never made any contribution or helped hero dao in any way. would be nice to get highlighted to community or some $ in our treasury for being a Real DAO ™️ or something we have onboarded dozens of people to their first DAO, or first thing in crypto. pretty cool. surely we deserve something for bringing people to the platform? or maybe we owe uberhaus for making such a great platform, who knows 3. overall experience: there was barely any. most fun was meeting everyone in denver, but as a delegate i really havent done much and hero dao members probably dont even know uberhaus exists besides me an other meta cartel people 4. in retrospect, the platform is amazing. i wish the token was more used in our flow and using daohaus overall. like sponsoring proposals could be in Haus token easily, why not? just bc of disorganization it seems **Notes: Delegate #10** Thoughts on a reboot for UberHaus? - yes super needed and important! Any transgressions you’d like to highlight? - I feel like expectation setting was not clear with delegates...they have their own DAOs to run and should only be looped in to help with decision making or voting rather than every aspect of the DAO itself - ideally there would be a core group dedicated to DAO advancements that have time and can be paid for their efforts What are your experiences with UberHaus overall? - I think everyone involved is inspiring and incredible but unfortunately as many have said above, the goal sometimes is unclear and calls have been time consuming - It would be great to get action items that we can work on async and meet less often with more clear objectives Any other aspects you’d like to have show up in a retrospective report? - clear understanding of how DAOs can gain value from being in Uberhaus, access funds efficiently, and receive support from Uberhaus. *** # Declaration Structure: #### *Ideas:* - *Accompany with Jester NFT 🃏* - *Think of a creative way for delegates to co-sign the Jester declaration on-chain* - Do we want to publish the declaration? mirror? ## Introducing *Jester* paragraph (lore) - What is *Jester* I am the Jester. I hope that you will look after me, for I am unable to take care of myself. Please forgive me in advance, for I have a bad habit, you see, of laughing at people and things that I shouldnt laugh at, I like to see if they can laugh back. I have often been cast away for asking questions that are hard, and saying what others are too afraid to say. When you despair I will tell you jokes. When you are feeling too safe I might just stir up a little chaos around you just to break your boredom. My mask is a mirror. It reflects your own deceptions and delusions, even those that are sometimes painful to face. I like to move opposite to those around me. I will freely go about the realm of Haus and beyond as my pranks require. Be sure that at the right time, our paths will cross, although you might not recognise me at first. I like doing pranks, you see, disguising myself just so that my tricks will make you laugh more. I do not ask for permission, but beg for forgiveness. ## Paragraph about the declaration Oh delegates, oh Warcamp, esteemed ones! Hear me, for I am Jester! I have come from afar and I have set up camp outside the castle walls! One by one I invited you to my humble tent. You have treated Jester most kindly. And now I have prepared a little joke just for you, oh lords, in return for your generosity. I call it the Jester's declaration and I have nailed it to the castle gates. Come read! ## The Jester declaration - [The Jester declaration Articles](https://hackmd.io/@uhjesters/Bk42qmWz5) ## Roles - Queen = UberHaus - Lords = Delegate - Advisors = WarCamp Queen is nominally in charge, but how much power and control is truly there? ## Delegates Digested Feedback **Thoughts on a reboot** - Need to get UBERHAUS working as intended - UberHaus has proven its role to distribute power over funding - UberHaus is a check on the power and influence of warcamp - Potential for Uberhaus as a space for multiple DAOs to interact - UberHaus should act as a community more than governance **Opinions on what is needed moving forward** - Establishing roles within UberHaus - Paying core UberHaus team - Delegates don't have to be looped in to all decisions - What can DAOs gain from being in UberHaus? How can that be better communicated? - How can DAOs access funds efficiently? - How can DAOs receive support? - Get people excited to present and participate - Involve HAUS token holders more - Token holders can give uberhaus sense of direction - Make HAUS token do something **Overall experience** - More organized now - Was disorganized - Lack of mission - Lacking a clear purpose - Little communication - Ideas around UH are maturing - Time spent as delegate more valuable - Working groups could better serve the same purpose in the DAOhaus ecosystem - General sense of disorganization - Meetings have been time consuming - Meetings lack defined goals and structure - Meetings haven't been engaging - Lack of awareness of UberHaus activities - Feel uninformed about UBERHAUS - Lack of clarity in expectation setting - Hard for delegates to balance their efforts between their role in UH and their DAOs - Lack of interaction between delegates - Non-delegate members of the uberhaus member daos are not really involved - Lack of recognition - Delegates feel that their efforts and the contributions of their DAOs in the ecosystem have not been properly recognised **Transgressions** - "*The only time UBERHAUS ever needs to act is when warcamp is in need of something like the mainnet liquidity launch*"